Karen Stewart

Matriculated September 2018

Research Interests

New England and British Isles, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, historical archaeology, archaeological practise, urban archaeology, food archaeology, basketry, wood species identification, anthracology (wood charcoal), colonial archaeology, cultural resource management archaeology, commercial archaeology, Roman plant remains, microbotanical remains

Website

http://sites.bu.edu/ealab/profile/karen-stewart/

About

I have primarily worked in commercial archaeology with over ten years experience as a field archaeologist and later as an archaeobotanist. In these roles, I have worked on rural and urban sites from small evaluations to large-scale road projects and deeply stratified urban sites. My primary focus is waterlogged and mineralized macrobotanical remains from the Roman to historical periods in the British Isles. I look forward to applying my skills to new projects in the New England region.

Awards & Grants

• Henry S. Newman Fellowship. (2024-2025)
• GRS Summer Fellowship. (Summer 2023)
• Boston University Dean’s Fellowship. (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)

Publications

• Miles, A., and Don Walker with Lyn Blackmore, and Karen Stewart. 2017. ‘Pre-Fire burial ground of St Sepulchre without Newgate’ Lond Archaeol, 14 328–35.
• Stewart, K. ‘Wood species identification’ in Tomlin, R. 2016. Roman London’s First Voices: Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–2014. MOLA Monograph 72.
• Stewart, K. ‘The plant remains’ in Pfizenmaier, S. 2016. The story of Charterhouse Square: Black Death cemetery and Carthusian monastery, meat market and suburb. Crossrail Monograph.
• Halsey, C J., Rob Scaife, J. Whittaker, and Karen Stewart. 2014. ‘Excavations and geoarchaeological investigations at St Michael’s School, John Felton Road, Bermondsey; Part 1 lost islands and early prehistoric landscapes of Southwark’, London Archaeol (13) 12, 319–24.
• Stewart, K. ‘The plant remains’ in Pitt, K., with Blackmore, L, Dyson, T., Tyson, R. 2013. Medieval to early post-medieval tenements and Middle Eastern imports: excavations at Plantation Place, City of London, 1997–2003. MOLA Monograph Series 66.
• Wroe-Brown, R., Damian Goodburn and Karen Stewart. 2013. ‘Early water management on the Waterworks River in Stratford, London E15’ London Archaeol 13, 231–34.
• Kyle, A., Karen Stewart, and Auli Tourunen. 2009. ‘Excavating a meal: a multidisciplinary approach to early medieval food economy.’, in Stanley, M., Danaher, E., and Eogan, J. (eds.) 2009. Dining and Dwelling: Archaeology and the National Roads Authority. Monograph Series No. 6.