MISS Emilie Jean Green

Biography

Emilie graduated with a BA (first-class honors) in Archaeology from Queen's University Belfast in 2018. Her undergraduate research, as part of the SUNDASIA Project (see https://sundasia.com/), focused on exploring the application of archaeometric methods of analysis for the sophisticated study and residual analysis of pottery from the prehistoric Vietnamese Dabutian culture complex. This study was conducted in order to garner deeper insights into changing subsistence strategies. It is part of this project that Emilie developed her research interest in Asia, and human adaptation to changing environmental conditions.

After completing her BA, Emilie pursued an MPhil in Archaeological Research from the University of Cambridge from which she graduated in 2019. Her MPhil dissertation, utilizing non-destructive forms of geochemical analysis such as portable X-ray Fluorescence analysis, examined the geochemical variance within the clays of Japanese anthropomorphic clay figurines (known as DogÅ«). The aim of this research was to explore patterns of fragmentation and movement of these figurines amongst complex hunter-gatherer groups (known as the Jōmon) who occupied the Japanese archipelago during prehistory.

In October of 2020, Emilie began her NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council) funded QUADRAT DTP PhD in Geoscience at the University of Aberdeen. Her project, entitled ‘Chronologies and Changing Cultures on the Mongolian Steppe’, will focus on compiling existing radiocarbon dates alongside newly dated samples from both northern and southern Mongolia, in conjunction with isotopic (C/N) mixing models, in order to produce a robust chronological model for which the chronological periods of the Mongolian Steppe can be mapped and synthesized.