Marjolein Admiraal, Ph.D. is an archaeological scientist with a technical expertise in compound specific isotope analysis of lipids and amino acids, and the biomolecular analysis of lipid residues from archaeological artefacts such as pottery. Her research interests center around human-environment connections in the past, with a special focus on the North American Arctic. As part of the METAL’s Aleutian Mercury Dynamics project, she studies past ecological change through compound specific isotope analysis of amino acids from archaeological bones of: Steller sea lions, northern fur seals, and Pacific cod, found in ancestral Unangax middens in the Aleutian Islands.
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
2023–Present
Post-doctoral Researcher
Marine Ecotoxicology and Trophic Assessment Lab (METAL)
Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC)
University of York, York, England
2020–2023
Post-doctoral Researcher
BioArCh Laboratory
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
2020
Post-doctoral Researcher
Arctic Centre
2010
B.A. Archaeology
University of Groningen, Netherlands
2013
Research M.A.
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Thesis: The Origin and Evolution of the Mesa Projectile Point
2020
Ph.D.
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Dissertation: The adoption of pottery into the New World
Advisors: P.D. Jordan, O.E. Craig
2024
Admiraal M, Colonese AC, Milheira RG, Di Muro A, Talbot HM, Lucquin A, Craig OE (Accepted) Feasting on fish. Specialized function of pre-colonial pottery of the Cerritos mound builders of southern Brazil. PLoS One.
Montalvo-Cabrera JA, Colonese AC, Campbell R, Talbot HM, Lucquin A, Admiraal M, Palma G, Craig OE (2024) Unraveling Island Economies through Organic Residue Analysis: The Case of Mocha Island (Southern Chile). Latin American Antiquity:1–15.
2023
Admiraal M, Colonese AC, Milheira RG, da Rocha Bandeir D, Demathe A, Pereira dos Santos AM, Fossile T, Talbot HM, Bondetti M, Lucquin A, Montalvo-Cabrera J, Prates L, Serna A, Craig OE (2023) Chemical analysis of pottery reveals the transition from a maritime to a plant-based economy in pre-colonial coastal Brazil. Scientific Reports 13(1):1–9.
Admiraal M, Jordan PD, Talbot HM, Bondetti M, Serna A, Taché K, von Tersch M, Hendy J, McGrath K, Craig OE, Lucquin A (2023_ The role of salmon fishing in the adoption of pottery technology in subarctic Alaska. Journal Archaeological Science 157:105824
Taylor WTT, Belardi JB, Barberen R, Coltrain JB, Marina FC, Borrero LA, Conver JL, Hodgins G, Admiraal M, Craig OE, Lucquin A, Talbot H M, Lundy J, Liu X, Chauvey L, Schiavinato S, Seguin-Orlando A, Roux PL, Lucas M, Jones EL (2023) Interdisciplinary evidence for early domestic horse exploitation in southern Patagonia. Science Advances: (49).
2022
Robson HK, Lucquin A, Admiraal M, Dolbunova E, Adamczak K, Czekaj-Zastawny A, Fitzhugh WW, Gumiński W, Kabaciński J, Kotula A, Kukawka S, Oras E, Piezonka H, Piličiauskas G, Sørensen SA, Thielen L, Wetzel G, Meadows J, Hartz S, Craig OE, Heron CP (2022) Light Production by Ceramic Using Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Circum-Baltic. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 88: 25–52.
Jordan PD, Ponkratova I, Diakonov VM, Solovyova E, Yamahara T, Kato H, Admiraal M (2022) Tracking the Adoption of Early Pottery Traditions into Maritime Northeast Asia: Emerging Insights and New Questions. In: J Cassidy, I Ponkratova, B Fitzhugh (Eds.), Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia. Springer, New York.
2020
Admiraal M (2020) The adoption of pottery into the New World: exploring pottery function and dispersal in Southwest Alaska through organic residue analysis. Ph.D. thesis, University of Groningen. Supervisors: P.D. Jordan and O.E. Craig.
Admiraal M, Lucquin A, von Tersch M, Craig OE, Jordan PD (2020) The Adoption of Pottery on Kodiak Island: Insights from Organic Residue Analysis. Quaternary International 554:128–142.
Admiraal M, Lucquin A, Casala S, Jordan P, Craig OE (2020) Leftovers: the presence of manufacture-derived aquatic lipids in Alaskan Pottery. In: Archaeometry 62(2):346–361.
2019
Taché K, Bondetti M, Lucquin A, Admiraal M, Craig OE (2019) Something fishy in the Great Lakes? The reappraisal of early pottery use in north-eastern North America. Antiquity 93(371):1339–1349.
Admiraal M, Knecht R (2019) Understanding the Function of Container Technologies in Prehistoric Southwest Alaska. In: Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory: Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine, PD Jordan, K Gibbs (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 104-127.
Admiraal M, Lucquin A, von Tersch M, Jordan P, Craig OE (2019) Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis. Quaternary Research 91(3), pp. 1003–1015.
2015
Peeters J, Admiraal M, Verneau S (2015) Afslag Olthof: Archeologisch onderzoek naar de vroeg prehistorische vindplaatsen op de locaties Olthof-Noord en Olthof-Zuid in Epse Noord. Gemeente Deventer. Rapporten Archeologie Deventer 34:143–162.
2013
Admiraal M (2013) Early Maritime Adaptations and the Peopling of the Americas. In: A Kaleidoscope of Maritime Perspectives. Essays on the Archaeology, Art History and Landscape History of the Maritime World View, DCM Raemaekers (Ed.) Groningen: Groningen Institute of Archaeology & Barkhuis. pp. 1–7.
