Dr Jade Whitlam
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
+44 (0)1865 278261
Research Interests
Archaeobotany; archaeology of prehistoric western Asia (Neolithic to Bronze Age); pre-agricultural plant management strategies; early farming communities; origins and spread of agriculture; ethnoarchaeology; weed ecology and stable isotope analysis.
Geographic Area
Southwest Asia and Europe
Research Profile
Current Activities
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship: 'Farming before agriculture: investigating variability in plant management and consumption by western Asia’s earliest cultivators'
- Tell Nebi Mend Archaeobotanical project
- Archaeobotanical investigations at Etruscan Murlo and Orvieto, Italy
Publications
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'Monumental Myopia': bringing the later prehistoric settlements of southern Siberia into focus
Hommel, P, Kovaleva, O, Whitlam, J, Amzarakov, P, Pouncett, J, Lim, J, Petrova, N, Gosden, C, Esin, YFebruary 2020|Journal article|ANTIQUITYSiberia, Minusinsk Basin, prehistoric pastoralist settlement, remote sensing, geophysics, landscape archaeology -
Pre-agricultural plant management in the uplands of the central Zagros: the archaeobotanical evidence from Sheikh-e Abad
Whitlam, J, Bogaard, A, Matthews, R, Matthews, W, Mohammadifar, Y, Ilkhani, H, Charles, MNovember 2018|Journal article|VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANYSouthwest Asia, Neolithic, Origins of Agriculture, Wild grasses, Pre-agricultural plant management strategies -
Farming, inequality, and urbanization: A comparative analysis of late prehistoric northern Mesopotamia and southwestern Germany
Bogaard, A, Styring, A, Whitlam, J, Fochesato, M, Bowles, SJanuary 2018|Chapter|Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences -
From Traditional Farming in Morocco to Early Urban Agroecology in Northern Mesopotamia: Combining Present-day Arable Weed Surveys and Crop Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Past Agrosystems in (Semi-)arid Regions
Bogaard, A, Styring, A, Ater, M, Hmimsa, Y, Green, L, Stroud, E, Whitlam, J, Diffey, C, Nitsch, E, Charles, M, Jones, G, Hodgson, JJanuary 2018|Journal article|ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGYArchaeobotany, stable isotopes, functional plant ecology, agricultural intensity, Bronze Age, Northern Mesopotamia