Anna Collar

Anna Collar is an archaeologist working on the material culture of religious practice in the Roman world (generally, but not exclusively…); pilgrimage, sacred landscapes and the natural world; mobility and migration; emotion and experience; and interconnectivity, social networks and network analysis. This has led her to think more deeply about the way the natural world was experienced in the past, and the impacts that climate change and biodiversity loss is having on today’s archaeologists in terms of their capacity to imagine past worlds. She is particularly interested in working across disciplines to explore new ways to engage younger generations with the natural world and their natural heritage, and has recently worked with the Knepp Estate and with Geography and English at Southampton in a project using storytelling to open discussion with year 4 children about biodiversity loss.