Professor Amy Bogaard

Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology

amy.bogaard@arch.ox.ac.uk 

Amy's research focus is early farming practice in Europe and Western Asia, from farming origins to early cities. To investigate the nature of early farming we need frameworks to compare ancient and present-day 'traditional' practices. Research methods therefore range from archaeological excavation and archaeobotanical analysis to survey and characterisation of present-day farming systems. In combination these approaches open up a 'dialogue' between past and present farming. Amy is particularly interested in how farming practice relates to storage systems, diet, inequality, and sustainability.