Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Airborne Technologies GmbH
Viktor Lang Straße 8 Prospection & Virtual Archaeology
Franz Klein Gasse 1
A-1190 Vienna, Austria
A-2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Email : roderick.salisbury@archpro.lbg.ac.at
Mobile telephone : +43 6991 131 9576
Education
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2010 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University at Buffalo, SUNY
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2006 Visiting Student, Department of Archaeology and Wolfson College, University of
Cambridge.
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2004 M.A. in Anthropology, University at Buffalo, SUNY.
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1999 B.A. in Anthropology (Summa cum Laude, Honors), Buffalo State College, SUNY
Appointments Held
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Oct. 2012 – present Geodesy Specialist, Airborne Technologies GmbH
Researcher, LBI ArchPro
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January
– June 2012
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of
Nottingham
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March – August 2012 Research Associate/Project Manager, School of Archaeology and
Ancient History, University of Leicester
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Oct. 2010 – Feb. 2012 Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Archaeology and Ancient
History, University of Leicester
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2007 – 2008
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2002 – 2010
IIE Fulbright Fellow, Hungary
IGERT Fellow in GI Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY,
Research Interests
Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Human-environmental interactions
Late Archaic & Woodland (Eastern Landscapes, soilscapes, networks,
North America) communities, practice
Geoarchaeology, environmental Archaeological history, theory and practice archaeology, archaeological science
GIS and spatial analysis
Publications ( *peer reviewed)
Journal Articles
Salisbury, R.B. 2013, “Interpolating Geochemical Patterning of Activity Zones at Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age Settlements in Eastern Hungary”, Journal of Archaeological Science
40: 926-934. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.009
Salisbury, R.B. 2012, “Place and Identity: Networks of Neolithic Communities in Central

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Europe”, Documenta Praehistorica 39: 203-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.39.14
Salisbury, R.B. 2012, “Soilscapes and settlements: remote mapping of activity areas in unexcavated prehistoric farmsteads ”, Antiquity 86(331): 178-190. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/086/ant0860178.htm
Salisbury, R.B. 2012, “Engaging with Soil Materiality, Past and Present”, Journal of
Material Culture 17(1):23-41.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183511432990
Salisbury, R.B and G. Bácsmegi, 2012, Neolithic Archaeology and Soilscapes Körös Area:
2011 – Survey Year. Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological
Society of America, April 2012 , 6-7.
Salisbury, R.B. 2010, “Neolithic Settlements and Soilscapes in Eastern Hungary”, The
European Archaeologist 34: 5-7. Winter 2010.
Salisbury, R.B. and Woltinge, I., “Socio-sedimentary dialectics” (session report by Roderick
B. Salisbury and Inger Woltinge), The European Archaeologist 34: 64-65. Winter 2010.
Parkinson, W.A., R.W. Yerkes, A. Gyucha, M.R. Morris, A. Sarris and R.B. Salisbury. 2010.
Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain. Journal of
Field Archaeology 35(2):164-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/009346910X12707321520675
Salisbury, R. B. 2008, Az Alföld késő neolitikus és kora rézkori településszerkezetének vizsgálatai fúrásadatok elemzésével: A Neolithic Archaeological Settlements of the
Berettyó-Körös Project (NASBeK) előzetes eredményei (Investigating Settlement Structure through Soil Chemistry on Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age sites in the Körös-Berettyó
Region. The NASBeK Project). In Régészeti ökológiai és településtörténeti kutatások a
Körös-vidéken , edited by G. Bóka and E. Martyin, pp. 41-64. Gulai Katalógusok 13, Gyula.
Salisbury, R. B. 2008. Reading tells: settlement practice during the European Late Neolithic and Bronze Ages (session report by Roderick B. Salisbury). The European Archaeologist
28: 27.
Salisbury, R.B. and T.L. Thurston. 2007. Regional analyses of spatial and social dynamics
(session report by Roderick B. Salisbury and Tina Thurston). The European Archaeologist
26: 32.
Salisbury, R.B. and K.S. Niemel. 2005. “Giant’s Grave: Exploring the Cultural Significance of
Prehistoric Landscape s within the Genesee River Valley.” Northeast Anthropology 69:35-
57.
Salisbury R. B. and K.S. Niemel. 2005. “Archaic Giant’s Grave: Exploring Site Distribution
Within a Unique Micro-environment on the Alleghany Plateau, 40001500 BC.” Journal of
World Anthropology 2(1):288-314.
Salisbury, R. B. 2001. “Lithic and Ceramic Cross-Mends at the Eaton Site.” The Bulletin:
Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association 177:49-56.
Edited Volumes
Thurston, T.L. and R.B. Salisbury (eds.), 2009. Reimagining Regional Analyses – the
Archaeology of Spatial and Social Dynamics . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle.
Salisbury, R.B. and D. Keeler (eds.), 2007. Space – Archaeology’s Final Frontier? An
Intercontinental Approach.
Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle.
Book Reviews
Salisbury, R.B. 2011. Arne Wossink, Challenging Climate Change: Competition and
Cooperation among Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000 –
1600 BC). European Journal of Archaeology , 14(1-2): 316-319.
Salisbury, R.B. 2011. Lisa C. Nevett, Domestic space in Classical Antiquity (CUP 2010). Bryn
Mawr Classical Review , 2011.06.35. Online at: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-06-
35.html
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Grants awarded (external)
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2011 PI of British Academy small grant (SG102564) £6200 for “Prehistoric environmental mitigation: agrarian settlements and palaeohydrology in Neolithic Hungary.”
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2008 Co-PI of National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
(Award #0822474) $14,875 for “Identifying Continuity & Change through Archaeological
Soil Chemistry and Site Stratigraphy at Neolithic Settlements in Southeast Hungary.”
Teaching experience
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Spring 2012, Visiting Lecturer, The Anthropology of Human Ecology (AA1017 UG) and
Anthropology for Archaeologists (V64027 PG), University of Nottingham, Department of
Archaeology.
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Spring 2012, Tutor, Later European Prehistory: perspectives on the Neolithic, Bronze and
Iron Ages (AR3067), University at Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
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Spring 2011, Tutor, Later European Prehistory: perspectives on the Neolithic, Bronze and
Iron Ages (AR3067), University at Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
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2009-2010, Associate Tutor f or Distance Learning Module ‘Households and Families in the
Past’ (AR3550), University at Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
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Fall 2004 Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Archaeology (APY108), SUNY Buffalo,
Department of Anthropology.
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Spring 2004 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Anthropology (APY105), SUNY Buffalo,
Department of Anthropology.
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Fall 2003 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Physical Anthropology (APY107), SUNY
Buffalo, Department of Anthropology.
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Fall 1999 Teaching Assistant, Human Origins (ANT101), Buffalo State College, Department of Anthropology.
Conference and symposia organized
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2010 Co-chair and Co-organizer, Socio-sedimentary Dialectics , formal symposium for the
16 th Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague,
Netherlands, September 2010.
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2007 Co-chair and Co-organizer, Reading Tells - Settlement Practice During the European
Late Neolithic and Bronze Ages , formal symposium for the 13 th Annual Meetings of the
European Association of Archaeologists in Zadar, Croatia, September 2007.
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2006 Co-chair and Co-organizer, Regional Analyses of Spatial and Social Dynamics , formal symposium for the 12 th Annual Meetings of the European Association of
Archaeologists in Cracow, Poland, September 2006.
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2005 Chair and co-organizer, Agency within the Periphery: Views from Across the Globe , organized symposium at the 70 th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in Salt Lake City, Utah, March/April 2005.
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