Andrew Fairbairn is an archaeobotanist and archaeologist interested in how people in the past used plants and affected the environments in which they lived through foraging, agriculture, forestry and trade. Andy studied at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in London before working at The Museum of London, Cambridge University, The Australian National University and, since 2006, at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where he is Professor of Archaeology. He has worked on over 200 projects across the UK, central Europe and Southwest Asia, as well as in Papua New Guinea, China and Australia. Since 1999 Turkiye has been his main research focus, and he has investigated early farming at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Pınarbaşı and Canhasan III and Boncuklu, where he was project co-director, as well as Bronze Age, Iron Age and Medieval occupation at Kaman Kalehöyük, Büklükale, Yassihöyük, Kültepe and Kinet Höyük. He has active field research with the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation in western Queensland and has published on Mirrar and Quandamooka archaeology, as well as Australian historical archaeology. His alumni include archaeological practitioners in several countries across the university, government and private sectors. He is Associate Editor for the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
