Dr Alison Sheridan FBA

Prehistorian, focusing on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and specialising in ceramics, stone axeheads and jewellery of jet and jet-like materials, gold, amber and faience

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Subjects: Archaeology
Sections: Archaeology
Website: https://nms.academia.edu/AlisonSheridan

Current post

Research Associate, National Museums Scotland

Past appointments

National Museums Scotland Principal Archaeological Research Curator

2017 - 2020

National Museums Scotland Principal Curator of Early Prehistory

2006 - 2017

National Museums Scotland Assistant Keeper

1991 - 2006

National Museums Scotland Curator

1987 - 1991

Publications

The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain

Edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Mike Richards and Jane Evans - Published in 2018 by Oxbow

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Janet Montgomery FBA

Janet Montgomery is a bioarchaeologist specialising in the isotopic and chemical analysis of humans and animals to reconstruct ancient diets, residential mobility and exposure to pollutants from the Mesolithic to the 19th century in northwestern Europe.

Professor Julia Lee-Thorp FBA

Stable isotope chemistry applied to dietary ecology and environments in human origins research

Professor Glynis Jones FBA

Evolutionary approaches to the origins and spread of agriculture; archaeobotany and biomolecular archaeology; the investigation of past cultivation practices through weed ecology and stable isotope analysis