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Institute Staff::  Martin Smith
Research Fellow in Osteoarchaeology

Current Research
Dr Smith is currently pursuing a three year postdoctoral research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust investigating various aspects of Neolithic mortuary practice through bone taphonomy. His wider interests in prehistory include violence and conflict, changes in diet, mortuary practice and forensic anthropology. He is publicity secretary for the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.

Some Recent Publications

(2007) (with M. Brickley and S. Leach) “Experimental evidence for lithic projectile injuries: Improving recognition of an under-recognised phenomenon” Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 540-553.

(2006) “Human Remains” in: Jones L, Woodward A. and Buteux S. Iron Age, Roman and Saxon Occupation at Grange Park. Excavations at Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, 1999. BAR British Series, 425.

(2006) (with M. Brickley) “The date and sequence of use of Neolithic funerary monuments: New AMS dating evidence from the Cotswold Severn region” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 25: 335-356

(2006) “Bones chewed by canids as evidence of human excarnation: a British case study” Antiquity 80, 1-15.

(2006) (with M. Brickley) “Culturally Determined Patterns of Violence: Biological Anthropological Investigations at a Historic Urban Cemetery” American Anthropologist. 108, 163-177.