Arlene ROSEN - B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

• Professor of Environmental Archaeology
• Degree Programme Co-ordinator: MSc in Environmental Archaeology
• Co-ordinator of Environment and Culture Research Group
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG180 Cultural Environments
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2017 Geoarchaeology: sediments and site formation processes
• 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.

Recent Publications

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
  

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