Polydora Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6351562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Polydora Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Polydora |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Heritage |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2913-0231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Sheep Project (3)
The largest published dataset of sheep ( Ovis aries ) cheek tooth wear recorded from known‐age skeletonized mandibles is presented, with raw data disseminated as a supplement. The dataset has previously been used to investigate the influence of sex, nutrition, and breeding status on dental maturation (eruption and wear of individual teeth). Here, complemented by published tooth wear datasets from the same breed, it is employed to supplement imple…
Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Establishing a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis and Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology and Beyond
In a 2019 Internet Archaeology article, Elizabeth Pearson posed the question 'are we back in the Dark Ages?'. This question was made in reference to a developer-funded archaeology sector that was generating vast quantities of evidence and, particularly, in recent years, specialist environmental data, but was failing to mobilise this in a theoretical framework that generated meaningful advancement in terms of research. The introduction to the 2021…
The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions
The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions
Curation of the Historic England Zooarchaeology Reference Collection
The Historic England Zooarchaeology Reference Collection includes more than 3470 mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish specimens, the majority of which are complete skeletons. It comprises important research collections that support internal, national and international projects, and is being continuously developed, mainly through in-house specimen preparation. The collection is housed in different locations at Fort Cumberland, an eighteenth-c…
Wild to domestic and back again
This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive scientific study of the fallow deer, a non-native species whose medieval-period introduction to Britain transformed the cultural landscape. It brings together data from traditional zooarchaeological analyses with those derived from new ageing techniques as well as the results of a programme of radiocarbon dating, multi-element isotope studies and genetic analyses. These new data are here …
The Sheep Project (2)
The skeletons of 356 unimproved Shetland sheep from flocks kept at two nutritional levels are used to investigate the effects of nutritional level on the timing of mandibular dental eruption, and of wear in the mandibular fourth premolar and molars; comparisons are also made between entire and early-castrated males and between unbred, early-bred and late-bred ewes. Sheep weights and counts of permanent anterior teeth recorded during life are also…
The Sheep Project (1)
An Assemblage of Ponderous Stones’
Despite containing one of the largest stone and timber circles in Britain, the Late Neolithic monument complex at Stanton Drew, Somerset, has seen surprisingly little archaeological work. This paper presents the results of new fieldwork, which included excavation around a recently discovered recumbent stone, test-pitting on the floodplain of the River Chew and fieldwalking close to the monuments. The excavations revealed that the recumbent stone …
Prehistoric and Dark Age Settlement Remains from Cheviot Quarry, Milfield Basin, Northumberland
Archaeological excavations in advance of quarrying at Cheviot Quarry, Northumb. have produced important evidence for Neolithic, Late Bronze Age and Dark Age settlements. Neolithic pit features containing domestic midden material including broken pottery, lithics and cereal grains from two distinct parts of the quarry have provided evidence for what is interpreted as settlement and subsistence activity from the Early and Later Neolithic periods. T…
An Early British Archaeologist in Afghanistan
(1987). An Early British Archaeologist in Afghanistan. South Asian Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 81-82
The Sheep Project (1)
The Sheep Project (2)
The skeletons of 356 unimproved Shetland sheep from flocks kept at two nutritional levels are used to investigate the effects of nutritional level on the timing of mandibular dental eruption, and of wear in the mandibular fourth premolar and molars; comparisons are also made between entire and early-castrated males and between unbred, early-bred and late-bred ewes. Sheep weights and counts of permanent anterior teeth recorded during life are also…
Prehistoric and Dark Age Settlement Remains from Cheviot Quarry, Milfield Basin, Northumberland
Archaeological excavations in advance of quarrying at Cheviot Quarry, Northumb. have produced important evidence for Neolithic, Late Bronze Age and Dark Age settlements. Neolithic pit features containing domestic midden material including broken pottery, lithics and cereal grains from two distinct parts of the quarry have provided evidence for what is interpreted as settlement and subsistence activity from the Early and Later Neolithic periods. T…
Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Establishing a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis and Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology and Beyond
In a 2019 Internet Archaeology article, Elizabeth Pearson posed the question 'are we back in the Dark Ages?'. This question was made in reference to a developer-funded archaeology sector that was generating vast quantities of evidence and, particularly, in recent years, specialist environmental data, but was failing to mobilise this in a theoretical framework that generated meaningful advancement in terms of research. The introduction to the 2021…
An Early British Archaeologist in Afghanistan
(1987). An Early British Archaeologist in Afghanistan. South Asian Studies: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 81-82
Prehistoric and Dark Age Settlement Remains from Cheviot Quarry, Milfield Basin, Northumberland
Archaeological excavations in advance of quarrying at Cheviot Quarry, Northumb. have produced important evidence for Neolithic, Late Bronze Age and Dark Age settlements. Neolithic pit features containing domestic midden material including broken pottery, lithics and cereal grains from two distinct parts of the quarry have provided evidence for what is interpreted as settlement and subsistence activity from the Early and Later Neolithic periods. T…
The Sheep Project (1)
An Assemblage of Ponderous Stones’
Despite containing one of the largest stone and timber circles in Britain, the Late Neolithic monument complex at Stanton Drew, Somerset, has seen surprisingly little archaeological work. This paper presents the results of new fieldwork, which included excavation around a recently discovered recumbent stone, test-pitting on the floodplain of the River Chew and fieldwalking close to the monuments. The excavations revealed that the recumbent stone …
The Sheep Project (2)
The skeletons of 356 unimproved Shetland sheep from flocks kept at two nutritional levels are used to investigate the effects of nutritional level on the timing of mandibular dental eruption, and of wear in the mandibular fourth premolar and molars; comparisons are also made between entire and early-castrated males and between unbred, early-bred and late-bred ewes. Sheep weights and counts of permanent anterior teeth recorded during life are also…
Wild to domestic and back again
This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive scientific study of the fallow deer, a non-native species whose medieval-period introduction to Britain transformed the cultural landscape. It brings together data from traditional zooarchaeological analyses with those derived from new ageing techniques as well as the results of a programme of radiocarbon dating, multi-element isotope studies and genetic analyses. These new data are here …
The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions
Curation of the Historic England Zooarchaeology Reference Collection
The Historic England Zooarchaeology Reference Collection includes more than 3470 mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish specimens, the majority of which are complete skeletons. It comprises important research collections that support internal, national and international projects, and is being continuously developed, mainly through in-house specimen preparation. The collection is housed in different locations at Fort Cumberland, an eighteenth-c…
The Archaeology of Human-Bird Interactions
Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Establishing a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis and Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology and Beyond
In a 2019 Internet Archaeology article, Elizabeth Pearson posed the question 'are we back in the Dark Ages?'. This question was made in reference to a developer-funded archaeology sector that was generating vast quantities of evidence and, particularly, in recent years, specialist environmental data, but was failing to mobilise this in a theoretical framework that generated meaningful advancement in terms of research. The introduction to the 2021…
The Sheep Project (3)
The largest published dataset of sheep ( Ovis aries ) cheek tooth wear recorded from known‐age skeletonized mandibles is presented, with raw data disseminated as a supplement. The dataset has previously been used to investigate the influence of sex, nutrition, and breeding status on dental maturation (eruption and wear of individual teeth). Here, complemented by published tooth wear datasets from the same breed, it is employed to supplement imple…
Geography (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Biology (5 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Shetland (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works)