Michèle Wollstonecroft - Honorary Research Fellow

IoA involvement:  

 Michèle contributes to teaching and mentoring in the Environmental Archaeology MSc program, which she coordinated from 2014-2019. In addition, Dorian Fuller and Michèle have several ongoing collaborations on theoretical and fieldwork projects.

Selected recent publications

• Butterworth, P. J., Ellis, P. R., & Wollstonecroft, M. M. (2016). “Why protein is not enough: the roles of plants and plant processing in delivering the dietary requirements of modern and early Homo”. In K. Hardy, L. Kubiak-Martens (Eds.), Wild Harvest: Plants in the hominin and pre-agrarian human worlds (pp. 31-54). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Hillman G and Wollstonecroft M (2014) "Dietary Diversity: Our Species-Specific Dietary Adaptation". In The Archaeology of African Plant Use, eds. S Nixon, MA Murray and DQ Fuller. Institute of Archaeology Publication (Left Coast Press).
• Wollstonecroft M, Hroudovã Z, Hillman GC, Fuller DQ (2011) "Bolboschoenus glaucus: a new species in the flora of the ancient Near East". Veg Hist Archaeobot 20:459–470.
• Wollstonecroft M (2011) "Investigating the role of food processing in human evolution: a niche construction approach". J. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3: 141-150.
• Wollstonecroft M, Ellis PR, Hillman GC, Fuller DQ (2008) "Advancements in plant food processing in the Near Eastern Epipalaeolithic and implications for improved edibility and nutrient bioaccessibility: an experimental assessment of sea club-rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla)". Veg Hist Archaeobot 17 (Suppl. 1): S19-S27.