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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.
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Projects
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
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)
Compound-specific radiocarbon, stable carbon isotope and biomarker analysis of mixed marine/terrestrial lipids preserved in archaeological pottery vessels.
Casanova, E. J. A., Knowles, T. J., Ford, C., Cramp, L. J. E., Sharples, N. & Evershed, R. P., 16 Mar 2020, In : Radiocarbon.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Digging deeper - A new data mining workflow for improved processing and interpretation of high resolution GC-Q-TOF MS data in archaeological research
Korf, A., Hammann, S. S., Schmid, R., Froning, M., Hayen, H. & Cramp, L. J. E., 21 Jan 2020, In : Scientific Reports. 10, 767, 9 p., 767 (2020).Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
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Datasets
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
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
From fishing to dairy farming and beyond in the British Isles: reconstructing long-term dietary change using organic residue analysis of pottery
Lucy J E Cramp (Advisor)
1 Feb 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
British Museum colloquia
Lucy J E Cramp (Participant)
20 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Bristol's Brilliant Archaeology Day
Lucy J E Cramp (Advisor)
28 Jul 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Festival, exhibition, performance
Supervised Work
Foodways in the Roman Cirencester Hinterland
Author: Greenwood, C. E., 23 Jan 2020Supervisor: Cramp, L. J. E. (Supervisor) & Guest, P. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)