Louise MARTIN - B.A., Ph.D.

• Senior Lecturer
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2014 Zooarchaeology in practice
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG184 Zooarchaeology in practice
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG188 Environmental Archaeology in Practice

Research Interests:

Recent Publications:

Buitenhuis,H., Choyke,A.M., Martin,L., Bartosiewicz,L., Mashkour,M. (eds.) (2005), Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas.ARC Publications 123 series. Groningen: ARC Publications. ISBN: 1574-6879.

Russell,N., Martin,L. (2005). The Çatalhöyük mammal remains. in Hodder,I. (ed.) Inhabiting Catalhoyuk: Reports from the 1995-1999 Seasons. McDonald Institute Monographs series. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 33-98

Russell,N., Martin,L., Buitenhuis,H. (2005). Cattle domestication at Catalhoyuk revisited. Current Anthropology 46(5), S101-S108. ISSN: 0011-3204

Edwards C.J., Bradley, MacHugh D.E., Dobney K., Martin L., Russell N., Horwitz L.K., McIntosh S.K., MacDonald K.C., Helmer D., Tresset A., Vigne J.-D. and Bradley, D.G. (2004) ‘Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains: limits and prospects’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 31/6, 695-710.

Richards M P, Pearson J A, Molleson T I, Russell N and Martin L A, (2003) ‘Stable Isotope Evidence of Diet at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 30/1, 67-76

Martin, L A, (2002) 'Terrestrial Mammal Remains from Bronze Age HD1, Ra'as al Hadd, Oman', Journal of Oman Studies 12, 169-180

Martin, L A, (2000). Mammal remains from the eastern Jordanian Neolithic, and the nature of caprine herding in the steppe, Paléorient, 25(2), 87-104

Horwitz, L, Tchernov, E, Ducos, P, Becker, C, von den Driesch, A, Martin, L & Garrard, A, (2000). Animal domestication in the southern Levant, Paléorient, 25(2), 63-80

Martin, L & Russell, N. et al., (2000). Trashing Rubbish, iographs & British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 57-69.n I Hodder (ed), Towards reflexive method in archaeology: the example at Çatalhöyük, McDonald Institute Mon

Russell, N & Martin, L, (2000). Neolithic Çatalhöyük: preliminary zooarchaeological results from the renewed excavations, in M Mashkour, A Choyke, H Buitenhuis & F Poplin (eds), Archaeozoology of the Near East, IV, 164-170. Groningen: ARC Publicatie 32

Martin, L A, (2000). Gazelle (Gazella spp.) behavioural ecology: predicting animal behaviour for prehistoric environments in southwest Asia, Journal of Zoology, 250, 13-30

Martin, L A, (1998. The faunal remains from Dhuweila, in A V G Betts (ed), The harra and the hammada: archaeological explorations in the Jordanian Basalt Desert, 159-184. Sheffield: Sheffield University Press

Martin, L A & Russell, N, (1997). Surface Material: Animal Bone and Worked Bone, in I Hodder (ed), On the surface: Çatalhöyük 1993-95, 199-214. Cambridge/London: McDonald Institute & British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara

Martin, L A, Garrard, A & Colledge, S, (1996). The emergence of cultivation and pastoralism in the "marginal zone" of the southern Levant, in D. Harris (ed), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, 204-226. London: UCL Press

Martin, L A, (1995). Hunting and herding in a semi-arid region: an archaeozoological and ethological analysis of the faunal remains from the epipalaeolithic and neolithic of the eastern Jordanian steppe. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Sheffield

Collaborations:

• Çatalhöyük Project: Neolithic Turkey; Zooarchaeology (Director: Professor Ian Hodder, University of Cambridge).
• Azraq Basin Project: Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Jordan; Zooarchaeology (Director: Dr. Andrew Garrard, UCL).
• Black Desert Project: Neolithic and Chalcolithic Jordan; Zooarchaeology (Director: Dr. Alison Betts, University of Sydney).
• Wadi Hammeh: Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Jordan; Zooarchaeology (Director: Dr. Phillip Edwards, LaTrobe University, Melbourne).
• Iraq ed-Dhubb: Neolithic Jordan; Zooarchaeology (Director: Dr. Ian Kuijt, University of California, Berkeley).
• Ras al-Hadd Project: Bronze Age, Sultanate of Oman; Zooarchaeology (Director: Dr. Julian Reade, British Museum).
• Craven Street: 18th Century London (Director: Dr Simon Hillson, UCL)

Educational Background:

• 1985 BA Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London.
• 1995 PhD. (Archaeology) University of Sheffield. Thesis title: Hunting and herding in a semi-arid region: an archaeozoological and ethological study of the faunal remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic of eastern Jordan.

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