Background

Ellen Chapman received her BA in Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005 focused mainly on Old World archaeology and lab-based coursework. Subsequently she has worked as a field tech and crew chief at a cultural resource management company in California, most notably on a ghost town site in southern Nevada and a large proto-historic and historic Native American site complex in the LA basin. In 2008 Ellen obtained a Master's degree in Palaeopathology from Durham University, with a thesis entitled "Investigating Mobility at the Iron Age Site of Bredon Hill: An Isotopic and Dental Non-metric Trait Analysis."  She then excavated Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and medieval features on a multi-period road scheme in southeastern England.