Naomi Sykes

Naomi Sykes FSA is a zooarchaeologist and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.[1] Sykes researches human-animal relations in the past.

Naomi Sykes

FSA
Occupationzooarchaeologist
EmployerUniversity of Exeter

Biography

Sykes' early work studied the zooarchaeology of the Norman Conquest in Britain.[2] Her thesis was completed at 2001 at the University of Southampton.[3] Sykes was previously based at the University of Nottingham, and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.[1]

In 2011, Sykes won the Society for Medieval Archaeology's Martyn Jope Award for "the best novel interpretation, application of analytical method or presentation of new findings" published in that year's volume of Medieval Archaeology along with co-author Ruth F. Carden.[4][5]

In 2014 Sykes published Beastly Questions, which has been described as "a lucid, thought-provoking and challenging review of the state of the discipline."[6]

Sykes was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.[7]

Selected publications
  • Sykes, N. 2014. Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Sykes, N. 2012. A social perspective on the introduction of exotic animals : the case of the chicken. World Archaeology 44(1), 158–169.
  • Sykes, N. J., Baker, K. H., Carden, R. F., Higham, T. F. G., Hoelzel, A. R., & Stevens, R. E. 2011. New evidence for the establishment and management of the European fallow deer ( Dama dama dama ) in Roman Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(1), 156–165. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.08.024
  • Sykes, N. 2004. The dynamics of status symbols: Wildfowl exploitation in England AD 410–1550. Archaeological journal 161 (1), 82-105.
  • Sykes, N. 2004. The Introduction of Fallow Zooarchaeological Perspective to Britain. Environmental Archaeology 9, 75–83.
  • Sykes, N. 2010. Deer, land, knives and halls: social change in early medieval England. The Antiquaries Journal 90, 175-193
  • Sykes, N. 2010. Extinctions and Invasions: a Social History of British Fauna. Windgather.
  • Sykes, N. J., White, J., Hayes, T. E., & Palmer, M. R. 2006. Tracking animals using strontium isotopes in teeth: the role of fallow deer (Dama dama) in Roman Britain. Antiquity 80(October 2005), 948–959.

References
  1. "Professor Naomi Sykes | Archaeology | University of Exeter". humanities.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  2. Sykes, Naomi (2010). "Deer, Land, Knives and Halls: Social Change in Early Medieval England". The Antiquaries Journal. 90: 175–193. doi:10.1017/S0003581510000132. ISSN 1758-5309.
  3. `Sykes, N. (2001). Norman conquest: a zooarchaeological perspective. University of Southampton.
  4. "The Society for Medieval Archaeology | Awards". Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  5. Sykes, Naomi; Carden, Ruth F (18 July 2013). "Were Fallow Deer Spotted (OE *pohha/*pocca) in Anglo-Saxon England? Reviewing the Evidence for Dama dama damain Early Medieval Europe". Medieval Archaeology. 55 (1): 139–162. doi:10.1179/174581711X13103897378483.
  6. Pluskowski, Aleks (2016-01-02). "Naomi Sykes:Beastly Questions. Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues". Norwegian Archaeological Review. 49 (1): 85–90. doi:10.1080/00293652.2015.1107127. ISSN 0029-3652.
  7. "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
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