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Cambridge Global Food Security

An Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
 

My research interest focuses primarily on the application and development of quantitative methods in archaeology and anthropology. I applied these techniques to tackle a variety of research themes, including the study of long-term changes in settlement patterns, the reconstruction of prehistoric population dynamics, and the statistical inference of cultural transmission modes using archaeological data. I am particularly interested in the theoretical and methodological cross-fertilization between biology and archaeology within a cultural evolutionary framework and the interplay between population dynamics, migration, and cultural change.

I am currently the prinicipal investigator of the ERC-funded ENCOUNTER Project and co-investigator for the Leverhulme-funded Crops, Pollinators, and People (BuckBee) Project. 

  • Statistical Inference
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Human settlement and landscape ecology
  • Prehistoric Demography
  • Japanese Prehistory

I am also one of the main developer of rcarbonnimbleCarbon, and other R packages

Biography

My research interest focuses on the use and development of computational and quantitative methods, in particular the use of agent-based simulations and spatial statistics. I applied these techniques to a variety of research themes, including the study of long-terms changes in settlement patterns, the reconstruction of prehistoric population dynamics, and the statistical inference of cultural transmission modes using archaeological data. I am particular interested in the theoretical and methodological cross-fertilization between biology and archaeology within a cultural evolutionary framework.

Research

  • Computational and Quantitative Archaeology
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Human settlement and landscape ecology
  • Spatial Analysis
  • Prehistoric Demography
  • Japanese Prehistory
Associate Professor in Computational Analysis of Long-Term Human Cultural and Biological Dynamics
Dr Enrico R Crema

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Email address: 
01223 339 335
Not available for consultancy

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