Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
M. A. Roderick Byron Salisbury, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Salisbury
I.2 - Name
Roderick Byron
I.3 - Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., B.A
I.4 - Year of birth
1967
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Comenius University of Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Gondova 2, 811 02, Slovakia
I.7 - Position
Associate Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
roderick.salisbury@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/42538
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Historical Sciences
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0003-3773-5337

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
B.A.: Buffalo State College, Suma cum Laude with Honors
II.b - Year
1999
II.c - Study field and programme
Anthropology, Minor in Religious Studies
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
M. A.: University at Buffalo
II.b - Year
2004
II.c - Study field and programme
Anthropology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Ph.D.: University at Buffalo
II.b - Year
2010
II.c - Study field and programme
Anthropology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Functional position - Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2022
II.c - Study field and programme
Archaeology
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Staff Archaeologist University at Buffalo, Archaeological Survey 1999-2004
IGERT Fellow in GI Science University at Buffalo, Dept. of Anthropology 2002-2010
Field Director Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Buffalo, NY 2005-2007
Honorary Visiting Fellow/Research Associate University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History 2010-2018
Visiting Lecturer Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham 01-06 2012
Geodesy Specialist, Marie Curie Experienced Researcher Airborne Technologies GmbH, Austria 2012-2014
Affiliated Researcher Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science 2015-2018
Adjunct Lecturer University of Vienna, Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology 2013-2017
Postdoctoral Researcher Institute OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2016-2022
Post-Doctoral University Assistant University of Vienna, Dept. Of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology 2018-2021

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Training Course in Archaeological Soil Micromorphology Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK 2008
Certificate in GI Science, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, SUNY Buffalo 2010
Archaeological Data Management ARIADNE training workshop Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2016
Short Course on Archaeological Sediment and Soil Micromorphology Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna Department of Lithospheric Research 2022

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Neolithic Archeology 1 Historical Sciences
World Prehistory Archeology 1 Historical Sciences
Introduction to natural sciences in archaeology 1 Archeology I. Historical Sciences
Seminar in World Prehistory Archeology I. Historical Sciences
Stone Age and Bronze Age in Europe Archeology II. Historical Sciences
Seminar on the Neolithic Period Archaeology I Historical Sciences
Theory & Method in Archaeology Archaeology I Historical Sciences
Death and Funeral in Cultural Context Ethnology I Historical Sciences
Seminar for bachelor thesis 1, 2 Archaeology I Historical Sciences
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Archeology I.+II. historické vedy/Historical Sciences
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
2
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Introduction to natural sciences in archaeology 2 Archaeology II. historické vedy/Historical Sciences
Ecofacts and the natural environment Archaeology II. historické vedy/Historical Sciences
Neolithic in Europe Archaeology II historické vedy/Historical Sciences
Diploma Seminar Archaeology II historické vedy/Historical Sciences

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
57
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
23
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
27
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
13
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
719
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
447
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
363
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
258
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
19
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
7
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Dunne, J., Rebay-Salisbury, K., Salisbury, R.B. et al. (2019). Milk of ruminants in ceramic baby bottles from prehistoric child graves. Nature 574, 246–248 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1572-x - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

2

Salisbury, R.B. (2013). Interpolating Geochemical Patterning of Activity Zones at Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age Settlements in Eastern Hungary. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40(2), 926-934, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.009 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

3

Salisbury, R.B. (2012). Engaging with soil, past and present. Journal of Material Culture, 17(1), 23-41. doi:10.1177/1359183511432990 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

4

Rebay-Salisbury, K., Pany-Kucera, D., Spannagl-Steiner, M., Kanz, F., Galeta, P., Teschler-Nicola, M., & Salisbury, R. B. (2018). Motherhood at Early Bronze Age Unterhautzenthal, Lower Austria. Archaeologia Austriaca, 102, 71–134. https://doi.org/10.1553/archaeologia102s71 - publication in a journal, WoS/Scopus (V3)

5

Parkinson, W. A., Gyucha, A., Yerkes, R. W., Morris, M. R., Sarris, A., & Salisbury, R. B. (2010). Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain. Journal of Field Archaeology, 35(2), 164–183. https://doi.org/10.1179/009346910X12707321520675 - publication in a journal, WoS/Scopus (V3)

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Dunne, J., Rebay-Salisbury, K., Salisbury, R.B. et al. (2019). Milk of ruminants in ceramic baby bottles from prehistoric child graves. Nature 574, 246–248 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1572-x – publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

2

Rebay-Salisbury, K., Janker, L., Pany-Kucera, D., Schuster, D., Spannagl-Steiner, M., Waltenberger, L., Salisbury, R. B., & Kanz, F. (2020). Child murder in the Early Bronze Age: Proteomic sex identification of a cold case from Schleinbach, Austria. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12(11), 265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01199-8 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

3

Rebay-Salisbury, K., Bortel, P., Janker, L., Bas, M., Pany-Kucera, D., Salisbury, R. B., Gerner, C., & Kanz, F. (2022). Gendered burial practices of early Bronze Age children align with peptide-based sex identification: A case study from Franzhausen I, Austria. Journal of Archaeological Science, 139, 105549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105549 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

4

Salisbury, R. B., Bull, I. D., Cereda, S., Draganits, E., Dulias, K., Kowarik, K., Meyer, M., Zavala, E. I., & Rebay-Salisbury, K. (2022). Making the Most of Soils in Archaeology. A Review. Archaeologia Austriaca, 106, 319–334. https://doi.org/10.1553/archaeologia106s3198 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus (V3)

5

Sevara, C., Salisbury, R.B., Totschnig, R., et al. 2020, New discoveries at Mokarta, a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in western Sicily. Antiquity 94(375): 686-704. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.171 publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus, SCImago

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Fleisher, J., Sulas, F. (2015). Deciphering public spaces in urban contexts: geophysical survey,multi-element soil analysis, and artifact distributions at the 15th - 16th - century AD Swahilisettlement of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 55, March 2015,55-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.020 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus - 44 indexed citations

2

Rondelli, B. et al. (2014). Anthropic activity markers and spatial variability: anethnoarchaeological experiment in a domestic unit of Northern Gujarat (India). Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 41, January 2014, 482-492.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.09.008 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus - 59 indexed citations

3

Baveye PC, Baveye J and Gowdy J (2016) Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital:Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground. Front. Environ. Sci. 4:41. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2016.00041 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus - 147 indexed citations

4

Warinner, C., Korzow Richter, K., & Collins, M. J. (2022). Paleoproteomics. Chemical Reviews, 122(16), 13401–13446. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00703 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus - 62 indexed citations

5

Evershed, R. P., Davey Smith, G., Roffet-Salque, M., Timpson, A., Diekmann, Y., Lyon, M. S., Cramp, L. J. E., Casanova, E., Smyth, J., Whelton, H. L., Dunne, J., Brychova, V., Šoberl, L., Gerbault, P., Gillis, R. E., Heyd, V., Johnson, E., Kendall, I., Manning, K., … Stobbe, A. (2022). Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe. Nature, 608(7922), 336–345. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05010-7 - publication in a journal, WoS, Scopus - 69 indexovaných citácií

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

Grant project VEGA 1/0746/24 Radiocarbon chronologies and the settlement history of a Neolithic village – 2024-2027 Grantový projekt VEGA 1/0746/24. Principal Investigator

2

Neolithic Archaeology and Soilscapes Körös Area (NASKA) – 2008-present: Principal Investigator. Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF DDG 0822474), British Academy (SG102564) and Hungarian Cultural Fund (NKA 3234/00250).

3

Körös Regional Archaeological Project (KRAP) – 2005-present: Specialist in soil chemistry, coring, and field crew member. Multinational project funded by the National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, The Field Museum, Chicago (The Field Museum, Chicago, and the University of Georgia).

4

Life and Work at the Bronze Age Mine of Prigglitz – 2017-2020: National Cooperation Partner; soil chemistry and micro-refuse specialist. FWF funded project (FWF P 30289) (University of Vienna).

5

The Value of Mothers to Society (VAMOS) – 2016-2019: Post-Doctoral Researcher. ERC Funded project (Austrian Academy of Sciences).

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board IANSA - Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 2022-
Chair of the Advisory Board IANSA - Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 2018-2022
Advisory Board member IANSA - Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica 2017-2022
Executive Board Member (ex officio) European Association of Archaeologists 2015-2021
Chair European Association of Archaeologists Comittee on Communication and Media Strategy 2017-2019
Editor Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie, University of Vienna, Rudolf Habelt 2018
Editor The European Archaeologist, EAA newsletter 2015-2021
Regional Coordinator for Eastern Europe SAA Current Research online 2013-2017

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Munkácsy Mihály Muzeum 5600 Békéscsaba, Hungary Aug. 2007 - May 2008 Fulbright Fellowship
Department of Archaeology and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK Jan. - Mar. 2006 IGERT Fellowship in GI Science

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Posudzovateľ grantov/Grant Referee: ERC-European Research Council; GAČR - Czech Science Foundation; NKFIH - Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office; Hungarian Fulbright Association; Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science; Polish National Science Centre (OSF).

Posudzovateľ v časopisoch/Journal Referee: Antiquity, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Central European Journal of Geosciences, Ethnoarchaeology, Geoderma, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica (IANSA), Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science — Reports, Landscape Research, Northeastern Historical Archaeology, Plant and Soil, PloS ONE, The Holocene, Quaternary International.

COST Action 17131: The Soil Science & Archaeo-Geophysics Alliance: going beyond prospection. Management Committee member for Austria (2019-2022).

Co-organizer, Scientific Committee, "Making the most of soils in archaeology" workshop (2020). Scientific Review Committee, 1st SAGA Workshop, Prague, CZ (2019). Co-organizer, Scientific Committee, "Disciplinarity in Archaeology", 4th Annual Central European Theoretical Archaeology Group (CE-TAG), Vienna (2017). Co-organizer, Hungarian Archaeological Research Circle, Budapest (2014). Scientific Committee, 10th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, Vienna, Austria (2013).