Chantal Conneller

Chantal Conneller FSA (b.1973) is an archaeologist and Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Newcastle.

Biography

Conneller has a BA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her 2002 PhD thesis was titled "Space, time and technology: the Early Mesolithic of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire". Conneller was lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at Bangor University in 2005 before taking up a position as senior lecturer later that year at the University of Manchester. Conneller became Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Newcastle in 2018. Conneller was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 October 2016.

Conneller's research focusses on the Mesolithic period. She has excavated at various Mesolithic settlements in Britain, including in the Vale of Pickering and at Star Carr.

Select publications

• Conneller, C. 2022. The Mesolithic in Britain: Landscape and Society in Times of Change. London: Routledge.
• Conneller, C. 2022. "The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world". Nature: Ecology and Evolution 6, 1591–1592.
• Elliott, B. and Conneller, C. "Masks in context: representation, emergence, motility and self". World Archaeology 52(5), 655–666.
• Burns, A., Woodward, J., Conneller, C., Reimer, P. 2022. "Footprint beds record Holocene decline in large mammal diversity on the Irish Sea coast of Britain". Nature: Ecology and Evolution 6, 1553–1563.
• Bates, J., Needham, A., Conneller, C., Milner, N., Pomstra, D., Little, A. 2022. "Flint awls at the Mesolithic site of Star Carr: Understanding tool use through integrated methods". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 43, 103478.
• Milner N., Conneller, C., and Taylor, B. (eds) 2018. Star Carr. Volume 1: A Persistent Place in a Changing World; Star Carr: Volume 2: Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment. York: White Rose Press.
• Conneller, C., and Warren, G. (eds). Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches. Stroud: Tempus.

External links

• "The Coolest Archaeological Site in the World: Interview with Professor Chantal Conneller on Star Carr and the Mesolithic"