James Conolly

Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair

Office: DNA C225
Labs: DNA C228 Human Palaeocology lab, DNA C229 GIS Computing lab
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x7868
Email: Send an email

Education

BA (Toronto) MA, PhD (University College London)

Current Research

Spatial and comparative statistical analysis of environmental data
sets (faunal and floral) from PPNA/B and EN/LBK sites from Southwest
Asia and Europe; analysis of long-term human ecology of Antikythera,
Greece (SSHRC); computer modelling of PPNA/B and EN/LBK population and cultural dynamics.

Recent Publications

Books

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Conolly, J. and Campbell, M. (eds.) 2008. Comparative Island
Archaeologies. Oxford: BAR IS 1829

Colledge, S., Conolly, J. (eds.) 2007. The Origin and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe. California: Left Coast Press.

Conolly, J. and Lake, M. 2006. Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Essays/Reviews

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Conolly J, Colledge S, Dobney K, Vigne J-D, Peters J, Stopp B, Manning

K, Shennan S. 2010.  Meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data from SWAsia and SE Europe provides insight into the origins and spread of animal husbandry.  Journal of Archaeological Science [In Press] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.008

Colledge S, Conolly J. 2010.  Reassessing the evidence for the cultivation of wild crops during the Younger Dryas at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria.  Environmental Archaeology [In Press] 15/2.

 Palmer C, Colledge S, Bevan A, Conolly J. 2010. VegetationRecolonisation on Abandoned Agricultural Terraces on Antikythera,Greece. Environmental Archaeology 15/1: 64-80.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/146141010X12640787648973 

Conolly J. 2010.  The 1994 knapped stone assemblage from Jeitun.. InHarris D. (ed.) Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: An Environmental-Archaeological Study. University of Pennsylvania Museumof Archaeology and Anthropology. pp.180–185.

Conolly J, Schlanger N. 2010.  Stone Tools from the Dam Dam Cheshme Rockshelters. In Harris D. (ed.) Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: An Environmental-Archaeological Study. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. pp.203–205.

Bevan, A. and Conolly, J. 2009. Modelling spatial heterogeneity in
artifact-rich landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.11.023

Conolly, J., Colledge, S. and Shennan, S. 2008. Founder effect, drift,
and adaptive change in domestic crop use in early neolithic Europe.
Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 2797-2804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.05.006

Conolly, J. 2008. The knapped stone technology of the first occupants at Knossos. In V. Isaakidou and P. Tomkins (eds.) Escaping the Labyrinth: The Cretan Neolithic in Context. Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, Oxbow Books. pp. 73-89.

Conolly, J. 2008. Geographical Information Systems and landscape archaeology. In B. David and J. Thomas (eds.) Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Research Handbook Series. Left Coast Press. pp. 583–595.

Coward, F., Shennan, S., Colledge, S. Conolly, J. and Collard, M. 2008. The spread of Neolithic plant economies from the Near East to northwest Europe: a phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 42-56.

Colledge, S. and Conolly, J. 2007. The neolithisation of the Balkans: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence. In P. Biagi and M. Spataro (eds) A Short Walk through the Balkans: the ?rst farmers of the Carpathian basin and its adjacent regions. Quaderno 12, Atti della Societ per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia. Trieste. pp. 25-38.

Colledge, S. and Conolly, J. 2007. A synopsis of evidence for origins of farming on Cyprus and Crete. In Colledge, S. and Conolly, J. (eds.) The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe. California: UCL Institute of Archaeology/Left Coast Press. pp. 53-74.

Bevan, A. and Conolly, J. 2006. Multi-scalar approaches to settlement distributions. In Lock, G. and Molyneaux, B. (eds.) Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice. Springer. pg. 217-234.

Colledge, C. & Conolly, J. 2006. Review of 'The widening harvest. The Neolithic transition in Europe: looking back, looking forward'. The Holocene 16/2: 305–306.

Colledge, S., Conolly, J., and Shennan, S. 2005.  The evolution of early neolithic agriculture: from SW Asian origins to NW European limits. European Journal of Archaeology 8/2:137-156.

Conolly, J. 2005. Review of 'Scott M. Fitzpatrick (ed.) Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands'. Archaeology in New Zealand 48/2: 166–169.

Conolly, J. 2005. Levels VI I-XI, North Area. In Carter, T., Conolly, J. & Spasojevi, A. 'The chipped stone'. In Hodder, I. (ed.) Changing Materialities at Catalhoyuk: Reports From the 1995–1999 Seasons. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs and British Institute at Ankara. pp. 221–283.

Colledge, S., Conolly, J., and Shennan, S. 2004. Archaeobotantical evidence for the spread of farming in the eastern Mediterranean. Current Anthropology 45:S35-S58.

Bevan, A. and Conolly, J. 2004. GIS, archaeological survey, and landscape archaeology on the island of Kythera, Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology 29: 123-138.

Garrard A., Conolly J., McNabb J. and Moloney N. 2004. Palaeolithic-Neolithic survey in the Sakcagozu region of the north Levantine Rift Valley. In Aurenche, O., Le Mière, M. and Sanlaville, P. (eds.) From the River to the Sea: the Euphrates and the Levant. Oxford, BAR.