Professor Andrew Chamberlain

Professor in Biological Anthropology

BSc Geophysics (University of Liverpool); MSc Archaeological Science (University of Southampton); PhD Palaeoanthropology (University of Liverpool)

Email address: a.chamberlain@sheffield.ac.uk

Telephone 0114 2222906

Biography

Andrew Chamberlain undertook postdoctoral research in palaeoanthropology before being appointed to the teaching staff at the University of Sheffield in 1990.

Research interests

• Biological Anthropology
• Palaeodemography

Current research projects

• Beaker Isotope Project (funded by AHRC, co-investigator with Prof Mike Parker Pearson);
• A Study of Social Stratification and Physical Health in an Ancient Egyptian Population (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, co-investigator with Prof Rosalie David)

Research supervision

I would welcome applications from students interested in pursuing research into:

• Palaeoanthropology
• Human Osteoarchaeology
• Demographic Methods in Archaeology
• Cave Archaeology and Palaeontology
• Biomolecular Anthropology

Current students:

• Alison Whalen Profiling the dead: demographic characterisation of mass fatality incidents in the past and the present.
• Thomas Booth An investigation into the relationship between British prehistoric funerary rites and the microscopic diagenetic signatures of human bone
• Lauren McIntyre Analysis of the complete archive of human skeletal material from Roman York
• Thomas O’Mahoney Imaging and modelling Neanderthal postcranial growth
• Christina Collins Population dynamics in the Late Glacial refugium of southwest France
• Linzi Harvey Dental health, diet and life history in Medieval York: a multi-method approach.
• Dany Rafferty The association of fluctuating asymmetry with the ill-health experienced by past human populations
• Kyle Billington (co-supervised with Dr K. Kuykendall) Implications of a grasping hallux for the evolution of bipedalism
• Isabelle Heyerdahl-King (co-supervised with Dr K. Kuykendall) Patterns of geographic and temporal variation in the Middle Pleistocene hominid fossil record of Africa and western Eurasia
• Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin, University of Manchester (external supervisor with Prof R. David) A Study of Social Stratification and Physical Health in an Ancient Egyptian Population
• Caroline Rosen, University of Worcester (external supervisor with Dr J. Lewis) Mesolithic-Neolithic cave use in Western Britain
  

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Discoveries in Old World Archaeology
• Bioarchaeology
• Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Postgraduate

• • Biological Anthropology
  • Data Analysis for Archaeologists
  • Biomolecular Archaeology
  • Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
  • Research Design in Anthropology

Selected publications

• Mitchell, P.D., Boston, C., Chamberlain, A.T. et al. 2011. The study of anatomy in England from 1700 to the early 20th century. Journal of Anatomy 219: 91-99.
• Squires, K., Thompson, T.J.U., Islam, M. and Chamberlain, A. 2011. The application of histomorphometry and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to the analysis of early Anglo-Saxon burned bone. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2399-2409.
• Bjarnason, A., Chamberlain, A.T. and Lockwood, C.A. 2011. A methodological investigation of hominoid craniodental morphology and phylogenetics. Journal of Human Evolution 60: 47-57.
• Redfern, R.C. and Chamberlain, A.T. 2011. A demographic analysis of Maiden Castle hillfort: evidence for conflict in the late Iron Age and early Roman period. Journal of Paleopathology 1: 68-73.
• Dinnis, R., Davies, J.S. and Chamberlain, A.T. 2010. Non-invasive assessment of the archaeological potential of cave deposits: the example of Bishopston Valley Caves, Gower, South Wales. Cave and Karst Science 37: 45-48.
• Edwards, C.J., Magee, D.A., Park, S.D.E., McGettigan, P.A., Lohan, A.J., Murphy, A., Finlay, E.K., Shapiro, B., Chamberlain, A.T., Richards, M.B., Bradley, D.G., Loftus, B.J. and MacHugh, D.E. 2010. A complete mitochondrial genome sequence from a Mesolithic wild aurochs (Bos primigenius). PloS One 5: e9255.
• Rogers, K., Beckett, S., Kuhn, S., Chamberlain, A. and Clement, J. 2010. Contrasting the crystallinity indicators of heated and diagenetically altered bone mineral. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 296: 125-129.
• Pettitt, P.B., Jacobi, R.M., Chamberlain, A.T., Pike, A.W.G., Schreve, D., Wall, I., Dinnis, R. and Wragg Sykes, R. 2010. Excavations outside Church Hole, Creswell Crags: the first three seasons (2006-8). Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 113: 35-53.

Membership of professional bodies

• Member of Steering Committee, NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities
• Member of Council of Management, Creswell Heritage Trust
• Member of Council, British Cave Research Association