Professor Amy Bogaard

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Professor of European Archaeology
amy.bogaard@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research focus is early farming practice in Europe and Western Asia, from farming origins to early cities. To investigate the nature of early farming we need frameworks to compare ancient and present-day ’traditional’ practices. Research methods therefore range from archaeological excavation and archaeobotanical analysis to survey and characterisation of present-day farming systems. In combination these approaches open up a ‘dialogue' between past and present farming. I’m particularly interested in how farming practice relates to storage systems, diet, inequality and sustainability.

Keywords: Later prehistory; archaeobotany; farming; land use; stable isotopes and palaeodietary studies; housing; inequality

Geographic Areas: Europe and western Asia

Research Profile

Research activities

  • Exploring the Dynamics and Causes of Prehistoric Land Use Change in the Cradle of European Farming (EXPLO) project (European Research Council SYNERGY project; Oxford PI Bogaard). Project website available here and School webpage here. 
  • Feeding Anglo-Saxon England (FEEDSAX) project (European Research Council, PI Hamerow)
  • The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization (AGRICURB) project (European Research Council, PI Bogaard)
  • Excavations on the Lower Gypsades hill, Knossos, Crete

Research awards

Fellow of the British Academy (2021)

Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award for AGRICURB (ERC) and Crop stable isotope (NERC) projects (2015)

 

 

Publications
Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

Undergraduate course convenor for:

  • Honour Moderations Paper 4 - The Nature of Archaeological & Anthropological Enquiry
  • Honour Moderations - Practical classes
  • FHS option paper - From Hunting & Gathering to States & Empires in Southwest Asia
  • FHS option paper - Later Prehistory of Europe

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate taught course options in: 

Doctoral Supervision

I am happy to supervise on late prehistoric archaeology, including topics on farming, food, agroecologies, inequality, households, urbanisation and domestication, including novel methodological approaches.

Current students

Archaeobotany, EXPLO project
Molly Delaney Jones | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
WF16 Archaeobotanical Study: Exploring Early Neolithic Settlements in Southern Jordan
Yuxi Xie | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
The epidemiological transition: farming in sickness and in health. What was the extent of the pathogenic burden of Neolithic &Bronze Age populations?
Katherine Hearne | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Greger Larson and Amy Bogaard
“Making the landscape”: a palaeoecological and archaeological investigation of late prehistoric land uses in upland England.
Marguerite Waechter | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Reconstructing the ecology and chronology of Neolithic agropastoral management at Dispilio, Lake Orestias
Doris Vidas | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Amy Bogaard, Amy Styring and Mike Charles
Early rice agriculture in Bangladesh: methodological and archaeobotanical perspectives
Mizanur Rahman | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
An integrated study of Neolithic wetland agroecology in the Lower Yangtze river basin, China
Rubi Wu | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard

Past students

An archaeobotanical study of the prehistoric lakeshore settlement sequence at Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
Amy Holguin (2024) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
'For a quart of ale is a dish for a king'? Malting, brewing and beer in the Mid Anglo-Saxon period: a case study of Sedgeford
Hannah Caroe (2023) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
‘To call each thing by its right name?’ Exploring the potential of geometric morphometrics to interpret the diversity of archaeobotanical wheat grains
Tina Roushannafas (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles
Chinese apocrypha titled Foshuo fumu enzhong jing as material culture in medieval Chinese society
Ying Chen (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Amy Bogaard
Agriculture and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from Western Anatolia
Tom Maltas (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
The agricultural economies of early urban systems in the northern Fertile Crescent
Hyunyoung Kim (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Feeding the City: a comparative study of agricultural production in Bronze Age urban systems of Western Asia
Charlotte Diffey (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Assessing the nature of early farming in Neolithic Western Asia: a functional ecological approach to emerging arable weeds
Laura Green (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Dynamics underlying Plasmodium Vivax mitochondrial genome diversity across the Eastern Hemisphere. A past human migratory perspective
Leonie Raijmakers (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Amy Bogaard and Alyssa Barry
An Archaeobotanical investigation into the Chalcolithic economy and social organisation of central Anatolia
Elizabeth Stroud (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Neolithic agricultural management in the Eastern Mediterranean: new insight from a multi-isotope approach
Petra Vaiglova (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Julia Lee-Thorp and Amy Bogaard
The Rites of Spring: A Cognitive Analysis of Ritual Activity in the Agricultural Transition in South-West Asia and North-Western Europe
Michael Gantley (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Harvey Whitehouse and Amy Bogaard
Agricultural Development in Mid Saxon England
Mark McKerracher (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Helena Hamerow and Amy Bogaard
An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Plant Use, Crop Husbandry and Animal Diet at early-mid Neolithic Catalhoyuk Central Anatolia
Dragana Filipovic (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Amy Bogaard

Key words: bioarchaeology, biocultural heritage, farming and herding, inequality, land use, urbanisation, later prehistory, Europe, W Asia, Eurasia, Africa, W Asia