I'm a radiocarbon scientist at the Australian National University. Having studied chemistry and archaeology as an undergraduate, my PhD was on the radiocarbon dating of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia using new methods of dating bone and charcoal. I'm now primarily interested in attempting to improve the dating of bone where preservation is poor (very common in Australia!), and am responsible for the chemical preparation of samples submitted to the radiocarbon lab at the ANU.
Experience
2011–present
Research Officer, Australian National University
Education
2011
University of Oxford, DPhil Archaeological Science (The contribution of new radiocarbon dating pretreatments to the understanding of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia)
2006
University of Oxford, UK, MSc Archaeological Science
2005
University of Durham, UK, BSc (hons) Archaeology and Chemistry
Publications
2013
A new date for the Neanderthals from El Sidron Cave (Asturias, Northern Spain), Archaeometry
2013
Freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effects at the burial ground of Minino, Northwest Russia, Radiocarbon
2013
Radiocarbon dating casts doubt on the late chronology of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southern Iberia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2012
Testing the ABOX-SC method: Dating known-age charcoals associated with the Campanian Ignimbrite, Quaternary Geochronology
2010
Refining the background correction for radiocarbon dating of bone collagen with the ultrafiltration , Radiocarbon
Research Areas
Archaeology (2101)
Geology (0403)
Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience (0406)