Press

Below is a selection of press coverage on various research I have been involved in, and interviews, podcasts etc

May 2022:

Mercury News via CNN – Petrified poop reveals what Stonehenge builders ate

November 2021:

Whizz Pop Bang! Magazine – Interview with a science hero

https://www.whizzpopbang.com/teaching-resources/1309106/an-interview-with-an-archaeologist/

July 2021:

Investigations on prehistoric air pollution

https://www.archaeology.org/news/9821-210701-neolithic-air-pollution

December 2020:

BBC World Service Radio. Are humans naturally clean and tidy? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv6q

July 2020:

Paisley Caves Research makes the news. Here is a selection of coverage including an interview with myself and colleague Dr Ian Bull for the New York Times.

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/science/cave-poop-americas.html

Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/14000-year-old-poop-among-oldest-traces-humans-north-america-180975426/

Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/14-000-year-old-poop-found-in-oregon-cave-turns-out-to-1844389785

October 2019:

Feeding Stonehenge or building Stonehenge?

Current Archaeology Magazine: https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/sciencenotes/science-notes-debating-durrington-walls.htm

Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-stonehenges-builders-use-lard-move-stonehenge-boulders-place-180972662/

Chronicle: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-university-archaeologists-pigs-stonehenge-16946695

May 2019:

Work on coprolites from Çatalhöyük – early evidence for parasite infection

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/05/31/palaeopoop-from-neolithic-c%CC%A7atalho%CC%88yu%CC%88k-reveals-parasitic-infections/#39d3cf4e2ede

Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/preserved-poop-is-an-archaeological-treasure/

December 2015:

Research on food residues in pottery from Durrington Walls – the village of the Stonehenge builders

NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/08/458846536/party-like-its-2-500-bc-feasts-at-stonehenge-were-epic-barbecues?t=1614587524147

Sci-News: http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-stonehenge-builders-meat-eaters-03334.html

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