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Camilla Speller
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Latest papers
The Oral Microbiome of King Richard III of England.
American journal of biological anthropology · 2026
Multiproxy stable isotope analysis provides insights into diet, animal management, and residential mobility in Old Bara, a metropolitan suburb of the Oyo Empire, West Africa.
PloS one · 2026
Author Correction: Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.
Nature communications · 2025
Latest funding
- $74,257
The Phantom Fish: Untangling the coevolution of herring and people across the Pacific Rim
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $283,063
Unwinding ecologies of colonization through an animal lens
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $105,500
Xa'a'gal:Documenting the long-term history and Indigenous management of Pacific salmon populations in K'ómoks traditional territory
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
24 publications.
The Oral Microbiome of King Richard III of England.
Velsko IM, Hübner A, Fagernäs Z, Yates JAF, Mann AE, Hofman CA, Ozga AT, Lewis CM, Speller C, Fiddyment S, Francken M, Wahl J, Krause J, Radini A, King T, Warinner C
Multiproxy stable isotope analysis provides insights into diet, animal management, and residential mobility in Old Bara, a metropolitan suburb of the Oyo Empire, West Africa.
Akogun MO, Szpak P, Oelze VM, Leishman K, Hilsden J, Speller C, Janz L, Aleru JO, Ogundiran A
Author Correction: Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.
McGrath K, van der Sluis LG, Lefebvre A, Charpentier A, Rodrigues ASL, Álvarez-Fernández E, Baleux F, Berganza E, Chauvière FX, Dachary M, Duarte Matías E, Houmard C, Marín-Arroyo AB, de la Rasilla Vives M, Tapia J, Thil F, Tombret O, Torres-Iglesias L, Speller C, Zazzo A, Pétillon JM
Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada.
Efford M, Taft S, Morin J, George M, George M, Speller C, Christensen V
Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay.
McGrath K, van der Sluis LG, Lefebvre A, Charpentier A, Rodrigues ASL, Álvarez-Fernández E, Baleux F, Berganza E, Chauvière FX, Dachary M, Duarte Matías E, Houmard C, Marín-Arroyo AB, de la Rasilla Vives M, Tapia J, Thil F, Tombret O, Torres-Iglesias L, Speller C, Zazzo A, Pétillon JM
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus).
Furni F, Secchi ER, Speller C, DenDanto D, Ramp C, Larsen F, Mizroch S, Robbins J, Sears R, Urbán R J, Bérubé M, Palsbøll PJ
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets.
Efford M, de la Puente S, George M, George M, Testani A, Taft S, Morin J, Hilsden J, Zhu J, Chen P, Paskulin L, Toniello G, Christensen V, Speller C
A revisited history of cacao domestication in pre-Columbian times revealed by archaeogenomic approaches.
Lanaud C, Vignes H, Utge J, Valette G, Rhoné B, Garcia Caputi M, Angarita Nieto NS, Fouet O, Gaikwad N, Zarrillo S, Powis TG, Cyphers A, Valdez F, Olivera Nunez SQ, Speller C, Blake M, Valdez FJ, Raymond S, Rowe SM, Duke GS, Romano FE, Loor Solórzano RG, Argout X
The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting.
van den Hurk Y, Sikström F, Amkreutz L, Bleasdale M, Borvon A, Ephrem B, Fernández-Rodríguez C, Gibbs HMB, Jonsson L, Lehouck A, Cedeira JM, Meng S, Monge R, Moreno M, Nabais M, Nores C, Pis-Millán JA, Riddler I, Schmölcke U, Segschneider M, Speller C, Vretemark M, Wickler S, Collins M, Nadeau MJ, Barrett JH
North and South: Exploring isotopic analysis of bone carbonates and collagen to understand post-medieval diets in London and northern England.
Chidimuro B, Doherty S, Finch J, Ponce P, Eggington J, Delaney S, Speller C, Collins MJ, Holst M, Alexander M
The Phantom Fish: Untangling the coevolution of herring and people across the Pacific Rim
Principal investigators: Atmore, Lane
Unwinding ecologies of colonization through an animal lens
Principal investigators: Guiry, Eric J.
Xa'a'gal:Documenting the long-term history and Indigenous management of Pacific salmon populations in K'ómoks traditional territory
Principal investigators: Speller, Camilla F.
Keywords: Indigenous fisheries; Cultural Heritage Management; Indigenous & Indigenous Centered Archaeology; Pacific salmon
Disentangling the diets of early South African food producers through biomolecules preserved in ancient pottery
Principal investigators: Hopper, Courtneay
Keywords: paleoproteomics; organic residue analysis; zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS); early herding; early farming; subsistence decisions; ceramics; herd management strategies; southern Africa; Holocene
Narratives from Fragments: Re-Thinking Narratives of Manitoba's Archaeology
Principal investigators: Collins, Benjamin
Keywords: Archaeology; Manitoba; Holocene; Community-based; Geochronology; Stable Isotopes; Proteomics; TikTok; Indigenous Researcher Training; Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry
Materializing Indigenous Histories: Community-University Partnerships for Indigenous-engaged Archaeological Research
Principal investigators: Martindale, Andrew
Keywords: Indigenous archaeology; geochemical and biomolecular archaeology; data management and data sovereignty; partnership protocols and best practices
Mapping long-term patterns of marine biodiversity and complexity through biomolecular analysis of archaeological archives
Principal investigators: Speller, Camilla
Mapping long-term patterns of marine biodiversity and complexity through biomolecular analysis of archaeological archives
Principal investigators: Speller, Camilla
Keywords: paleoenvironmental reconstruction; marine ecosystem baselines; historical ecology; genomic and proteomic analysis; marine biogeography; environmental archaeology; human impacts on marine ecosystems; traditional environmental and resource management
Paleoproteomics: A new frontier in the study of Indigenous plant use in the Americas
Principal investigators: Speller, Camilla
Keywords: Paleoproteomics; Archaeology; Geochemistry;Indigenous plant use; Mass spectrometry; Spectroscopy; Residue analysis; Destructive analysis; Diet and subsistence
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Camilla Speller and Villy Christensen: 3 shared papers
- Paul Szpak and Lisa Janz: 3 shared papers
- Ryan Morin and Dongya Yang: 1 shared paper
- Ryan Morin and Camilla Speller: 1 shared paper
- Dongya Yang and Camilla Speller: 1 shared paper
- Camilla Speller and Michael Blake: 1 shared paper
- Camilla Speller and Paul Szpak: 1 shared paper
- Camilla Speller and Lisa Janz: 1 shared paper
- Department of Anthropology
- Oceans and Fisheries, Institute for the
- Department of Archaeology
- Hunters and Gatherers
- Archaeology
- Genome Sciences Centre
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Villy Christensen
Oceans and Fisheries, Institute for the
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Michael Blake
Department of Anthropology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Paul Szpak
Archaeology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Lisa Janz
Hunters and Gatherers
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Ryan Morin
Genome Sciences Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Dongya Yang
Department of Archaeology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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