Lisa-Marie Shillito

Lisa-Marie Shillito
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Occupation(s)Lecturer, director of laboratory
Academic background
EducationPhD Chemistry and Archaeology, University of Reading, 2008
ThesisInvestigating traces of activities, diet and seasonality in middens at Neolithic catalhoyuk : An integration of microstratigraphic, phytolith and chemical analyses (2008)
Doctoral advisorMatthew Almond and Wendy Matthews
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsNewcastle University
Websitehttps://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.