Juliette Waterman
Areas of interest
- Zooarchaeology
- Stable isotope ecology
- Biomolecular archaeology
- Wildlife history
- Ornithology
Research projects
From ‘Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals'
Background
Juliette Waterman is a postdoctoral researcher working for the Head of School, Dr Stuart Black, to carry out research in isotope ecology and provenancing for various projects. Her PhD focused on the stable isotope analysis of modern and archaeological birds of prey as part of the Animal Feeding project (From ‘Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’) funded by the Wellcome Trust. Juliette also previously completed a research project analysing feather samples from museum seabirds for BBSRC project for Dr William Mills. She is interested in the archaeology of wild animals in Britain, with a particularly focus on the bioarchaeology of faunal material. She is currently the co-coordinator of the International Council for Archaeozoology Stable Isotope Working Group.Academic qualifications
PhD in Archaeology at the University of ReadingMSc in Professional Human Osteoarchaeology at the University of Reading
BA in Archaeology and Anthropology at Hertford College, University of Oxford
Selected publications
Waterman, J., Black, S., Sykes, N., Kitchener, A.C., Mills, W.F., Fellowes, M.D.E. (2024) The return of raptors to Scotland’s skies: investigating the diets of reintroduced red kites and white-tailed eagles using stable isotopes. PLoS ONE (in press).Waterman, J. (2025) Human-raptor Relationships in Urban Spaces: the History of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) and Human Food in Britain. In ‘The Hand That Feeds’ eds. Mullan, A., Smallman, R., de Bondt, H. Waterman, J. UCL Press (in press).