Charlie’s research focuses on establishing how past populations utilised plants through the analysis of microremains preserved in human dental calculus and archaeological sediments. He is particularly interested in exploring the persistence of wild plant use and ‘neglected’ species amongst food producers.

After completing his PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia, Charlie joined the ARCAN laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher studying plant use and diet amongst early alpine agropastoral societies in the Valais region of Western Switzerland as part of the SNSF project (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/205059).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2023

• Le Moyne C, Roberts, P, Hua Q, Bleasdale M, Desideri J, Boivin N, Crowther A (2023) Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary Kadruka 21. PLoS ONE 18(2): e0280347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280347


• Le Moyne C, Fuller DQ, Crowther A (2023) Microbotanical signatures of kreb: Differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses. Veget Hist Archaeobot 32:49-63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-022-00880-3

2022

• Wang K, Bleasdale M, Le Moyne C, Freund C, Krause J, Boivin N, Schiffels S (2022) 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists. Sci Rep 12(1):20939. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25384-y

2021

• Le Moyne C, Crowther A (2021) Effects of chemical pre-treatments on modified starch granules: Recommendations for dental calculus decalcification for ancient starch research. J Archaeol Sci Rep 35:102762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102762


• Goldstein ST, Crowther A, Henry ER, Janzen A, Katongo M, Brown S, Farr J, Le Moyne C, Picin A, Richter KK, Boivin N (2021) Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa. Afr Archaeol Rev 38:625-655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-021-09440-y

2020

• Brass M, Adam A, Vella Gregory I, Abdallah R, Alawad O, Abdalla A, Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin I, Wellings J, Albadwi A, Le Moyne C, Hassan F, Ali, A (2020) The second season of excavations at Jebel Moya (south-central Sudan). Libyan Studies 51:12