List of Contributors
Jens Amendt
Ph.D. (2003), and Associated Professor (2021), is a researcher and lecturer in Forensic and Medical Entomology at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He is (co)author of more than 100 scientific papers on forensic biology and entomology and co-editor of Current Concepts of Forensic Entomology.
Ádám Bollók
Ph.D. (2012), is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (Budapest). His main field of expertise includes the mortuary archaeology of the late antique Eastern Mediterranean and the Carpathian Basin.
Paul Booth
(BA FSA, MCIfA) is a former Senior Project Manager at Oxford Archaeology. He is currently working principally on the publication of excavations at Dorchester-on-Thames and has recently taken over as editor of Britannia Monographs for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
Valentina Caminneci
is archaeologist of the Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples of Agrigento. Her scientific interests and research projects focus especially on ancient Akragas/Agrigentum: houses, agora, baths. She has also undertaken new investigations into the late antique necropolis, harbour, and viability. She has directed projects of landscape archeology on small settlements along the Western Sicilian coast and the exploitation of gypsum.
Martin Carver
is Professor Emeritus at the University of York. He is the author of Formative Britain, The Sutton Hoo Story and Archaeological Investigation and was PI of the ERC project Sicily in Transition.
Alexandra Chavarría Arnau
is Full Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Padua (Italy) has developed research and published in different subjects related to the period between the end of the Roman World and the Late Middle Ages such as rural settlement, cemeteries and churches.
Lukas Clemens
is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Trier. Previously, he was curator at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier and head of the City Archaeology Department. His research focuses on the afterlife of Roman remains in the Middle Ages and he leads two research projects on St. Maximin in Trier and a Medieval bishop’s seat in Apulia.
Sam Cleymans
Ph.D. (1991), is Visiting Assistant Professor in Classical Archaeology at KU Leuven (Belgium) and works as Exhibition Development Officer at the Gallo-Roman Museum (Belgium). His research focuses mostly on the funerary practices in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Sagalassos and Asia Minor.
Ciprian Crețu
Ph.D. (2021), is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the “1 Decembrie 1918” University in Alba Iulia, and Research Assistant at the Institute of Anthropology of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. He is currently working on a project about the bioarchaeology of children in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Scythia.
Rainer Drewello
Ph.D. (1998), is Vice President of the Trimberg Research Academy of the University of Bamberg as Emeritus of Excellence. He was Professor of Restoration and Conservation Sciences at the University of Bamberg (2000–2021) and is (co-)author of approx. 60 publications and scientific papers with interest in microbial and anthropogenic changes of cultural-historical objects.
Ursula Drewello
is a biologist and managing director of the Labor Drewello & Weißmann GmbH in Bamberg. The focus of her scientific investigations is on material science issues in the fields of monument conservation, archaeology and museum conservation using methods such as light and electron microscopy, IR micro-spectroscopy, ionic chromatography, and thermogravimetric techniques.
Elizabeth Duffy
is an Instructor and PhD Candidate in Archaeology at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Adrian Gollop
is a Project Officer with Canterbury Archaeological Trust. He led the excavations at the former Hallet’s Garage, Canterbury.
Carl Heron
is Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum. Prior to this, he was Professor of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford with interests in molecular and isotopic investigation of archaeological materials.
Solinda Kamani
Ph.D. (2015), is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Kent and author of Neglected Architectural Decoration from the Late Antique City.
Hiltrud Merten
Ph.D. (1983), is an archaeologist and historian specialising in the Roman and Late Roman to Early Medieval periods in the city of Trier. She has researched the cult of Mars in Gaul and worked on epitaphs and small finds in the Early Christian cathedral at Trier.
Elisabeth O’Connell
Ph.D. (2007), is Byzantine World Curator at the British Museum. Her most recent edited volumes are Egypt and Empire: Religious Identity after Rome and The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice (both 2022).
Mauro Puddu
Ph.D. (2017), is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice working on the archaeology of identities and social relationships in the Roman Empire through the lens of postcolonial, feminist, and semiotic theories.
Nicole Reifarth
is Professor of Conservation Science and Textile Archaeology at the University of Applied Science in Cologne. Her research focuses on multidisciplinary investigations of textile traces in terms of taphonomic alterations and indications for ancient preparation techniques on textiles.
Victoria Ridgeway
(MLitt; FSA) is a Director and Head of Post-Excavation at Pre-Construct Archaeology. She is series editor and manages production of PCA’s monograph series and other in-house publications.
Joseph F. Rife
is Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains. He directs excavations at Kenchreai, Greece, and Caesarea Maritima, Israel.
Maria Serena Rizzo
is an archaeologist in the Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of Temples of Agrigento. She is currently working on a research project related to late antique and Early Medieval urban landscape of Agrigento.
Kaja Stemberger Flegar
Ph.D. (2018) is an archaeologist specialising in Roman mortuary archaeology. She is currently employed in the private sector but has remained academically active since her Ph.D. studies at King’s College London, regularly presenting her research on archaeological theory, small finds, and mortuary archaeology at conferences and in print.
Andrei D. Soficaru
Ph.D. (2009), is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Anthropology of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. With more than 20 years of expertise in the field of bioarchaeology, his latest research focuses on migration and mobility in the Lower Danube region during the Roman and Post-Roman periods.
Peter Talloen
Ph.D. (2003), is Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Bilkent University (Türkiye). He is director of the excavations at the ancient city of Sagalassos in Türkiye and author of Cult in Pisidia.
Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen
Ph.D. (1996), Habilitation (2006) is Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU). He specialised in the palaeopathological study of human remains and is research associate in several projects, e.g., the German Pergamon excavation and the Trier-St. Maximin project.
Ina Vanden Berghe
is head of the Textile Research Laboratory at Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels (KIK/IRPA). She specialised in the material-technical study of art and heritage textiles with chromatographic, spectroscopic, and microscopic techniques.
Sadie Watson
Ph.D. (2015), is a Research Fellow at MOLA. She has excavated and published extensively on Roman cemetery sites across the City of London.
Jake Weekes
is Research Officer for Canterbury Archaeological Trust. He is author of ‘Cemeteries and funerary practice’ in the Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain, and co-editor of Death as Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral.
Julian Wiethold
is head of the Archaeobotanical Laboratory at the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (Inrap) in Metz. His research focuses are ancient agriculture, food and food processing, and the role of plants in funeral contexts.