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.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Sections
Archaeology

Current post

Durham University Professor of Bioarchaeology

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Professor Charlotte Roberts FBA

Studies archaeological human remains; her key research interests are contextual approaches to past human health (palaeopathology); ethical considerations and and human remains; the relevance of past health to contemporary health; evolutionary approaches to the origin and history of infectious diseases; big data projects in palaeopathology; public engagement

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Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr FBA

Professor in Human Evolutionary Biology and Prehistory, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Marta Mirazon Lahr FBA

Professor Martin Carver FBA

Value-led archaeological investigation of the European first millennium CE, especially in Britain and now Sicily, aimed at rediscovering and interpreting the changing experience and thinking of the people without history

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