Ella Egberts

BIO

Ella is a geoarchaeologist interested in palaeo-environmental reconstructions and human-environment interactions. Her PhD research focused on reconstructing the Pleistocene river terrace formation in the Avon Valley (UK) to provide a geo-chronological framework for the Palaeolithic record from the region. Since then, she has been involved in various research projects, focussing on human-environment interactions in one way or another. With the British Museum’s Girsu Project, she has been investigating the ancient canal system and environmental context of the Sumerian city Girsu, Mesopotamia. Ella assisted with the ‘Rising from the Depths’ project in recording the maritime heritage in the Zanzibar Archipelago, and with the University of Bonn, she investigated raw material accessibility and landscape use in Nicaragua. She combined these projects with working as a geoarchaeologist and lithic specialist in commercial archaeology and as a surveyor at Iv-Groep (a multidisciplinary engineering company).