I am happy to supervise on farming societies of western Asia; origins and spread of agriculture; plant domestication; the role of plants in prehistory; crop/livestock integration; palynological approaches to past land use systems. Establishing impact of preservation processes on plant material.
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 |
“Making the landscapeâ€: 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 |
An archaeobotanical study of the prehistoric lakeshore settlement sequence at PloÄa MiÄov 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 |
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 |
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 |