People
Anwen Cooper (PI)
Anwen Cooper’s research interests include later prehistoric Britain and north-west Europe, and interpretative approaches to landscape, material culture, and archaeological practice. After ten years as a fieldwork practitioner from 1996-2006, her PhD investigated knowledge production in British prehistory during a key period in archaeology’s ‘professionalisation’ from 1970-2010. Anwen has most recently worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded English Landscape and Identities project (University of Oxford), the AHRC-funded Prehistoric Grave Goods and Boundary Objects projects (Universities of Manchester & Reading), and the Leverhulme-funded Ebb and Flow project (University of Oxford). She also collaborated with colleagues at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in writing up the excavation and analysis of the spectacular Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement at Must Farm, Cambridgeshire.
anwen.cooper@oxfordarchaeology.com
Tina Roushannafas
Tina specialises in ancient plant remains (archaeobotany), having completed an environmental archaeology master’s in 2016/7 and worked as an archaeobotanical lab technician in 2018/9, both at the University of Oxford. She has several years’ experience in developer-funded archaeology, starting out as a field archaeologist and later working as a project officer specialising in environmental sampling/analysis. While particularly interested in prehistoric and early medieval Britain, she has worked on a range of assemblages, including Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the Near East. Her research interests include the uses of wild plants, diversification and resilience in crop cultivation and open science practices. Always keen to adapt to new computer-based approaches, her PhD research utilised geometric morphometrics (statistics-based shape analysis) to explore diversity in archaeobotanical wheat remains.
tina.roushannafas@oxfordarchaeology.com
Martyn Allen
Martyn has been a Senior Project Manager at OA since 2018. He manages the post-excavation of archaeological projects, bringing to conclusion the results of fieldwork for clients, often to publication. Martyn specialises in the study of late Iron Age and Roman Britain, especially in the fields of rural settlement and agriculture, and he is an experienced zooarchaeologist (animal bone specialist). Martyn currently sits on the Britannia Editorial Committee for The Roman Society.
After gaining a BA (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Winchester in 2004, Martyn went on to complete an MA in Osteoarchaeology at the University of Southampton in 2006, and then a PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2010. Before joining OA in 2017, Martyn worked for Historic England as a Research Assistant in Zooarchaeology and, between 2012 and 2016, was employed as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading.
Wider OA Team
Sharon Cook
David Kay
Julia Meen
Rebecca Nicholson
Adrienne Powell
Mairead Rutherford
Liz Stafford
Leo Webley
