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Scopus Author ID: 24460573000

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Archaeobotany, Archaeology of food, social geographies of exotics, Roman and medieval trade, network

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Employment (2)

Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology: Tarragona, ES

2019-06-28 to present
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

University of Nottingham: Nottingham, Nottingham, GB

2011-09-01 to 2019-06-27 | Assistant Professor (Archaeology)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Leicester: Leicester, Leicester, GB

2004 to 2008 | PhD (Archaeology and Ancient History)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

University of Sheffield: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

1999 to 2001 | MSc Environmental Archaeology & Palaeoeconomy (Archaeology)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

Coventry University: Coventry, West Midlands, GB

1995 to 1999 | BSc Hons Environmental Science
Education
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Alexandra Livarda

Funding (7)

Urbanization in Bronze Age Crete: Between Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro

2014 to 2016 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (ON, ON, CA)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

Bioarchaeology of Iron Age Methone

2013 to 2013 | Grant
Psychas Foundation (Athens, GR)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

Proto-Geometric archaeobotanical assemblage from Villa Dionysus, Crete, Greece

2011 to 2011 | Grant
Knossos Donated Fund (United Kingdom, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

Bronze Age archaeobotanical assemblage from Zominthos, Crete, Greece

2010 to 2010 | Grant
Psychas Foundation (Athens, GR)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

PhD in Archaeology

2004 to 2008 | Grant
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (Athens, Greece, LI)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

PhD in Arcaheology

2004 to 2007 | Grant
A.G. Leventis Foundation (Cyprus, CY)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

PhD in Archaeology

2004 to 2007 | Grant
Natural Environment Research Council (UK, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Alexandra Livarda

Works (26)

Tracing culinary practices in the western provinces of the Roman Empire using Organic Residue Analysis

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
2024-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02011-7
Contributors: Theoni Baniou; Akshyeta Suryanarayan; Alexandra Livarda; Núria Romaní Sala; Nuria Moraleda-Cibrián; Joan Villanueva; Esther Rodrigo Requena
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Archaeobotanical and Zooarchaeological (Large Mammal Bone, Shell and Fish Remains) Data from the ‘Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro’ (PALAP) Excavation Project, Crete, Greece

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
2023-07-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5334/joad.108
Contributors: Alexandra Livarda; Vasiliki Tzevelekidi; Rena Veropoulidou; Ricard Marlasca Martín
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Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-021-00839-w
Contributors: Leslie J. K. Bode; Alexandra Livarda; Matthew D. Jones
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Plant resources and subsistence in the Late Minoan mountain ‘villa’ at Zominthos, Crete

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
2020-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01203-1
Contributors: Alexandra Livarda; Georgia Kotzamani
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Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-018-0702-y
EID:

2-s2.0-85056705490

Part of ISBN:

09396314
Contributors: Wallace, M.; Jones, G.; Charles, M.; Forster, E.; Stillman, E.; Bonhomme, V.; Livarda, A.; Osborne, C.P.; Rees, M.; Frenck, G. et al.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

People and plant entanglements at the dawn of agricultural practice in Greece. An analysis of the Mesolithic and early Neolithic archaeobotanical remains

Quaternary International
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.04.044
EID:

2-s2.0-85047367873

Part of ISBN:

10406182
Contributors: Kotzamani, G.; Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

The discovery of the earliest specialised Middle Neolithic pottery workshop in western Thessaly, central Greece

Antiquity
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.54
EID:

2-s2.0-85045938918

Part of ISBN:

0003598X
Contributors: Krahtopoulou, A.; DImoula, A.; Livarda, A.; Saridaki, N.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Human management and landscape changes at Palaikastro (Eastern Crete) from the Late Neolithic to the Early Minoan period

Quaternary Science Reviews
2018-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.01.010
Contributors: N. Cañellas-Boltà; S. Riera-Mora; H.A. Orengo; A. Livarda; C. Knappett
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Cuisine and Conquest: Interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyond

The Archaeology of the 11th Century: Continuities and Transformations
2017 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9781315312934
EID:

2-s2.0-85021957775
Contributors: Jervis, B.; Whelan, F.; Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

How did the domestication of Fertile Crescent grain crops increase their yields?

Functional Ecology
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12760
EID:

2-s2.0-84994890356
Contributors: Preece, C.; Livarda, A.; Christin, P.-A.; Wallace, M.; Martin, G.; Charles, M.; Jones, G.; Rees, M.; Osborne, C.P.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Tastes in the roman provinces: An archaeobotanical approach to socio- cultural change

Taste and the Ancient Senses
2017 | Book chapter
Part of DOI: 10.4324/9781315719245
EID:

2-s2.0-85040910922
Contributors: Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

The seeds of commerce: A network analysis-based approach to the Romano-British transport system

Journal of Archaeological Science
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.12.003
EID:

2-s2.0-84955146000
Contributors: Orengo, H.A.; Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Reconstructing the Roman London flavourscape: New insights into the exotic food plant trade using network and spatial analyses

Journal of Archaeological Science
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.008
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2-s2.0-84922572287
Contributors: Livarda, A.; Orengo, H.A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?

New Phytologist
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13353
EID:

2-s2.0-84936206891
Contributors: Preece, C.; Livarda, A.; Wallace, M.; Martin, G.; Charles, M.; Christin, P.-A.; Jones, G.; Rees, M.; Osborne, C.P.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Archaeobotany in Greece

Archaeological Reports
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S057060841400012X
EID:

2-s2.0-84927609044
Contributors: Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Plant resource availability and management in palaeolithic and mesolithic Greece

Aegaeum
2014 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84924370085
Contributors: Kotzamani, G.; Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Date, Rituals and Socio-Cultural Identity in the North-Western Roman Provinces

Oxford Journal of Archaeology
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.12004
EID:

2-s2.0-84872171392
Contributors: Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

The archaeobotany of medieval britain (C AD 450-1500): Identifying research priorities for the 21st century

Medieval Archaeology
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1179/0076609713Z.00000000018
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2-s2.0-84890101819
Contributors: Van Der Veen, M.; Hill, A.; Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

THE ARCHAEOBOTANY of NEOLITHIC and BRONZE AGE CRETE: SYNTHESIS and PROSPECTS

Annual of the British School at Athens
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0068245413000063
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2-s2.0-84891801652
Contributors: Livarda, A.; Kotzamani, G.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

The archaeobotanical evidence of the late Bronze Age and protogeometric occupation under the Roman Villa Dionysus, Knossos, Crete, and an overview of the protogeometric data of Greece

Annual of the British School at Athens
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0068245412000068
EID:

2-s2.0-84871338021
Contributors: Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Spicing up life in northwestern Europe: Exotic food plant imports in the Roman and medieval world

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-010-0273-z
EID:

2-s2.0-79751503600
Contributors: Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Knossos, the Little Palace North Project, Part I: The early Greek periods

Annual of the British School at Athens
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-66049152265
Contributors: Hatzaki, E.; Prent, M.; Coldstream, J.N.; Evely, D.; Livarda, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Nemea valley archaeological project, excavations at barnavos: Final report

Hesperia
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-71549149368
Contributors: Wright, J.C.; Pappi, E.; Triantaphyllou, S.; Kotzamani, G.; Dabney, M.K.; Livarda, A.; Karkanas, P.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

New plant foods in Roman Britain - Dispersal and social access

Environmental Archaeology
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1179/174963108X279193
EID:

2-s2.0-62649129220
Contributors: Van Der Veen, M.; Livarda, A.; Hill, A.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0168-4
EID:

2-s2.0-57049090073
Contributors: Livarda, A.; Van Der Veen, M.
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Alexandra Livarda via Scopus - Elsevier

The Archaeobotany of Roman Britain: Current State and Identification of Research Priorities

Britannia
2007-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3815/000000007784016557
Contributors: Marijke van der Veen; Alexandra Livarda; Alistair Hill
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