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Fiona Brock is affiliated with Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, notably Social Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on areas such as Paleontology, Anthropology, Archeology, Geography, Planning and Development, and Ecology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Fiona Brock's recent publications cover diverse aspects of archaeology, bioarchaeology, and environmental science. Selected papers include:

  • The ballistic performance of bone when impacted by fragments, 2020, International Journal of Legal Medicine
  • Six centuries of adaptation to a challenging island environment: AMS 14C dating and stable isotopic analysis of pre-Columbian human remains from the Bahamian archipelago reveal dietary trends, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Chemical Characteristics of Macroscopic Pyrogenic Carbon Following Millennial-Scale Environmental Exposure, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • A pilot study: effect of irisin on trabecular bone in a streptozotocin-induced animal model of type 1 diabetic osteopathy utilizing a micro-CT, 2023, PeerJ
  • Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants, 2021, American Antiquity

Their frequent co-authors include Rick Schulting, Christophe Snoeck, Joanna Ostapkowicz, Philippa Ascough, and Jonathan Painter. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to multiple publications, reflecting an interdisciplinary network emphasizing archaeology, ancient environments, and isotopic studies.

Fiona Brock often publishes in venues that focus on archaeology and environmental archaeology, such as:

  • Environmental Archaeology
  • International Journal of Legal Medicine
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • PeerJ

Best Publications

  • Current Pretreatment Methods for AMS Radiocarbon Dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (Orau)

    Fiona Brock;Thomas Higham;Peter Ditchfield;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

    Tom Higham;Katerina Douka;Rachel Wood;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Richard A. Staff;Charlotte L. Bryant;Fiona Brock

  • Problems with radiocarbon dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy

    Thomas Higham;Fiona Brock;Marco Peresani;Alberto Broglio

  • Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Michael W. Dee;Joanne M. Rowland;Thomas F. G. Higham

  • Quality Assurance of Ultrafiltered Bone Dating

    Fiona Brock;Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Thomas Higham

  • Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent

    M. Gallego Llorente;E.R. Jones;A. Eriksson;A. Eriksson;V. Siska

  • Pig Domestication and Human-Mediated Dispersal in Western Eurasia Revealed through Ancient DNA and Geometric Morphometrics

    Claudio Ottoni;Linus Girdland Flink;Linus Girdland Flink;Allowen Evin;Allowen Evin;Christina Geörg;Christina Geörg

  • Pre-screening techniques for identification of samples suitable for radiocarbon dating of poorly preserved bones

    F. Brock;T. Higham;C. Bronk Ramsey

  • Biogeochemistry and biodiversity of methane cycling in subsurface marine sediments (Skagerrak, Denmark).

    Ronald John Parkes;Barry Andrew Cragg;Natasha C. Banning;Fiona Brock

  • Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis.

    Samantha Brown;Thomas Higham;Viviane Slon;Svante Pääbo

  • Understanding fossilization: Experimental pyritization of plants

    Stephen T. Grimes;Fiona Brock;David Rickard;Kevin L. Davies

  • SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Katsuya Gotanda;Tsuyoshi Haraguchi;Toru Danhara

  • New radiocarbon dating of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel

    N R Rebollo;S Weiner;Fiona Brock;Liliane Meignen

  • Carbon Exchanges between Bone Apatite and Fuels during Cremation: Impact on Radiocarbon Dates

    C Snoeck;F Brock;R J Schulting

  • Getting to the Bottom of It All: A Bayesian Approach to Dating the Start of Catalhoyuk

    Alex Bayliss;Fiona Brock;Shahina Farid;Ian Hodder

  • Investigation of the methanogen population structure and activity in a brackish lake sediment.

    Natasha C. Banning;Fiona Brock;John Christopher Fry;Ronald John Parkes

  • Hydropyrolysis as a new tool for radiocarbon pre-treatment and the quantification of black carbon

    P.L. Ascough;M.I. Bird;F. Brock;T.F.G. Higham

  • Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization

    Stephen T. Grimes;Stephen T. Grimes;Kevin L. Davies;Ian B. Butler;Fiona Brock

  • Reliability of Nitrogen Content (%N) and Carbon:Nitrogen Atomic Ratios (C:N) as Indicators of Collagen Preservation Suitable for Radiocarbon Dating

    Fiona Brock;Rachel Wood;Thomas F G Higham;Peter Ditchfield

  • Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from tropical sequences: results from the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, and their broader implications

    Thomas F. G. Higham;Huw Barton;Chris S. M. Turney;Graeme Barker

  • An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling

    Michael W Dee;David Wengrow;Andrew J. Shortland;Alice Stevenson

  • The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates

    Adelphine Bonneau;David G. Pearce;Peter Mitchell;Richard A. Staff

  • Optically stimulated luminescence dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from perennially frozen loess in western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison with radiocarbon chronologies for the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra

    M. Demuro;R.G. Roberts;D.G. Froese;L.J. Arnold

  • Investigating the likelihood of a reservoir offset in the radiocarbon record for ancient Egypt

    Michael W. Dee;F. Brock;S. A. Harris;C. Bronk Ramsey

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Christopher Bronk Ramsey University of Oxford
Richard A. Staff
Richard A. Staff Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Takeshi Nakagawa
Takeshi Nakagawa Ritsumeikan University
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Charlotte Bryant
Charlotte Bryant Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Henry F. Lamb
Henry F. Lamb Aberystwyth University
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood Australian National University
Rick Schulting
Rick Schulting University of Oxford
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin

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