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Dr Elizabeth Stroud serves as a Departmental Lecturer (maternity cover) at the University of Oxford and is a Postdoctoral Researcher for the Explo Project. Her academic work centers on archaeobotany, stable isotope analysis, and plant ecology, with research at prehistoric sites across Europe and Anatolia including Lake Ohrid, Çatalhöyük, and Neolithic Crete.
Her primary research interests encompass archaeobotany, stable isotope methodologies, crop processing stages, arable weed ecology, and ancient agricultural systems. She develops innovative computational tools like the WeedEco R package for functional weed ecology analysis and classification systems for archaeobotanical samples, bridging experimental archaeology with ecological theory to reconstruct past farming practices.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong methodological focus, with contributions to best practices in isotope analysis of charred crops (2024), experimental studies on charring effects (2023-2024), and the development of arable weed databases (2023). Her work spans Neolithic to medieval periods, particularly investigating agricultural transitions in the Balkans, Crete, and England through interdisciplinary approaches combining archaeobotany, isotopes, and experimental data.
No scientific awards were identified in the available information.
Dr Stroud contributes to major research initiatives including the current Explo Project and the past Feedsax Project, which focus on early medieval agriculture in England through bioarchaeological datasets. Details of specific student advising or grant funding were not provided in the source materials, though her publications indicate extensive collaboration with international research teams.
Her laboratory work involves experimental charring regimes for cereal grains and stable isotope analysis, supporting collaborative teams in archaeological science projects that integrate fieldwork, computational modeling, and methodological innovation to understand ancient agricultural systems.
