Amy Bogaard

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{{short description|Canadian archaeologist}}

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Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/AB2.html|title=Amy Bogaard - School of Archaeology - University of Oxford|website=www.arch.ox.ac.uk|access-date=24 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924231636/http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/AB2.html|archive-date=24 September 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-amy-bogaard|title=Prof Amy Bogaard - www.spc.ox.ac.uk|website=www.spc.ox.ac.uk|access-date=24 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924231530/https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-amy-bogaard|archive-date=24 September 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/people/amy-bogaard|title=Amy Bogaard - Future of Food|website=www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk|access-date=24 September 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/supervisors/amy-bogaard/|title=Amy Bogaard - Oxford University, Environmental Research Doctoral Training Partnership, DTP|website=ox.ac.uk|access-date=24 September 2017}}

Education

Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.{{Cite book|title=The permanence, intensity and seasonality of early crop cultivation in Western-Central Europe|last=Bogaard|first=Amy|publisher=PhD thesis, University of Sheffield|year=2002}}

Career

Bogaard was appointed Lecturer of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She was awarded the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award in 2015.{{cite web |last1=School of Archaeology |title=Research on prehistoric farming in western Eurasia recognised at the Shanghai Archaeology Forum |url=http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/reader/items/research-on-prehistoric-farming-in-western-eurasia-recognised-at-the-shanghai-archaeology-forum.html |access-date=27 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727120817/http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/reader/items/research-on-prehistoric-farming-in-western-eurasia-recognised-at-the-shanghai-archaeology-forum.html |archive-date=27 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}

She currently{{As of?|date=June 2025}} is a stipendiary lecturer at St Peter's College,{{cite web |title=Prof Amy Bogaard |url=https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-amy-bogaard |website=St Peter's College |access-date=27 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727115032/https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-amy-bogaard |archive-date=27 July 2018 |url-status=dead }} {{As of?|date=June 2025}}and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.{{cite web |title=Amy Bogaard |url=https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/amy-bogaard |access-date=27 July 2018}}

Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality.{{Cite book|title=Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences|last=Bogaard|first=Amy|publisher=University of Arizona Press|year=2018|chapter=Farming, inequality and urbanization: a comparative analysis of late prehistoric northern Mesopotamia and south-west Germany}}

In 2013, Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization.{{Cite news|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/106898_en.html|title=The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization {{!}} Projects {{!}} FP7-IDEAS-ERC {{!}} CORDIS {{!}} European Commission|work=CORDIS {{!}} European Commission|access-date=8 November 2018}} In 2018, Bogaard was part of a team to win an ERC Synergy grant for the project Exploring the Dynamics and Causes of Prehistoric Land Use Change in the Cradle of European Farming.{{Cite web|url=http://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2018/medienmitteilungen_2018/64_million_euros_for_research_into_the_birth_of_agriculture_in_europe/index_eng.html|title=6,4 Million Euros for research into the birth of agriculture in Europe|date=24 October 2018|website=Portal|language=en|access-date=8 November 2018}} She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project.{{Cite web|url=https://feedsax.arch.ox.ac.uk/team.html|title=FeedSax Team|website=feedsax.arch.ox.ac.uk|access-date=26 April 2019}}

Bogaard was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020,{{Cite web|title=Professor Amy Bogaard FBA|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/amy-bogaard-fba/|access-date=24 July 2020|website=The British Academy|language=en}} and is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity.{{cite web |title=Antiquity Trust |work=Antiquity |url=http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/about/trust |access-date=14 August 2023}}

Selected publications

= Books =

  • Neolithic Farming in Central Europe (2004). London: Routledge.
  • Plant Use and Crop Husbandry in an Early Neolithic Village (2011): Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften. Bonn: Habelt-Verlag.

= Journal articles =

  • Bogaard, A. 2005. Garden agriculture’and the nature of early farming in Europe and the Near East. World Archaeology 37.2: 177-196.
  • Bogaard, A. et al 2007. "The impact of manuring on nitrogen isotope ratios in cereals: archaeological implications for reconstruction of diet and crop management practices." Journal of Archaeological Science 34.3: 335-343.
  • Bogaard, A. et al 2013. Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(31), 12589-12594.

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