R P Evershed

Biographic Data

ID101787
NAMER P Evershed
GIVEN NAMESR P
FAMILY NAMEEvershed
SIGNATUREEVERSHED R P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bristol
ORCID0000-0002-9483-2750
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS147
TOTAL CITATIONS1764
AUTHOR COUNT147
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX25

  • Exploring local and regional dynamics in the Bronze Age Kythera Island, Greece, through an analytical approach on archaeological data from Kataphygadi cave

    Open AccessKonstantinos P Trimmis, Stavroula Fouriki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026

    Evidence that beekeeping and Beeswax by-products are present in the Island of Kythera since the 3rd millenia BCE. • Evidence of the importance of beeswax related products for cults and mortuary practices. • Evidence of continuous production of local pottery in Kythera throughout the Bronze Age. • Strontium and Oxygen data from Bronze Age skeletal remains from Kataphygadi cave. Interactions between islands and mainland has long been the subject of…

  • Volatile compounds reveal the composition of embalming materials used in Egyptian mummification

    Open AccessWanyue Zhao, Katherine A Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2026References: 32

    The distinctive musty odour of Egyptian mummies is evident to anyone who has encountered their tissues and balms. A reasonable assumption is that this odour is the product of the decay of the mummy body tissues combined with volatile compounds released from aged balms and bandages. Given the established complexities and variabilities in the compositions of mummy balms, it is expected that variations in balm compositions will be reflected in the c…

  • Chemical and isotopic analyses confirm dietary change marks the Early Medieval Slavic expansion into Central and Eastern Europe

    Open AccessJiří Macháček, J Dunne et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Prehistoric Landscape Development and Romano-British Farming near Rossington, South Yorkshire

    Open AccessPatrick Daniel, Alex Brown et al.ARTICLEYorkshire Archaeological Journal2024

    In 2016–2017 Wessex Archaeology undertook excavations between Rossington and Doncaster in South Yorkshire prior to the development of a strategic rail freight interchange. The earliest evidence related to peat formation within two different parts of the site, with a pair of sequences radiocarbon dated to between the Mesolithic period and the Bronze Age. Pollen preserved within the peat provides evidence for woodland development over this period, …

  • Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC

    Open AccessMantas Valancius, Patrick Quinn et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2024Cited by: 4References: 42

    The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center of the southern Gezira Plain in southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its occupational chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, and domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to at least the mid-third millennium BC. In the prese…

  • Radiocarbon dating of lipids preserved in pottery vessels

    Open AccessEmmanuelle Casanova, Timothy D J Knowles et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2024Cited by: 2References: 2

    Pottery vessels played a central role in the processing, storage and transport of animal and plant products by prehistoric and historic peoples with their chemical residues surviving for thousands of years. Accurate radiocarbon dating of archaeological pottery vessels by isolating reliable sources of carbon relating to the use of pots has long been a major challenge, but is now possible using compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of absorbed org…

  • Meals for the dead

    Open AccessJulie Dunne, Edward Biddulph et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2024References: 48

    Accessory vessels, including platters, dishes, beakers, flagons, jars, and amphorae, are a common feature of Romano-British burials, raising questions as to their provenance; for example, were such vessels recycled from the domestic sphere or made specially for funerary purposes? Furthermore, uncertainty surrounds their purpose: did they contain foods for the deceased, possibly for their final journey to the underworld? Interestingly, organic res…

  • Lipid preservation in ceramics and bones from the Iranian Plateau

    Open AccessEmmanuelle Casanova, Hossein Davoudi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023References: 9

  • The Milky Way

    Open AccessJulie Dunne, Márton Szilágyi et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2023Cited by: 1References: 60

    In the light of discussions surrounding the social changes attributed to the arrival of the Corded Ware culture in central Europe, here we investigate the economic strategies of one of the cultural complexes of the immediately preceding Late Neolithic. The Cham culture of southern Bavaria is characterised by a variety of economic choices but problems remain in synthesising and combining archaeozoological and archaeobotanical evidence. Using lipid…

  • Wild Food

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Sandro Salvatori et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2022Cited by: 4References: 60

    Al-Khiday, located on the bank of the White Nile in Sudan, offers an exceptionally preserved stratigraphic sequence, providing a unique opportunity to use organic residue analysis to investigate diet and subsistence during the Khartoum Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic, a period of nearly 3500 years (7000–4500 cal BC). While the vast and diverse Mesolithic fish assemblage indicates a strong reliance on products from aquatic habitats, floodplains…

  • Expanding current understanding of the function, style and chronology of Grooved Ware from the A9 Dualling

    Open AccessDawn McLaren, Julie Dunne et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2022

    In 2018 on behalf of Transport Scotland AOC Archaeology Group undertook archaeological investigations in advance of the construction of the 9.5km A9 Dualling: Luncarty to Pass of Birnam. Six archaeological sites were excavated, revealing evidence of activity spanning the Early Neolithic to the early medieval period. Neolithic activity was confined to four sites, consisting of a palimpsest of pits, post holes and vestigial structures, some of whic…

  • A Stone Cresset from Dulverton House, Gloucester

    Ruth Shaffrey, Chiz Harward et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology2022References: 10

    A COMPLETE, ALMOST CYLINDRICAL, LIMESTONE VESSEL was recovered from a postmedieval dump of soil outside Dulverton House, Pitt Street, Gloucester. The area lies between the former Infirmary and the Infirmarer’s Lodging of St Peter’s Abbey, now Gloucester Cathedral. The vessel has been identified as a cresset (lamp) based on analysis of the thick burnt residues coating its inner walls, which indicates it contained a mix of ruminant animal fats (pro…

  • Direct 14C dating of equine products preserved in archaeological pottery vessels from Botai and Bestamak, Kazakhstan

    Open AccessEmmanuelle Casanova, Timothy D J Knowles et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2022Cited by: 8References: 37

    Direct and accurate radiocarbon dating of lipid residues preserved in ceramics is a recently established method that allows direct dating of specific food products and their inception in human subsistence strategies. The method targets individual fatty acids originating from animal fats such as ruminant dairy, ruminant adipose, non-ruminant adipose and aquatic fats. Horse lipid residues found in Central Asian pottery vessels are also directly dat…

  • Making the invisible visible

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Alexa Höhn et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2022Cited by: 10References: 70

  • Animal exploitation and pottery use during the early LBK phases of the Neolithic site of Bylany (Czech Republic) tracked through lipid residue analysis

    Open AccessVeronika Brychová, Mélanie Roffet-Salque et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2021

  • Compound-specific radiocarbon dating of lipid residues in pottery vessels

    Open AccessEmmanuelle Casanova, Timothy D J Knowles et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Cited by: 4References: 3

  • A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts

    Open AccessHelen L Whelton, Simon Hammann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Cited by: 47References: 14

  • Generation of Two New Radiocarbon Standards for Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analyses of Fatty Acids From Bog Butter Finds

    Open AccessEmmanuelle Casanova, Timothy D J Knowles et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2021Cited by: 1References: 23

    The analysis of processing standards alongside samples for quality assurance in radiocarbon ( 14 C) analyses is critical. Ideally, these standards should be similar both in nature and age to unknown samples. A new compound-specific approach was developed at the University of Bristol for dating pottery vessels using palmitic and stearic fatty acids extracted from within the clay matrix and isolated by preparative capillary gas chromatography. Obta…

  • Feeding Babies at the Beginnings of Urbanization in Central Europe

    Open AccessKatharina Rebay-Salisbury, Julie Dunne et al.ARTICLEChildhood in the Past2021Cited by: 9References: 43

    Small ceramic vessels with spouts, from which liquid can be poured, became popular during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Central Europe ( c . 1200-600 BC). Such feeding vessels represent a functional type and are highly variable in size, shape and decoration. Found both on settlements and within graves, their association with child burials suggest they might have been used to feed babies and small children. Combined lipid and isotope anal…

  • Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Edward Biddulph et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2021Cited by: 6References: 67

    Food is often one of the most distinctive expressions of social, religious, cultural or ethnic groups. However, the archaeological identification of specific religious dietary practices, including the Jewish tradition of keepingkosher, associated with ritual food practices and taboos, is very rare. This is arguably one of the oldest known diets across the world and, for an observant Jew, maintaining dietary laws (known as Kashruth) is a fundament…

  • Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Maciej Jórdeczka et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2021Cited by: 7References: 30

    The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley of Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for the first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith and dental calculus studies are combined with lipid residue analysis of around 100 pottery fragments and comparative analysis of faunal remains a…

  • Anta 1 de Val da Laje – the first direct view of diet, dairying practice and socio-economic aspects of pottery use in the final Neolithic of central Portugal

    Open AccessDarko Stojanovski, Mélanie Roffet-Salque et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Technological variability in foragers’ pottery productions at the early-mid Holocene site of Sphinx, western part of Jebel Sabaloka, Sudan

    Open AccessElena A A Garcea, Giulia D’ercole et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Fit for purpose? Organic residue analysis and vessel specialisation

    Open AccessJ Dunne, A Chapman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 6References: 20

  • Organic residue evidence for the processing of marine animal products in pottery vessels from the pre-Colonial archaeological site of Kasteelberg D East, South Africa

    Mark S Copley, Fabrício Augusto Hansel et al.

    Pre-colonial herding communities from coastal sites in South Africa are known to have exploited sheep and seal products. Animal bone assemblages from various archaeological sites on Kasteelberg on the west coast suggest that these species dominated the economy of the region. This appears to be mirrored in different pottery vessel types, and it has been suggested that one particular vessel type, spouted wares, is associated with dairying. Organic …