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Meet The Team

Currently accepting MSc and Honours students for 2025 and also looking for a student volunteer

  • Student volunteer (2nd - 4th year) to help with sample preparations.

  • Honours students to conduct experimental research with stable isotope analysis with a focus on hair growth rates, weaning and breastfeeding, bone pathology.

  • MSc project investigating diet and movement in ancient Peruvians using mummified hair dating to the Late Horizon (AD 1470-1532) and the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1470).

  • ​MSc project investigating subadult diet using tooth from Peruvian materials from the Late Horizon of the central coast of Peru.

  • MSc project investigating diet and bone turnover in individuals emigrating from Ireland during the Famine and interred in Kingston Ontario.

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Former students

2022 Victoria Tait

Isotopes of the Caribbean: An Investigation of Pretreatment and Human Paleodiet at the Escape Site (AD 300-1000) on Saint Vincent, Lesser Antilles

2020 Grant Smith

Postclassic Maya Diet: Stable Isotope and Osteological Analysis of Human Remains from Ka'Kabish, Belize.

2020 Svetlana Komrova (co-supervised with Lisa Janz)

Examining the Diet of Bronze Age Nomadic Pastoralists in Southern Mongolia Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analysis.

2016 Peter Hammersley

Stable Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Faunal Remains from the Middle Trent Valley, Ontario

2015 Abigail Górkiewicz

Reassessing Bioarchaeological Sex Determination and Research into Gender at the Early Anglo-Saxon Worthy Park Burial Ground in Hampshire, England

2014 Jessica Sutinen

Identifying Non-local Individuals at the Ancient Maya Centre of Minanha, Belize Through the use of Strontium Isotope Analysis

2014 Shannen Stronge

Examining Chronological Trends in Ancient Maya Diet at Minanha, Belize, Using the Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen

Williams, J. S., Stronge, S. M., Iannone, G., & Longstaffe, F. J. (2017). Examining chronological trends in ancient Maya diet at Minanha, Belize, using the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen. Latin American Antiquity, 28(2), 269-287.

2011 Megan Bower

An Osteological and Stable Isotopic Investigation of Diet and Health During the Late Woodland Period at Hidden Spring in Richmond Hill, Ontario

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