Lisa-Marie Shillito
Lisa-Marie Shillito | |
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| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Lecturer, director of laboratory |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD Chemistry and Archaeology, University of Reading, 2008 |
| Thesis | Investigating traces of activities, diet and seasonality in middens at Neolithic catalhoyuk : An integration of microstratigraphic, phytolith and chemical analyses (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Matthew Almond and Wendy Matthews |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Newcastle University |
| Website | https://castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/ |
Lisa-Marie Shillito is a British archaeologist and senior lecturer in landscape archaeology as well as director of the Wolfson Archaeology Laboratory and Earthslides at Newcastle University. Her practical work focuses on using soil micromorphology, phytolith analysis and geochemistry in order to understand human behaviour and landscape change. Her work includes the Neolithic settlements of Çatalhöyük in Turkey and Ness of Brodgar and Durrington Walls in Britain, but also Crusader castles and medieval settlements in Poland and the Baltic and in the Near East.
Additionally, she is editor of The Archaeological Journal, assistant-editor of the journal Landscape Research, member of AHRC Peer Review College and member of the UKRI Future Leadership Fellows PRC.