Penny Bickle is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York and her research focuses on daily routine in the Neolithic period.
Research edit
Bickle's research focuses on life in the Neolithic period. She is Principal Investigator for the Counter Culture project, which investigates social diversity in central Europe across one thousand years of the Neolithic period.[1] She is an adviser on Consuming Prehistory project, which examines food consumption at Stonehenge.[2] She was featured on BBC Radio 3 discussing the importance that finds of pig bones could have for the site.[3] Another area of interest for Bickle is the role that dairy played in prehistoric diet.[4] She collaborated on the NeoMilk Project which examined the role of cattle and dairy products in Neolithic Europe.[5]
The role of gender in prehistoric societies is one that Bickle has explored, examining the differences between male-sexed and female-sexed bodies in Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture.[6] This research includes examining isotopic, archaeological and osteological data from Moravia and western Slovakia.[7] She has also examined ageing and childhood in the LBK culture and how it intersects with social identity.[8]
Bickle is leading a research project examining the Neolithic at Wildmore Fen, Lincolnshire.[9] She is also interested in different theoretical approaches to archaeology.[10] Bickle wrote the entry for 'Science and Feminism' in the Encyclopaedia of Archaeological Sciences.[11]
Career edit
Bickle graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in Archaeology in 2002.[12] She worked in commercial archaeology before moving to Cardiff University to study for her MA, graduating in 2004.[12] She then studied for a PhD examining at Neolithic architecture in northern France, which was awarded in 2009.[12] It was entitled: Life and death of the longhouse: Daily life during and after the early Neolithic in the river valleys of the Paris Basin.[13] Post-doctoral, interdisciplinary projects included: part of a team at the Universities of Oxford and Durham, she worked on Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture in Europe;[14] then at the University of Cardiff on The Times of Their Lives, which used Bayesian statistical analysis to create more precise chronologies for the Neolithic.[15]
Bickle was appointed Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York in 2014, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019.[12]
References edit
- ^ "Penny Bickle | Counter Culture". www.counter-culture-project.org. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Meet the Team". Consuming Prehistory: Feeding Stonehenge. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Arts & Ideas, New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations". BBC. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Bickle, Penny (29 August 2018). "The surprising role cheese played in human evolution". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Friends of the project". NeoMilk. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Bickle, Penny (May 2020). "Thinking Gender Differently: New Approaches to Identity Difference in the Central European Neolithic". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 30 (2): 201–218. doi:10.1017/S0959774319000453.
- ^ Bickle, Penny; Bentley, R. Alexander; Dočkalová, Marta; Fibiger, Linda; Griffiths, Seren; Hamilton, Julie; Hedges, Robert; Hofmann, Daniela; Mateiciucová, Inna; Whittle, Alasdair (2014). "Early Neolithic lifeways in Moravia and Western Slovakia: comparing archaeological, osteological and isotopic data from cemetery and settlement burials of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK)". Anthropologie. 52 (1): 35–72. JSTOR 26272609. S2CID 130379301. ProQuest 1541842202.
- ^ Bickle, Penny; Fibiger, Linda (2014). "Ageing, Childhood and Social Identity in the Early Neolithic of Central Europe". European Journal of Archaeology. 17 (2): 208–228. doi:10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000052. hdl:20.500.11820/db1fb92f-09d2-4730-a79d-27a5ff24f0a0. S2CID 133205679.
- ^ "The Wildmore Fen Project". The Wildmore Fen Project. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Bickle, Penny (2009). Creating Communities: New advances in Central European Neolithic Research. Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-78297-328-7.[page needed]
- ^ Bickle, Penny (5 December 2018). "Science and Feminism". The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences: 1–4. doi:10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0522. ISBN 9780470674611. S2CID 216898182.
- ^ a b c d "Penny Bickle - Archaeology, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ^ Bickle, Penny (2008). Life and death of the longhouse: Daily life during and after the early Neolithic in the river valleys of the Paris Basin (Thesis). Cardiff University. ISBN 978-1-303-18554-0. ProQuest 1371791792.
- ^ "Penny Bickle". UKRI.
- ^ "The times of their lives". Cardiff University. Retrieved 4 February 2020.