Professor

Caitlin

Buck

Drawing on experience in archaeology, palaeoenvironmental science and Bayesian statistics, Prof Buck works with teams of other experts from a range of fields to develop statistical models, methods and software. Previous and current work includes:

• analysis of field survey data from Britain and Greece.
• provenancing archaeological ceramics via multivariate chemical compositional data.
• calibration and interpretation of radiocarbon determinations.
• developing models and methods for estimating radiocarbon calibration curves.
• modelling relative archaeological chronologies (seriation).
• analysis of the structure of prehistoric corbelled domes.
• Bayesian tephrochronology.
• Bayesian approaches to palaeoclimate reconstruction.
• models for the (re-)colonisation of landscapes in response to past climate change.
• models for ice cores and lake/ocean sediments.
• graphical theoretic approaches to describing and analysing archaeological stratigraphy.