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Dr. John Meadows, Academic staff

Academic staff | Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology

Dr. John Meadows

PhD La Trobe University, Australia
Research area Radiocarbon and other scientific dating methods; Stable isotopes; Bayesian chronological modelling
Scientific Education

1998 - 2005
PhD, Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Australia Thesis: Early farmers and their environment: archaeobotanical research at Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Jordan

1994-95
MSc (Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy), University of Sheffield, England

1986-89
BA (Hons), History and Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia

Scientific experience

Since 2011
Senior scientist for AMS dating and isotope research in archaeology, Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, Schloss Gottorf; based at the Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Max-Eyth-Str. 11-13, 24118 Kiel

2005–2010
Assistant Scientific Dating Co-ordinator, English Heritage, London

2004-2005
Archaeological Research Assistant, Early Department, Museum of London

2002-2004
Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

1996-1998
freelance archaeologist/archaeobotanist (UK, USA, Syria, Jordan, Australia)

Selected publications

For a complete and updated list, see http://www.zbsa.eu/portal_memberdata/jme

Papers in Externally-Refereed Journals

in press Meadows J, Bērziņš V, Brinker U, Lübke H, Schmölcke U, Staude A, Zagorska I and Zariņa G. Dietary freshwater reservoir effects and the radiocarbon ages of prehistoric human bones from Zvejnieki, Latvia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.024

in press Bērziņš V, Lübke H, Berga L, Ceriņa A, Kalniņa L, Meadows J, Muižniece S, Paegle S, Rudzīte M and Zagorska I. Recurrent Stone Age occupation at Sise (western Latvia) and shoreline displacement in the Baltic Sea Basin. The Holocene.

in press Lübke H, Brinker U, Meadows J, Bērziņš V and Zagorska I. New research on the human burials of Riņņukalns, Latvia. in Mesolithic Burials – Rites, symbols and social organization of early postglacial communities. Proceedings of the International Conference, Halle (Saale), 18–21 September 2013 (eds J Grünberg and B Gramsch). Archäologie in Sachsen-Anhalt.

in press Schmölcke U, Meadows J, Ritchie K, Bērziņš V, Lübke H and Zagorska I. Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Riņņukalns in northern Latvia, Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology.

2015
Meadows J, Hüls M and Schneider R. Accuracy and reproducibility of 14C measurements at the Leibniz-Labor, Kiel: a first response to Lull et al., 'When 14C dates fall beyond the limits of uncertainty: an assessment of anomalies in a Western Mediterranean Bronze Age 14C Series'. Radiocarbon57(5).

2015
Tõrv M and Meadows J. Radiocarbon dates and stable isotope data from the Early Bronze Age burials in Riigiküla I and Kivisaare settlement sites, Estonia.Radiocarbon 57(4): 645–656.

2015
Rakowski A Z, Krąpiec M, Hüls M, Pawlyta J, Dreves A and Meadows J. Increase of radiocarbon concentration in tree rings from Kujawy (SE Poland) around AD 774–775, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B.

2014
2014 Philippsen B and Meadows J. Inland Ertebølle culture: the importance of aquatic resources and the freshwater reservoir effect in radiocarbon dates from pottery food crusts, Internet Archaeology Issue 37.

2014
Contreras D and Meadows J. Summed radiocarbon calibrations as a population proxy: a critical evaluation using a realistic simulation approach.Journal of Archaeological Science 52: 591–608.

2014
Bērziņš V, Brinker U, Klein C, Lübke H, Meadows J, Rudzīte M,Schmölcke U, Stümpel H and Zagorska I. New research on Rinnukalns, a Neolithic freshwater shell midden in northern Latvia,Antiquity 88, 341: 715–732.

2014
Fernandes R, Meadows J, Dreves A, Nadeau M-J and Grootes P M M. A preliminary study on the influence of cooking on the C and N isotopic composition of multiple organic fractions of fish (mackerel and haddock). Journal of Archaeological Science 50: 153–159.

2014
Meadows J and Māris Zunde. A lake fortress, a floating chronology, and an atmospheric anomaly: the surprising results of a radiocarbon wiggle-match from Āraiši, Latvia. Geochronometria 41 (3): 223–233.

2014
Meadows J, Martinelli N, Nadeau M-J and Bianchin Citton E. Este, Padova, Italy: dating the Iron Age waterfront. Radiocarbon 56(2): 655–665.

2014
Meadows J, Lübke H, Zagorska I, Bērziņš V, Ceriņa A and Ozola I. Potential freshwater reservoir effects in a Neolithic shell midden at Riņņukalns, Latvia. Radiocarbon 56(2): 823–832.

2014
Meadows J, Eriksen B V, Zagorska I, Dreves A and Simpson J. Dating Late Palaeolithic harpoons from Lake Lubāns, Latvia. Radiocarbon 56(2): 581–589.

2014
Garrow D, Meadows J, Evans C and Tabor J. Dating the dead: a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology of burial within an Early Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Over, Cambridgeshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 80: 207–236.

2014
Martinelli N, Meadows J, Valzolgher E, Pignatelli O, Anglani L and Kromer B, Combining dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating at the Late Medieval site of Sant'Alvise, Venice, Italy. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2: 49–54.

2013
Timberlake S, et al.. Prehistoric copper extraction in Britain: Ecton Hill, Staffordshire, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 80: 1–48.

2013
Greenwood D, Batt C, Meadows J and Roberts I. Dating the kiln, in A Stamford Ware pottery kiln in Pontefract: a geographical enigma and a dating dilemma (C Cumberpatch and I Roberts). Medieval Archaeology 57: 111–150

2013
Rakowski A Z, Nakamura T, Pazdur A and Meadows J. Radiocarbon concentration in annual tree rings from the Salamanca Region, Western Spain.Radiocarbon 55(1-3): 1533–1540

2012
Ripper S, et al., Bogs, bodies and burnt mounds: visits to the Soar wetlands in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 78: 173–206

2012
Mays S, Vincent S and Meadows J. A possible case of treponemal disease from England dating to the 11th–12th century AD, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22: 366–372

2012

Valzolgher E, Meadows J, Salzani P and Salzani, L. Radiocarbon dating of the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Arano, Verona, northern Italy. Radiocarbon 54 (3–4): 483–503

2012
Meadows J et al.. Keeping the sea out: early medieval structures at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. Radiocarbon 54 (3–4): 567–549

2010
Lovell J L et al.. Upland olive domestication in the Chalcolithic period: new 14C determinations from el-Khawarij (Ajlun), Jordan. Radiocarbon 52: 364–371

2009
Bourke S J et al.. The beginning of the Early Bronze Age in the north Jordan Valley: new 14C determinations from Pella in Jordan. Radiocarbon 51: 905–913

2007
Meadows J et al.. A short passage of time: the dating of the Hazleton long cairn revisited. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(1) S: 45–64

2006
Collard M et al.. Ironworking in the Bronze Age? Evidence from a 10th century BC settlement at Hartshill Copse, Upper Bucklebury, West Berkshire.Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 72: 367–421

2005
Meadows J. The Younger Dryas episode and the radiocarbon chronologies of the Huleh and Ghab pollen diagrams, The Holocene 15: 631–636

2004
Bourke S J et al.. The end of the Chalcolithic period in the south Jordan Valley: new 14C determinations from Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. Radiocarbon46: 315–323

2004
Edwards P C et al.. From the PPNA to the PPNB: new views from the south after excavations at Zahrat adh-Dhra' 2 in Jordan. Paléorient30/2: 21–60

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