Dr Ellen Hambleton
- 01202 961268
- ehambleton at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-437X
- 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.
moreFavourites
- 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.
Journal Articles
- Russell, M., Smith, M., Hambleton, E., Cheetham, P. and Tamminen, H., 2024. BRUTALISED, BOUND AND BLED: A CASE OF LATER IRON AGE HUMAN SACRIFICE FROM WINTERBORNE KINGSTON, DORSET. Antiquaries Journal.
- García-Rodríguez, O., Hardouin, E.A., Hambleton, E., Monteith, J., Randall, C., Richards, M.B., Edwards, C.J. and Stewart, J.R., 2021. Ancient mitochondrial DNA connects house mice in the British Isles to trade across Europe over three millennia. BMC ecology and evolution, 21 (1), 9.
- Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Barrass, K., Evans, D., Hambleton, E., Manley, H., Pitman, D. and Stewart, D., 2019. The Durotriges Project 2017: an interim statement. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 139, 127-133.
- Hambleton, E., 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology (Book Review). HOLOCENE, 28 (2), 336-337.
- Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Hewitt, I., Hambleton, E., Manley, H. and Stewart, D., 2017. The Durotriges Project 2016: an interim statement. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 138, 105-111.
- Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Evans, D., Hambleton, E., Hewitt, I., Manley, H., Gale, J., Pitman, D. and Stewart, D., 2016. The Durotriges Project, Phase Three: an interim statement. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 137.
- Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Evans, D., Gerdau-Radonic, K., Hambleton, E., Hewitt, I., Manley, H., Speith, N. and Smith, M., 2015. The Durotriges Project, Phase Two: an interim statement. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 136, 157-161.
- Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Evans, D., Gerdau-Radonic, K., Hambleton, E., Hewitt, I., Manley, H., Speith, N. and Smith, M., 2015. Bronze Age to Late Roman settlement at Winterborne Kingston (The 'Big Dig') - Second Interim Report. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 136, 157-161.
- Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Evans, D., Hambleton, E., Hewitt, I., Manley, H. and Smith, M., 2014. The Durotriges Project, Phase one: an interim statement. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 135, 217-221.
- 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.
- Darvill, T., 2011. Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on The Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (London), 77, 139-204.
- Hambleton, E., 2011. Animal Bones. In: Darvill, T., Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on the Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (London), 77, 180-185.
- Hambleton, E., 2007. Fiskerton. An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age and Roman Votive Offerings: the 1981 Excavations. ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 12 (1), 104-106.
- Brisbane, M., Hambleton, E., Maltby, M. and Nosov, E., 2007. A Monkey’s Tale: The Skull of a Macaque Found at Ryurik Gorodishche During Excavations in 2003. Medieval Archaeology, 51, 185-190.
- Hambleton, E., 2007. Book Review: Field, N. and Parker Pearson, M. 2003. Fiskerton. An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age and Roman Votive Offerings: the 1981 Excavations. Oxford:Oxbow Books. Environmental Archaeology, 12, 104-106.
- Hambleton, E., 2005. "Animal Bone" in J Lovell: Excavation of a Romano-British Farmstead at RNAS Yeovilton. Somerset Archaeology & Natural History, 149, 44-47.
- Hambleton, E., 2005. "Animal Bone" In Excavation of an Early Saxon settlement at Pitstone by M Phillips et al. Records of Buckinghamshire, 45, 20-24.
- Hambleton, E., 2004. "Animal Bone" In The Investigation of an Early-Middle Iron Age Settlement and Field System at Topler’s Hill by M Luke. Bedfordshire Archaeology, 25, 43-44.
- Hambleton, E., 2004. "Faunal Remains" In Bronze Age and Romano-British Sites South-East of Tewkesbury: Valuations and Excavations 1991-7 by G Walker, A Thomas and C Bateman. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archaeology Society, 122, 79-83.
- Hambleton, E. and Rowley-Conwy, P., 1997. The Medieval Reindeer Economy at Gaeccevaj'njar'ga 244B in the Varanger Fjord, North Norway. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 30, 55-70.
- Hambleton, E. and Rowley-Conwy, P., 1997. Medieval Reindeer from Gaeccevaj'njar'ga 244B, Arctic Norway: Wild or Domestic? Universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Archaeological Reports, 20, 55-70.
Books
- Hambleton, E., 1999. Animal husbandry regimes in Iron Age Britain: a comparative study of faunal assemblages from Iron Age sites.. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Chapters
- Feider, M., Hambleton, E. and Maltby, M., 2020. Chicken hybrid imagery on late Iron Age coinage in northern Gaul and southern England during the Iron Age-Roman transition. In: Selsvold, I. and Webb, L., eds. Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow, 67-77.
- Maltby, M., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Hambleton, E. and Sablin, M., 2020. The exploitation of domestic mammals at the 9th- and 10th-century sites in the hinterland of Novgorod. Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and Its Region. Oxbow Books Limited.
- Maltby, M., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Zinoviev, A.V. and Hambleton, E., 2020. The exploitation of domestic mammals in Novgorod: The evidence from Troitsky IX, X and XI and other sites in Novgorod. Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and Its Region. Oxbow Books Limited.
- Maltby, M., Brisbane, M., Hambleton, E. and Hamilton-Dyer, S., 2020. Использование природной среды: дикие животные в средневековом Новгороде и на Новгородской земле (Using the Natural Environment: The exploitation of wild animals in medieval Novgorod and its territory). Археологические вести 28 (Archaeological News 28). St Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences: Institute for the History of Material Culture, 203-221.
- Brisbane, M., Hambleton, E., Hamilton-Dyer, S. and Maltby, M., 2015. Reflections on the Ecological Setting and Environmental Impact of Medieval Settlement Expansion in Northern Russia. In: Gaidukov, P., ed. Towns and Villages of Medieval Russia. Moscow: Russian Academy of Science, 36-44.
- 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.
- 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. and Maltby, M., 2008. Faunal Remains. In: Ellis, C., Powell, A.B. and Hawkes, J., eds. An Iron Age Settlement Outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites Along the Southern Range Road. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology, 84-93.
- Hambleton, E., 2008. Animal Bone. In: Holbrook, N., ed. Excavations and Observations in Roman Cirencester 1998-2007 with a review of archaeology in Cirencester 1958-2008.. Cirencester, England: Cotswold Archaeology.
- Brisbane, M., Maltby, M. and Hambleton, E., 2007. An African Monkey at the Court of the Novgorod Princes. In: Nosov, E.N. and Musin, A.E., eds. The Origins of the Russian State : To the 30th Anniversary of the Archaeological Studies of Novgorod Ryurik Gorodishche and the Novgorod Oblast Archaeological Expedition. St Petersburg, Russia: Dimitri Bulanin, 74-81.
- Hambleton, E., 2004. The Animal Remains. In: Hands, A.R., ed. The Romano-British Roadside Settlement at Wilcote, Oxfordshire III: Excavations in 1997-2000. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 321-330.
- Hambleton, E., 2003. Assessment of the Animal Bone from Site P. In: Darvill, T., ed. Billown Neolithic Landscape Project, Isle of Man. Seventh Report 2002. Poole, England: School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University in assoc. with Manx National Heritage, 23.
- Hambleton, E., 2001. Animal Bone. In: Walker, G., Langton, B. and Oakey, N., eds. An Iron Age Site at Groundwell West, Wiltshire: Excavations in 1996. Cirencester, England: Cotswold Archaeological Trust & Swindon Borough Council, 31-33.
- Hambleton, E., 2001. A method for converting Grant Mandible Wear Stages to Payne style Wear Stages in Sheep, Cow and Pig. In: Millard, A., ed. Archaeological Sciences '97 : Proceedings of the Conference held at the at University of Durham, 2nd-4th September 1997. Oxford: Archaeopress, 103-108.
- Hambleton, E. and Stallibrass, S., 2000. The Faunal Remains. In: Haselgrove, C. and McCullagh, R., eds. An Iron Age Coastal Community in East Lothian: Excavation of Two Later Prehistoric Enclosure Complexes at Fisher's Road, Port Seton, 1994-1995.. Scottish Trust for Archaeological Research, 147-157.
- Hambleton, E., 2000. The Human Remains. In: Haselgrove, C. and McCullagh, R., eds. An Iron Age Coastal Community in East Lothian: Excavation of Two Later Prehistoric Enclosure Complexes at Fisher's Road, Port Seton, 1994-1995.. Scottish Trust for Archaeological Research, 145.
Conferences
- Gerdau-Radonic, K., Smith, M., Russell, M., Cheetham, P., Hambleton, E., Manley, H. and Evans, D., 2014. Death Ways of the Durotriges: Dealing with the Dead in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Dorset. In: European Association of Archaeologists 10-14 September 2014 Istanbul, Tukey.
- Hambleton, E., 2009. The Bones of the Matter: Inspiring Learning & Achievement in Zooarchaeology. In: Education Enhancement Conference 2009 21 May 2009 Bournemouth University.
- Hambleton, E., 2008. The life of things long dead: A biography of Iron Age animal bones from Battlesbury Bowl, Wiltshire. In: Theoretical Archaeology Group 30th Annual Meeting (2008) 15-16 December 2008 University of Southampton.
- Hambleton, E., 2007. Skulls on Show: An investigation of ritual treatment of animal remains at the prehistoric settlement of Battlesbury Bowl, Hampshire. In: Releasing Research and Enterprise Potential 2006-7 Finale Event 18 July 2007 Bournemouth University.
- Hambleton, E., 2006. Animals and Society in the 1st millennium BC. Case studies from Southern England. In: English Heritage Osteology Seminar for Archaeological curators and contractors (South-West England) 31 January 2006 Exeter, England.
- Hambleton, E., 2005. Animals and Society in the 1st millennium BC. Case studies from Southern England. In: English Heritage Osteology Seminar for Archaeological curators and contractors (London & South-East England) 28 May 2005 London.
- Hambleton, E., 2005. Animals and Society in the 1st millennium BC. Case studies from Southern England. In: English Heritage Osteology Seminar for Archaeological curators and contractors (Midlands) 8 September 2005 Swindon.
- Hambleton, E., 2002. Doggy in the well: a review of the evidence and possible interpretations concerning the deposition of dogs in wells and similar features on Romano-British settlements. In: Integrating Zooarchaeology: The 9th Conference Of The International Council Of Archaeozoology 23-28 August 2002 University of Durham.
Reports
- Hambleton, E. and Maltby, M., 2016. The Animal Bones from Excavations in Meshoko Cave in the Northern Caucasus. Bournemouth University and St Petersburg State University.
- Hambleton, E. and Maltby, M., 2009. Animal Bones from Caerwent Forum-Basilica, Wales. Report prepared for National Museum of Wales.. Client, Site Archive.
- 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.
- Hambleton, E., 2008. Report on the faunal remains from Vestra Long Cairn. Report prepared for Colin Richards (The Great Stone Circles Project). Client, Site Archive.
- Hambleton, E. and Maltby, M., 2004. Animal Bones from Excavations at Battlesbury Bowl, Wiltshire. Report prepared for Wessex Archaeology.. Client, Site Archive.
- Hambleton, E. and Maltby, M., 2004. Animal Bones from medieval contexts at Laugharne Castle, Dyfed, Wales. Report prepared for CADW.. Client, Site Archive.
- Hambleton, E. and Maltby, M., 2004. Animal Bones from postmedieval contexts at Laugharne Castle, Dyfed, Wales. Report prepared for CADW.. Client, Site Archive.
Software
- Hambleton, E., 2009. A Review of Animal Bone Evidence from Southern England (Late Bronze Age-Late Iron Age).. ArchSearch - the ADS Online Catalogue: Archaeological Data Service. Available from: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/animalbone_eh_2009/index.cfm.
Public Engagement & Outreach Activities
- Archaeology Workshop-Brockenhurst College (03 Jul 2013)
Qualifications
- PhD in Animal Husbandry Regimes in Iron Age Britain (University of Durham, 1998)
- BSc (Hons) in Archaeological Sciences (1994)
Memberships
- Association for Environmental Archaeology, Committee Member,
- International Council for Zooarchaeology (ICAZ), Member,
- Professional Zooarchaeology Group, Member,