BA (Lancaster), MSc (London), PhD (Bradford)
Emeritus Professor
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- Email Address
- keith.dobney@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- Department of Archaeology 黑料网 St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road Aberdeen AB24 3UF Scotland
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Professor Dobney began his zooarchaeological career working as a Research Assistant to Don Brothwell at the Institute of Archaeology in London. Early research into human and animal palaeopathology and zooarchaeology led to a PhD in Archaeological Science at the University of Bradford, to freelance work in Britain and the Middle East, then to a research post funded by English Heritage at the Environmental Archaeology Unit, University of York. From the EAU in York, Keith moved to the Archaeology Department at Durham University where he held two consecutive Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Research Fellowships from 2000-2008. He became a Reader in the Archaeology Department at Durham prior to being appointed in Aberdeen in 2009.
For the last 25 years, Keith has been actively involved in bioarchaeological research in Britain, the Middle East, Central Asia and Central America, and since 2000, has developed international collaborative research in East Asia and Oceania. With the main material focus of his work being the study of animal and human remains, Keith's research incorporates a broad temporal and geographic spread, and involves the use of traditional and novel techniques and approaches.
Keith has organised several major international conferences and workshops, has been invited to give research seminars and presentations at academic and research institutions across the world and has held several visiting research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and the Australian National University in Canberra. He is currently one of two project leaders of a CNRS funded Projet de Groupement De Recherche Europ脙漏en (GDRE) entitled - BIOARCH- Bioarchaeological Investigations of the Interactions between Holocene Human Societies and their Environments - and the Director of a recently funded Co-Reach Chinese-European research grouping (EUCH-BIOARCH).
- Research
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Research Overview
Principal research themes include the origins of agriculture, the domestication of animals, human and animal dispersal, diet and health, palaeopathology and palaeoeconomics.
Funding and Grants
2000
脗拢186,864
Wellcome Trust 芒鈧�� The bioarchaeology of pig domestication and husbandry: its role in the biological, economic and social development of complex human society.
2001
$1,585
Appointment as a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
2002
脗拢2,450
Royal Society and Armenian Academy of Science. Visiting Fellowship to Durham for Dr Ninna Manaseryan
2003
脗拢271,793
Wellcome Trust - Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: an integrated zooarchaeological and biomolecular approach to human dispersal and exchange networks in the Holocene.
2005
$1,727
Appointment as a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
2005
脗拢22,024
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Professor Jing Yuan, Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing.
2005
脗拢157,442
AHRC - The prehistoric origins of Orcadian cultural exchange networks: biomolecular and morphometric studies of Orkney voles (co P.I.'s - Profs Jeremy Searle and Paul O'Higgins, University of York).
2006
脗拢5,969
English Heritage 芒鈧�� Completion of monograph entitled: Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats.
2006
脗拢1,500
Daiwa Foundation - Morphometric variation and dental enamel defects in the teeth of ancient island populations of Japanese wild boar (Sus scrofa) as a proxy for studying human interaction in the Jomon period.
2006
脗拢380,249
AHRC - co PI - The origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe 芒鈧�� a new database approach (P.I. Prof. Stephen Shennan, Institute of Archaeology UCL.
2006
脗拢125,000
P.I. for RCUK Fellowship - Ancient DNA and human dispersal 芒鈧�� Research Councils
2007
脗拢217,341
Leverhulme Trust 芒鈧�� Pigs, people and the Neolithisation of Europe 芒鈧�� returned after award of NERC grant below.
2007
脗拢460,009
NERC - Pigs, people and the Neolithisation of Europe 芒鈧�� co i's Dr Greger Larson, Dr Una Strand-Vidardottir, Prof. Rus Hoelzel
2007
脗拢48,717
NERC 芒鈧�� Tied studentship linked with funded project - Pigs, people and the neolithisation of Europe
2008
脗拢60,896
Leverhulme Trust - PhD studentship (and associated indirect costs) to work on Ancient DNA
2009
2010
芒鈥毬�150,685
脗拢806,000
Co-Reach (with Institute of Archaeology, Beijing, Natural History Museum Paris & Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) 芒鈧�� European-Chinese Bioarchaeology Collaboration (EUCH-BIOARCH) 芒鈧�� Contributing to a Broader Agenda.
NERC - Reconsidering Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal Models using Genetic and Morphological Signatures of Domestic Animals - joint with Durham University - co-i's Dr Greger, Larson, Dr Thomas Cucchi and Dr Una Strand-Vidarsdottir.
- Publications
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Storytelling and story testing in domestication: Can modeling help?
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 17, pp. 6159-6164Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 13, pp. 4826-4831Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
The zooarchaeological application of quantifying cranial shape differences in wild boar and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) using 3D geometric morphometrics
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 43, pp. 159-167Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Using traditional biometrical data to distinguish West Palearctic wild boar and domestic pigs in the archaeological record: new methods and standards
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 43, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A geometric morphometric re-evaluation of the use of dental form to explore differences in horse (Equus caballus) populations and its potential zooarchaeological application
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 41, pp. 904-910Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder
World Archaeology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 825-834Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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The origins and spread of stock-keeping: the role of cultural and environmental influences on early Neolithic animal exploitation in Europe
Antiquity, vol. 87, no. 338, pp. 1046-1059Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands
Molecular Ecology, vol. 22, no. 20, pp. 5205-5220Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Use of domesticated pigs by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe
Nature Communications, vol. 4, 2348Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics
Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 824-832Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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