Carol Palmer

Carol Palmer is a British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and ethnobotanist whose research focuses on rural societies, food production, landscape use and ethnobotany in the Middle East. She was Director of the Council for British Research in the Levant from 2020 to 2024 and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. She subsequently undertook postdoctoral research supported by the Council for British Research in the Levant at the University of Leicester and was a research associate at the University of Sheffield.

Career and research

Palmer's research combines anthropology, ethnography, environmental archaeology and ethnobotany, with particular attention to rural livelihoods, foodways and landscape change in the Middle East.

She has contributed to archaeological and landscape survey projects in Europe and the Middle East, including the Antikythera Survey Project, the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, From 2020 to 2024, she served as Director of the Council for British Research in the Levant.

Selected publications