Missing mushrooms: foraging for fungi in the archaeological record
October 20, 2016
Mushrooms are a common part of modern human diets, yet they are rarely considered from an archaeological perspective. As soft-bodied organisms they readily rot, so are very rarely found on archaeological sites. Search for academic papers on archaeology and fungi and you are most likely to find articles discussing how microscopic fungi eat wall paintings and …
Isotope Investigators Summer School report
August 16, 2016
It’s been an exciting summer in the Archaeology Department, not least because of our Isotope Investigators Summer School! Report by UoN Archaeology students Tom Fox and Phil Rawlinson The Summer School was a five-day programme of work which taught the theory, application and practical lab techniques of isotope analysis in archaeology. With funding from University …
Working as a science journalist at The Times
December 22, 2015
As the end of year deadline of the Christmas period approaches, teaching is finished and I am trying to catch up with imminent grant proposals, a commissioned book chapter and yet more teaching prep. Thinking purely in terms of putting these tasks off as long as possible, I’ve just realised that I haven’t yet written …
