Rosie R. Bishop (full name: Rosemary Rhiannon Bishop) is an Associate Professor of Palaeobotany at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She is an archaeobotanist and environmental archaeologist, and her research focuses on the archaeology of Scotland and Norway, within the wider context of North-West Europe. She is particularly interested in early agriculturalists, hunter-gatherer plant use, and changing agricultural practices in relation to climate, environmental and social change. She has co-authored several international peer-reviewed papers revealing the nature and diversity of hunter-gatherer plant use and early agricultural practices. These have been published in journals such as Antiquity, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and World Archaeology (see: https://rosiebishop.com/publications/). External link, opens in new window.

Bishop completed her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded PhD on Mesolithic–Neolithic plant use in Scotland at Durham University’s Department of Archaeology (UK) in 2013, and was subsequently employed as a postdoctoral research associate in the same department. From 2016 to 2018, she was an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the School of Archaeology at UCD Dublin, Ireland.

Bishop leads the project ‘Climate, Crops, and Crisis? Examining Agricultural Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in Prehistory’ External link, opens in new window., which is funded by the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo. This project examines the resilience of prehistoric farmers to climate deterioration in early prehistory. Her research fellowship at SCAS builds on this research, aiming to further elucidate our understanding of early farming adaptations and agricultural productivity in relation to climate change in prehistoric Southern Scandinavia and Atlantic Scotland.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.