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Marsha Ann Levine

Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Office: 1.5, Courtyard Building.
Phone: +44(0)1223 339347. Fax: +44(0)1223 339285.
Email: ml12@cam.ac.uk

Current Research Interests

• The human occupation of central Eurasia from the Neolithic to Medieval times: ecological, economic, social and cultural adaptations and change.
• The change from horse hunting to herding, the evolution of horse husbandry and equestrian pastoral nomadism; the social, demographic and ecological implications for the human settlement of central Eurasia.
• The development of horse husbandry in China during the Bronze Age.
• The development of methodologies for the elucidation of human-horse relationships - i.e., palaeopathology, population structure, taphonomy, ethnoarchaeology, interpretation of genetic data.

Recent and Current funding:

• 1996--99 NERC research grant with Prof. Geoff Bailey (Department of Archaeology, Newcastle University) and Prof. Leo Jeffcott (Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge) entitled: ‘Palaeopathology of animal bone and the origin and consequences of horse husbandry’ .
• 2001 Isaac Newton Trust research grant with Prof. Leo Jeffcott (currently Veterinary School, University of Sidney, Australia).
• 2003--6 AHRB research grant with Prof. Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute, Cambridge) and Prof. Leo Jeffcott for project entitled: ‘Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry’.
• 2007--10 Leverhulme Trust research grant with Prof. Graeme Barker and Dr. Mim Bower (McDonald Institute, Cambridge): ‘From chariotry to equestrian pastoral nomadism: the evolving role of the horse’.