Carol Palmer

Carol Palmer is a British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist. She is currently Director of the British Institute in Amman, an Honorary Fellow at Bournemouth University, and a part of the Thimar collective.[1] Her primary research interests are in rural societies in the Arab world, changes in the practices of food production on the landscape and in society, and ethnobotany.[2][3][4] She collaborates as Project Partner of the INEA project, which aims to examine archaeological site usage using phytolithic and geochemical evidence.[5] She has also been a part of the Antikythera Survey Project[6] and the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey,[7] and from 2001-2004 served as secretary of the Association of Environmental Archaeology.[8]

In 2010, Palmer won the Society for Medieval Archaeology's Martyn Jope Award for "the best novel interpretation, application of analytical method or presentation of new findings" published in that year's volume of Medieval Archaeology along with co-authors Christopher Knüsel, Catherine M. Batt, Gordon Cook, Janet Montgomery, Gundula Müldner, Alan R. Ogden, Ben Stern, John Todd, and Andrew S Wilson.[9][10]

Education

Carol Palmer completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1998 under Prof. Glynis Jones.[11] Her dissertation was entitled "Crop husbandry practices in the Mediterranean zone and their implications for ancient agriculture".[11] She undertook postdoctoral research as a Council of British Research in the Levant Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sheffield.[7]

Selected publications
  • Palmer, Carol; et al. (2017). "The triangular seed mass–leaf area relationship holds for annual plants and is determined by habitat productivity" (PDF). Functional Ecology. 31 (9): 1770–1779. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12870.
  • Garnett, Stephen; et al. (2009). "Transformative Knowledge Transfer Through Empowering and Paying Community Researchers". Biotropica. 41 (5): 571–577. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00558.x. S2CID 86227182.

References
  1. "Staff at the British Institute Amman | The British Institute in Amman (المعهد البريطاني في عمّان) | CBRL". cbrl.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. "Staff at the British Institute Amman". British Institute Amman. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  3. "Dr. Carol Palmer". World Science Forum. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  4. "Carol Palmer". Portal to the Past. Canadian Institute in Greece. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  5. "INEA Project | BU Research". research.bournemouth.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  6. "Antikythera Survey Project | Portal to the Past". portal.cig-icg.gr. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  7. Digital archaeology : bridging method and theory. Evans, Thomas L. (Thomas Laurence), Daly, Patrick T., 1975-. London: Routledge. 2006. ISBN 978-0203005262. OCLC 63041383.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. "Association for Environmental Archaeology". www.envarch.net. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  9. "The Society for Medieval Archaeology | Awards". Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  10. Knüsel, Christopher J; Batt, Catherine M; Cook, Gordon; Montgomery, Janet; Müldner, Gundula; Ogden, Alan R; Palmer, Carol; Stern, Ben; Todd, John; Wilson, Andrew S (18 July 2013). "The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach". Medieval Archaeology. 54 (1): 271–311. doi:10.1179/174581710X12790370815931.
  11. Sheffield, University of. "SCALE PhD Dissertations - SCALE - Research - Archaeology - The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
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