Dr Ellen Hambleton
- Principal Academic in Zooarchaeology
- Christchurch House C132, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
I am an archaeologist specialising in the study of animal remains. After studying Archaeological Science at Sheffield, I obtained a NERC research studentship at Durham University and completed my PhD in 1998. My doctoral research involved a comparative study of archaeological faunal assemblages to investigate animal husbandry regimes in Iron Age Britain. I continue to research in this area. I was Principal Investigator for the review of late Bronze Age and Iron Age faunal remains from Southern England, commissioned by English Heritage and I am co-director of a BU project investigating the social, political and economic landscape of the Durotriges in later Prehistoric and Roman Britain. I am interested in the exploitation and social significance of animals and animal products to past societies.
Since joining Bournemouth University in 1998, I have worked on a range of animal and human osteoarchaeology research projects. I have completed assessments and reports on archaeological faunal material from a wide range of periods and sites around Britain and have undertaken research and consultancy for leading archaeology field units, museums and government bodies, including English Heritage and CADW... I have collaborated with Mark Maltby on research projects in France and Russia. Current research includes zooarchaeological ageing methods. I was appointed Lecturer in Zooarchaeology in 2003 and teach on undergraduate and postgraduate archaeology programmes. I supervise several PhD students and am Programme Leader for MSc Osteoarchaeology.
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- Maltby, M. and Hambleton, E., 2014. Deer and Humans in South Wales during the Roman and Medieval Periods. In: Baker, K., Carden, R. and Madgwick, R., eds. Deer and People: Past, Present and Future. Windgather Press.
- Cheetham, P., Hambleton, E., Russell, M. and Smith, M., 2013. Digging the Durotriges - life and death in late Iron Age Dorset. Current Archaeology, 36-41.
- Hambleton, E., 2013. The Life of Things Long Dead: a Biography of Iron Age Animal Skulls from Battlesbury Bowl, Wiltshire. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 23 (03), 477-494.
- Richards, C., Downes, J., Ixer, R., Hambleton, E., Peterson, R. and Pollard, J., 2013. Surface over substance: the Vestra Fiold horned cairn, Mainland, Setter cairn, Eday, and a reappraisal of late Neolithic funerary architecture. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North. Oxford: Windgather Press.
- Hambleton, E., 2008. Review of Middle Bronze Age - Late Iron Age Faunal Assemblages from Southern Britain. English Heritage. Available from: http://research.english-heritage.org.uk/report/?14692.
