Rosemary Rhiannon Bishop | University of Stavanger

ARKEOLOGISK MUSEUM, Universitetet i Stavanger

Museum of Archaeology
Department of Cultural Heritage

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I am an archaeobotanist and environmental archaeologist, and my research focuses on the archaeology of Scotland, North-West Europe and the North Atlantic islands. I am particularly interested in hunter-gatherer plant use, the changing nature of people-plant interactions during the transition from hunter-gathering to agriculture, and changing agricultural practices in relation to climate, environmental and social change.

I analyse archaeobotanical remains from the museum’s excavations, which date from the Mesolithic to the Medieval period, and research hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Scotland, Norway and the wider North-West European/North Atlantic region. In 2024 I will lead a research project at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo which will examine the resilience of prehistoric farmers to climate deterioration in early prehistory. I co-lead the FRONTIERS network at the University of Stavanger (with Dr Daniel Fredh, University of Stavanger) (https://www.uis.no/nb/frontiers).

Please see my personal website for further information:

https://rosiebishop.com

Research Interests

Archaeobotany: continuity and change in crop production, land use, wild plant gathering, use of fuels and human-environment interactions

Mesolithic and Neolithic archaeology: hunter-gatherer and early farmer economies, hunter-gatherer plant use, changing agricultural practices, speed and nature of the transition to agriculture, adaptations to challenging environments and climate change

Archaeobotanical taphonomy and experimental archaeology

Role, potential and issues with the use of archaeological data to inform current and future responses to climate/environmental change

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Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Warren, G. M.
  
  (2024)
  Iron Age Activity beside the River Dee, Cairngorms.
  Scottish Archaeological Journal.
  
  ISSN 1471-5767.
  
  Volum 46.
  
  Hefte 1.
  
  s.81-95.
  
  DOI: 10.3366/saj.2024.0200
- Hastie, Mhairi; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2023)
  Carbonised plant remains.
  Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports.
  
  ISSN 1473-3803.
  
  Volum 103.
  
  s.26-30.
  
  DOI: 10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2023.103
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Kubiak-Martens, Lucy; Warren, Graeme M.; Church, Mike J.
  
  (2022)
  Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe.
  Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
  
  ISSN 0939-6314.
  
  DOI: 10.1007/s00334-022-00882-1
- Hammann, Simon; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Copper, Mike; Garrow, Duncan; Greenwood, Caitlin; Hewson, Lanah; Sheridan, Alison; Sturt, Fraser; Whelton, Helen; Cramp, Lucy J. E.
  
  (2022)
  Neolithic culinary traditions revealed by cereal, milk and meat lipids in pottery from Scottish crannogs.
  Nature Communications.
  
  ISSN 2041-1723.
  
  Volum 13.
  
  Hefte 1.
  
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32286-0
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Gröcke, Darren R.; Ralston, Ian; Clarke, David; Lee, Daniel H.J.; Shepherd, Alexandra; Thomas, Antonia S.; Rowley-Conwy, Peter A.; Church, Mike J.
  
  (2022)
  Scotland's first farmers: new insights into early farming practices in North-west Europe.
  Antiquity.
  
  ISSN 0003-598X.
  
  Volum 96.
  
  Hefte 389.
  
  s.1087-1104.
  
  DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.107
- Morrison, Kathleen D.; Hammer, Emily; Boles, Oliver; Madella, Marco; Whitehouse, Nicola; Gaillard, Marie-Jose; Bates, Jennifer; Vander Linden, Marc; Merlo, Stefania; Yao, Alice; Popova, Laura; Hill, Austin Chad; Antolin, Ferran; Bauer, Andrew; Biagetti, Stefano; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Buckland, Phillip; Cruz, Pablo; Dreslerová, Dagmar; Dusseldorp, Gerrit; Ellis, Erle; Filipovic, Dragana; Foster, Thomas; Hannaford, Matthew J.; Harrison, Sandy P.; Hazarika, Manjil; Herold, Hajnalka; Hilpert, Johanna; Kaplan, Jed O.; Kay, Andrea; Klein Goldewijk, Kees; Kolář, Jan; Kyazike, Elizabeth; Laabs, Julian; Lancelotti, Carla; Lane, Paul; Lawrence, Dan; Lewis, Krista; Lombardo, Umberto; Lucarini, Giulio; Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel; Marchant, Rob; Mayle, Francis; McClatchie, Meriel; McLeester, Madeleine; Mooney, Scott; Moskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena; Navarrete, Vanessa; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Góes Neves, Eduardo; Nowak, Marek; Out, Welmoed A.; Petrie, Cameron; Phelps, Leanne N.; Pinke, Zsolt; Rostain, Stéphen; Russell, Thembi; Sluyter, Andrew; Styring, Amy K.; Tamanaha, Eduardo; Thomas, Evert; Veerasamy, Selvakumar; Welton, Lynn; Zanon, Marco
  
  (2021)
  Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization.
  PLOS ONE.
  
  ISSN 1932-6203.
  
  Volum 16.
  
  Hefte 4.
  
  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2021)
  Hunter-gatherer carbohydrate consumption: plant roots and rhizomes as staple foods in Mesolithic Europe.
  World archaeology.
  
  ISSN 0043-8243.
  
  Volum 53.
  
  Hefte 2.
  
  s.175-199.
  
  DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2021.2002715
- Rowley-Conwy, P. A.; Gron, K. J.; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Dunne, J.; Evershed, R.; Longford, C.; Schulting, R.; Treasure, E.
  
  (2020)
  
  The earliest farming in Britain: towards a new synthesis. I: Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan-European Perspective..
  
  Oxbow Books.
  
  ISBN 978-1-78925-140-1.
  
  s.401-424.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2019)
  Experiments on the effects of charring on hazelnuts and their representation in the archaeological record.
  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
  
  ISSN 2352-409X.
  
  Volum 26.
  
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.05.004
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, M. J.; Lawson, I. T.; Roucoux, K.; O’Brien, C.; Heald, A. J.; Flitcroft, C.
  
  (2018)
  Deforestation and Human Agency in the North Atlantic Region: Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Evidence from the Western Isles of Scotland.
  Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS).
  
  ISSN 0079-497X.
  
  Volum 84.
  
  s.145-184.
  
  DOI: 10.1017/ppr.2018.8
- Piper, S. F.; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Rowley-Conwy, P. A.; Elliott, L.; Church, M. J.
  
  (2018)
  Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland.
  Journal of the North Atlantic.
  
  ISSN 1935-1984.
  
  Volum 35.
  
  s.1-22.
  
  DOI: 10.3721/037.006.3501
- O’Meara, D. P.; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2016)
  
  Environmental Analysis. In Jackson, D. Neolithic to Romano-British occupation at Durranhill, Carlisle: Archaeological Investigations 1997-8 and 2011.
  
  Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society.
  
  ISSN 0309-7986.
  
  Volum 16.
  
  s.168-168.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2015)
  Summed radiocarbon probability distributions from cereal grains: arable cultivation proxy or the ‘archaeology of us’? (a reply to Stevens and Fuller 2015).
  World archaeology.
  
  ISSN 0043-8243.
  
  Volum 47.
  
  Hefte 5.
  
  s.876-881.
  
  DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2015.1093427
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2015)
  Did Late Neolithic farming fail or flourish? A Scottish perspective on the evidence for Late Neolithic arable cultivation in the British Isles.
  World archaeology.
  
  ISSN 0043-8243.
  
  Volum 47.
  
  Hefte 5.
  
  s.834-855.
  
  DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2015.1072477
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, M. J.; Rowley-Conwy, P. A.
  
  (2015)
  Firewood, food and niche construction: the potential role of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in actively structuring Scotland’s woodlands.
  Quaternary Science Reviews.
  
  ISSN 0277-3791.
  
  Volum 108.
  
  s.51-75.
  
  DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.004
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, M. J.; Rowley-Conwy, P. A.
  
  (2013)
  
  Seeds, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Mesolithic.
  
  Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
  
  ISSN 0081-1564.
  
  Volum 143.
  
  s.9-71.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, M. J.; Dugmore, A. J.; Madsen, C. K.; Møller, N. A.
  
  (2013)
  A charcoal-rich horizon at Ø69, Greenland: evidence for vegetation burning during the Norse landnám?.
  Journal of Archaeological Science.
  
  ISSN 0305-4403.
  
  Volum 40.
  
  s.3890-3902.
  
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.04.012
- Edwards, B.; Miket, R.; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2011)
  The excavation of Duddo Stone Circle, Northumberland.
  Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS).
  
  ISSN 0079-497X.
  
  Volum 77.
  
  s.321-353.
  
  DOI: 10.1017/S0079497X00000712
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, M. J.; Rowley-Conwy, P. A.
  
  (2009)
  
  Cereals, fruits and nuts in the Scottish Neolithic.
  
  Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
  
  ISSN 0081-1564.
  
  Volum 139.
  
  s.47-103.
Bøker og kapitler
- van de Lagemaat, Ester; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Dahl, Barbro Irene
  
  (2023)
  
  Arkeologisk og naturvitenskapelig undersøkelse av hus fra yngre romertid og folkevandringstid på Løland gnr. 247 bnr. 2 i Sandnes kommune, Rogaland (id. 219567). .
  
  Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger.
  
  Hefte 2023/04.
- Ødegaard, Marie; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Lechterbeck, Jutta
  
  (2023)
  
  Arkeologisk undersøkelse av bosetningsspor. Diagonalen. id 142078, gnr. 19, bnr. 1. i Stavanger kommune. .
  
  Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger.
  
  Hefte 2023/08.
- van de Lagemaat, Ester; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Jensen, Christin E
  
  (2023)
  
  Arkeologiske og naturvitenskapelige undersøkelser av steinalderlokalitet Ausetjørna 2 (id. 277871). .
  
  Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger.
  
  Hefte 2023/23.
- Warren, Graeme; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Moucheron, Martin; Redmond, James Joseph
  
  (2023)
  
  Archaeological Fieldwork at Sgòr an Eoin 2022: interim report 1.
- Fredh, Erik Daniel; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2021)
  
  Undersøkelse av tre stakketufter (ID 24191, 61080 og 65731) fra vikingtid/middelalder på Hå Søndre. Gnr. 10, Bnr. 5, Hå kommune .
  
  Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger.
  
  Hefte 2021/14.
- Sørskog, Oliver Djøseland; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2021)
  
  Arkeologisk undersøkelse av en mesolittisk boplass på Sør-Hidle, gnr. 65, bnr. 7,12, Strand kommune, Rogaland..
  
  Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger.
  
  Hefte 2021/5.
Formidling
- Fredh, Erik Daniel; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2023)
  
  Vegetation history/prehistoric agriculture in Rogaland/SW Norway.
  
  Introduction to the programme research area FRONTIERS (From foragers to farmers in North-West Europe: Interdisciplinary studies of people, environment and society from the Mesolithic to Bronze Age);
  
  2023-02-28 - .
- Fredh, Erik Daniel; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2023)
  
  FRONTIERS workshop introduction.
  
  Understanding the transition to agriculture and the development of early agricultural practices in Norway;
  
  2023-11-06 - .
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Gröcke, Darren R.; Thomas, Antonia S.; Lee, Daniel H. L.; Church, Mike J.
  
  (2023)
  
  Investigating crop growing conditions and changing cultivation strategies in Neolithic Scotland using archaeobotanical and stable isotope analysis.
  
  Nordic Archaeobotany Group conference;
  
  2023-11-14 - 2023-11-15.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Gröcke, Darren R.; Thomas, Antonia S.; Lee, Daniel H. L.; Church, Mike J.
  
  (2023)
  
  Adaptation and resilience of cereal cultivation strategies in Neolithic Scotland.
  
  European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting;
  
  2023-08-30 - 2023-09-02.
- Timpany, Scott; Haston, Sarah-Jane; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Card, Nick
  
  (2023)
  
  Farming at the edge – neolithic agricultural evidence from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney.
  
  European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting;
  
  2023-08-30 - 2023-09-02.
- Fredh, Erik Daniel; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2022)
  
  Inferring Agricultural Practices in Southwestern Norway Using Stable Isotope Analysis of Charred Cereal Grains.
  
  28th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting;
  
  2022-08-31 - 2022-09-03.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Fredh, Erik Daniel
  
  (2022)
  
  Continuity or change in cultivation practices in South-west Norway from the Neolithic to Iron Age?.
  
  19th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany;
  
  2022-06-13 - 2022-06-17.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, Mike J.; Gröcke, Darren R.
  
  (2022)
  
  Resilience and adaptation of cultivation strategies in Neolithic Scotland.
  
  Human Agency and Global Challenges Re-Centering Social Change in Archaeology Conference;
  
  2022-09-15 - 2022-09-17.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Kubiak-Martens, L.; Warren, Graeme M.; Church, Mike J.
  
  (2022)
  
  Getting to the Root of the Problem: on the importance of plant root foods in Mesolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe.
  
  19th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany;
  
  2022-06-13 - 2022-06-17.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2022)
  
  Plants and People in Mesolithic Scotland.
  
  Prehistory on the Edge Conference;
  
  2022-11-11 - 2022-11-12.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon; Church, Mike J.; Gröcke, Darren R.
  
  (2022)
  
  Adaptation and changing land-use in Neolithic Scotland.
  
  Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference;
  
  2022-12-02 - 2022-12-04.
- Fredh, Erik Daniel; Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2021)
  
  Enigmatic earthworks: the interpretation of hay-stack foundations in south-western Norway.
  
  Nordic Archaeobotany Group (NAG) meeting;
  
  2021-09-01.
- Bishop, Rosie Rhiannon
  
  (2020)
  
  People, plants and fire in the Mesolithic and Neolithic.
  
  Forskerforum, Arkeologisk Museum, University of Stavanger;
  
  2020-12-01 - .
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