Bioarchaeology grants - summary of awards
The Wellcome Trust's Bioarchaeology Programme was a ring-fenced funding scheme to support hypothesis driven research in bioarchaeological science.It defined bioarchaeology as "the history of human disease, health and medical treatment in the context of human evolution and adaptation as evidenced in the archaeological record".
The aim of the scheme, which ran from 1995 to 2005, was to enable the bioarchaeology research field to become a robust stand-alone discipline through the provision of PhD studentships and awards to senior scientists and postdocutoral fellows.
The following awards were made through the Bioarchaeology Programme, which is now closed.Details of grants awarded in each category are available below.
Funding opportunities for the bioarchaeology community
Despite the closure of the Trust's Bioarchaeology Programme, researchers can still apply for bioarchaeology related support using the existing modes of Trust funding.
Enquiries should be made in the first instance to the Science Funding stream that is closest to the application's scientific content.
A preliminary application consisting of an outline of the proposal, approximate costings and CVs of potential applicants is required to determine the eligibility of the application for Trust support.
University Awards in Bioarchaeology
2004
Dr T C O'Connell
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
Changing levels of protein intake: a critical issue for human palaeodiet
Dr H Barton
School of Archaeology and Ancient History
University of Leicester
The use of carbohydrates by tropical hunter-gatherers: a novel approach through the identification of starch granules on tools
2003
Dr K Dobney
Department of Archaeology
University of Durham
Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: an integrated zooarchaeological and biomolecular approach to the study of human dispersal and exchange networks in the Holocene
2001
Dr A Cooper
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
Determining reliable uses of ancient DNA in bioarchaeological research
Dr M P Richards
Department of Archaeological Science
University of Bradford
Applications of bone collagen stable isotope analyses to human and faunal bone from European archaeological sites to determine past human diet and nutrition
Bioarchaeology Fellowships
2005
Miss Harriet Hunt
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
Modelling agricultural origins: do the minor crops challenge the conclusions drawn from major crops?
Miss Hannah Koon
Department of Biology (BioArch)
University of York
Limeys: a combined approach to detect sub-clinical scurvy in the Archaeological Record
Dr Kirsty Penkman
Department of Biology (BioArch)
University of York
Amino acid racemisation in calcite: dating the Pleistocene
2004
Dr S Buckley
Department of Archaeology
University of York
Evidence for the systematic use of antimicrobial and insecticidal natural products in ancient Egyptian burial practices
Miss A J Mukherjee
School of Chemistry
University of Bristol
Elite diet and burial practice through biomolecular studies of ceramic containers, skeletal remains and anthropogenic soils in a royal tomb from the Eastern Mediterranean bronze age
2003
Dr L T Corr
Department of Archaeology
University of Bristol
Development of method for the routine compound-specific delta15N analysis of archaeological bone collagen amino acids via GC/C/IRMS to probe physiological and environmental influences on mammalian tissue delta15N values
Dr E J Hollox
Institute of Genetics
University of Nottingham
Evolution and population history of human antimicrobial genes
Dr E Willerslev
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
Bioarchaeology without fossils or artefacts: Every contact leaves a trace
2002
Dr D M Antoine
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
Did the great famine of AD 1315-1317 have a detectable effect on the growth and development of people who experienced it as children?
Dr I Barnes
Department of Biology
University College London
The preservation of pathogen biomolecules in medical museum bone specimens
Dr B Derham
Department of Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry
University of Newcastle
Archaeological evidence of pharmacologically active natural products
Mr A S Wilson
Department of Archaeological Sciences
University of Bradford
High-resolution diet and seasonality information from archaeological hair
2001
Dr S Haynes
Department of Biomolecular Sciences
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
Origins of cultivated einkorn
Dr C M Nielsen-Marsh
Department of Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry
University of Newcastle
Genetic time machines: the recovery of genetic information from biomolecules in fossil bone
2000
Dr Keith Dobney
Department of Archaeology
University of Durham
The bioarchaeology of pig domestication and husbandry: its role in the biological, economic and social development of complex human society
1999
Ms C Holden
Department of Anthropology
University College London
Statistical archaeology: inferring processes of change and adaptation from present variation
Dr N Jeffery
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
University College London
Fetal development and evolution of the human cranial base
Ms S Jim
School of Chemistry
University of Bristol
Development of a high-fidelity approach to palaeodietary reconstruction using stable isotope analysis of bone cholesterol and individual collagen-derived amino acids
1998
Dr T King
Department of Palaeontology
Natural History Museum
Enamel hypoplasia as an indicator of developmental stress
1997
Dr L S Bell
Department of Palaeontology
The Natural History Museum
The mineralised osteocyte remnant: its survival and biological significance in the human and animal skeleton
Dr T C O'Connell
Department of Archaeological Science
Research Laboratory for Archaeology
University of Oxford
Systematic studies of isotopic signals in modern humans and their application to palaeodietary reconstruction
Dr D J Samuel
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
Nutritional status of fermented cereal foods in ancient diet
1996
Mr M Collard
Department of Anthropology
University College London
Early hominid homoplasy: identification and implications
Mr D E MacHugh
Department of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
Biomolecular archaeology and the domestic origins of cattle
Dr M B Richards
Institute of Molecular Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford
Using mitochondrial DNA variation to explore the prehistory of West Eurasian populations.
Bioarchaeology Studentships
2000
Miss E F Caldwell
Department Biology
University College London
Agriculture and variation in salivary amylase genes
Mr M Gilbert
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
The molecular archaeology of Yersinia pestis
Miss L Moore
Smurfit Institute
Trinity College Dublin
Y chromosome diversity and Irish origins
Miss A J Mukherjee
Department of Chemistry
University of Bristol
Significance of the Grooved Ware Pottery tradition in Neolithic Britain in relation to human diet, animal husbandry and ritual practices
Miss K Privat
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
University of Oxford
Palaeoeconomy of the Eurasian steppe: biomolecular studies
Miss J E Redman
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Development and application of an integrated procedure for the sensitive detection of ancient mycobacterial disease in archaeological skeletal material, using lipid biomarkers
1999
Mr I F Collard
Department of Biological Anthropology
University of Cambridge
The bioarchaeology of prehistoric pastoralist dispersals
Ms Jennifer C Hiller
Department of Archaeology and Prehistory
University of Sheffield
A systematic approach to the recovery of DNA from hominid remains in upper Pleistocene caves
Ms J A Pearson
Department of Biomolecular Sciences
UMIST and University of Oxford
Stable isotope analysis of the human, animal and plant remains from the early Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk
Ms E R Stuckey
Department of Biomolecular Sciences
UMIST
A biomolecular approach to the study of malaria in Bronze Age Greece
1998
Ms H Chandler
Institute of Molecular Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford
DNA recovery from the remains of Pompeii
Mr W E H Harcourt-Smith
Department of Anthropology
University College London
An analysis of hominoid tarsal morphology, and its relation to function, activity patterns and life history
Mr A Isaac
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
UMIST
Origins of Emmer Cultivation
Mr A S Wilson
Department of Archaeological Sciences
University of Bradford
Microbial and other environmental controls on the reliability of information derived from human hair in archaeological contexts
1997
Ms H T Wood
Department of Anthropology
University College London
The energetics and ecology of encephalisation: modelling and maturation in human evolution
Ms S R Zakrzewski
Department of Biological Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Modelling the effects of infectious disease on archaeological hunter-gatherer populations
Miss T Zerjal
Department of Biochemistry
University of Oxford
Y chromosomal DNA polymorphisms and human history
1996
Mr D M Antoine
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
Establishing the periodicity of incremental structures in dental enamel as a means of studying growth in children from past human populations
Ms S E Elton
Department of Biological Anthropology
University of Cambridge
An ecological context for hominid forelimb form and function
Ms S Jim
School of Chemistry
University of Bristol
Palaeodietary reconstruction by stable isotope analysis of cholesterol and collagen in ancient skeletal remains: correlation with nutritional and health status of UK populations