Dr. Monica Ramsey

Monica N. Ramsey

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Anthropology

As an environmental archaeologist, with an expertise in microbotanical methods, phytolith, starch grain and starch spherulite analysis, and microcharcoal, Dr. Ramsey investigates how people used plants in the past. More broadly she studies how people used, modified and ultimately constructed their environments and how this feedback impacts human experience and plant-use.

Publications

Berganzo-Besga, I., Hector A. Orengo, Felipe Lumpreras, Paloma Aliende and Monica N. Ramsey.
2022    "Automated detection and classification of multi-cell Phytoliths using Deep Learning-Based Algorithms." Journal of Archaeological Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105654

Ramsey, M.N, and Dani Nadel
2021    A new archaeobotanical proxy for plant food processing: Archaeological starch spherulites at the submerged 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II, Journal of Archaeological Science, 134:105465. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105465

Arranz-Otaegui, A., L. Gonzalez Carretero, M.N. Ramsey, D.Q. Fuller and T. Richter
2018    Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan, PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801071115

Ramsey, M.N., A.M. Rosen, L. Maher, D. MacDonald and D. Nadel
2018    Sheltered by the Reeds: Construction and use of a twenty thousand year old hut according to phytolith analysis from Kharaneh IV, Jordan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 50:85-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.03.003

Ramsey, M.N., A.M. Rosen and D. Nadel
2017    Centered on the Wetlands: Integrating new phytolith evidence of plant-use from the 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II, Israel. American Antiquity, 82(4):702-722. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2017.37

Ramsey, M.N., A.M. Rosen, L. Maher and D. MacDonald
2016    Risk, Reliability and Resilience: Phytolith evidence for alternative ‘Neolithization’ pathways at Kharaneh IV in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164081

Ramsey, M.N. and A.M. Rosen
2016    Wedded to Wetlands: Exploring Late Pleistocene Plant-Use in the Eastern Levant. Quaternary International, 396:5-19. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.109

Ramsey, M.N., M. Jones, T. Richter and A.M. Rosen
2015    Modifying the Marsh: A Preliminary Evaluation of Early Epipaleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Impacts in the Azraq Wetland. The Holocene, 25:1553-1564. DOI: 10.1177/0959683615594240

Laparidou, S., M.N. Ramsey and A.M. Rosen
2015    Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The Anthropocene in the Longue Durée’. The Holocene, DOI: 10.1177/0959683615594472

Crumley, C., S. Laparidou, M.N. Ramsey and A.M. Rosen
2015    A view from the past and the future: concluding remarks on ‘The Anthropocene in the Longue Durée’. The Holocene, DOI: 10.1177/0959683615594473

Research

Human-Environment Interactions; Hunter-Gatherers; Origins of Agriculture; Plant Food Processing; Paleoenvironment; Anthropogenice

Other

Specialization
Microbotanical Analysis (Phytoliths, Starches, Starch Spherulites, and Microcharcoal)
AI Applications in Palaeoethnobotany
Southern Levant