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Academic position:ÌýProfessor ofÌýArchaeobotany

Department:ÌýInstitute of Archaeology

Telephone number:Ìý020 7679 4771

Email:Ìýd.fuller@ucl.ac.uk

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Website:ÌýProfessor Dorian Q FullerÌý

Biography

Dorian Fuller is an archaeologist andÌýarchaeobotanistÌýworking on ancient agriculture, plant domestication and its impact on social and environmental change from prehistory to ancient historical times, especially in Asia and Africa, including extended field research in India, China, Japan and Turkey. He also works on the response of past human societies to climatic changes. Among his major researchÌýprojectsÌýhas beenÌýresearchÌýon the domestication, dispersal and evolution of Asian rice agriculture, including the potential contribution of wet rice agriculture to greenhouse gasÌý(methane)Ìýemissions.ÌýHe works mainly on plant macro-remains (seeds), but also worked on phytoliths and wood charcoal. Dorian has taught at the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Archaeology since 2000.ÌýHe is the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº co-director of the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (joint with Peking University) ,Ìýand he is an honorary professor at the School of Cultural Heritage, North West University, Xi’an.Ìý

Research Projects

• ÌýThe Early RiceÌýproject. This included methodological development on the identification rice agricultural ecologies, especially wet rice (a major methane source) versus dry rice, using archaeological seed and phytolith evidence. This has been deployed in archaeological projects n China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

• He was one of the lead organizers and co-authors of theÌý, which crowd-sources archaeological expertise on past land use globally.ÌýInitial results were published in Science in 2019. Continued research is being coordinated at the Max Planck Institute for Science of Human History, Jena.

• He continues to work on Comparative Pathways to Agriculture (funded by an ERC Advanced Grant 2013-2108), which documented domestication and transitions to agriculture worldwide.Ìý

Teaching:

• Coordinates jointly the MScÌýEnvinronmentalÌýArchaeology.

• ARC LGÌý187Ìý ResourcesÌýand Subsistence [core course for MSc Environmental Archaeology].

• ARCL0019 .

• ARCL0096 Archaeobotanical Analysis in Practice, including an intensive practical short course in seed identification, available to external students.

• ARCL0152 Archaeologies of Asia.