Investigating the life of farming communities between the Middle and Late Iron Age in Central England: a zooarchaeological approach

这个博士项目调查了中晚期铁器时代过渡时期英格兰中部牲畜类型和管理的变化。它探讨了我们在罗马时期看到的畜牧业创新是否可能更深地植根于铁器时代。对该地区几个地点的动物遗骸进行了分析，以提供地理和时间上的视角。这项研究将辅之以对其起源背景和沉积史的仔细分析。这些分析的结果被对比解释，并被用来调查英国史前最新阶段的社会和经济变化。

This PhD project investigates changes in livestock type and management in Central England at the transition between the Middle and Late Iron Age. It explores whether husbandry innovations that we see in the Roman period may have had deeper roots in the Iron Age. Animal remains from several sites across the area are analysed to provide a geographic, as well as chronological, perspective. The study will be complemented with a careful analysis of their contexts of origin and depositional histories. The results of these analyses are interpreted comparatively and used to investigate social and economic changes in the latest phases of British Prehistory.