Naomi Sykes


Naomi Sykes FSA is a zooarchaeologist and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter. Sykes researches human-animal relations in the past.

Biography

Sykes' early work studied the zooarchaeology of the Norman Conquest in Britain. Her thesis was completed at 2001 at the University of Southampton. Sykes was previously based at the University of Nottingham, and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
In 2011, Sykes won the Society for Medieval Archaeology's Martyn Jope Award for "the best novel interpretation, application of analytical method or presentation of new findings" published in that year's volume of Medieval Archaeology along with co-author Ruth F. Carden.
In 2014 Sykes published Beastly Questions, which has been described as "a lucid, thought-provoking and challenging review of the state of the discipline."
Sykes was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.

Selected publications