Lisa Lodwick Explained

Lisa Lodwick
Birth Date:	21 July 1988
Nationality:	British
Fields:	Archaeology
Workplaces:	All Souls College, Oxford
Alma Mater:	University of Oxford
Thesis Title:	An Archaeobotanical Analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the Late Iron Age - Roman Transition
Thesis Url:	https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fcfc1f93-3f58-405d-a133-4f36fee57627
Doctoral Advisor:	Mark Robinson
Awards:	2020 Book of the Year (Archaeology Awards)
Thesis Year:	2014

Lisa Ann Lodwick (21 July 1988 – 3 November 2022) was a British archaeologist who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the ancient Romans.

Lodwick's pioneering archaeobotanical studies at Calleva Atrebatum demonstrated the import and consumption of celery, coriander and olive in Insula IX prior to the Claudian Conquest.^{[1] [2]} She jointly won the 2020 Book of the Year Award at the Archaeology Awards for Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain.

She died on 3 November 2022, at the age of 34, from breast cancer.^{[3] [4]}

Education

Lodwick studied archaeology and anthropology at Hertford College, Oxford. She graduated in 2009 and was awarded the Meyerstein Prize for best overall performance in the School of Archaeology.^[5] In 2010, she completed a Master's Degree in European archaeology, also at Hertford College.^[6] She went on to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree from the School of Archaeology in 2014.^[7] Her doctoral thesis was titled "An archaeobotanical analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the late Iron Age-Roman transition".^[8]

Academic career

Lodwick held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Reading from 2014 to 2017 and later at All Souls College, Oxford. She was due to start a position as a lecturer in environmental archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2022.^[3]

Lodwick was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in November 2018.^[9]

Research

Lodwick co-authored the second and third books in the "New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain" monograph series published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. The third volume, Life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain, was written with Alexander Smith, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford, and Anna Rohnbogner and won the Current Archaeology's 2020 Book of the Year Award.^{[10] [11]}

An advocate of open access publication in archaeology, Lodwick was a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal,^[12] published by the Open Library of Humanities, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Britannia published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.^[13]

Select publications

• Lodwick. L. . 2019 . Agendas for Archaeobotany in the 21st Century: data, dissemination and new directions . Internet Archaeology . 53. 53 . 10.11141/ia.53.7. free .
• Lodwick. L. . 2019 . Farming practice, ecological temporality, and urban communities at a late Iron Age oppidum . Journal of Social Archaeology . 19 . 2. 206–228 . 10.1177/1469605319837766. 150434911 .
• Lodwick. L. A.. 2018. Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 27. 801–815. 6. 0939-6314. 10.1007/s00334-018-0674-y. 134036960.
• Book: Smith. A.. Allen. M.. Brindle. T.. Fulford. M.. Lodwick. L. Rohnbogner. A. 2018. New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 3: life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain.. Britannia Monographs Series. 31. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. London. 437. 9780907764465.
• Lodwick. L. A.. 2017. Agricultural innovations at a Late Iron Age oppidum: archaeobotanical evidence for flax, food and fodder from Calleva Atrebatum, UK.. Quaternary International. 460. 198–219. 1040-6182. 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.058. 2017QuInt.460..198L . free.
• Lodwick. L. A.. 2017. Evergreen plants in Roman Britain and beyond: movement, meaning and materiality.. Britannia. 48. 135–173. 1753-5352. 10.1017/S0068113X17000101. 59323545 .
• Book: Allen. M.. Lodwick. L.. Brindle. T.. Fulford. M. Smith. A.. 2017. New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 2: the rural economy of Roman Britain.. Britannia Monograph Series. 30. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. London. 480. 9780907764441.
• Lodwick. L. A.. 2017. 'The debatable territory where geology and archaeology meet': reassessing the early archaeobotanical work of Clement Reid and Arthur Lyell at Roman Silchester.. Environmental Archaeology. 22. 56–78. 1. 1461-4103. 10.1080/14614103.2015.1116218. 162420770.

External links

• • Interview with Lisa Lodwick on the Coffee & Circuses podcast

Notes and References

1. Lodwick. Lisa. 2014-09-01. Condiments before Claudius: new plant foods at the Late Iron Age oppidum at Silchester, UK. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. en. 23. 5. 543–549. 10.1007/s00334-013-0407-1. 128753215. 0939-6314.
2. Lodwick. Lisa A.. 2016-01-07. 'The debatable territory where geology and archaeology meet': reassessing the early archaeobotanical work of Clement Reid and Arthur Lyell at Roman Silchester. Environmental Archaeology. en. 22. 1. 56–78. 10.1080/14614103.2015.1116218. 162420770. 1461-4103.
3. Web site: Dr Lisa Lodwick . All Souls College, University of Oxford . 10 November 2022 . 12 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221112030643/https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-lisa-lodwick-1988-2022 . live .
4. school_of_arch . . 1588562792843706370 . It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear friend, Dr Lisa Lodwick, passed away yesterday. [...].
5. Web site: Student Prizes, School of Archaeology . www.arch.ox.ac.uk . en . 3 December 2018 . 4 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181204101922/https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/student-prizes . live .
6. Web site: Dr. Lisa Lodwick . 3 December 2018 . All Souls College Oxford . 3 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181203202716/https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3377 . live .
7. Web site: Staff Profile:Dr Lisa Lodwick. University of Reading. 3 December 2018. 3 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181203152036/http://www.reading.ac.uk/l-a-lodwick.aspx. live.
8. Web site: Lodwick . Lisa A. . An archaeobotanical analysis of Silchester and the wider region across the late Iron Age-Roman transition . E-Thesis Online Service . The British Library Board . 6 July 2023 . 2014 . 7 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162234/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658428 . live .
9. Web site: Dr Lisa Lodwick . https://web.archive.org/web/20221105134517/https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/dr-lisa-lodwick/ . 5 November 2022 . 5 November 2022 . sal.org.uk . live .
10. Web site: Manley . John . 22 January 2019 . Review – Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain . 5 November 2022 . Current Archaeology . en . 5 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221105144537/https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/reviews/books/review-life-and-death-in-the-countryside-of-roman-britain.htm . live .
11. Web site: 2 December 2019 . Book of the Year 2020 . 5 November 2022 . Current Archaeology . en-US . 5 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221105144540/https://archaeology.co.uk/awards/book-of-the-year-2020.htm . live .
12. Web site: 10 May 2017 . Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal . TRAC . 2 December 2018 . 8 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181108072937/http://trac.org.uk/publications/traj/ . live .
13. Web site: About Us - Britannia Editorial Board . 1 November 2019 . Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies . 1 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191101110326/https://www.romansociety.org/About/Governance/Committees . live .