Meriel McClatchie - Honorary Senior Research Fellow

IoA involvement:

Meriel is currently collaborating with several Institute staff on various research projects. She continues to work with Dorian Fuller on investigating domestication of secondary crops, such as oat and rye. Meriel is also working with Sue Colledge to write up results of analyses by Gordon Hillman that were never completed, as well as a paper on Gordon Hillman’s research interests in prehistoric Britain. She contributes to teaching at the Institute through her involvement with ArcheoTech, the annual experimental archaeology field course for first year undergraduates, where she assists in teaching crop processing (most recent participation, 2019).

Selected recent publications

McClatchie M and Potito A (2020) Tracing environmental, climatic and social change in Neolithic Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature. (Accepted, due to be published in December 2020).

McClatchie M; Schulting R; McLaughlin R; Colledge S; Bogaard A; Barratt P and Whitehouse N (2019) Food Production, Processing and Foodways in Neolithic Ireland. Environmental Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2019.1615215.

McClatchie M, McCormick F, Kerr T and O'Sullivan A (2019) Changing perspectives on early medieval farming in Ireland. In Comeau R and Seaman A (eds), Living Off the Land: agriculture in Wales between c.400 to 1600 AD, pp. 57-77. Oxford, Oxbow.

McClatchie M; Bogaard A; Colledge S; Whitehouse NJ; Schulting RJ; Barratt P and McLaughlin TR (2016) Farming and foraging in Neolithic Ireland: An archaeobotanical Perspective. Antiquity 90(350): 302-318.  https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.212.

McClatchie M; Bogaard A; Colledge S; Whitehouse NJ; Schulting RJ; Barratt P and McLaughlin TR (2014) Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: Archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 51: 206-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.022.