Department of Anthropology

Curriculum Vitae Current Research Social Systems GIS Laboratory IGERT page

Roderick B. Salisbury Doctoral researcher IGERT Fellow in GI Science Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo Address: 380 MFAC Ellicott Complex Buffalo, NY 14216 Phone: +1 716 645-241 4 ext. 150 Fax:    +1 716 645-3808 Email: rbs3@buffalo.edu

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Academic History

Roderick is an archaeology Ph.D. candidate and IGERT Fellow in Geographic Information Science in the Anthropology Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, specialising in the Neolithic of Central Europe. He received a B.A. with Honours in Anthropology with a minor in Religious Studies from Buffalo State College in 1999, graduating Suma cum Laude. His Masters of Arts in Anthropology from the University at Buffalo was conferred in September 2004. Roderick spent the Spring of 2006 as a Visiting Student at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge and Wolfson College, Cambridge. He then spent the 2007-2008 academic year in Hungary as a Fulbright Fellow affiliated with the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, County Békés.

Research Interests

Broadly, my research interests are the relations between people and their social environments during the Neolithic of Central and Eastern Europe, and the role of soils in the lives of both archaeologists and past societies. Within this broad framework are the multi-scalar relationships among regional and settlement studies, social space and the built environment, social organisation and spatial organisation, and the origins of social complexity. To address these issues, I integrate geochemistry, geoarchaeology and GIS with landscape archaeology and a practice/agency approach - all of these linked to the interplay among social practice, social structure and social landscape. Ongoing research includes the formation and patterning of settlements in alluvial areas, the prehistoric landscape in eastern Hungary, and the development of new conceptualisation and applications of soil chemistry to archaeological problems.. Ultimately, I hope to elucidate how past relationships help to inform the present and the future. Other interests include the prehistory of the Great Lakes and Eastern Woodlands of North America, lithic analysis, and the history and philosophy of archaeology.

Current Research Projects Roderick specialises in the Neolithic of Central and Southeast Europe, with a current focus on the relationship between spatial organisation and social practices during the Late Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain. Using geochemical, geophysical and stratigraphic data, along with a practice theory approach, the structure of small Late Neolithic agro-pastoralist settlements will be characterised and compared to both larger "tell" settlements and to small settlements from the Early Copper Age. Currently analysing geochemical and stratigraphic data collected by the Neolithic Archaeological Settlements of the Berettyó-Körös (NASBeK) Project. Concurrently, co-editing a book on reimagining regional analysis in archaeology for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and co-writing reports of the spatial analysis at Early Copper Age sites excavated by the Körös Regional Archaeological Project (KRAP).

Roderick coring in Hungary.

The less glamorous side of archaeology - Roderick backfilling on Lismore.

Previous Research In the summer of 2004, Roderick was involved in the excavation of Iron Age sites in Northern Europe as part of the Thy Iron Age Project in Denmark, directed by Tina Thurston of the University at Buffalo, and in Scotland as part of the Lismore Landscape Project, Isle of Lismore, Argyll, Scotland, directed by Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone of the University of Cambridge. In 2005 Roderick participated in the Körös Regional Archaeological Project in Békés County, Hungary as excavator, site photographer, and assistant GIS analyst, and also returned to the project in Denmark. During the 2006 field season, he returned to the Körös Regional Archaeological Project where he supervised an excavation block and again served as assistant GIS analyst. In 2007 he excavated at the site of Schwarzenbach Berg in Lower Austria with a team from the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science directed by Wolfgang Neubauer. During the fall of 2007 Roderick began collecting data for the NASBeK project. He also worked on the Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeology (BAKOTA) Project with Paul Duffy of the University of Michigan.

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Updated: 06-21-2008. First published: 01-19-2003 Copyright © 2007-2008 Roderick B. Salisbury Information provided by Roderick B. Salisbury Content not moderated or endorsed by the University at Buffalo, the Department of Anthropology or the Social Systems GIS Lab