Richard Madgwick

Contact

• workRoom B01 (Desk S2) Humanities Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 9514897
• Richard.Madgwick@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

2011-Present Publicity Officer, Association for Environmental Archaeology

2011-12 Lecturer in Archaeology, Bournemouth University

2006-7 Institute for Archaeologists Bioarchaeology Intern, Cardiff University

2006 Project Archaeologist, Wessex Archaeology

2008-11 PhD in Zooarchaeology, Cardiff University (AHRC funded)

2005-06- MA Osteoarchaeology, University of Southampton (AHRC funded)

2001-2004 BA Archaeology, University of Southampton

Expertise Summary

Osteoarchaeology (specialising in zooarchaeology)

Isotopic analysis (particularly Carbon, Nitrogen and Strontium)

The application of multivariate statistical approaches to archaeological datasets

The archaeology of feasting

Later Prehistoric Britain

Histological analysis

Research Summary

I am an osteoarchaeologist specialising in the study of faunal remains and am currently working on the AHRC-funded Dama International Project (PI Dr Naomi Sykes), exploring human-fallow deer… read more

Selected Publications

• MADGWICK, R., MULVILLE, J. and EVANS, J., 2012. Investigating diagenesis and the suitability of porcine enamel for strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
• MARÍN-ARROYO, A.B., MADGWICK, R. and BRUGAL, J-P., 2012. eds., In Press. New Perspectives on Taphonomy Special Issue. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)
• MADGWICK, R., FOREST, V. and BEGLANE, F., 2012. In Press. Syndactyly in pigs: A review of previous research and the presentation of eight archaeological specimens. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)
• MADGWICK, R. and MULVILLE, J., 2012. In Press. Investigating variation in the prevalence of weathering in faunal assemblages in the United Kingdom: A multivariate statistical approach. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)

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Current Research

I am an osteoarchaeologist specialising in the study of faunal remains and am currently working on the AHRC-funded Dama International Project (PI Dr Naomi Sykes), exploring human-fallow deer relations across Europe from the Neolithic to the Post-Medieval period. This multidisciplinary project employs wide-ranging methods and I am principally involved in zooarchaeology, osteometrics and isotopic analysis. Genetics, undertaken by partners at Durham University will also be a major focus of the research. To find out more about the project follow us on twitter and take a look at the project website:

http://twitter.com/@DeerProject

www.fallow-deer-project.net

Past Research

Much of my previous research has focussed on taphonomy, isotopic analysis (Carbon, Nitrogen and Strontium) and the application of statistical approaches to faunal datasets. My AHRC-funded PhD, which I completed at Cardiff University in 2011 (supervisor: Dr Jacqui Mulville) represents the most detailed study into bone taphonomy in a British context to date. I have conducted multiple programmes of isotopic analysis on fauna, for reconstructing diet and husbandry regimes in later Prehistory in southern Britain and the Outer Hebrides. I also set up a successful collagen extraction laboratory at Cardiff University that has now processed more than one thousand samples. In addition, I have conducted programmes of strontium isotope analysis at the NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory in Keyworth (with Prof. Jane Evans). I am an experienced zooarchaeologist, having produced numerous reports and assessments as a freelance analyst, as project zooarchaeologist and as an IfA Bioarchaeology intern. I am also an avid community archaeologist, have been trained and inducted as a STEM Ambassador and integrate outreach activities into my research whenever possible. A major public engagement venture I have been involved with is the Beacons funded Future Animals Project.

• MADGWICK, R., MULVILLE, J. and EVANS, J., 2012. Investigating diagenesis and the suitability of porcine enamel for strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
• MADGWICK, R. and MULVILLE, J., 2012. In Press. Investigating variation in the prevalence of weathering in faunal assemblages in the United Kingdom: A multivariate statistical approach. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)
• MADGWICK, R., STEVENS, R. and O'CONNELL, T.C., 2012. In Press. Isotopic analysis of the fauna. In: SHARPLES, N.M., ed., An Iron Age Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1. Bornais, South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow. (In Press.)
• MARÍN-ARROYO, A.B., MADGWICK, R. and BRUGAL, J-P., 2012. eds., In Press. New Perspectives on Taphonomy Special Issue. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)
• MADGWICK, R., FOREST, V. and BEGLANE, F., 2012. In Press. Syndactyly in pigs: A review of previous research and the presentation of eight archaeological specimens. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)
• MULVILLE, J., MADGWICK, R., POWELL, A. and PARKER PEARSON, M., 2012. Flesh on the bones: Animal bodies in Atlantic roundhouses. In: The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals Oxford: Oxbow. 205-219
• MARÍN-ARROYO, A.B., MADGWICK, R., BRUGAL, J-P. and MORENO-GARCÍA, M., 2012. In Press. New Perspectives on Taphonomy Special Issue: Introduction. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (In Press.)
• MULVILLE, J. and MADGWICK, R., 2012. The Animal Bones from Sligeanach. In: PARKER PEARSON, M., ed., From Machair to Mountains Oxford: Oxbow. 238-241
• MULVILLE, J. and MADGWICK, R., 2012. The Animal Bones from Frobost. In: PARKER PEARSON, M., ed., From Machair to Mountains Oxford: Oxbow. 276
• MULVILLE, J. and MADGWICK, R., 2012. The Animal Bones from Aisgernis. In: PARKER PEARSON, M., ed., From Machair to Mountains Oxford: Oxbow. 282-283
• MADGWICK, R., 2011. The Faunal Assemblage. In: WADDINGTON, K. and SHARPLES, N.M., eds., The Whitchurch Excavations 2006-2009: An Interim Report. Cardiff: SHARE.
• MADGWICK, R., MULVILLE, J. and STEVENS, R., 2011. Raising Pigs (and other animals) in Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Britain PAST. 69, 13-15
• MADGWICK, R., 2010. Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex. In: MORRIS, J. and MALTBY, M., eds., Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies: Reconsidering Deposition Oxford: Archaeopress. 66-82
• MULVILLE, J., MADGWICK, R., STEVENS, R., O'CONNELL, T.C., CRAIG, O., POWELL, A. and PARKER PEARSON, M., 2009. Isotopic analysis of faunal material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland Journal of the North Atlantic. 2, 51-9
• BAKER, S., GRAY, A., LAKIN, K., MADGWICK, R., POOLE, K. and SANDIAS, M., eds., 2009. Food and Drink in Archaeology Totnes: Prospect.
• REDKNAP, M., MADGWICK, R., DAVIES, B., GWILT, A. and COX, M., 2008. The Lesser Garth Cave human remains Archaeology in Wales. 75-7
• MADGWICK, R., 2008. Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: Revisiting the excarnation debate. In: DAVIS, O.P., SHARPLES, N.M. and WADDINGTON, K., eds., Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxbow. 99-118
• MADGWICK, R., 2008. IfA Workplace Training The Archaeologist. 69,
• MADGWICK, R., 2008. Benefits of bursaries: Zooarchaeology at Cardiff The Archaeologist. 67,