Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3][4]
Amy Bogaard | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Permanence, Intensity and Seasonality of Early Crop Cultivation in Western-Central Europe (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Glynis Jones |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Notable works | Neolithic Farming in Central Europe |
Education
Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.[5]
Career
Bogaard was appointed Lecturer of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She was awarded the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award in 2015.[6]She currently is a stipendiary lecturer at St Peter's College,[7] and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.[8]
Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality.[9]
In 2013, Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization.[10] In 2018, Bogaard was part of a team to win an ERC Synergy grant for the project Exploring the Dynamics and Causes of Prehistoric Land Use Change in the Cradle of European Farming.[11] She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project.[12]
Bogaard was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020,[13] and is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity.[14]
Selected publications
Books
- Neolithic Farming in Central Europe (2004). London: Routledge.
- Plant Use and Crop Husbandry in an Early Neolithic Village (2011): Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften. Bonn: Habelt-Verlag.
Journal articles
- Bogaard, A. 2005. Garden agriculture’and the nature of early farming in Europe and the Near East. World Archaeology 37.2: 177-196.
- Bogaard, A. et al 2007. "The impact of manuring on nitrogen isotope ratios in cereals: archaeological implications for reconstruction of diet and crop management practices." Journal of Archaeological Science 34.3: 335-343.
- Bogaard, A. et al 2013. Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(31), 12589-12594.