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Magdalena M.E. Bunbury (née Schmid)
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Magdalena M.E.
Bunbury (née Schmid)

As an archaeological scientist, Magda’s research provides strategic insights into the precise dating and modeling of archaeological and environmental events. Her work enhances our understanding of how island and coastal societies in the Holocene (the past 11,700 years) have adapted and built resilience to rapid climate change. Magda has contributed significantly to the field through:
1. Improving 14C Chronologies: Refining the radiocarbon chronologies by utilising charcoal samples and marine shell dates.
2. Building Robust Bayesian Chronologies for socio-economic events.
3. Linking Socio-Economic Events with Population and Climate.
Specializing in radiocarbon dating and statistical analysis, Magda handles interdisciplinary data ranging from small to large datasets, including tens of thousands of radiocarbon dates, typological data, and environmental information. She employs Bayesian and frequency techniques to construct site chronologies and analyze past population trends.
Magda is adept at working in diverse geographical regions including Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Germany, Scotland, Hungary, the USA, and Japan.

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magdalena.bunbury@gmail.com
0415133456
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Australia
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magdalena.bunbury@gmail.com
1) EMM Sydney - Excavation assistant for First Nation sites across NSW. 2) Germany - Roman burials and settlement, Merovingian settlement, palaeontology, 3) Iceland - Viking age settlements, 4) New Zealand - Maori horticulture, 5) Hungary - Avar cemetery
1) Bunbury, M.M.E., Petchey, F. and Bickler, S. (2022). A new chronology for the Māori settlement of New Zealand (Aotearoa) and the potential role of climate change in demographic developments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (46) e2207609119. 2) Petchey, F. and Schmid, M.M.E. 2020. Vital evidence: Change in the marine 14C reservoir around New Zealand (Aotearoa) and implications for the timing of Polynesian settlement. Scientific Reports (2020) 10:14266. 3) Bunbury, M.M.E. et al. 2023. Understanding climate resilience in Scandinavia during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Quaternary Science Reviews, 322, p.108391. 4) Schmid, M.M.E. et al. 2018. How 14C dates on charcoal increase precision when dating colonization: the examples of Iceland and Polynesia. Quaternary Geochronology 48, 64-71. 5) Ulm, S., et al. 2024. Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 333. 6) Ulm, S. et al. 2023. Australian marine radiocarbon reservoir effects: ΔR atlas and ΔR calculator for Australian mainland coasts and near-shore islands. Radiocarbon, 65(5), 1139-1159. 7) Schmid, M.M.E., et al. 2019. Enhancing radiocarbon chronologies of colonization: Chronometric hygiene revisited. Radiocarbon 62(2), 629-647. 8) Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A. et al. 2024. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature. 9) Schmid, M.M.E., et al. 2018. A Bayesian approach for linking archaeological, paleoenvironmental and documentary datasets relating to the settlement of Iceland (Landnám). The Holocene 28(1), 19-33. 10) Schmid, M.M.E., Dugmore, A.J, Vésteinsson, O., Newton, A.J. 2017. Tephra isochrons and chronologies of colonization. Quaternary Geochronology 40. Special Issue: Tephrochronology, 56-66. 11) Leppard, TP. et al. (2022). Global patterns in island colonization during the Holocene. Journal of World Prehistory 35, 163–232.
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