Lisa Lodwick

Lisa Ann Lodwick
Dr. Lisa Lodwick in December 2019
Died	(2022-11-03)3 November 2022
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Awards	2020 Book of the Year (Archaeology Awards)
Scientific career
Fields	Archaeology
Institutions	All Souls College, Oxford
Thesis	An Archaeobotanical Analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the Late Iron Age - Roman Transition (2014)
Doctoral advisor	Mark Robinson
Website	https://lisalodwick.com/

Lisa Lodwick FSA was an archaeologist who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the ancient Romans.

Lodwick's pioneering archaeobotanical studies at Calleva Atrebatum demonstrated the import and consumption of celery, coriander and olive in Insula IX prior to the Claudian Conquest. She jointly won the 2020 Book of the Year Award at the Archaeology Awards for Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain.

Education

Lodwick graduated with a DPhil from the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford in 2014. In 2009 Lodwick won the Meyerstein Prize which is awarded to the candidate whose performance in the Second Public Examination (Final Honour School) has been adjudged the best in the year. Lodwick completed her undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at Hertford College, University of Oxford in 2009.

Career

Lodwick was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading from 2014 to 2017. She was later a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Lodwick was to start a position as a Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2022.

Lodwick advocates Open Access publication in archaeology. She was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, published by the Open Library of Humanities. She was a member of the editorial board of the journal Britannia published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.

Lowdwick co-authored the second and third books in the "New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain" monograph series published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The third volume, Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain, was written with Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford, and Anna Rohnbogner and won the Current Archaeology's 2020 Book of the Year Award.

Lodwick was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (F.S.A.) in November 2018.

Select publications

• Lodwick, L. (2019). "Agendas for Archaeobotany in the 21st Century: data, dissemination and new directions". Internet Archaeology. 53 (53). doi:10.11141/ia.53.7.
• Lodwick, L. (2019). "Farming practice, ecological temporality, and urban communities at a late Iron Age oppidum". Journal of Social Archaeology. 19 (2): 206–228. doi:10.1177/1469605319837766. S2CID 150434911.
• Lodwick, L. A. (2018). "Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain" (PDF). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 27 (6): 801–815. doi:10.1007/s00334-018-0674-y. ISSN 0939-6314. S2CID 134036960.
• Smith, A.; Allen, M.; Brindle, T.; Fulford, M.; Lodwick, L; Rohnbogner, A (2018). New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 3: life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain. Vol. 31. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. p. 437. ISBN 9780907764465. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
• Lodwick, L. A. (2017). "Agricultural innovations at a Late Iron Age oppidum: archaeobotanical evidence for flax, food and fodder from Calleva Atrebatum, UK". Quaternary International. 460: 198–219. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.058. ISSN 1040-6182.
• Lodwick, L. A. (2017). "Evergreen plants in Roman Britain and beyond: movement, meaning and materiality" (PDF). Britannia. 48: 135–173. doi:10.1017/S0068113X17000101. ISSN 1753-5352.
• Allen, M.; Lodwick, L.; Brindle, T.; Fulford, M; Smith, A. (2017). New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 2: the rural economy of Roman Britain. Vol. 30. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. p. 480. ISBN 9780907764441. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
• Lodwick, L. A. (2017). "'The debatable territory where geology and archaeology meet': reassessing the early archaeobotanical work of Clement Reid and Arthur Lyell at Roman Silchester" (PDF). Environmental Archaeology. 22 (1): 56–78. doi:10.1080/14614103.2015.1116218. ISSN 1461-4103. S2CID 162420770.

External links

• Interview with Lisa Lodwick on the Coffee & Circuses podcast