Ashleigh Haruda

Ashleigh Haruda is a zooarchaeologist with expertise in geometric morphometric methods with a focus on the detection of domestic animal breeds, particularly in nomadic and pastoral archaeological contexts in relation to the impact of trade and disease upon domestic animal pheno- and genotypes. She received her PhD in archaeology from the University of Exeter in 2015 with her thesis, ‘Central Asian Economies and Ecologies in the Late Bronze Age: Geometric Morphometrics of the Caprid Astragalus and Zooarchaeological Investigations of Pastoralism’ and continued her research at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She has published widely on Central Asian zooarchaeological remains from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan and is actively involved in a number of projects across the region.