Lisa Lodwick (21 July 1988 – 3 November 2022) was an

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used

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and

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stable

isotope Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numbers) ...

analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the

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. Lodwick's pioneering archaeobotanical studies at

Calleva Atrebatum Calleva Atrebatum ("Calleva of the Atrebates") was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern villa ...

demonstrated the import and consumption of

celery Celery (''Apium graveolens'') is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. Depending on location and cultivar, either its stalks, lea ...

coriander Coriander (;

and

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in Insula IX prior to the Claudian Conquest. She jointly won the 2020 Book of the Year Award at the

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for ''Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain''. She died on 3 November 2022, at the age of 34, from

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Education and career

Lodwick studied archaeology and

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at the

Hertford College Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The colleg ...

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. She graduated in 2009 and was awarded the Meyerstein Prize for best overall performance in the

School of Archaeology The School of Archaeology is an academic department of the University of Oxford comprising the Institute of Archaeology and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), and is part of Oxford's Social Sciences Division. ...

. In 2010 Lodwick completed a Master's Degree in European Archaeology, also at Hertford College. Lodwick went on to receive a

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from the School of Archaeology in 2014. She held post-doctoral research positions at the

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from 2014 to 2017 and later at

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. She was due to start a position as a Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology at the

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in 2022. Lodwick was elected a

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in November 2018.

Research

Lowdwick co-authored the second and third books in the "New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain" monograph series published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The third volume, ''Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain'', was written with Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle,

Michael Fulford Michael Gordon Fulford, (born October 1948) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the British Iron Age, Roman Britain and landscape archaeology. He has been Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading since 1993. Ea ...

, and Anna Rohnbogner and won the '' Current Archaeology's'' 2020 Book of the Year Award. An advocate of

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publication in archaeology, Lodwick was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the ''

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) is an academic organisation and conference which was designed to be an arena for open discussion of archaeological theory in Roman archaeology. History TRAC, organised initially by Eleanor Sco ...

'', published by the

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, and a member of the editorial board of the journal ''Britannia'' published by the

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those intereste ...

Select publications

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References

External links

Interview with Lisa Lodwick on the Coffee & Circuses podcast
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