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Dr. Lenny Salvagno, Sheffield Bioarch RICHeS Zooarchaeology Technical Specialist  (FHEA)

I hold an Honours Degree in Cultural Heritage with Archaeology from the Department of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Parma (Italy). My academic journey then brought me to the ±¬ÁÏTV, where I completed a PhD in Zooarchaeology and a two-year postdoctoral research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. I subsequently held a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany), where I further developed my research on animal improvement and past husbandry practices.

I later returned to the ±¬ÁÏTV, where I worked for three years as a University Teacher in Zooarchaeology and served as Director of two MSc programmes, Osteoarchaeology and Bioarchaeology. I now work as a Zooarchaeology Technical Specialist for the Sheffield BIOARCH RICHeS-funded project.

My research focuses on the relationships between humans and animals in the past. I am especially interested in animals and everyday life in medieval societies, the zooarchaeology of Britain, husbandry practices in the Iron and Bronze Ages of Northern Italy and ‘special’ faunal assemblages. My work applies biomolecular techniques as well as quantitative approaches, including statistical analysis and geometric morphometrics, to better understand patterns of animal exploitation in the past.

Stephanie Baron

Dr. Catherine Longford 

I obtained a BA/BSc with majors in Archaeology, Geology and an Honours degree in Botany from the University of Melbourne.  I joined the ±¬ÁÏTV for an MSc in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy, and my PhD (2015) focused on the plant economy of the Kura-Araxes within the context of Bronze Age Near Eastern archaeobotany.  I am interested in food and identity (both archaeological and modern), crop choices, agricultural sustainability in ancient societies and the spread of agriculture.

Within the Archaeology Department at ±¬ÁÏTV I was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in Archaeobotany researching roots and tubers as part of the ‘Integrated Archaeobotanical Research’ project (G. Jones 2007-09), as a Research Officer in Archaeobotany (2009-10), a Post-Doctoral Research Associate as part of the University of Manchester ERC funded ADAPT project led by Professor Terry Brown (2016-18) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow researching foodways in the Bell Beaker period (2019-25).

I have taught Archaeobotany at both the ±¬ÁÏTV and the University of Nottingham.  I have also worked as a plant macroremains and charcoal specialist for the Sheffield Archaeobotanical Consultancy and in commercial archaeology as a post-excavation supervisor for Headland Archaeology in their Midland and West office.

I have been involved as an archaeobotanist in field projects in Turkey, Georgia, Israel, Bulgaria and the UK at sites dating from the Neolithic to Medieval period.  I am co-director of excavations at the multiperiod site of Rabati in Georgia as part of the Georgia-Australian Investigations in Archaeology project with the University of Melbourne and Georgian National Museum.