I manage the (MAHSA) project at the McDonald Institute.
I am also a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Fitzwilliam Museum, where I curated the exhibition (28th September 2021 to 30th January 2022).
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Biography
- 2016 PhD in 91探花视频, University College London. Thesis title:听Late Bronze to Iron Age Land use and subsistence strategies in the Semirech'ye region of Kazakhstan
- 2007 MLitt in Middle East and Central Asia Security Studies, University of St Andrews. Thesis title:听How useful is the notion of 'environmental security' to Kazakhstan? A case-study of the Ili-Balkhash Basin
- 2004 BA in 91探花视频 and Anthropology University of Oxford. Thesis title:听The role of archaeology in the development of the concept of the nation in Kazakhstan: a case study of archaeological material in Semirech'ye
Research
My PhD research explored the relationship between climate, subsistence strategies, and land use in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Semirech'ye region of Kazakhstan through phytolith and faecal spherulite analysis. I am also interested in the political use of archaeology in modern day nation building in post-Soviet states, as well as cultural heritage management.
My previous experience in archaeological project management and building cultural heritage databases was gained during my time working for the ERC ADaPt project in Cambridge, and as Post Excavation Officer at Birmingham 91探花视频, University of Birmingham. I have also worked at the Laboratory of Geoarchaeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Key Publications
2023 Berganzo-Besga, I., Orengo, HA., Lumbreras, F., Alam, A., Campbell, R., Gerrits, PJ., de Souza, JG., Khan, A., Su谩rez-Moreno, M., Tomaney, J., Roberts, RC. and Petrie, CA., 2023. Curriculum learning-based strategy for low-density archaeological mound detection from historical maps in India and Pakistan. Sci Rep, v. 13
2023 S. Amir and R. C. Roberts. 2023. "The Saka 鈥楢nimal Style鈥� in Context: Material, Technology, Form and Use" Arts 12, no. 1: 23.
2021 Roberts, R. (ed.), Samashev, Z., Toleubayev, A., Amir, S., Martinon-Torres, M, Recht, L., Chang, C. Gold of the Great Steppe. London: Paul Holberton Publishing
2019 Roberts, R., A. Haruda & A.A. Goryachev The Turgen II archaeological complex in its regional environmental context: geography, vegetation, fauna, and palaeoclimate.听 袠褋褌芯褉懈褟 懈 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈褟听小械屑懈褉械褔褜褟/History and 91探花视频 of Semirech鈥檡e, No 6., Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2016 Stevens, C.J., C. Murphy,听R. Roberts, L. Lucas, F. Silva & D.Q. Fuller. Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age. The Holocene, Vol. 26, No. 10, pp.1541-1555.
(As Beardmore)
2015 Chang, C. and听R. Beardmore. The Tale of a Mud Brick: Lessons from Tuzusai and De-Assembling an Iron Age site on the Talgar Alluvial Fan in South-eastern Kazakhstan. In Bonney, E. M., J.A. Johnson, K.J. Franklin, and L. Smejda (eds) Incomplete Archaeologies: Assembling Knowledge in the Past and Present. Oxford: Oxbow
2015 Doumani, P. N., M.D. Frachetti,听R. Beardmore, T. Schmaus, R.N. Spengler and A. Mar'yashev. Burial Ritual, Agriculture, and Craft Production among Bronze Age Pastoralists at Tasbas (Kazakhstan), Archaeological Research in Asia, 1-2, pp.17-32.
2010听Beardmore, R., R. Cuttler, F. Al-Naimi, E. Ramsey, S. Fitch & H. Kallweit. The Qatar National Historic Environment Record: a bespoke cultural resource management tool and the wider implications for heritage management within the region. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 40, pp. 5-17听
2008听Beardmore, R., G.L. Bonora & Zh. Kurmankulov. Preliminary Report on the 2007-2008 IAEK Campaigns in the Syrdarya Delta.听East and West, 58, 1-4, pp. 385-90.
2007听Beardmore, R.听Arkheologiya na sluzhbe natsionalnoy idei: na primere arkheologicheskish nakhodok v Semirech'ye (The role of archaeology in the development of the concept of the nation in Kazakhstan: a case study of archaeological material in Semirech'ye).听Vestnik Evrasii, No.4 (38), pp. 91-114.
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Teaching and Supervisions
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PhD Students:
Saltanat Amir (KZ): Goldsmithing technologies, organic materials and funerary rituals in the Saka societies of the Eurasian Steppe Region during the Iron Age (c. 900 鈥� 100 BCE), funded by Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarships
Other Professional Activities
Curator, Gold of the Great Steppe exhibition. Fitzwilliam Museum, 28th September 2021 to 30th January 2022
