UCL Institute of Archaeology

• BA, MA, PhD
• Professor of Environmental Archaeology
• Section Co-ordinator: Archaeological Sciences
• Degree Programme Co-ordinator: MSc in Environmental Archaeology (2010-11)
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG180 Cultural Environments
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2017 Geoarchaeology: paleolandscapes, sediments and site formation processes
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL3087 The Archaeology and Anthropology of Climate Change
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG104 Geoarchaeology I: Methods and Concepts 1
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG105 Geoarchaeology II: Methods and Concepts 2

Research Interests

• Geoarchaeology and Phytolith Studies in Archaeology
• Reconstruction of past Holocene environments
• Social responses to climatic and environmental change
• The development of agricultural systems, protohistoric Near East, Central Asian Bronze and Iron Ages, protohistoric environment and archaeology of China

Research Directory

• From Foraging to Farming
• The Landscape of Confucius
• Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the Palaeolithic of Europe and Western Asia
• Shahrizor Research Project
  
• Yiluo Basin Project
  

Collaborations

• Geoarchaeologist for the Yiluo Regional Survey, Henan, China (collaboration with Chen Xingcan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China; Liu Li, La Trobe University, Australia; Lee Yun Kuen., Harvard University, USA).
• Phytolith analyst at Çatalhöyük, Turkey (collaboration with Ian Hodder, Stanford Univ. and Ruth Tringham, Berkeley, USA)
• Geoarchaeologist at Samara, Russia (collaboration with David Anthony and Dorcus Brown, Hartwick College, USA).
• Geoarchaeologist at Gordion, Central Anatolia (collaboration with Lisa Kealhofer, Santa Clara University, USA; and Mary Voigt, College of William and Mary, USA)
• Geoarchaeologist at Tel Megiddo, Israel (collaboration with Israel Finkelstein and David Ussishkin, Tel Aviv University, Israel; and Baruch Halpern, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA).
• Geoarchaeologist and phytolith analyst for the Talgar Regional Survey and Excavation Project, Kazakhstan, (collaboration with Claudia Chang, Sweet Briar College, USA).

Educational Background

• BA, University of New Mexico, in Anthropology
• MA, Washington State University, in Anthropology
• PhD, University of Chicago, in Anthropology

Books

• Rosen, A. (2007) Civilizing Climate: Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
• Ashmore, W., M.-A. Dobres, S. Nelson and A. Rosen (eds.), (2006) Integrating the Diversity of 21^st Century Anthropology: The life and Intellectual Legacies of Susan Kent. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, UCLA Press.
• Rosen, A. (1986). Cities of Clay: The Geoarchaeology of Tells. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Articles

• Rosen, A.M. (2010). Natufian plant exploitation: Managing risk and stability in an environment of change. Eurasian Prehistory, 7(1):117-31.
• Portillo, M., A.M. Rosen and M. Weinstein-Evron. (2010). Natufian plant uses at el-Wad terrace (Mount Carmel, Israel): the phytolith evidence. Eurasian Prehistory, 7(1):99-112.
• Dubreuil, L. and A.M. Rosen. (2010). Alternative methods for gathering: direct and indirect evidence of plant exploitation during the Natufian. Eurasian Prehistory, 7(1):3-5.
• Roberts, N. and A. Rosen. (2009). Diversity and complexity in early farming communities of Southwest Asia: new insights into the economic and environmental basis of Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Current Anthropology 50(3): 393-402. 
• Deckers, K., S. Riehl, E. Jenkins, A. Rosen, A. Dodonov, A. N. Simakova and N. J. Conard (2009). Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus Region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18:329–340.
• Rosen, A. (2008). The Impact of Environmental change and Human Land Use on Alluvial Valleys on the Loess Plateau of China during the Mid-Holocene. Geomorphology 101: 298–307. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.017
• Rosen, A. (2008). Review paper based on Sociétés humaines et changement climatique à la fi n du troisième millénaire : une crise a-t-elle eu lieu en Haute Mésopotamie? Actes du Colloque de Lyon, 5-8 déc. 2005. Paris : Institut français d’études anatoliennes d’Istanbul, diff. De Boccard (Varia Anatolica XIX) (Kuzucuoğlu C. et Marro C. (éd.). 2007. In Paléorient 34 (1): 207-213.
• Rosen, A. (2008). Site Formation. In L.E. Stager and J. D. Schloen (Eds.) Ashkelon I: Introduction and Overview (1985–2006) Pp. 101-104.
• Rosen, A. (2007). Phytolith Remains from Final Natufian Contexts at Mallaha/Eynan. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 37: 340-355.
• Rosen, A. (2007). The role of environmental change in the development of complex societies in China: a study from the Huizui site. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin.
• Rosen, A. (2007). Climates of Change: Perspectives on Past and Future Climate Change and its Impact on Human Societies. Nature and Culture 2 (1):87-94. 
• Rosen, A. (2007) Analysis of Botanical Remains: Phytolith Analysis. In D. Pearsall (ed.), Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 1818-1822.
• Killebrew, A., Goldberg, P., Rosen, A. (2006). Deir el-Balah: A Geological, Archaeological, and Historical Reassessment of An Egyptianizing 13th and 12th Century B.C.E. Center. Bulletin of the American Society for Oriental Research 343, 97-119. ISSN: 0003-097X
• Rosen, A. and N. Roberts, (2006). The Nature of Çatalhöyük: People and their Changing Environments on the Konya Plain. In I. Hodder (Ed.) Çatalhöyük Project Volume VI: Çatalhöyük Perspectives: Themes from the 1995-9 Seasons. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute, Cambridge University.
• Rosen, A. (2006). Climate change, landscape, and shifting agricultural potential during the occupation of Tel Megiddo. In I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, and B. Halpern (Eds.) Megiddo IV. Eisenbrauns. Pp. 441-449.
• Rosen, A. (2005). Phytolith indicators of plant and land use at Çatalhöyük. In I. Hodder (ed.),  Çatalhöyük Project Volume IV: Inhabiting Çatalhöyük. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute, Cambridge University. Pp. 203-212.
• Henry, D. O., H. J. Hietala, A. M. Rosen, Y. E. Demidenko, V. I. Usik and T. L. Armagan, (2004). Human Behavioral Organization in the Middle Paleolithic: Were Neanderthals Different? American Anthropologist 106:17-31.
• Rosen, A. (2004). Phytolith Evidence for Plant Use at Mallaha/Eynan. Pp. 189-201 in F. Valla et al. Les fouilles à Mallaha en 2000 et 2001 : 3ème rapport préliminaire.. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society.
• Liu, L., X. Chen, Y.K. Lee, H. Wright, and A. Rosen, (2004). Settlement Patterns and Development of Social Complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China.. Journal of Field Archaeology 29 (1/2): 75-100.
• Rosen, A, (2004). Phytolith indicators of plant and land use at Çatalhöyük. In Çatalhöyük Project Volume IV: Inhabiting Çatalhöyük. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute, Cambridge University.
• Roberts N., A.C. Stevenson, B. Davis, R. Cheddadi, S. Brewer, and A. Rosen, (2004). Holocene climate, environment and cultural change in the circum-Mediterranean region. In: R.W.Battarbee, F.Gasse, and C.E. Stickley (eds), Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
• Chang, C., N. Benecke, F.P. Grigoriev, A. Rosen, and P.A. Tourtellotte, (2003). Iron Age society and chronology in South-east Kazakhstan. Antiquity 77 (296): 298-312.
• Rosen, A, (2003). Preliminary Phytolith Analysis. In A. Alizadeh (Ed.) Excavations at the Prehistoric Mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran, Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996. Pp. 129-135. Chicago: University of Chicago.
• Rosen, A, (2003). Paleoenvironments in the Levant. Editor: Richard, S. Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader. Pp. 10-16. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
• Rosen, A, (2003). Middle Paleolithic Plant Exploitation: The Microbotanical Evidence. In D.O. Henry, editor. Neanderthals in the Levant: Behavioral Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity. Pp. 156-171. London: Continuum.
• Rosen, A, (2001). Phytolith evidence for agro-pastoral economies in the Scythian period of southern Kazakhstan. Editors: Meunier, J.D., Colin, F. and Faure-Denard, L. The Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Science and Human History. Pp. 183-198. Aix en Provence: CEREGE
• Rosen, A, (2001). Environmental Studies. In E. Eisenberg, A. Gopher and R.Greenberg (Eds.) Tel Te'o, A Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age Site in the Hula Valley. Pp. 153-156. Israel Antiquities Authority Report 13, Jerusalem.
• Rosen, A, (2001). Determinist or not determinist?: climate, environment, and archaeological explanation in the Levant. With Steven Rosen. In S. Wolff (Ed.). Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse. Pp. 535-554. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
• Rosen, A, (2000). Paleoenvironments and economy of Iron Age Saka-Wusun agro-pastoralists in southeastern Kazakhstan (with C. Chang and F. Grigoriev). Antiquity 74:611-23.
• Rosen, A, (1999). Phytolith analysis in Near Eastern Archaeology. Editors: Pike, S. and Gitin, S. The Practical Impact of Science on Aegean and Near Eastern Archaeology, Pp. 86-92. Wiener Laboratory Publication 3. Archetype Press, London.
• Rosen, A, (1999). Phytoliths as indicators of prehistoric irrigation farming. Editor: P.C. Anderson. Prehistory of Agriculture: New Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches, pp. 193-198. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Archaeology.

Current Students

• Isabel Rivera-Collazo Between land and Sea: Mid - Holocene Maritime Hunter-Gatherers in the Caribbean (joint principal supervisor José Oliver)
• Virginia McRostie Agriculturization process in the Western Salty Basin of Atacama (2910BC-500AD). When, where, how and why? A research based on macro and micro botanical evidences. (second supervisor Bill Sillar)
• Anke Cross ’The gathered clouds did not rain’: the 4KY event, climate change and adaptation in southeast Anatolia and Upper Mesopotamia (second supervisor David Wengrow)
• Robert Homsher Constructional aspects of urbanization in Middle Bronze Age southern Levant: a geoarchaeological study of site formation (second supervisors Elizabeth Graham and Katherine Wright)
  
• Rebecca Beardmore Late Bronze and Early Iron Age land use and subsistence strategies in the ancient delta of the Syrdarya River, Kazakhstan: A geoarchaeological approach (second supervisor Stephen Shennan)
• Lefteris Zorzos Reconstructing the Bronze Age environment and land-use on Thera, a phytolith-based approach (joint supervision with Todd Whitelaw)
• Sophia Laparidou (Land use and Settlement Shifts in 14th cent. Mamaluk, Transjordan)

Second Supervisor

• Fay Stevens Still points in a moving world: A closer look at Bronze Age metalwork find spots in south western Britain (principal supervisor Sue Hamilton)