Prehistory in Europe, the Near East and Central Asia; the beginnings of sedentary life and domestication of plants and animals; early metallurgy; nomadism and cultural contacts in the Eurasian steppes in the 1st millenium BC
Elected 2010
Heritage and Prehistory research on material culture, identity politics, and gender. Bronze Age regional dress cultures, change in burial rites, creativity, and tells; heritage studies of memorials and post-conflict
British history between 1500 and 1700; the history of paganism, shamanism, magic and witchcraft, and of attitudes to those phenomena
History