Archaeology
Elected 1995
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading
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
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.
Iron Age communities of Britain, north-western Europe and Scandinavia; art, technology and material culture; mortuary archaeology, grave goods and burial ethics; creative practice with museums; antiquarianism
