Chantal Conneller

Chantal Conneller FSA (b.1973) is an archaeologist and Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Newcastle.

Biography

Conneller has a BA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her 2002 PhD thesis was titled "Space, time and technology: the Early Mesolithic of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire".[1] Conneller was lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at Bangor University in 2005 before taking up a position as senior lecturer later that year at the University of Manchester. Conneller became Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Newcastle in 2018.[2] Conneller was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 October 2016.[3]

Conneller's research focusses on the Mesolithic period. She has excavated at various Mesolithic settlements in Britain, including in the Vale of Pickering and at Star Carr.

Select publications

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  • Conneller, C. 2022. The Mesolithic in Britain: Landscape and Society in Times of Change. London: Routledge.
  • Conneller, C. 2022. "The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world". Nature: Ecology and Evolution 6, 1591–1592.
  • Elliott, B. and Conneller, C. "Masks in context: representation, emergence, motility and self". World Archaeology 52(5), 655–666.
  • Burns, A., Woodward, J., Conneller, C., Reimer, P. 2022. "Footprint beds record Holocene decline in large mammal diversity on the Irish Sea coast of Britain". Nature: Ecology and Evolution 6, 1553–1563.
  • Bates, J., Needham, A., Conneller, C., Milner, N., Pomstra, D., Little, A. 2022. "Flint awls at the Mesolithic site of Star Carr: Understanding tool use through integrated methods". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 43, 103478.
  • Milner N., Conneller, C., and Taylor, B. (eds) 2018. Star Carr. Volume 1: A Persistent Place in a Changing World; Star Carr: Volume 2: Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment. York: White Rose Press.
  • Conneller, C., and Warren, G. (eds). Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches. Stroud: Tempus.

References

  1. ^ Conneller, C. (2002). "Space, time and technology : the Early Mesolithic of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Professor Chantal Conneller". University of Newcastle. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Dr Chantal Conneller". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2 February 2024.