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Anna Spyrou
I have both Bachelor and Master degrees in environmental archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and University College London.
These studies have provided me with a deep understanding of past human‐environment interactions, including subsistence, processes of community ecology, landscape change and agricultural systems.
My PhD study in Eastern Jordan Archaeology (the EFAP project) while at the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) focussed on food resources and their use in the Epipaleolithic Period. The thesis explored a fundamental element of human development ‐food processing and preservation for later consumption‐ and investigated why such practices should be considered from a less overtly evolutionary perspective. My research involved the analysis of animal bone assemblages from an Epipalaeolithic megasite, Kharaneh IV, which has proved to be of great significance for understanding hunter‐gatherer activity prior to the emergence of agriculture and livestock domestication. During my research (2010‐2015) I have worked both in the field in Jordan and in the laboratory. I have obtained a CBRL travel grant in 2011 which allowed the completion of data collection and analysis in Jordan. My main research questions were addressed using applied zooarchaeological and multivariate taphonomic analyses and I have analysed the animal remains spatially, using arcGIS. Another important strand of my research was an extensive ethnographic review of meat/marrow/grease preservation techniques by traditional societies.
Supervisors: Louise Martin and Andrew Garrard
Address: Gordon Squareb 31-34
These studies have provided me with a deep understanding of past human‐environment interactions, including subsistence, processes of community ecology, landscape change and agricultural systems.
My PhD study in Eastern Jordan Archaeology (the EFAP project) while at the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) focussed on food resources and their use in the Epipaleolithic Period. The thesis explored a fundamental element of human development ‐food processing and preservation for later consumption‐ and investigated why such practices should be considered from a less overtly evolutionary perspective. My research involved the analysis of animal bone assemblages from an Epipalaeolithic megasite, Kharaneh IV, which has proved to be of great significance for understanding hunter‐gatherer activity prior to the emergence of agriculture and livestock domestication. During my research (2010‐2015) I have worked both in the field in Jordan and in the laboratory. I have obtained a CBRL travel grant in 2011 which allowed the completion of data collection and analysis in Jordan. My main research questions were addressed using applied zooarchaeological and multivariate taphonomic analyses and I have analysed the animal remains spatially, using arcGIS. Another important strand of my research was an extensive ethnographic review of meat/marrow/grease preservation techniques by traditional societies.
Supervisors: Louise Martin and Andrew Garrard
Address: Gordon Squareb 31-34
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resources has not received great attention from archaeologists. One could argue that the main problem lies in the difficulties of demonstrating meat storage archaeologically due to the lack of direct evidence. This paper represents an attempt to refine zooarchaeological methods for the recognition of meat preservation and storage at prehistoric sites. Drawing on the faunal assemblage from Kharaneh IV, an Early/Middle Epipalaeolithic aggregation site in eastern Jordan, this study demonstrates that a combination of taphonomic and contextual analyses alongside ethnographic information may indeed lead archaeologists to insights not directly available from the archaeological record. The empirical evidence presented here contributes to the archaeological visibility of meat preservation and storage, providing a clearer concept of the nature of these practices in preagricultural societies.
resources has not received great attention from archaeologists. One could argue that the main problem lies in the difficulties of demonstrating meat storage archaeologically due to the lack of direct evidence. This paper represents an attempt to refine zooarchaeological methods for the recognition of meat preservation and storage at prehistoric sites. Drawing on the faunal assemblage from Kharaneh IV, an Early/Middle Epipalaeolithic aggregation site in eastern Jordan, this study demonstrates that a combination of taphonomic and contextual analyses alongside ethnographic information may indeed lead archaeologists to insights not directly available from the archaeological record. The empirical evidence presented here contributes to the archaeological visibility of meat preservation and storage, providing a clearer concept of the nature of these practices in preagricultural societies.