Lisa Lodwick

Lisa Lodwick
Lodwick in December 2019
Born(1988-07-21)21 July 1988[1]
Died3 November 2022(2022-11-03) (aged 34)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Awards2020 Book of the Year (Archaeology Awards)
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsAll Souls College, Oxford
ThesisAn Archaeobotanical Analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the Late Iron Age - Roman Transition (2014)
Doctoral advisorMark Robinson
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Lisa Ann Lodwick FSA (21 July 1988 – 3 November 2022) was a British archaeologist who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the ancient Romans.

Lodwick's pioneering archaeobotanical studies at Calleva Atrebatum demonstrated the import and consumption of celery, coriander and olive in Insula IX prior to the Claudian Conquest.[2][3] She jointly won the 2020 Book of the Year Award at the Archaeology Awards for Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain.

She died on 3 November 2022, at the age of 34, from breast cancer.[1][4]

Education

Lodwick studied archaeology and anthropology at Hertford College, Oxford. She graduated in 2009 and was awarded the Meyerstein Prize for best overall performance in the School of Archaeology.[5] In 2010, she completed a Master's Degree in European archaeology, also at Hertford College.[6] She went on to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree from the School of Archaeology in 2014.[7] Her doctoral thesis was titled An archaeobotanical analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the late Iron Age-Roman transition.[8]

Academic career

Lodwick held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Reading from 2014 to 2017[7] and later at All Souls College, Oxford.[6] She was due to start a position as a lecturer in environmental archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2022.[1]

Lodwick was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in November 2018.[9]

Research

Lodwick co-authored the second and third books in the "New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain" monograph series published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The third volume, Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain, was written with Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford, and Anna Rohnbogner and won the Current Archaeology's 2020 Book of the Year Award.[10][11]

An advocate of open access publication in archaeology, Lodwick was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal,[12] published by the Open Library of Humanities, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Britannia published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.[13]

Select publications

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Dr Lisa Lodwick". All Souls College, University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. ^ Lodwick, Lisa (1 September 2014). "Condiments before Claudius: new plant foods at the Late Iron Age oppidum at Silchester, UK". Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 23 (5): 543–549. doi:10.1007/s00334-013-0407-1. ISSN 0939-6314. S2CID 128753215.
  3. ^ Lodwick, Lisa A. (7 January 2016). "'The debatable territory where geology and archaeology meet': reassessing the early archaeobotanical work of Clement Reid and Arthur Lyell at Roman Silchester" (PDF). Environmental Archaeology. 22 (1): 56–78. doi:10.1080/14614103.2015.1116218. ISSN 1461-4103. S2CID 162420770.
  4. ^ Oxford School of Archaeology [@school_of_arch] (4 November 2022). "It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear friend, Dr Lisa Lodwick, passed away yesterday. [...]" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "Student Prizes, School of Archaeology". www.arch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Dr. Lisa Lodwick". All Souls College Oxford. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Staff Profile:Dr Lisa Lodwick". University of Reading. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  8. ^ Lodwick, Lisa A. (2014). "An archaeobotanical analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the late Iron Age-Roman transition". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Archived from the original on 7 July 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Dr Lisa Lodwick". sal.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  10. ^ Manley, John (22 January 2019). "Review – Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain". Current Archaeology. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Book of the Year 2020". Current Archaeology. 2 December 2019. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal". TRAC. 10 May 2017. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  13. ^ "About Us - Britannia Editorial Board". Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.