Professor Mike Charles
Research Grants
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2017-20 |
ERC Advanced grant Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution. P.I Prof Helena Hamerow, CI Prof Amy Bogaard, Dr Richard Thomas (Leicester) |
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2011-16 |
ERC Advanced Grant. Evolutionary Origins of Agriculture |
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2010-13 |
NERC. Origins of Agriculture: an ecological perspective on crop domestication. Co-investigator with Profs G. Jones & M Rees & Dr C Osborne. NE/H0227161/1. |
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2007-10 |
National Science Foundation (USA). Economic integration and cultural survival at neolithic Çatalhöyük Turkey. Co-investigator with Dr. K Twiss, SUNY, USA and Dr Bogaard, (Oxford). |
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2008-11 |
NERC. Out of Asia. Co-investigator with Profs G Jones, C Buck & P Blackwell (Sheffield). NE/E019242/1. |
Archaeobotanical Projects
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2016- |
Tell Nebi Mend Archaeobotanical Project (Oxford University) with Dr Jade Whitlam |
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2014- |
Ur Archaeological Project, directors Prof Elisabeth Stone & Prof Paul Zimansky, (SUNY, New York) |
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2011- |
Central Zagros Archaeological Project, directors Prof. Roger Matthews and Dr Wendy Matthews (University of Reading) |
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2003- |
Çatalhöyük Neolithic excavations, director Prof. Ian Hodder (Stanford University) |
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1998- |
Tell Brak, Syria; Bronze Age; director Dr Augusta McMahon (Cambridge University) & Dr. Geoff Emberling (Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA) |
Key words: bioarchaeology, farming and herding, domestication, land use, urbanisation, woodlands, later prehistory, W Asia, Europe, Eurasia