Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3][4]

Amy Bogaard
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield (PhD)
ThesisThe Permanence, Intensity and Seasonality of Early Crop Cultivation in Western-Central Europe (2002)
Doctoral advisorGlynis Jones
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Notable worksNeolithic Farming in Central Europe

Education edit

Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.[5]

Career edit

Bogaard was appointed Lecturer of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She was awarded the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award in 2015.[6] She currently is a stipendiary lecturer at St Peter's College,[7] and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.[8]

Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality.[9]

In 2013, Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization.[10] In 2018, Bogaard was part of a team to win an ERC Synergy grant for the project Exploring the Dynamics and Causes of Prehistoric Land Use Change in the Cradle of European Farming.[11] She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project.[12]

Bogaard was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020,[13] and is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity.[14]

Selected publications edit

Books edit

  • Neolithic Farming in Central Europe (2004). London: Routledge.
  • Plant Use and Crop Husbandry in an Early Neolithic Village (2011): Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften. Bonn: Habelt-Verlag.

Journal articles edit

  • Bogaard, A. 2005. Garden agriculture’and the nature of early farming in Europe and the Near East. World Archaeology 37.2: 177-196.
  • Bogaard, A. et al 2007. "The impact of manuring on nitrogen isotope ratios in cereals: archaeological implications for reconstruction of diet and crop management practices." Journal of Archaeological Science 34.3: 335-343.
  • Bogaard, A. et al 2013. Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(31), 12589-12594.

References edit

  1. ^ "Amy Bogaard - School of Archaeology - University of Oxford". www.arch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Prof Amy Bogaard - www.spc.ox.ac.uk". www.spc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Amy Bogaard - Future of Food". www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Amy Bogaard - Oxford University, Environmental Research Doctoral Training Partnership, DTP". ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  5. ^ Bogaard, Amy (2002). The permanence, intensity and seasonality of early crop cultivation in Western-Central Europe. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
  6. ^ School of Archaeology. "Research on prehistoric farming in western Eurasia recognised at the Shanghai Archaeology Forum". Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Prof Amy Bogaard". St Peter's College. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Amy Bogaard". Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  9. ^ Bogaard, Amy (2018). "Farming, inequality and urbanization: a comparative analysis of late prehistoric northern Mesopotamia and south-west Germany". Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences. University of Arizona Press.
  10. ^ "The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization | Projects | FP7-IDEAS-ERC | CORDIS | European Commission". CORDIS | European Commission. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  11. ^ "6,4 Million Euros for research into the birth of agriculture in Europe". Portal. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  12. ^ "FeedSax Team". feedsax.arch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Professor Amy Bogaard FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  14. ^ "Antiquity Trust". Antiquity. Retrieved 14 August 2023.