Amy Bogaard FBA is a

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archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and

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Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

and

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Archaeology at the

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Education

Bogaard earned a PhD from the

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in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.

Career

Bogaard was appointed

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of Neolithic and Bronze Age

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at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She was awarded the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award in 2015. She currently is a

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iary lecturer at St Peter's College, and an external professor at the

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. Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality. In 2013, Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project ''The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization''. 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 Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

''. She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project. Bogaard was elected as a

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in 2020, and is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity.

Selected publications

Books

*''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

*Bogaard, A. 2005. Garden agriculture’and the nature of early farming in Europe and the Near East. ''

World Archaeology ''World Archaeology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of archaeology. It was established in 1969 and originally published triannually by Routledge & Kegan Paul. In 2004 it changed to a quarterly publication schedule while ...

'' 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 The ''Journal of Archaeological Science'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers "the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology". The journal was established in 1974 by Acad ...

'' 34.3: 335-343. *Bogaard, A. et al 2013. Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers. ''

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'', ''110''(31), 12589-12594.

References

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