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Research interests
My interdisciplinary research centres on the investigation of ancient patterns of human subsistence, culinary choices and technological practices through the development and application of biomolecular proxies to reconstruct ancient resource use. Specifically, this has focused on biomarkers for processing aquatic products and cereals in pottery vessels using highly sensitive mass spectrometric methods. I apply these proxies to address large-scale questions regarding human responses to cultural or environmental stimuli, with previous research spanning diet of the first farmers in the British Isles and Fennoscandia, to the use of Roman-style culinary vessels in Britain, through to identifying components of balms used in mummification in ancient Egypt. My most recent research project, funded by a bilateral AHRC-DFG award, involves a major programme of radiocarbon dating and spatio-temporal modelling to investigate the origins and large-scale dynamics of early maritime connectivity in the Mediterranean associated with the spread of the so-called ‘Bell Beaker’ phenomenon.
Keywords
- Lipid residue analysis
- Foodways
- Ancient diet
- Prehistory
- Roman
- Stable isotopes
- Radiocarbon dating
- Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry
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Roman melting pots. Tracing food residues and cultural diversity in a frontier zone
14/02/22 → 13/02/25
Project: Research
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Seascapes: Tracing the Emergence and Spread of Maritime Networks in the Central and Western Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC
Cramp, L. J. E. & Ivanova, M.
1/05/20 → 1/05/23
Project: Research
Research output
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A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts
Whelton, H. L., Hammann, S., Cramp, L. J. E., Dunne, J., Roffet-Salque, M. & Evershed, R. P., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 132, 105397, 20 p., 105397.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Finding Oxford’s medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents
Dunne, J., Biddulph, E., Manix, P., Gillard, T., Whelton, H., Teague, S., Champness, C., Broderick, L. G., Nicholson, R., Blinkhorn, P., Craig-Atkins, E., Jervis, B., Madgwick, R., Hodos, T., Cramp, L. J. E. & Evershed, R. P., 20 Feb 2021, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13, 3, 20 p., 48 (2021).Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Chemical evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in the highlands of Lesotho in the late first millennium AD
Fewlass, H., Mitchell, P. J., Casanova, E. J. A. & Cramp, L. J. E., 11 May 2020, In: Nature Human Behaviour.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)103 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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GC-Q-ToF MS data for lipid residues from 40 archaeological samples excavated at Vindolanda (UK)
Cramp, L. J. E. (Creator), Hammann, S. S. (Creator) & Froning, M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 1 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.5523/bris.26hh9g6ktji7z2r5gxb2wqvjfq, https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/26hh9g6ktji7z2r5gxb2wqvjfq
Dataset
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Marine fats in ancient pots IRMS
Cramp, L. J. E. (Creator), Whelton, H. L. (Creator) & Evershed, R. P. (Creator), University of Bristol, 1 Jul 2014
DOI: 10.5523/bris.upjtf9os1dzr154phmgvrupib, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/upjtf9os1dzr154phmgvrupib
Dataset
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Marine fats in ancient pots GCMS
Whelton, H. L. (Creator), Evershed, R. P. (Creator) & Cramp, L. J. E. (Creator), University of Bristol, 1 Jul 2014
DOI: 10.5523/bris.13kidnrls4jnl1m806eyfd8h6z, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/13kidnrls4jnl1m806eyfd8h6z
Dataset
Activities
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European Association of Archaeologists (EAA 2018 Barcellona)
Lucy J E Cramp (Participant)
6 Sep 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Bristol's Brilliant Archaeology Day
Lucy J E Cramp (Advisor)
28 Jul 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Festival, exhibition, performance
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British Museum colloquia
Lucy J E Cramp (Participant)
20 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk