British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist
Carol Palmer is a British
anthropologist,
environmental archaeologist and
botanist. She is currently Director of the
British Institute in Amman, an Honorary Fellow at
Bournemouth University, and a part of the Thimar collective.[1] Her primary research interests are in rural societies in the Arab world, changes in the practices of
food production on the landscape and in society, and
ethnobotany.[2][3][4] She collaborates as Project Partner of the INEA project, which aims to examine archaeological site usage using phytolithic and
geochemical evidence.[5] She has also been a part of the Antikythera Survey Project[6] and the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey,[7] and from 2001-2004 served as secretary of the Association of Environmental Archaeology.[8]
Carol Palmer completed her
PhD at the
University of Sheffield in 1998 under Prof.
Glynis Jones.[11] Her dissertation was entitled "Crop husbandry practices in the Mediterranean zone and their implications for ancient agriculture".[11] She undertook
postdoctoral research as a Council of British Research in the
Levant Postdoctoral Fellowship at the
University of Leicester and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sheffield.[7]
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