Publications

A selection of my academic publications. You can find a full list with pdfs on my ResearchGate page.

Blong JC, Adams ME, Sanchez G, Jenkins DL, Bull ID, Shillito L-M. 2020. Younger Dryas and Early Holocene Subsistence in the Northern Great Basin: Multiproxy Analysis of Coprolites from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Shillito L-M, Whelton H, Blong JC, Jenkins DL, Connolly TJ, Bull ID. 2020. Pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas identified by human faecal biomarkers in coprolites from Paisley Caves, Oregon. Science Advances 6(29), eaba6404

Shillito L-M, Blong JC, Greene EJ, Van Asperen E. 2020. The what, how and why of archaeological coprolite analysis Earth Science Reviews 207: 103196

Shillito, L-M. (2019) Building Stonehenge? An alternative interpretation of lipid residues in Grooved Ware from Durrington Walls Antiquity 93 (370): 1052-1060

Ledger ML, Anastasiou E, Shillito L-M, Mackay H, Bull ID, Haddow SD, Knüsel C, Mitchell PD. 2019. Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük. Antiquity 93 (369), 573-587

Shillito, L-M. (2017) Multivocality and multiproxy approaches to the use of space: lessons from 25 years of research at Çatalhöyük. World Archaeology, 49:2, 237-259

Craig OE, Shillito L-M, Albarella U, Viner-Daniels S, Chan B, Cleal R, Ixer R, Jay M, Marshall P, Simmons E, Wright E, Pearson MP. 2015. Feeding Stonehenge: cuisine and consumption at the Late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls. Antiquity 89(347), 1096-1109.

Pluskowski AG, Sawicki Z, Shillito L-M, Badura M, Makowiecki D, Zabilska-Kunek M, Seetah K, Brown A. 2014. Biała Góra: The Forgotten Colony in the Medieval Pomeranian-Prussian Borderlands. Antiquity 88(341), 863-882

Shillito L-M, Major B, Almond MJ, Anderson E, Pluskowski A. 2014. Micromorphological and geochemical investigation of formation processes in the refectory at the Crusader Castle of Margat (Qal’at al-Marqab). Journal of Archaeological Science. 50, 451 – 459.

Matthews W, Shillito L-M, Elliot S, Bull ID, Williams J. 2014. Neolithic lifeways: microstratigraphic traces within houses, animal pens and settlements. In: Whittle, A; Bickle, P, ed. Early Farmers: The View from Archaeology and Science. British Academy and OUP. pp.251-279.

Shillito L-M, Matthews W, Bull ID, Williams J. 2013. Biomolecular investigations of faecal biomarkers at Sheik-e Abad and Jani. In: Matthews, R; Matthews, W; Mohammadifar, Y, ed. The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani. Oxford: Oxbow and British Institute for Persian Studies, pp.105-115

Shillito L-M, Matthews W. 2013. Geoarchaeological Investigations of Midden-Formation Processes in the Early to Late Ceramic Neolithic Levels at Çatalhöyük, Turkey ca. 8550–8370 cal BP. Geoarchaeology. 28, 25 – 49.

Shillito L-M. 2013. Grains of truth or transparent blindfolds? Debates in archaeological phytolith analysis. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 2013, 22(1), 71-82.

Shillito L-M, Ryan P. Surfaces and streets: phytoliths, micromorphology and changing use of space at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Antiquity 2013, 87(337), 684 – 700.

Shillito L-M, Bull ID, Matthews W, Almond MJ, Williams J, Evershed RP. Biomolecular and micromorphological analysis of suspected faecal deposits at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science 2011, 38, 1869 – 1877.

Shillito L-M. 2011. Taphonomic observations of archaeological wheat phytoliths from Neolithic Çatalhöyük , Turkey, and the use of conjoined phytolith size as an indicator of water availability. Archaeometry. 53, 631 – 641.