Living Through Change: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions. Introduction to the Special Issue

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by The British Academy: [PF19\100103], Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship: [MSCA-IF 608842612], Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship [ECF-2015-439] and the Malcolm Hewitt Weiner Foundation.

Notes on contributors

Louise Iles

Louise Iles is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. Her work examines the technological development and environmental impacts of iron production technologies across sub–Saharan Africa, blending archaeological, anthropological and archaeometallurgical methods to explore the interactions between metallurgy, environment and culture.

Catherine Longford

Catherine Longford is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield and member of the Archaeobotany Laboratory. Her research interests include archaeobotany, food and identity, agricultural systems and risk management in ancient societies particularly in Bronze Age Near Eastern and European archaeology.

Lenny Salvagno

Lenny Salvagno is a University Teacher in Zooarchaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. Lenny's main interests are in animal domestication and husbandry intensification, the use of animals in medieval and post–medieval Britain, as well as Bronze and Iron Age Italy, ritual deposits, and the use of statistics and geometric morphometrics in zooarchaeology. She is also passionate about teaching zooarchaeology and the presentation of this field of study to the general public.

Michael Wallace

Michael Wallace is an Environmental Archaeology Consultant for Headland Archaeology and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. His research focuses on prehistoric agriculture, the European Neolithic and the use of geometric morphometric and crop stable isotopes in archaeobotany. As of December 2022, Michael is the Chair of the Association for Environmental Archaeology.