Lisa Ann Lodwick (21 July 1988 – 3 November 2022) was a British

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, ...

who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used

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and

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stable

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analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the

ancient Romans The Roman people was the ethnicity and the body of Roman citizenship, Roman citizens (; ) during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. This concept underwent considerable changes throughout the long history of the Roman ...

. Lodwick's pioneering archaeobotanical studies at

Calleva Atrebatum Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern vi ...

demonstrated the import and consumption of

celery Celery (''Apium graveolens'' Dulce Group or ''Apium graveolens'' var. ''dulce'') is a cultivated plant belonging to the species ''Apium graveolens'' in the family Apiaceae that has been used as a vegetable since ancient times. The original wild ...

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and

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in Insula IX prior to the Claudian Conquest. She jointly won the 2020 Book of the Year Award at the

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for ''Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain''.

Education

Lodwick studied archaeology and

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Hertford College, Oxford Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main ga ...

. She graduated in 2009 and was awarded the Meyerstein Prize for best overall performance in the

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. In 2010, she completed a Master's Degree in European archaeology, also at

Hertford College Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The colle ...

. She went on to receive a

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(DPhil) degree from the School of Archaeology in 2014. Her

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was titled ''An archaeobotanical analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the late Iron Age-Roman transition''.

Academic career

Lodwick held

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research positions at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

from 2014 to 2017 and later at

All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full me ...

. She was due to start a position as a

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environmental archaeology Environmental archaeology is a sub-field of archaeology which emerged in the 1970s and is the science of reconstructing the relationships between past societies and the environments they lived in. The field represents an archaeological-palaeoec ...

at the

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in 2022. Lodwick was elected a

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

in November 2018.

Research

Lodwick co-authored the second and third books in the "New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain" monograph series published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The third volume, ''Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain'', was written with Alexander Smith,

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, Tom Brindle,

Michael Fulford Michael Gordon Fulford, (born October 1948) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the British Iron Age, Roman Britain and landscape archaeology. He has been Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading since 1993. Ea ...

, and Anna Rohnbogner and won the '' Current Archaeology's'' 2020 Book of the Year Award. An advocate of

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publication in archaeology, Lodwick was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the ''

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) is an academic organisation and conference for the discussion of archaeological theory in Roman archaeology. History The first Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was organised by Elean ...

'', published by the

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, and a member of the editorial board of the journal ''Britannia'' published by the

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Death

Lodwick died on 3 November 2022, at the age of 34, from

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References

External links

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Interview with Lisa Lodwick on the Coffee & Circuses podcast
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lodwick, Lisa Place of birth missing Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford 21st-century British archaeologists British women archaeologists 2022 deaths 1988 births Deaths from breast cancer