Professor Derek Hamilton

Professor (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)

email: derek.hamilton.2@glasgow.ac.uk

Suerc, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0QF

Research interests

As a prehistoric archaeologist, I mix together scientific dating techniques (primarily radiocarbon) with stable and radiogenic isotope analysis, and add a healthy dose of Bayesian statistics to develop robust models for palaeodiet in people and animals, which are underpinned by generational chronological frameworks.

I use these models to explore questions relating to:

Archaeology of contact and colonization, particularly in late-prehistoric/Roman north-west Europe
Movement and Mobility in prehistoric societies
Archaeology of Households and Communities
Human-Environment interaction through the development of regional social and environmental histories

My personal research interests lie in and around the 1^st millennium BC in north-west Europe, but I regularly work with researchers in other regions and time periods, as the techniques are widely applicable.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain
The application of δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ³⁴S, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, and δ¹⁸O isotopic analyses to investigate population mobility in ‘Middle’ Iron Age Wessex
Setting Artefacts Free: an independent chronology for British Iron Age brooches
Living on Water: Early Iron Age Lake-dwelling Communities in Scotland

Publications

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Number of items: 92.

2024

Barquera, R. et al. (2024) Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of treponemal disease in the Americas. Nature, (doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08515-5) (Early Online Publication)

Monnereau, A. et al. (2024) Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community. Royal Society Open Science, 11(7), 240436. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.240436) (PMID:39050717) (PMCID:PMC11265863)

2023

Milesi García, Lara, Aranda Jiménez, Gonzalo, Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta, Robles Carrasco, Sonia, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Vílchez Suárez, Miriam, Sánchez Romero, Margarita and Becerra Fuello, Paula (2023) Funerary practices in megalithic tombs during the Argaric Bronze Age in South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Eriales. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49, 103972. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103972)

Jones, Andy M., Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Quinnell, Henrietta (2023) Tregiffian: the chronology of an entrance grave. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 42(2), pp. 131-151. (doi: 10.1111/ojoa.12264)

Hudson, Samuel M., Waddington, Clive, Pears, Ben, Ellis, Natalie, Parker, Luke, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Greve Alsos, Inger, Hughes, Paul and Brown, Antony (2023) Lateglacial and Early Holocene palaeoenvironmental change and human activity at Killerby Quarry, North Yorkshire, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(3), pp. 403-422. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.3488)

McDonald, Sophie, Kearney, Kevin, Gearey, Benjamin and Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2023) Recession or resilience: evidence for Neolithic agriculture in updated palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from Lairg, Sutherland. Environmental Archaeology, 28(4), pp. 256-269. (doi: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1916375)

2022

Lohse, Jon C., Morgan, Molly, Jones, John G., Brenner, Mark, Curtis, Jason, Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Cardona, Karla (2022) Early maize in the Maya area. Latin American Antiquity, 33(4), pp. 677-692. (doi: 10.1017/laq.2022.55)

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Adams, Sophia (2022) Chronological framework: the radiometric and typological dating evidence from Burnby Lane and The Mile. In: Stephens, Mark (ed.) Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds. Oxbow Books, pp. 202-210. ISBN 9781789255423

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Fox, Thomas G.B., Adams, Sophia, Alexander, Michelle, Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 and Steinke, Katharine (2022) Diet and mobility: stable isotope analyses of the Iron Age population at Burnby Lane and The Mile. In: Stephens, Mark (ed.) Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds. Oxbow Books, pp. 211-230. ISBN 9781789255423

Patterson, N. et al. (2022) Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature, 601(7894), pp. 588-594. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4) (PMID:34937049)

Tipping, Richard, Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Harrison, John G, Jordan, Jason, Paterson, Danny and Smith, David E. (2022) The terrain around Stirling at the battle of Bannockburn 1314: combined scientific and documentary approaches to reconstruction. I. The ‘low road’. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 17(1), pp. 30-47. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2022.2106809)

Tipping, Richard, Harrison, John G., Paterson, Danny, Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2022) The terrain around Stirling at the Battle of Bannockburn 1314: combined scientific and documentary approaches to reconstruction. II. The ‘High Road’. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 17(1), pp. 48-59. (doi: 10.1080/15740773.2022.2106810)

2021

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Jay, Mandy, Montgomery, Janet and Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2021) Multi-isotope analysis. In: Clark, J.R., Garner-Lahire, J.I., Spall, C.A. and Toop, N.J. (eds.) Lincoln Castle Revealed: The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor. Oxbow Books, pp. 193-200. ISBN 9781789257359

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2021) Radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analyses and Bayesian modelling. In: Clark, J.R., Garner-Lahire, J.I., Spall, C.A. and Toop, N.J. (eds.) Lincoln Castle Revealed: The Story of a Norman Powerhouse and its Anglo-Saxon Precursor. Oxbow Books, pp. 201-206. ISBN 9781789257359

Skeates, Robin, Beckett, Jessica, Mancini, Daniela, Cavazzuti, Claudio, Silvestri, Letizia, Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Crowder, Kayla D., Rolfo, Mario and Angle, Micaela (2021) Rethinking collective burial in Mediterranean caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(6), pp. 382-398. (doi: 10.1080/00934690.2021.1917137)

2020

Gaffney, V. et al. (2020) Multi-proxy characterisation of the Storegga tsunami and its impact on the early holocene landscapes of the Southern North Sea. Geosciences, 10(7), e270. (doi: 10.3390/geosciences10070270)

Campbell, Ewan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8075-0287, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-8284, Gondek, Meggen, Noble, Gordon and Evans, Nicholas (2020) A powerful place in Pictland: interdisciplinary perspectives on a power centre of the 4th to 6th centuries AD. Medieval Archaeology, 63(1), pp. 56-94. (doi: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1588529)

2019

Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Brodie, Christopher R., Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2019) Sequential measurement of δ15N, δ13C and δ34S values in archaeological bone collagen at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC): a new analytical frontier. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 33(15), pp. 1258-1266. (doi: 10.1002/rcm.8462) (PMID:30993809)

Krus, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-4473, Jensen, Anne M., Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2019) A context-appropriate approach to marine 14C calibration: ΔR and Bayesian framework for the Nuvuk cemetery, Point Barrow, Alaska. Radiocarbon, 61(3), pp. 733-747. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.20)

Swindles, G. T. et al. (2019) Vikings, peat formation and settlement abandonment: a multi-method chronological approach from Shetland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 210, pp. 211-225. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.026)

Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Boyd, Marcus O.E., Haselgrove, Colin C. and Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2019) 'Celtic Cowboys' reborn: application of multi-isotopic analysis (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) to examine mobility and movement of animals within an Iron Age British society. Journal of Archaeological Science, 101, pp. 189-198. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.006)

Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2019) Stable isotopes, chronology and Bayesian models for the Viking archaeology of north-east Iceland. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14(1), pp. 71-81. (doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1363097)

Jacobsson, Piotr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5650, Hale, Alex, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2019) Radiocarbon wiggle-match dating in the intertidal zone. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14(1), pp. 61-70. (doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1383323)

Kinnaird, Tim, Dawson, Tom, Sanderson, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9615-4412, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Cresswell, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-8075 and Rennell, Rebecca (2019) Chronostratigraphy of an eroding complex Atlantic round house, Baile Sear, Scotland. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14(1), pp. 46-60. (doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1368744)

2018

Jacobsson, Piotr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5650, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2018) 14C wiggle-match dating and the structural sequence at Cults Loch 3. In: Cavers, Graeme and Crone, Anne (eds.) A Lake Dwelling in its Landscape: Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway. Oxbow Books: Oxford. ISBN 9781785703737

Noble, Gordon, Goldberg, Martin and Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2018) The development of the Pictish symbol system: inscribing identity beyond the edges of Empire. Antiquity, 92(365), pp. 1329-1348. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2018.68)

Jacobsson, Piotr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5650, Hale, Alex G.C., Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2018) Exploring site formation and building local contexts through wiggle-match radiocarbon dating: re-dating of the Firth of Clyde Crannogs, Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology, 21(3), pp. 411-430. (doi: 10.1017/eaa.2017.60)

Lohse, Jon C., Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Brenner, Mark, Curtis, Jason, Inomata, Takeshi, Morgan, Molly, Cardona, Karla, Aoyama, Kazuo and Yonenobu, Hitoshi (2018) Late Holocene volcanic activity and environmental change in Highland Guatemala. Quaternary Science Reviews, 191, pp. 378-392. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.014)

Jacobsson, Piotr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5650, Hamilton, William Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Crone, Anne, Dunbar, Elaine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5183-5583, Kinch, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-3443, Naysmith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-1997, Tripney, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-8786 and Xu, Sheng (2018) Refining the Hallstatt plateau: Short-term 14C variability and small scale offsets in 50 consecutive tree-rings from south west Scotland dendro-dated to 410-460 BC. Radiocarbon, 60(1), pp. 219-237. (doi: 10.1017/RDC.2017.90)

Crone, A. et al. (2018) Nasty, brutish and short?; The life cycle of an Iron Age roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 18(2), pp. 138-162. (doi: 10.1080/14732971.2019.1576413)

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Krus, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-4473 (2018) Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling of Cults Loch 3, 4 and 5. In: Cavers, M. Graeme and Crone, Anne (eds.) A Lake Dwelling in Its Landscape: Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 187-194. ISBN 9781785703737

Noble, Gordon, Turner, Joe, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Hastie, Lee, Knecht, Rick, Stirling, Lindsey, Sveinbjarnarson, Oskar, Upex, Beth and Milek, Karen (2018) Early medieval shellfish exploitation in Northwest Europe: investigations at the Sands of Forvie Shell Middens, Eastern Scotland, and the role of coastal resources in the First Millennium AD. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 13(4), pp. 582-605. (doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1329242)

2017

Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Krus, Anthony M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-4473 (2017) The myths and realities of Bayesian chronological modeling revealed. American Antiquity, 83(2), pp. 187-203. (doi: 10.1017/aaq.2017.57)

Fraser, Sheena, Elsner, Julia, Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Schlumbaum, Angela and Bartosiewicz, László (2017) Matrilines in Neolithic cattle from Orkney, Scotland reveals complex husbandry patterns of ancestry. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 14, pp. 46-54. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.04.022)

Timpany, Scott, Crone, Anne, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Sharpe, Michael (2017) Revealed by waves: a stratigraphic, palaeoecological, and dendrochronological investigation of a prehistoric oak timber and intertidal peats, Bay of Ireland, West Mainland, Orkney. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 12(4), pp. 515-539. (doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1284960)

2016

Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Gestsdóttir, Hildur and Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2016) Modelling Lake Mývatn’s freshwater reservoir effect: Utilisation of the statistical program FRUITS to assist in the re-interpretation of radiocarbon dates from a cemetery at Hofstaðir, north-east Iceland. Quaternary Geochronology, 36, pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2016.07.001)

Robertson, David, Taylor, Maisie, Tyers, Ian, Cook, Gordon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2016) A second timber circle, trackways, and coppicing at Holme-next-the-Sea beach, Norfolk: use of salt- and freshwater marshes in the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 82, pp. 227-258. (doi: 10.1017/ppr.2016.3)

Bánffy, E., Osztás, A., Oross, K., Zalai-Gaál, I., Marton, T., Nyerges, É.Á, Köhler, K., Bayliss, A., Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Whittle, A. (2016) The Alsónyék story: towards the history of a persistent place. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 283-318.

Bayliss, A. et al. (2016) Peopling the past: creating a site biography in the Hungarian Neolithic. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 23-91.

Bayliss, A. et al. (2016) La cronología radiocarbó- nica del tholos de Montelirio = The radiocarbon chronology of the Montelirio tholos. In: Fernández Flores, Álvaro, García Sanjuán, Leonardo and Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta (eds.) Montelirio: Un Gran Monumento Megalítico de la Edad del Cobre = Montelirio: A Great Meglithic Monument of the Copper Age. Universidad de Sevilla, pp. 485-502. ISBN 9788499592367

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2016) Later prehistoric settlement from the Tees to the Forth: the timing of transformation and the tempo of renewal. In: Crellin, R., Fowler, C. and Tipping, R. (eds.) Prehistory without Borders: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Northeast England and Southeast Scotland. Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 224-243. ISBN 9781785701993

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2016) The Pilismarót-Basaharc cemetery: radiocarbon dating and bayesian modelling. In: Bondár, M. (ed.) The Late Copper Age cemetery at Pilismarót-Basaharc, István Torma’s excavations (1967, 1969–1972). Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Budapest, pp. 349-354. ISBN 9789639911758

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2016) Scientific dating of the Tofts sequence. In: Haselgrove, C. (ed.) Cartimandua’s capital? Research and excavations at and around the late Iron Age royal site at Stanwick, North Yorkshire, 1981–2004. Council for British Archaeology: York, pp. 169-180.

Krus, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-4473, Jensen, Anne M., Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2016) Research in progress: Assessing marine radiocarbon reservoir effect variation in greater Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 14(1&2), p. 107.

Oross, K. et al. (2016) The early days of Neolithic Alsónyék: the Starčevo occupation. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 93-121.

Oross, K. et al. (2016) Midlife changes: the Sopot burial ground at Alsónyék. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 151-178.

Oross, K. et al. (2016) Longhouse times: dating the Alsónyék LBK settlement. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 123-149.

Osztás, A. et al. (2016) Coalescent community at Alsónyék: the timings and duration of Lengyel burials and settlement. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 179-282.

Sayle, Kerry L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Ascough, Philippa L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-2903, Gestsdóttir, Hildur and McGovern, Thomas H. (2016) Deciphering diet and monitoring movement: multiple stable isotope analysis of the Viking Age settlement at Hofstaðir, Lake Mývatn, Iceland. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 160(1), pp. 126-136. (doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22939) (PMID:26799531)

Tipping, R. et al. (2016) Landscape dynamics and climate change as agents at the Battle of Bannockburn. In: Penman, P. (ed.) Bannockburn, 1314–2014: Battle & Legacy, Proceedings of the 2014 Stirling Conference. Shaun Tyas: Donington, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9781907730504

2015

Parker Pearson, M. et al. (2015) Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge. Antiquity, 89(348), pp. 1331-1352. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2015.177)

Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Ascough, P.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-2903, Bonsall, C., Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Russell, N., Sayle, K.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Scott, E.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-0623 and Bownes, J.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6738-2539 (2015) Best practice methodology for 14C calibration of marine and mixed terrestrial/marine samples. Quaternary Geochronology, 27, pp. 164-171. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.02.024)

Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Kenney, Jane (2015) Multiple Bayesian modelling approaches to a suite of radiocarbon dates from ovens excavated at Ysgol yr Hendre, Caernarfon, North Wales. Quaternary Geochronology, 25, pp. 72-82. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2014.10.001)

Beavan, Nancy, Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Sokha, Tep and Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2015) Radiocarbon dates from the Highland Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung, Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. Radiocarbon, 57(1), pp. 15-31. (doi: 10.2458/azu_rc.57.18194)

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2015) Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling. In: Thomas, J. (ed.) A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway. Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 140-145. ISBN 9781782979708

Hamilton, Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Haselgrove, Colin and Gosden, Chris (2015) The impact of Bayesian chronologies on the British Iron Age. World Archaeology, 47(4), pp. 642-660. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2015.1053976)

Krus, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-4473, Cook, R. and Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2015) Bayesian chronological modeling of SunWatch, a fort ancient village in Dayton, Ohio. Radiocarbon, 57(2), (doi: 10.2458/azu_rc.57.18179)

2014

Tipping, R. et al. (2014) Reconstructing battles and battlefields: scientific solutions to historical problems at Bannockburn, Scotland. Landscapes, 15(2), pp. 119-131. (doi: 10.1179/1466203514Z.00000000030)

Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979, Cook, Gordon T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Ascough, Philippa L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-2903, Gestsdóttir, Hildur, Hamilton, William Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and McGovern, Thomas H. (2014) Utilisation of δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S analyses to understand 14C-dating anomalies within a Late Viking Age community in north-east Iceland. Radiocarbon, 56(2), (doi: 10.2458/56.17770)

2013

Armit, I., Neale, N., Shapland, F., Bosworth, H., Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and McKenzie, J. (2013) The ins and outs of death in the Iron Age: complex funerary treatments at Broxmouth Hillfort, East Lothian. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 32(1), pp. 73-100. (doi: 10.1111/ojoa.12003)

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2013) Radiocarbon dating results. In: Strachan, D., Hamilton, D. and Barton, T. (eds.) Excavations at the Black Spout, Pitlochry and the Iron Age Monumental Roundhouses of North West Perthshire. Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust: Perth, pp. 53-56. ISBN 9780957211414

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, McKenzie, J., Armit, I. and Buster, L. (2013) Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling. In: Armit, I. and McKenzie, J. (eds.) An Inherited Place: Broxmouth and the Southern Scottish Iron Age. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 124-133.

2012

Jay, M., Haselgrove, C., Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Hill, J.D. and Dent, J. (2012) Chariots and context: new radiocarbon dates from Wetwang and the chronology of Iron Age burials and brooches in East Yorkshire. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 31(2), pp. 161-189. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2012.00384.x)

Beavan, N. et al. (2012) Radiocarbon dates from Jar acn Coffin burials of the Cardamom Mountains reveal a previously unrecorded mortuary ritual in Cambodia's late-to post-Ankgor period (15th to 17th centuries AD). Radiocarbon, 54(1), pp. 1-22. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.v54i1.15828)

Brunning, R., Bronk Ramsey, C., Cameron, N., Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Davies, P., Gale, R., Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Hogan, D., Jones, J., Jones, M., Kenward, H., Kreiser, A., Locatelli, C., Marshall, P., Straker, V., Tinsley, H., Tyers, C. and Tyers, I. (2012) Somerset's Peatland Archaeology: Managing and Investigating a Fragile Resource. Oxbow: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781842174883

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2012) The radiocarbon dates in A. Gibson, Report on the excavations at the Duggleby Howe Causewayed Enclosure, North Yorkshire, May-June 2009. Archaeological Journal, 168, pp. 27-30.

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2012) Radiocarbon dating and bayesian modelling. In: Score, V. (ed.) Hoards, Hounds and Helmets: A Conquest-Period Ritual Site at Hallaton, Leicestershire. Series: Leicester Archaeology Monograph (21). University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History: Leicester, UK, pp. 148-151. ISBN 9780956017963

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Hodgson, N. (2012) Radiocarbon dating. In: Hodgson, N, McKelvey, J and Muncaster, W (eds.) The Iron Age on the Northumberland Coastal Plain: excavations in advance of development 2002–2010. Series: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Archaeological Monograph (3). Tyne & Wear Archive & Museums: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, pp. 115-132. ISBN 0905974905

Marshall, P., Best, J., Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Cook, G.T.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2012) Radiocarbon dating in J. Best and A. Woodward, A late Bronze Age pottery production site and settlement at Foster's Field, Tinney's Lane, Sherborne, Dorset. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 77, pp. 14-17.

2011

Bayliss, A. et al. (2011) The Greater Thams estuary. In: Whittle, A., Healy, F. and Bayliss, A. (eds.) Gathering Time: Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and Ireland. Oxbow: Oxford, UK, pp. 348-386. ISBN 9781842174258

Momber, G. et al. (2011) Archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and morphological investigations at BC-V. In: Mesolithic Occupation at Bouldnor Cliff and the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of the Solent. Series: CBA research report (164). Council for British Archaeology: York, UK, pp. 66-93. ISBN 9781902771847

Momber, G. et al. (2011) Bouldnor Cliff II: a window into the Mesolithic landscape. In: Mesolithic Occupation at Bouldnor Cliff and the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of the Solent. Series: CBA research report (164). Council for British Archaeology: York, UK, pp. 19-65. ISBN 9781902771847

Momber, G., Scaife, R., Gillespie, J., Nayling, N., Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Marshall, P., Bronk-Ramsey, C. and Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2011) Rising waters, environmental change, and humans at BC-IV. In: Momber, G., Tomalin, D., Scaife, R., Satchell, J. and Gillespie, J. (eds.) Mesolithic Occupation at Bouldnor Cliff and the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of the Solent. Series: CBA research report (164). Council for British Archaeology: York, UK, pp. 94-101. ISBN 9781902771847

Nayling, N. and Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2011) Dendrochronological and radiocarbon synthesis across the -11m OD peat shelf. In: Momber, G., Tomalin, D., Scaife, R., Satchell, J. and Gillespie, J. (eds.) Mesolithic Occupation at Bouldnor Cliff and the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of the Solent. Series: CBA research report (164). Council for British Archaeology: York, UK, pp. 102-104. ISBN 9781902771847

Van der Veen, M. and Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2011) 1.5 chronology. In: van der Veen, M. (ed.) Consumption, Trade and Innovation: Exploring the Botanical Remains from the Roman and Islamic Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt. Series: Journal of African archaeology monograph series (6). Africa Magna: Frankfurt am Main, Germany, pp. 18-31. ISBN 9783937248233

2010

Chapman, H.P. et al. (2010) The Catholme ceremonial complex, Staffordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 76, pp. 135-163. (doi: 10.1017/S0079497X00000487)

Edwards, Y.H., Weisskopf, A. and Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2010) Age, taphonomic history and mode of deposition of human skulls in the river Thames. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 60, pp. 35-51.

Hall, D.W., Cook, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2010) New dating evidence for North Sea trade between England, Scotland and Norway in the 11th Century AD. In: 20th International Radiocarbon Conference, Hawaii, May 2009, pp. 331-336.

Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Marshall, P.D., Hayden, C. and Bronk Ramsey, C. (2010) Radiocarbon dating. In: Lambrick, G. (ed.) Neolithic to Saxon Social and Environmental Change at Mount Farm, Berinsfield, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Oxford University School of Archaeology: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781905905003

2009

Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Marshall, P., Waddington, C., Bronk Ramsey, C and Cook, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 (2009) Radiocarbon dating. In: Johnson, B. and Waddington, C. (eds.) Prehistoric and Dark Age settlement remains from Cheviot Quarry, Milfield Basin, Northumberland. Archaeological Research Services, pp. 107-264.

Gearey, B.R., Marshall, P. and Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2009) Correlating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records using a Bayesian approach: a case study from Sutton Common, South Yorkshire, England. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(7), pp. 1477-1487. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.003)

Foster, G.C., Chiverrell, R.C., Thomas, G.S.P., Marshall, P. and Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2009) Fluvial development and the sediment regime of the lower Calder, Ribble catchment, northwest England. CATENA, 77(2), pp. 81-95. (doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2008.09.006)

Chiverrell, R.C., Foster, G.C., Thomas, G.S.P., Marshall, P. and Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2009) Robust chronologies for landform development. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 34(2), pp. 319-328. (doi: 10.1002/esp.1720)

Hamilton, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2009) Absolute datings. In: Haselgrove, C. (ed.) The Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations 2000-2004. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 187-204. ISBN 9780903903486

Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 (2009) Radiocarbon datings in R. Miket and B. Edwards, Thirlings: A Neolithic site in Northumberland. Archaeological Journal, 165, pp. 1-10.

Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Marshall, P., Bronk Ramsey, C., Cook, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and McCormac, G. (2009) The radiocarbon results. In: Lawrence, S. and Smith, A. (eds.) Between Villa and Town: Excavations of a Roman Roadside Settlement and Shrine at Higham Ferrers, Northants. Series: Oxford Archaology, 7. Oxford Archaeological Unit Ltd,: Oxford, pp. 140-145. ISBN 9780904220445

Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Marshall, P.D., Bronk Ramsey, C., Cook, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and van der Plicht, J. (2009) Radiocarbon dating. Boydell and Brewer Ltd: Woodbridge, England.

Marshall, P., Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, van der Plicht, J., Bronk Ramsay, C., Cook, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266 and Goslar, T. (2009) Scientific dating in M G Beamish Neolithic and Bronze Age activity on the Trent Valley Floor, Excavations at Egginton and Willington, Derbyshire, 1998-1999. Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 129, pp. 17-172.

2008

Ali, I., Hamitlon, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Newson, P., Qasim, M., Young, R. and Zahir, M. (2008) New radiocarbon dates from Chitral, NWFP, Pakistan, and their implications for the Gandharan Grave Culture of Northern Pakistan. Antiquity, 82(318),

Barber, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Warman, S. and Watts, M. (2008) Radiocarbon dating in A. Barber and M. Watts 'Excavations at Saxon's Lode Farm, Ripple, 2001-2: Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon rural settlement in the Severn Valley'. Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 3, pp. 60-63.

Hall, R.A., Buckberry, J., Storm, R., Budd, P., Hamilton, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and McCormac, G. (2008) The medieval cemetery at Riccall Landing: a reappraisal. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 80, pp. 55-92.

Marshall, P., Hamilton, W.D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823, Allen, T., Bronk Ramsey, C., Cook, G.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-6266, Schwenninger, J.-L. and Hayden, C. (2008) Radiocarbon dates and Bayesian modelling. In: Allen, T.G., Hayden, C. and Lamdin-Whymark, H. (eds.) From Bronze Age Enclosure to Anglo-Saxon Settlement: Archaeological Excavations at Taplow Hillfort, Buckinghamshire, 1999-2005. Series: Thames Valley landscape monograph (30). Oxford Archaeology: Oxford, UK, pp. 167-178. ISBN 9781905905096

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Articles

Barquera, R. et al. (2024) Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of treponemal disease in the Americas. Nature, (doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08515-5) (Early Online Publication)

Patterson, N. et al. (2022) Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature, 601(7894), pp. 588-594. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4) (PMID:34937049)

Bayliss, A. et al. (2016) Peopling the past: creating a site biography in the Hungarian Neolithic. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 23-91.

Krus, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-4473, Jensen, Anne M., Hamilton, W. Derek ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-3823 and Sayle, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-5979 (2016) Research in progress: Assessing marine radiocarbon reservoir effect variation in greater Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 14(1&2), p. 107.

Oross, K. et al. (2016) The early days of Neolithic Alsónyék: the Starčevo occupation. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 93-121.

Oross, K. et al. (2016) Midlife changes: the Sopot burial ground at Alsónyék. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 151-178.

Oross, K. et al. (2016) Longhouse times: dating the Alsónyék LBK settlement. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 123-149.

Osztás, A. et al. (2016) Coalescent community at Alsónyék: the timings and duration of Lengyel burials and settlement. Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 179-282.

Parker Pearson, M. et al. (2015) Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge. Antiquity, 89(348), pp. 1331-1352. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2015.177)

Chapman, H.P. et al. (2010) The Catholme ceremonial complex, Staffordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 76, pp. 135-163. (doi: 10.1017/S0079497X00000487)

Books

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Conference Proceedings

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Grants

(see Additional Information for specific details of select research projects)

Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain. [The Leverhulme Trust] Fernández-Götz (PI-Edinburgh), Cowley (Historic Environment Scotland), and Hamilton. 2021–2024.

A high-precision palaeoenvironmental reconstruction for the Bronze Age upland expansion around Lairg, Sutherland. [Historic Environment Scotland] Hamilton and McDonald. 2019.

The application of δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ³⁴S, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, and δ¹⁸O isotopic analyses to investigate population mobility in ‘Middle’ Iron Age Wessex. [The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland] Hamilton. 2018–2019.

At the Water’s Edge: Early Iron Age settlement patterns in central Scotland. [The Royal Archaeological Institute] Hamilton and Stratigos. 2018–2019.

Setting Artefacts Free: an independent chronology for British Iron Age brooches. [The Leverhulme Trust] Hamilton. 2017–2020.

Living on Water: Early Iron Age Lake-dwelling Communities in Scotland. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook and Hamilton. 2017–2020.

A (Pre)History of Westray and Papa Westray: from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to Norse annexation (PhD project). [Historic Environment Scotland] Hamilton. 2017–2020.

Scottish upland expansion in the Bronze Age: new insights from robust chronological modelling (PhD project). [Historic Environment Scotland] Hamilton. 2016–2019.

Workshop on Archaeological Science in Scotland - Archaeological Chronologies. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook, Hamilton, and Jones. 2016.

Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Statistics. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook, Hamilton, and Naysmith. 2015–2016.

Roman encampments in Aberdeenshire: radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling of the oven’s at Deer’s Den and Milltimber. [Historic Environment Scotland] Hamilton. 2016–2017.

Estimating ancient Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effects to develop better Arctic settlement histories. [The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland] Krus and Hamilton. 2016–2017.

Bayesian Statistics Fact Finding Site visit, Links of Noltland, Westray. [Historic Environment Scotland] Hamilton. 2014.

Living in the Shadow of Angkor. [Marsden Fund] Beaven (PI), Buckley, Carter, Halcrow, and Hamilton. 2013–2016.

Radiocarbon Dating – Bayesian Statistics. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook and Hamilton. 2014–2015.

Development of a robust chronology for the archaeology around Lake Mývatn, Iceland. [The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland] Hamilton. 2013–2014.

Radiocarbon Dating – Bayesian Statistics. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook and Hamilton. 2013–2014.

Radiocarbon Dating – Bayesian Statistics. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook and Hamilton. 2012–2013.

High precision ¹⁴C dating of crannogs. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook and Hamilton. 2012–2015.

Radiocarbon Dating – Bayesian Statistics. [Historic Environment Scotland] Cook and Hamilton. 2011–2012.

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students interested in projects that utilises the scientific techniques employed at SUERC and applies them to archaeological questions.

CURRENT POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Mairi MacLean (2018–) – ‘Atlantic Scotland in earlier prehistory’ (Historic Environment Scotland PhD grant)

PAST POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Kathleen McCaskill (completed 2022) – ‘A (Pre)History of Westray and Papa Westray: from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to Norse annexation’ (Historic Environment Scotland PhD grant)

Sophie McDonald (completed 2021) – ‘Scottish upland expansion in the Bronze Age: new insights from robust chronological modelling’ (Historic Environment Scotland PhD grant)

Piotr Jacobsson (completed 2016) – ‘Dating south-west Scottish crannogs’ (Carnegie Trust Scholarship award)

VISTING POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Mauricio Marciales Daza (fall 2022) from University of Tübingen, Germany

Miriam Vilchez Suárez (spring 2022) from University of Granada, Spain

Ben Spillane (summer 2019) from University College Cork, Ireland

Águeda Lozano Medina (spring 2015) from University of Granda, Spain

Teaching

Lecturing at Edinburgh University

Introduction to Statistical Methods for Archaeologists (Instructor of Record)

Lecturing at Glasgow University

Introduction to Statistical Methods – MLitt in Process of Artefact Studies
Environmental Archaeology and Human-Environment Dynamics – MSc in Archaeology (Landscape)
Introduction to Archaeological Science – all post-graduates, Research and Professional Skills course
Reflexivity and Archaeological Science – MA(Hons) students

I also regularly provide training to archaeologists in Archaeological Applications of Bayesian Chronological Modeling. This 2–3 day training course has been put on at Universities and international conferences in both Europe and North America.

Additional information

RESEARCH PROJECTS (Present and Past)

Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain (CoI) (The Leverhulme Trust) – This project aims to fundamentally transform our understanding of Rome’s impact on northern Britain. To contextualise the Roman influence, “Beyond Walls” will analyse the transformation of settlement patterns and lifestyles in an area extending from c. 40 km south of Hadrian’s Wall to 40 km north of the Antonine Wall. The project will adopt a long-term perspective from 500 BC to AD 500 to facilitate the study of changes and continuities before, during, and after the period of direct Roman presence in the region. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach, the project will focus on rationalising existing survey and excavation data, generating new information through remote sensing and palaeoenvironmental research, and undertaking an ambitious programme of radiocarbon dating and modelling to refine existing chronological frameworks. This combined strategy will produce more robust and nuanced narratives about Roman and indigenous interactions, and also contribute to the wider subject of cultural encounters on the edges of empires, both past and present.

The application of δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ³⁴S, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, and δ¹⁸O isotopic analyses to investigate population mobility in ‘Middle’ Iron Age Wessex (PI) (The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland) – This research set out to use sulphur, oxygen, and strontium isotopes to trace mobility of individuals from within populations excavated from five ‘Middle’ Iron Age dated (c. 400–200 cal BC) sites in Wessex – Gravelly Guy, Gussage All Saints, Suddern Farm, Winnall Down, and Yarnton. Additionally, the project included the individuals recovered from the site of Barton Farm (nr Winnall Down). The aim is to use the results to develop a nuanced model of Iron Age mobility in Wessex, and potentially provide evidence for connectivity between this region and other areas of Britain. In addition to the formally funded research in central southern Britain, the approach has been applied to the recently recovered individuals from the similarly dated cemetery Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, which is allowing a wider consideration of residence and mobility at this time in Britain.

Setting Artefacts Free: an independent chronology for British Iron Age brooches (PI) (The Leverhulme Trust) – This project employs an innovative combination of interdisciplinary techniques to address dating issues that are central to archaeological and scientific research in the British Iron Age. The research is developing a much-needed independent chronology for the most ubiquitous, chronologically significant Iron Age find: the brooch. By breaking away from the long-standing art historical approach to artefact dating we are better able to understand the manufacture, use and deposition of brooches in Britain, and the results will help to reconceptualise community connectivity within Britain and address questions of both chronology and connectivity between Britain and the near Continent, in the Iron Age.

Living on Water: Early Iron Age Lake-dwelling Communities in Scotland (Co-Director) (Historic Environment Scotland) – This research focusses on the Early Iron Age (EIA) crannogs in Loch Tay, a compact Highland loch with nine known EIA crannogs. Through underwater excavation and high-precision dating techniques we aim to address questions of temporality and potential contemporaneity on crannog occupation across approximately one-half dozen of the EIA crannogs. The timbers used to construct the crannogs also hold a valuable archival record of past climate prior to being harvested, and stable isotope analysis of the individual rings will allow for detailed reconstruction. Finally, environmental analyses and a programme of terrestrial archaeological research is being undertaken concurrently with the underwater programme, to produce a robust and nuanced narrative for the social history of EIA life around the loch.

(Re)Dating Danebury hillfort and later prehistoric settlements in the environs: a Bayesian approach (with Universities of Leicester & Oxford/Leverhulme Trust) – The project aims to gain much better and more detailed understanding of the chronology of Danebury Hillfort and roughly a half-dozen environs sites, relating transformations at the sites to one another chronologically across the region. Furthermore, we are using this new insight to critically reassess the existing typological sequences and social interpretations and develop fresh perspectives on the settlement dynamics of the Danebury area, while also providing a basis for rethinking the relationship between this region and others in Britain, as well as the near Continent.

Palaeodietary reconstruction and chronology building in island and coastal environments (The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland) – With colleagues at SUERC, I have been using stable isotope-derived (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, and δ³⁴S) palaeodietary reconstructions to produce more refined chronological model where ¹⁴C dating of people and omnivorous animals might be affected by marine and freshwater reservoir offsets. The current research has been focussed in Iceland and Scotland, but has recently shifted to the North Slope of Alaska investigating the Birnirk and Thule cultures around Utqiaġvik.

Developing palaeoenvironmental chronologies using Bayesian statistics – A more recent collaboration has begun with colleagues in the United States, where we are building Bayesian chronologies for palaeoenvironmental cores from both highland and coastal Guatemala. These refined chronological frameworks are advancing our understanding of the climate change and environmental transitions, as well as volcanic activity. A goal is to correlate these chronologies to refined dating frameworks for nearby settlements.

The Times of Their Lives: towards precise narratives of change for the European Neolithic through formal chronological modelling (with Cardiff University & English Heritage/ERC) – The project is a series of important case studies from across Europe, combining robust chronological modelling with critical, problem-oriented archaeological analysis. As a Collaborative Researcher, I undertook modelling of settlement and burial data from the site of Alsónyék, in southwestern Transdanubia (Hungary) and burial data for a series of funerary complexes in Valencina de la Concepción (Spain), while also providing support for some of the ongoing work on Orkney.

“Living in the Shadow of Angkor”: responses and strategies of upland social groups to polity demise in the late- to post-Angkor period (with University of Otago/Marsden Fund) – This project is examining the archaeology of the ethnic minorities in the Cardamom Mountains of southern Cambodia, using novel integrations of scientific methods to develop the first-ever characterisation of a highland culture’s lifeways and how they fared in the Late Angkorian era. As an Associate Investigator, I was primarily responsible for the development and implementation of the radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling programme.

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