Emily Forster
Biographic Data
| ID | 264576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Forster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Forster |
| SIGNATURE | FORSTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0934-1931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Soil Erosion Paradox Re‐Examined: Alluviation and Land Use History in a Small British Lowland River Catchment in the Late Holocene
Modern studies show that soil erosion results in a loss of ecosystem function, particularly fertility, and is a cause of declining agricultural yields. However, despite the well‐attested high rates of soil erosion across Roman and medieval Europe there appears to have been little or no soil‐associated decline in agricultural production—the soil erosion paradox. Small low‐slope erodible lowland catchments offer the opportunity to examine this ques…
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: A bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)
The FeedSax project combined bioarchaeological data with evidence from settlement archaeology to investigate how, when and why the expansion of arable farming occurred between the 8th-13th centuries in England. It has generated and released a vast, multi-faceted archaeological dataset both to underpin its own published findings and to support further research
Referee statement
Referee statement in McKerracher, M. et al. 2023 Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)
The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences
An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution: A Case Study from Stafford, England, c. ad 800–1200
In much of Europe, the advent of low-input cereal farming regimes between c. ad 800 and 1200 enabled landowners—lords—to amass wealth by greatly expanding the amount of land under cultivation and exploiting the labour of others. Scientific analysis of plant remains and animal bones from archaeological contexts is generating the first direct evidence for the development of such low-input regimes. This article outlines the methods used by the FeedS…
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution
Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia
Archaeobotanical evidence from southwest Asia is often interpreted as showing that the spectrum of wild plant foods narrowed during the origins of agriculture, but it has long been acknowledged that the recognition of wild plants as foods is problematic. Here, we systematically combine compositional and contextual evidence to recognise the wild plants for which there is strong evidence of their deliberate collection as food at pre-agricultural an…
Identification of inter- and intra-species variation in cereal grains through geometric morphometric analysis, and its resilience under experimental charring
“Nor ever lightning char thy grain” 1: Establishing archaeologically relevant charring conditions and their effect on glume wheat grain morphology
Charring is the most ubiquitous form of preservation of plant material on archaeological sites, occurring wherever people use heat. The usefulness of preserved seeds for a range of analytical techniques is dependent on the conditions under which they were heated. In this study, we investigate the effect of experimental heating on two types of glume wheat grain (einkorn and emmer) under a range of conditions, with the intention of establishing the…
An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution: A Case Study from Stafford, England, c. ad 800–1200
In much of Europe, the advent of low-input cereal farming regimes between c. ad 800 and 1200 enabled landowners—lords—to amass wealth by greatly expanding the amount of land under cultivation and exploiting the labour of others. Scientific analysis of plant remains and animal bones from archaeological contexts is generating the first direct evidence for the development of such low-input regimes. This article outlines the methods used by the FeedS…
Identification of inter- and intra-species variation in cereal grains through geometric morphometric analysis, and its resilience under experimental charring
The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences
Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia
Archaeobotanical evidence from southwest Asia is often interpreted as showing that the spectrum of wild plant foods narrowed during the origins of agriculture, but it has long been acknowledged that the recognition of wild plants as foods is problematic. Here, we systematically combine compositional and contextual evidence to recognise the wild plants for which there is strong evidence of their deliberate collection as food at pre-agricultural an…
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: A bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)
The FeedSax project combined bioarchaeological data with evidence from settlement archaeology to investigate how, when and why the expansion of arable farming occurred between the 8th-13th centuries in England. It has generated and released a vast, multi-faceted archaeological dataset both to underpin its own published findings and to support further research
“Nor ever lightning char thy grain” 1: Establishing archaeologically relevant charring conditions and their effect on glume wheat grain morphology
Charring is the most ubiquitous form of preservation of plant material on archaeological sites, occurring wherever people use heat. The usefulness of preserved seeds for a range of analytical techniques is dependent on the conditions under which they were heated. In this study, we investigate the effect of experimental heating on two types of glume wheat grain (einkorn and emmer) under a range of conditions, with the intention of establishing the…
Identification of inter- and intra-species variation in cereal grains through geometric morphometric analysis, and its resilience under experimental charring
Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia
Archaeobotanical evidence from southwest Asia is often interpreted as showing that the spectrum of wild plant foods narrowed during the origins of agriculture, but it has long been acknowledged that the recognition of wild plants as foods is problematic. Here, we systematically combine compositional and contextual evidence to recognise the wild plants for which there is strong evidence of their deliberate collection as food at pre-agricultural an…
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution
The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences
An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution: A Case Study from Stafford, England, c. ad 800–1200
In much of Europe, the advent of low-input cereal farming regimes between c. ad 800 and 1200 enabled landowners—lords—to amass wealth by greatly expanding the amount of land under cultivation and exploiting the labour of others. Scientific analysis of plant remains and animal bones from archaeological contexts is generating the first direct evidence for the development of such low-input regimes. This article outlines the methods used by the FeedS…
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: A bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)
The FeedSax project combined bioarchaeological data with evidence from settlement archaeology to investigate how, when and why the expansion of arable farming occurred between the 8th-13th centuries in England. It has generated and released a vast, multi-faceted archaeological dataset both to underpin its own published findings and to support further research
Referee statement
Referee statement in McKerracher, M. et al. 2023 Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)
The Soil Erosion Paradox Re‐Examined: Alluviation and Land Use History in a Small British Lowland River Catchment in the Late Holocene
Modern studies show that soil erosion results in a loss of ecosystem function, particularly fertility, and is a cause of declining agricultural yields. However, despite the well‐attested high rates of soil erosion across Roman and medieval Europe there appears to have been little or no soil‐associated decline in agricultural production—the soil erosion paradox. Small low‐slope erodible lowland catchments offer the opportunity to examine this ques…
Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Paleopathology and ancient diseases (3 works) · Anglo saxon (2 works)