Amy Bogaard | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield (PhD) |
Thesis | The Permanence, Intensity and Seasonality of Early Crop Cultivation in Western-Central Europe (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Glynis Jones |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Notable works | Neolithic Farming in Central Europe |
Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002,supervised by Glynis Jones. [5]
Bogaard was appointed Lecturer of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the School of Archaeology,University of Oxford. She was awarded the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award in 2015. [6] She currently is a stipendiary lecturer at St Peter's College, [7] and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. [8]
Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality. [9]
In 2013,Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization. [10] 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 . [11] She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project. [12]
Bogaard was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020, [13] and is a member of the Antiquity Trust,which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity. [14]
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