Rachel Wood (archaeologist)
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Rachel Wood | |
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| Awards | Women in Research Citation Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The contribution of new radiocarbon dating pre-treatment techniques to understanding the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Iberia (2011) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | The Australian National University, University of Oxford |
Rachel Wood is a specialist in the radiocarbon dating of Pleistocene archaeological sites.[1] She is Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) at the University of Oxford.[2]
She studied Chemistry and Archaeology at Durham University, graduating in 2005 with a BSc.[3] In 2006, she completed a MSc in Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford.[4]
Wood completed a DPhil in Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford in 2011, based in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art and Keble College.[5] The thesis was entitled 'The contribution of new radiocarbon dating pre-treatment techniques to understanding the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Iberia'', supervised by Thomas Higham.[6][7]
