British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist
Carol Palmer is a British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist. She is currently Director of the British Institute in Amman, an Honorary Fellow at Bournemouth University, and a part of the Thimar collective.[1] Her primary research interests are in rural societies in the Arab world, changes in the practices of food production on the landscape and in society, and ethnobotany.[2][3][4] She collaborates as Project Partner of the INEA project, which aims to examine archaeological site usage using phytolithic and geochemical evidence.[5] She has also been a part of the Antikythera Survey Project[6] and the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey,[7] and from 2001-2004 served as secretary of the Association of Environmental Archaeology.[8]