Top left (clockwise): Carlotta Gardner, Chioma Vivian Ngonadi, Anna Moles,
Mahmoud Mardini, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Tekla Cunningham
Carlotta Gardner is the current Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens. She completed her PhD, entitled Metalworking crucibles in Roman Britain, at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL in 2018. This research utilised scientific techniques to investigate how socio-economic factors influenced craft practices and explored cross craft interactions between the ceramic and metalworking industries. Carlotta has worked on a range of materials from different archaeological periods and geographic locations and her current research investigates the technology and provenance of archaeological ceramics from the NW Peloponnese, Greece. She also enjoys and utilises experimental methodologies to build on our understanding of the technological choices craftspeople made in the past.
Chioma Vivian Ngonadi is an archaeologist and a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka-Nigeria. She is finishing up her PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom as a Gates Scholar. Her PhD thesis investigates the various plant food resources and subsistence practices among the early iron using communities in Lejja, Southeastern, Nigeria. Her research utilises an environmental archaeological approach to reconstruct the vegetation, food economy and basic economic characteristics from archaeobotanical data. Chioma have participated extensively in public engagement outreach events by creating novel, fun and engaging activities for members of the public including school children in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Anna Moles is the Assistant Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. She completed her PhD, entitled Urbanism and its impact on human health: a long-term study at Knossos, Crete, at University College London (2019). Her research uses both the study of human skeletal remains and stable isotope analysis to investigate the impact of large-scale social, economic and political changes on past lifeways. She has degrees from the University of St Andrews (MA Ancient History and Archaeology, 2011) and the University of Edinburgh (MSc Human Osteoarchaeology, 2012) and has held studentships from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and British School at Athens, as well as an Onassis Foundation Fellowship. Anna is also the osteologist for the Aventura Archaeology Project in Belize.
Mahmoud Mardini is a PhD candidate at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC) of the Cyprus Institute. He received his BA in Archaeology from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and his MSc in Osteoarchaeology from the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on the bioarchaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, particularly Lebanon. Mahmoud is currently investigating biocultural identities of human groups from different sites across Roman ‘Phoenicia’ by integrating bioarchaeological data with historical sources and material culture. He is mainly interested in understanding biocultural determinants of identity expressed through mobility, health inequalities, activity patterns, and differential access to dietary resources. When he’s not organising Lebanese dinner nights for his fellow archaeologists, Mahmoud is usually working on multiple projects from Lebanon and Cyprus, covering various topics associated with human skeletal remains and zooarchaeology.
Arnau Garcia-Molsosa is a Landscape Archaeologist, currently employed at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology as a Beatriu de Pinós – Marie Curie cofund program fellow. He completed his PhD in the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) in 2013 and has held postodctoral positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo (US), the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Balearic Islands) and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological research at the University of Cambridge (UK). He works with archaeological, historical and geospatial data in the context of multidisciplinary studies directed to understand how human societies have inhabited and conceptualized their environment through time. His current research focuses on the development of surface survey methodologies, exploring the integration of combined high resolution aerial imagery and computational analysis for the automatic recognition of archaeological features.
Tekla Cunningham is a student at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, where she is in her final year of her BSc. (Hons) in bioanthropology, with a minor in physical geography. Broadly, her research interests are in human-environment interactions and past subsistence practices, and investigates those through stable isotope analysis. She has worked on research projects in the Caribbean and the Andes (Chile and Peru). Outside of research, she is involved in science communication and has created presentations to teach children and teens about archaeology and life in the past. She is also one of the Student Ambassadors for the SAS.
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