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Pryor A. 2011 Humans and the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles in northern Europe 50,000-20,000ya

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. 2010 An archaeobotanical approach to the earliest apperance of domesticated plant species in Ukraine

Lightfoot E. 2009 Bioarchaeological analysis of archaeological populations from Croatia: A comparison of isotopic and archaeological results

Liu X. 2009 Food Webs, Subsistence and Changing Culture: the development of early farming communities in the Chifeng region, North China

Ballantyne R. 2008 Charred plant remains as minute artefactual debris: Lifestyles and economy upon the Roman fen-edge, Cambridgeshire

Margaritis E.G. 2006 Olive and vine farming in Hellenistic Pieria : an archaeobotanical study of settlements from Macedonia, Greece

Beresford-Jones, D.G. 2005 Pre-Hispanic Prosopis-Human Relationships on the South Coast of Peru: Riparian Forests in the Context of Environmental and Cultural Trajectories of the Lower Ica Valley Accessible on-line

Martin, S.W.J. 2005 Earmarked: Maize, Materiality and Agricultural Frontiers in the Lower Great Lakes Region of North America

Savard,M. 2004 Epipalaeolithic to early Neolithic subsistence strategies in the northern Fertile Crescent: the archaeobotanical remains from Hallan Çemi, Demirköy, M'lefaat and Qermez Dere

Clarke, M.C. 2002 Anglo-Saxon manuscript pigments: a contribution to the archaeology of the book

Hosoya, L.A. 2002 Sacred Commoness: An archaeobotanical view to the social complexity in prehistoric Japan

Paz, V.J. 2001 Archaeobotany and Cultural Transformation: Patterns of Early Plant Utilisation in Northern Wallacea

Fuller, D.Q 2000 The Emergence of Agricultural Societies in South India: Botanical and Archaeological Perspectives

Madella, M. 2000 Morphological analysis of phytoliths: a botanical tool for the interpretation of archaeological and geological sediments from Eurasia

Bower, M.A. 1998 Critical path to the characterisation of agriculture through the pollen of cereals

Janik, L. 1997 Diversity and choice: A re-appraisal of social and ecological changes amongst the mid-Holocene fisher-gatherer-hunters of the southeastern Baltic Sea region

Stevens, C.J. 1997 Iron Age and Roman Agriculture in the Upper Thames Valley: Archaeobotanical and Social Perspectives

Samuel, D.J. 1994 An archaeological study of baking and bread in New Kingdom Egypt

MPhil Theses

Coutu, A.N. 2007 The charred plant remains from medieval deposits at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland : a pilot study on the West Ward and St. Oswald's Gate.

Friedman, L. 2007 An isotopic investigation of the human remains from the late Roman cemetery at Babraham, Cambridgeshire.

Pryor, A. 2007 An investigation of the potential of oxygen isotopes in animal teeth to reconstruct palaeoclimates in the European Upper Palaeolithic : a case study from the Dordogne, France.

Steele, M. 2007 The role of plant resources in the Gravettian Upper Palaeolithic of Moravia : an exploration of possible plant consumption at Dolni Vestonice II.

Mobley, C.O. 2006 The Mammoth Steppe in Eastern Beringia : paleoenvironmental reconstruction and stable isotope analysis of mammoth samples from Eastern Alaska.

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G. 2006 Reconstruction of the changing archaeological environment through the application of soil analysis methods : a case study of a submerged Bronze - early Iron Age lake dwelling site in eastern Lithuania.

Paine, C. 2005 Mesolithic subsistence at Pupicina Cave, Croatia : stable isotope analysis of the human and animal remains.

Serpa, K. 2002 Harappan plant economy in the Ravi River Valley, Punjab, Pakistan.

Slean, G.R. 2002 Identifying changes in the Palaeoenvironment from the Late Horizon to the Colonial Period in the Andes : an examination of the Lucre Basin.

Beresford-Jones, D. 2000 Putting the tree back into the landscape : towards reconstructing the pre-Hispanic Prosopis forests of the Peruvian south coast.

Fletcher, W. 2000 Late Quaternary Woodland Vegetation of the Vela Draga Canyon, Croatia.

Paz, V.J. 1997 Tubers in their cultural and taphonomic context : a contribution to the archaeology of Adansemanso.

Fuller, D.Q 1996 The emergence of agricultural economies in India : a reconsideration of the bio-archaeological evidence.

Perry, D. 1994 Plant exploitation in the Mesolithic : an example from the northern Netherlands.

Hosoya, A. 1993 The relationship between archaeobotanical data and its interpretation: In the context of St.Radegund.

Russell, A. 1992 An examination of edible plant species available to early Mesolithic communities in Britain.

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Undergraduate Dissertations

Doshi, N. 2007 Inside and outside the roundhouse : spatial analysis of charred plant remains from the lower Great Ouse valley.

Johnson, K.D. 2007 Looking for contrasts : a pilot study of the Upper Palaeolithic plant remains from Predmostí, Czech Republic.

Nash, S. 2007 Does collagen from different tissues within an individual have the same isotopic values? : implications for archaeological, ecological and forensic studies.


Roberts, K.E. 2001 A consideration of changes in weed flora over time at West Fen Road, Ely.

Fletcher, W. 1999 Charcoal analysis of the Mesolithic and Neolithic levels of Pupicina Pec, Croatia : environmental and cultural interpretations.


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