Archaeobotany @ Nottingham

Key staff: Dr Claire Newton, James Rackham

Archaeobotany has been taught at Nottingham since 2004 during which time staff and students have been undertaking high-profile research on issues of plant domestication, the origins and spread of agricultural practices and environmental changes.

The Department specialises in the archaeobotany of Northeastern Africa and is involved in archaeological projects in Egypt and Iran. Wider research projects relating to the cultural and biogeographical history of two fruit crops, the Olive and the Date palm, involve international collaborations with leaders in
the fields of botany, plant biology, population ecology and genetics, spanning the Mediterranean basin (Olive) and the semi-arid to hyperarid belt from Spain to India (Date palm).

Our staff are involved in the following research:

• Foodways in Archaeology
• Cultural Biogeography of Plants and Animals