Research and knowledge exchange
Recognition
- Winner of the Historic Environment Scotland Research Showcase (2016)
- New Generation Thinkers 2017 Finalist (AHRC/BBC Radio 3)
- Winner of the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year 2021
- Short-listed for Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year 2022
Media
- Underground Britain. Lion TV (for Channel 5). First broadcast 23rd October 2014.
- Mystic Britain. Blink TV (for the Smithsonian Channel). First broadcast 4th June 2019.
- Bone Detectives: Britain’s Buried Secrets. Tern TV (for Channel 4). First broadcast 11th January 2020.
Teaching and subject expertise
Membership
- Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA)
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- Prehistoric Society
- European Association of Archaeologists
Committee Responsibilities
- CIfA Scottish Special Interest Group
Conference organising committees
- Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2015, University of Bradford
- Iron Age Research Group Student Symposium (IARSS) 2010, University of Bradford
- First Millennium Studies Group Day Seminar 2011, University of Edinburgh
Session Organisation
European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting
- 2014, Istanbul: Caves as Ritual Spaces in Later Prehistory (with Dimitrij Mlekuž, University of Ljubljana; Eugène Warmenbol, Free University of Brussels)
- 2015, Glasgow: Human Remains in Caves (with Eugène Warmenbol, Free University of Brussels)
- 2016, Vilnius: Transcending Borders in Later Prehistoric Europe (with Ian Armit, University of Bradford; Hrvoje Potrebica, University of Zagreb; Matija Črešnar, University of Ljubljana; and Philip Mason, Centre for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia)
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
- 2015, San Francisco: Biographies of Enclosure in Global Context (with Jennifer Birch, University of Georgia; Ian Armit, University of Bradford)
Publications and research outputs
Fowler, C., Olalde, I., Cummings, V., Armit, I., Büster, L., Cuthbert, S., Rohland, N., Cheronet, O., Pinhasi, R., and Reich, D. 2021. ‘Complex kinship practices revealed in a five-generation family from Neolithic Britain’, Nature 601: 584–587.
Patterson, N., Isakov, M., Booth, T., Büster, L., Fischer, C.-E., Olalde, I., Ringbauer, H.... [et al] ... Pinhasi, R., Armit, I. and Reich, D. 2021. ‘Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age’, Nature 601: 588–594.
Armit, I. and Büster, L. 2020. Darkness Visible. The Sculptor’s Cave, NE Scotland: From the Bronze Age to the Picts. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Büster, L., Warmenbol, E. and Mlekuž, D. (eds) 2019. Between Worlds: Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory. New York: Springer.
Armit, I., Potrebica, H., Črešnar, M., Mason, P. and Büster, L. (eds) 2016. Cultural Encounters in Iron Age Europe. Budapest: Archaeolingua, Minor Series 38.
Büster, L. 2021. ‘Problematic stuff: death, memory and the reinterpretation of cached objects’. Antiquity 95(382): 973–985. Doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.81
Büster, L. 2021. ‘Iron Age mnemonics: a biographical approach to dwelling in later prehistoric Britain’. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000263
Croucher, K., Büster, L., Dayes, J., Green, L., Raynsford, J., Comerford Boyes, L. and Faull, C. 2020. ‘Archaeology and contemporary death: using the past to provoke, challenge and engage’, PLoS ONE 15(12): e0244058. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244058.