Mark Nesbitt
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Mark Nesbitt (born 3 June 1961) is a British ethnobotanist and curator. Since 1999, he has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he serves as Senior Research Leader for Interdisciplinary Research and Curator of the Economic Botany Collection.[1]
Nesbitt studied Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading before completing an MSc in bioarchaeology (archaeobotany option) at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 1984.[2] He went on to work at the British Institute at Ankara in Turkey, conducting archaeobotanical analysis for various archaeological excavations. His field research highlighted the need to improved identification techniques for wild grass grains (caryopses). Between 1994 and 1997, he undertook a NERC funded PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL on ‘Archaeobotanical identification of Near Eastern grass seeds’, supervised by Gordon Hillman.[3][2]
