Amy Richardson

Amy is Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Reading (2018-present), working with projects that span the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Her research applies scientific, materials-based approaches and network analysis to examine interactions between people and materials in Southwest Asia, with a focus on connections between communities in Iraq and Iran. Amy was Wainright Fellow at the University of Oxford (2015-2018) and is currently collaborating with the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin on the States of Clay project, examining the material evidence for emerging cooperation and shared administrative practices between the first cities of Mesopotamia.