Sarah LedogarEnvironmental Research and Education Foundation · Research and Scholarship Program
Sarah Ledogar
PhD
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Introduction
Sarah Ledogar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Archaeomaterial Science Hub in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, & History at the University of New England (Australia). Her research focuses on the socioeconomic consequences of demographic shifts such as population growth and migration. She uses methods such as faunal and human osteological analysis along with geochemical techniques to answer her research questions.
Additional affiliations
July 2018 - May 2020
December 2016 - May 2018
September 2016 - April 2018
Education
January 2013 - May 2017
August 2010 - December 2012
August 2006 - December 2009
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Publications (19)
Environmental changes resulting in drought and reductions in the availability of animal
resources during the Late Classic Maya have been linked with the Maya "collapse."
Decreases in availability of dietary staples such as artiodactyls, and particularly white-tailed
deer, during the Late Classic period would have placed food stress on
populations d...
Animals associated with human burials provide insight into mortuary rituals of ancient groups. This study is the examination of faunal remains from Verteba Cave (3,951- 2,620 cal BC), a site in western Ukraine associated with the latest period of Eneolithic Tripolye-Cucuteni (TC) culture. Relative abundances of taxa were compared to published data...
The Tripolye were the first archaeological culture in Ukraine to cultivate domesticated cereals, practice animal husbandry, and establish large settlements with high population densities. This cultural adaptation was much different than that of mobile hunter-fisher-gatherers of the Ukrainian Mesolithic/Neolithic, and likely resulted in different ou...
There is controversy around the mechanisms that guided the change in brain shape during the evolution of modern humans. It has long been held that different cortical areas evolved independently from each other to develop their unique functional specializations. However, some recent studies suggest that high integration between different cortical ar...
The transition to agriculture occurred relatively late in Eastern Europe, leading researchers to debate whether it was a gradual, interactive process or a colonisation event. In the forest and forest-steppe regions of Ukraine, farming appeared during the fifth millennium BCE, associated with the Cucuteni-Trypillia cultural complex (CTCC, ~ 5000–300...
The transition to agriculture occurred relatively late in Eastern Europe, leading researchers to debate whether it was a gradual, interactive process or a colonization event. In the forest and forest-steppe regions of Ukraine, farming appeared during the fifth millennium BCE, associated with the Cucuteni-Trypillian Archaeological Complex (CTCC, 480...
Large brains are a defining feature of primates, as is a clear allometric trend between body mass and brain size. However, important questions on the macroevolution of brain shape in primates remain unanswered. Here we address two: (i), does the relationship between the brain size and its shape follow allometric trends and (ii), is this relationshi...
Bird remains are rare at Tripolye sites, therefore researchers hypothesize that they
were not an important economic resource for the Tripolye. The use of ornithographic
iconography, vessels, and figurines suggests avifauna were important symbolically in
Tripolye ideology. Here we investigate the role of birds in a Tripolye burial context to
assess...
Galliforms, or game birds, are commonly found in zooarchaeological assemblages but several taxa within the order (e.g., chicken, pheasant, and grouse) are difficult to distinguish from one another morphologically. Osteometrics are a tool for understanding skeletal variation in animal populations that have been shown to be useful in distinguishing b...
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The basicranium and face are two integrated bony structures displaying great morphological diversity across primates. Previous studies in hominids determined that the basicranium is composed of two independent modules: the midline basicranium, mostly influenced by brain size, and the lateral basicranium, predominantly associated with f...
Domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) and turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) are identified more frequently than other bird species in bone assemblages from historic sites in North America. Recent studies on the effectiveness of metric data for identification of galliform bones found high degrees of similarity in size and morphology between wild...
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Galliformes, or game birds, are an order of birds commonly utilized by peopl...
Excavations at several locations in Verteba Cave have uncovered a large amount of human skeletal remains in association with faunal bones and Tripolye material culture. We aim to establish radiocarbon (14 C) dates for eight sites and to evaluate whether these deposits are singular events, or slow accumulations over time. 14 C measurements , along w...
Archaeological evidence, including riverine and lake settlements, as well as fishing and netting artifacts, suggests that there was an increased reliance on inland fisheries during the mid-Holocene (ca. 4500–1800cal BP) in northeastern North America. Unfortunately, more direct lines of evidence investigating this idea have not been thoroughly exami...
The basicranium and facial skeleton are two integrated structures displaying great morphological diversity across primates. Previous studies focusing on limited taxonomic samples have demonstrated that morphological integration has a significant impact on the evolution of these structures. However, this influence is still poorly understood. A more...
Many researchers have pointed to the huge “megasites” and construction of fortifications as evidence of intergroup hostilities among the Late Neolithic Tripolye archaeological culture. However, to date, very few skeletal remains have been analyzed for the types of traumatic injury that serve as direct evidence for violent conflict. In this study, w...
In this article we describe the human skeletal elements recently excavated from the site of Verteba Cave in Ukraine. A minimum of 21 individuals have been recovered since 2008. Through the study of these skeletal elements we can reconstruct aspects of Tripolye behavior and health. For example, bioarchaeological analysis of cranial trauma in the Ver...
Relatively little is known about the Eneolithic Tripolye mortuary practices, as there are few known cemeteries. Here, we describe excavations of human burials from Verteba Cave located in Western Ukraine during the summers of 2008 and 2012. Ceramics and carbon dating place the cave use between approximately 3951 to 2620 cal BC. Commingled human cra...
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The aim of this project is to better understand morphological and size variation in galliform (game bird) species commonly found in zooarchaeological assemblages, and subsequently how this influences identification and interpretation.
This project is designed to evaluate the roles of mobility and stasis in societal resilience to economic and social transformation. It is focused on the Southern Caucasus region during the collapse of the first world economy at the end of the Late Bronze Age (LBA: c. 1500-1200 BCE). To evaluate the relationship between stability and mobility, we incorporate multiple lines of evidence - geochemical, biological, and archaeological - together in a regional analysis of population dynamics and economic strategies in Georgia during the LBA/EIA transition.
