Zooarchaeologist

Fay Worley

Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Bioarchaeology. University of Bradford (2000)

PhD Zooarchaeology. University of Bradford (2008)

Main activities
As Zooarchaeologist within the Environmental Studies Team my role includes providing zooarchaeological advice to English Heritage and its external clients, assessment and analysis of animal bone assemblages, supervision of the Assistant Researcher, technician and placements, academic research, outreach training through Osteology Training Days, university and public presentations and assisting the Senior Zooarchaeologist in the curation and development of the vertebrate reference collection. In addition, I act as Project Assurance Officer to HEEP and ALSF funded projects and I maintain the Archaeological Science web pages. 

Main interests
My current research projects include analysis of an assemblage of Neolithic seal bones recovered from a shell midden in southern Shetland, analysis of two Roman villa assemblages and a regional review of Roman animal utilisation in southern England. Following on from my doctoral research I am interested in the use of animals as pyre goods in cremation burials, particularly from the Iron Age to Viking periods.

Professional affiliations
The Association for Environmental Archaeology
International Council for Archaeozoology
Professional Zooarchaeology Group
Animal Palaeopathology Working Group

 
Contact
Tel: +44 (0)2392 856789

E-mail fay.worley@english-heritage.org.uk

Bibliography
Worley, F. 2008. ‘The animal bones’ in Cunliffe, B.W. and Poole, C. The Danebury Environs Programme: a Wessex Landscape during the Roman Era. Volume 2 – Part 7: Dunkirt Barn, Abbotts Ann Hants, 2005 and 2006. English Heritage and Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 71: 184-201 and e text.

Worley, F. 2008. ‘The animal bone’ in Simmonds, A., Márquez-Grant, N and Loe, L. Life and Death in a Roman City: Excavation of a Roman Cemetery with a Mass Grave at 120-122 London Road, Gloucester. Oxford Archaeology monograph No. 6: 119-122.

Worley, F. 2008. ‘Cremated animal bone’ p.169-173, in McKinley, J. ‘Ryknield Street, Wall (Site 12).’ In Powell, A.B., Booth, P., Fitzpatrick, A.P. and Crocket, A.D. The Archaeology of the M6 Toll 2000-2003. Oxford Wessex Archaeology Monograph No. 2: 87-190.

Worley, F and Evans E-J. 2007. 'Animal bone' p. 311-321, in Poore D, Score, D and Dodd, A. 'Excavations at No. 4A Merton St., Merton College, Oxford: the Evolution of an Early College Property.' Oxoniensia LXXI (2006): 211-342.

Bond, J.M. and Worley, F.L. 2006. ‘Companions in death: the roles of animals in Anglo-Saxon and Viking cremation rituals in Britain’ in Gowland, R. and Knüsel, C. (eds.) Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains. Oxford: Oxbow Books: 89-98.

Worley, F. 2005.  ‘Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits: implications for interpretation’ in O’Connor, T. (ed). Biosphere to Lithosphere: New Studies in Vertebrate Taphonomy. Oxford: Oxbow Books: 64-68.

Bond, J.M. and Worley, F.L. 2004. ‘Cremated animal bone’ p. 79-81, in Richards, J. ‘Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire.’ The Antiquaries Journal 84: 23-116.

Bond, J. and Worley, F. 2004. ‘The animal bone’ in Cool, H.E.M. The Roman Cemetery at Brougham, Cumbria: Excavations 1966-67. Britannia Monograph Series No. 21: 311-331.