Rate My Professor Amanda Burtt

Dr Amanda Burtt is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington, awarded in 2022, with a dissertation titled “The Dietary Behavior of Indigenous North American Canids: A Multi-method Approach.” Her research focuses on zooarchaeology and the application of dental microwear texture analysis to study the diets of canids, including domestic dogs and grey wolves, across prehistoric and modern contexts.

Burtt has contributed to projects examining how climate change influences wolf feeding behaviors, including a 2026 study published in Ecology Letters that analyzed fossil and modern wolf teeth from different climatic periods. She co-edited the 2020 volume Dogs: Archaeology beyond Domestication. Her work has involved collaborations with institutions such as the Natural History Museum and funding from the Natural Environment Research Council.