Dr Lindsey Buster

Research Projects

• Exploring prehistoric experiences of child loss and grief: Navigating infant mortality in Iron Age Britain. Researcher(s): Miss Carrie Ann Woollard. Supervisor(s): Dr Lindsey Buster, Dr Jacqueline Wier. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Influential Landscape: Understanding the dynamics of rural castle siting patterns on regional and local scales in the medieval southwest c. 1066-1200. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Transitional Canterbury: Non-Conformist Graves as Markers of Place and People from Roman to Early Anglo-Saxon Eras. Researcher(s): Miss Adelina Teoaca. Supervisor(s): Dr Ellie Williams, Dr Lindsey Buster. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• Letting go of attachment objects: Insights from the ‘Problematic Stuff’ of later prehistoric Britain and beyond Lindsey Buster, (15 Nov 2024), Archaeologies of Attachment: Emotional Attachments in the Archaeological Record. Cham: Springer. [Book chapter]
• Kinship practices in Early Iron Age southeast Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia Armit, I., Fischer, C.-E., Koon, H., Nicholls, R., Olalde, I., Rohland, N., Buckberry, J, Montgomery, J., Mason, P., Crešnar, M., Buster, L., Reich, D., (Apr 2023): Cambridge University Press. [Journal article]
• Mediating worlds: the role of nurses as ritual specialists in caring for the dead and dying Buster, L., Croucher, K., Green, L., Faull, C., (17 Apr 2023, 02 Jul 2024): Informa UK Limited. [Journal article]
• Rural settlement: relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age rural settlement: relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age, edited by D. C. Cowley, M. Fernández-Götz, T. Romankiewicz and H. Wendling, Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2019, 286 pp., Illus. 118, €135.00 (Hardback), ISBN 9789088908194, €45.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9789088908187, open access (e-book) Buster, L., (09 May 2023, 03 Jul 2023): Informa UK Limited. [Journal article]
• From human remains to powerful objects: Ancestor research from a deep-time perspective Buster, L., (10 Mar 2022): MDPI. [Journal article]
• Prospections géophysiques sur le plateau, en 2010 et 2011 Armit, I., Gaffney, C., Hayes, A., Parkyn, A., Friel, R., Buster, L., (10 Jan 2022), Entremont, une agglomeration de Provence au IIe siècle avant notre ère. [Book chapter]
• Signs from the Pictish underground: Early medieval cave ritual in Scotland Buster, L., Armit, I., (28 May 2022), Cave Rituals in Medieval Europe, AD 500-1500. Oxford: Oxbow Books. [Book chapter]
• 'Problematic stuff': death, memory and the reinterpretation of cached objects Buster, L., (22 Jun 2021): Cambridge University Press, Antiquity Publications. [Journal article]
• A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb Fowler, C., Olalde, I., Cummings, V., Armit, I., Buster, L., Cuthbert, S., Rohland, N., Cheronet, O., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D, (22 Dec 2021, 27 Jan 2022): Springer Nature. [Journal article]
• A summary round-up list of Scottish archaeological human remains that have been sampled/analysed for DNA between January 2019 and November 2021 Knight, M. G., Sheridan, A., Skoglund, P., Booth, T., Brown, L., Riech, D., Armit, I., Bonsall, C., Anastasiadou, K., Boyle, A., Buster, L., Carver, M., Gilardet, A., Kelly, M., McCabe, J., Montgomery, J., Pickard, C., Rhodes, D., Silva, M., Williams, M.: Archaeology Scotland. [Journal article]
• Iron Age mnemonics: A biographical approach to dwelling in later prehistoric Britain Buster, L., (07 May 2021): Cambridge University Press. [Journal article]
• Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age Patterson, N., Isakov, M., Buster, L., Booth, T., Fischer, C-E., Reich, D., others, (22 Dec 2021, 27 Jan 2022): Springer Nature. [Journal article]
• Le projet COMMIOS. Un nouveau regard sue les populations de l’Age du Fer en Europe Fischer, C-E., Bleasdale, M., Buster, L., Primeau, C., Booth, T., Reich, D., Armit, I., (2021): L’Association française pour l’étude de l’âge du Fer. [Journal article]
• Manuel Fernández-Götz and Nico Roymans, eds. Conflict Archaeology: Materialities of Collective Violence from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology 5. Oxford: Routledge, 2018, xiv and 236 pp., 122 figs., 2 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-1-138-50211-6) Buster, L., (27 Jan 2021): Cambridge University Press. [Journal article]
• Materialising memories: Inheritance, performance and practice at Broxmouth hillfort, south-east Scotland Buster, L., Armit, I., (2021), Gardening time: Reflections on memory, monuments and history in Scotland and Sardinia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. [Book chapter]
• Prospections géophysiques sur la plateau, en 2010 et 2011 Armit, I., Bryant, A., Gaffney, C., Parkyn, A., Friel, R., Buster, L., (2021), Entremont: Une Agglomération de Provence au IIe Siècle Avant Notre Ère. Montpellier. [Book chapter]
• Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa Best, J., Doherty, S., Armit, I., Boev, Z., Buster, L., Cunliffe, B., Foster, A., Frimet, B., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Higham, T., Lebrasseur, O., Mepham, L., Miller, H., Peters, J., Seigle, M., Skelton, C., Symmons, R., Thomas, R., Trentacoste, A., Maltby, M., Larson, G., Sykes, N., (07 Jun 2022): Cambridge University Press, Antiquity Publications. [Journal article]
• Why couldn’t Iron Age people throw some stuff?away? Buster, L., (14 Sep 2021): Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, University of Chicago Press. [Journal article]
• A brief consideration of the later prehistoric appearance and possible significance of the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) in the Covesea Caves of north-east Scotland Fitzpatrick, A., Bond, J., Buster, L., Armit, I.: Andersonian Naturalists of Glasgow. [Journal article]
• Archaeology and contemporary death: Using the past to provoke, challenge and engage Karina Croucher, Buster, L., Jennifer Dayes, Laura Green, Justine Raynsford, Louise Comerford Boyes, Christina Faull, (29 Dec 2020): Public Library of Science. [Journal article]
• Darkness visible: The Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts Armit, I., Buster, L., (Sep 2020). Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . [Book]
• New light on the Covesea Caves, north-east Scotland Buster, L., Armit, I., Fitzpatrick, A., (2020): The Prehistoric Society. [Journal article]
• Between worlds: bridging the divide between method and theory in understanding the ritual use of caves in later prehistory Buster, L., Warmenbol, E., Mlekuz, D., (2019), Between Worlds: Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory. Cham: Springer. [Book chapter]
• Between worlds: Understanding ritual cave use in later prehistory, (2019). Cham: Springer. [Book]
• From macro to micro: multi-scalar digital approaches at The Sculptor’s Cave, NE Scotland Buster, L., Evans, A., Armit, I., Kershaw, R., Sparrow, T., Wilson, A. S., (2019), Between Worlds: Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory. Cham: Springer. [Book chapter]
• The Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea: Shining new light on an old archive Buster, L., Armit, I., (2014): Archaeology Scotland. [Journal article]
• Animated worlds: digital capture technologies at the Sculptor’s Cave Buster, L., Armit, I.: Archaeology Scotland. [Journal article]
• Bodies and embodiment Buster, L., (26 Nov 2018), Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. [Book chapter]
• From plastered skulls to palliative care: what the past can teach us about dealing with death Buster, Lindsey, Karina Croucher, Jennifer Dayes, Laura Green, Christina Faull, (2018): Open Journal Systems. [Journal article]
• The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe Olade, I., Brace, S., Buster, L., Allentoft, M., et al., (21 Feb 2018, 08 Mar 2018): Springer Nature. [Journal article]
• Underworld encounters: recent archaeological research at the Covesea Caves Buster, L., Armit, I., (2018), Forgotten, Hidden and Lost: Unearthing Moray’s Archaeology. Proceedings of the Elgin Museum Archaeology Conference 2017. Elgin, Scotland: Moray Society. [Book chapter]
• Can the Victorians teach us to talk about death? Buster, L., (13 Aug 2017). [Journal article]
• Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain, by D. W. Harding Buster, L., (02 Mar 2017). [Journal article]
• Habiter à Broxmouth : une approche biographique des roundhouses de l'âge du Fer Buster, Lindsey, (2017), Interdisciplinarité et nouvelles approches dans les recherches sur l'âge du Fer. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. [Book chapter]
• Review: Marion Dowd (ed.). 2016. Underground Archaeology: Studies on Human Bones and Artefacts from Ireland's Caves, Oxbow Books Buster, L., (2021): The Prehistoric Society. [Journal article]
• Review: Underground Archaeology by Marion Dowd (ed) Buster, L., (2017): The Prehistoric Society. [Journal article]
• See the Sculptor’s Cave in 3D Buster, L., (Nov 2017): Current Publishing. [Journal article]
• What we can learn from death rites of the past will help us treat the dead and grieving better today? Buster, L., Dayes, J., (11 Aug 2017): The Conversation Trust. [Journal article]
• What we can learn from death rites of the past will help us treat the dead and grieving better today? Buster, L., Dayes, J., (19 Aug 2017): Independent. [Journal article]
• Cultural encounters in Iron Age Europe, (2016). Budapest: Archaeolingua. [Book]
• Developing the 3D imaging of Iron Age art in the ENTRANS Project Buster, L., Evans, A., Armit. I., Kershaw, R., (2016), Cultural Encounters in Iron Age Europe. Budapest: Archaeolingua. [Book chapter]
• Meet the Barbarians: Taking a fresh look at the Iron Age of South-East Europe Armit, I., Buster, L., (2016): Current Publishing. [Journal article]
• Ancestral homes? Roundhouses, memory and tradition at Broxmouth hillfort Armit, I., Buster, L., McKenzie, (2015): Current Publishing. [Journal article]
• The Covesea Caves Project Armit, I., Buster, L.: Moray Field Club. [Journal article]
• Caves as ritual spaces in later prehistoric Europe Buster, L., Warmenbol, E., Mlekuž, D., (2014): European Association of Archaeologists. [Journal article]
• Encounters and Transformations in Iron Age Europe: the ENTRANS Project Armit, I., Potrebica, H., Crešnar, M., Mason, P., Buster, L., (Dec 2014): Department of Archaeology, Durham University. [Journal article]
• Chapter 7- Phase 6: The Late Iron Age village Buster, L., (Dec 2013), An Inherited Place: Broxmouth Hillfort and the South-East Scottish Iron Age. [Book chapter]
• Chapter 9 - Chronology: Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling Hamilton, D., McKenzie, J., Armit, I., Buster, L., An Inherited Place: Broxmouth Hillfort and the South-East Scottish Iron Age. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . [Book chapter]
• CPD from both sides of the fence: Academic vs vocational training Buster, L., (2013): Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. [Journal article]
• Dennis W. Harding, The Iron Age Round-House: Later Prehistoric Building in Britain and Beyond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 350 pp., 16 pp. colour plates, 50 figs., hbk, ISBN 978-0-19-955857-5) Buster, L., (25 Jan 2017): Cambridge University Press. [Journal article]