Amy Bogaard

Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford.^[1][2][3][4]

Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.^[5]

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.^[6] She currently is a stipendiary lecturer at St Peter's College,^[7] and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.^[8]

Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality.^[9]

In 2013, Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization.^[10] 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.^[11] She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project.^[12]

Bogaard was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020,^[13] and is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journal Antiquity.^[14]

• 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.

• 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.