Professor Julia Lee-Thorp FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Sections
- Archaeology
Summary
Julia Lee-Thorp has taught at the Universities of Cape Town, Bradford, and most recently, Oxford, where she has been University Lecturer in Bioarchaeology and Professor of Archaeological Science in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art since 2010, and Vice Head of the School of Archaeology since 2014. She teaches Bioarchaeology in the M.Sc. in Archaeological Science. Her research interests lie primarily in human origins and prehistoric archaeology in southern, East and North Africa, but she has also carried out fieldwork and research in South America and Eurasia. Her particular expertise is in stable isotope ecology and in the isotopic and chemical composition of bones and teeth, applying these approaches to explore the role of diet and environment in early human origins and the emergence of modern humans, and management patterns in early farming systems in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. She is a NERC Core Panel Member and serves on the NERC Isotope Geosciences Facility Steering Committee
Current post
Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Oxford; University Lecturer in Bioarchaeology, and Director of the Stable Light Isotopes Laboratory, RLAHA; Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Colin Haselgrove FBA
Later prehistoric societies in Britain and north-west Europe, particularly the adoption and use of coinage, the impact of Roman expansion on Iron Age groups and the character of rural settlement
Professor Robert Foley FBA
Human evolution: the evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins; the evolution of human behaviour and culture; prehistory and archaeology of early human populations; evolutionary theory in archaeology and anthropology.
Professor Stephen Shennan FBA
Archaeology Prehistoric Archaeology Demography, Epidemiology and Health Prehistoric Demography Europe South America Central Europe Archaeology Eastern Europe including Russia Archaeology Northern Europe Archaeology Southern Europe Archaeology Western Europe Archaeology
