Meriel McClatchie

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Meriel McClatchie
TitleAssociate Professor
Academic background
Alma materUCL Institute of Archaeology
ThesisArable agriculture and social organisation: a study of crops and farming systems in Bronze Age Ireland (2009)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-disciplineArchaeobotany

Meriel McClatchie is an archaeologist specialising in archaeobotany. She is an associate professor at University College Dublin.

Education[edit]

McClatchie studied Archaeology and History at University College Cork, followed by a Masters degree also at University College Cork. McClatchie completed her PhD in 2009 at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.[1]

Research[edit]

McClatchie has worked as a Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, University College Dublin and the University College Cork.[2] In 2016 she was appointed an Assistant Professor in Archaeology at UCD School of Archaeology in 2016, and in 2021 was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2021.

In 2019 she was a Silver Medal winner for a garden at Bloom 2019, on the theme of Irish Diet.[3]

McClatchie has worked variously to promote professional practice. She was a founding member of the Irish Archaeobotany Discussion Group in 2007[4] and Environmental Archaeology in Ireland in 2015. From 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland. She previously spent a number of years serving on the Managing Committee of the Association for Environmental Archaeology. Currently, McClatchie is a member of the council of the Society of Medieval Archaeology.[5] In 2016, she was appointed as a Honorary Senior Research Associate of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.[6]

Her research addresses food, landscape and settlement in Europe, from the prehistoric to the post-medieval period. Large-scale data analysis has been used to investigate Neolithic[7] and early medieval farming in Ireland.[8] Recently, she is a member of the ERC funded FoodCult project.[9]

Selected publications[edit]

  • McClatchie, Meriel, et al. 2014. "Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland." Journal of Archaeological Science 51: 206-215.
  • McClatchie, Meriel, et al. 2015. "Early medieval farming and food production: A review of the archaeobotanical evidence from archaeological excavations in Ireland." Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24.1: 179-186.
  • McClatchie, M., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Whitehouse, N., Schulting, R., Barratt, P., & McLaughlin, T. 2016. Farming and foraging in Neolithic Ireland: An archaeobotanical perspective. Antiquity, 90(350), 302-318. doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.212

References[edit]

  1. ^ McClatchie, M. (2009). Arable agriculture and social organisation: a study of crops and farming systems in Bronze Age Ireland (Doctoral thesis). UCL (University College London).
  2. ^ "Assoc Professor Meriel McClatchie". University College Dublin. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
  3. ^ "Home". UCD Garden. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  4. ^ Archaeobotany, Irish (2015-06-12). "Environmental Archaeology in Ireland: Introducing the Irish Archaeobotany Discussion Group". Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  5. ^ "The Society for Medieval Archaeology | List of Officers and Council". Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  6. ^ UCL (2019-01-22). "Honorary". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  7. ^ McClatchie, M.; Bogaard, A.; Colledge, S.; Whitehouse, N. J.; Schulting, R. J.; Barratt, P.; McLaughlin, T. R. (2014-11-01). "Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland". Journal of Archaeological Science. The world reshaped: practices and impacts of early agrarian societies. 51: 206–215. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.022. ISSN 0305-4403. S2CID 51796326.
  8. ^ McClatchie, Meriel; McCormick, Finbar; Kerr, Thomas R.; O’Sullivan, Aidan (2015-01-01). "Early medieval farming and food production: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence from archaeological excavations in Ireland". Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 24 (1): 179–186. doi:10.1007/s00334-014-0478-7. ISSN 1617-6278. S2CID 161091510.
  9. ^ FoodCult. "Meet the team". FoodCult. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
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