• Question: What did you study at university?

    Asked by 822pang36 to Zarah, Freddie, Jena, Kirsten, Kon on 7 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Aqua sparkels me.
    • Photo: Jennifer Bates

      Jennifer Bates answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I studied Archaeology and Anthropology, and I specialised in archaeological science.

      We covered zooarchaeology – that’s the study of animal remains from archaeological sites, archaeobotany – plants from ancient contexts, biomolecular archaeology – using isotopes and genetics to address our questions, and geoarchaeology – the study of soils and land formation in archaeological settings. I ended up being an archaeobotanist, and now work on sites all over the world, but mainly in South Asia, looking at the Bronze Age.

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