Background
Fiona graduated with a degree in chemistry from the University of Manchester before undertaking her PhD and post-doctoral research in biogeochemistry at the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff. She then joined the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at Oxford University, where she developed her interests in archaeological sciences whilst working as the radiocarbon dating laboratory chemist.
Fiona's research interests are diverse, but primarily focus on the application of analytical techniques to archaeological and forensic sciences, in particular relating to the preservation of organic materials (e.g. bone collagen, wood, charcoal, leather and parchment) in the archaeological record. She also works with museums and conservators on a wide range of topics, including investigating the composition, provenance and/or manufacture of cultural heritage artefacts, identifying unknown conservation treatments, and micro-CT scanning objects.
Fiona is module lead for Analytical Techniques on the Cranfield Forensic Institute's forensic MSc programme and contributes to several other modules, including Fakes & Forgeries, Forensic Ecology and Further Forensic Anthropology: Identification. She is also Cranfield's academic rep on the AHRC South, West & Wales DTP Programme Delivery Board.
Research opportunities
Fiona welcomes enquiries from students wishing to undertake research degrees, including PhD (3 years full-time, 6 years part-time), MPhil (2 years full-time), or Masters by Research (1 year full-time).
Enquiries are particularly welcome from students wishing to investigate the collections at the Museum of Leathercraft:
https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/research/phd/cds-unlocking-the-secrets-of-historical-leather-caskets-in-the-museum-of-leathercraft
Current activities
Fiona's current research projects include:
The chronology and provenance of prehistoric Caribbean carvings (with Joanna Ostapkowicz, University of Oxford);
Radiocarbon dating of historical parchments (with Dr Keagan Brewer, Macquarie University and the radiocarbon laboratories at Bristol and Oxford Universities);
Working with museums and conservators on a wide range of topics, applying analytical science to the investigation of objects of cultural heritage and their conservation;
Working with the conservation team at HMS Victory, in particular investigating the impact of Deathwatch Beetle activity within the ship's historic timbers;
Investigating the diagenesis of archaeological bone.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Loy C, Brock F & Dyer C (2023) Investigating diagenesis of archaeological bones from Etton Causewayed Enclosure, UK, Quaternary International, Available online 2 January 2023. Dataset/s: 10.17862/cranfield.rd.21753605.
- Petchey F, Piper P, Dabell K, Brock F, Turner H & Dzung LTM (2022) Dating Thach Lac: cryptic CaCO3 diagenesis in archaeological food shells and implications for 14c, Radiocarbon, 64 (5) 1093-1107.
- Brock F, Southwell R, Hazell Z, Wessling R, Green M & Davis D (2022) Using high-resolution digital photography and micro-CT scanning to investigate Deathwatch Beetle damage to an historic timber from HMS Victory, Environmental Archaeology, Available online 16 January 2022.
- Schulting RJ, Snoeck C, Pouncett J, Brock F, Ramsey CB, Higham T, Devièse T, Delancy K, Pateman M, Keegan W & Ostapkowicz J (2021) Six centuries of adaptation to a challenging island environment: AMS14C dating and stable isotopic analysis of pre-Columbian human remains from the Bahamian archipelago reveal dietary trends, Quaternary Science Reviews, 254 (February) Article No. 106780.
- Metcalfe JZ, Ives JW, Shirazi S, Gilmore K, Hallson J, Brock F, Clark BJ & Shapiro B (2021) Isotopic evidence for long-distance connections of the AD thirteenth century Promontory caves occupants, American Antiquity, 86 (3) 526-548. Dataset/s: 10.7291/D18Q23
- Snoeck C, Schulting RJ, Brock F, Rodler AS, Van Ham-Meert A, Mattielli N & Ostapkowicz J (2021) Testing various pre-treatments on artificially waterlogged and pitch-contaminated wood for strontium isotope analyses, Frontiers in Ecology And Evolution, 8 (January) Article No. 589154. Dataset/s: 10.3389/fevo.2020.589154/full#S10
- Ascough PL, Brock F, Collinson ME, Painter JD, Lane DW & Bird MI (2020) Chemical characteristics of macroscopic pyrogenic carbon following millennial-scale environmental exposure, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7 (January) Article No. 203.
- Brock F, Ostapkowicz J, Collinson ME, Bull ID, Dyer C, Lane DW, Domoneye K & Uden J (2020) Dark materials: pre-Columbian black lithic carvings from St Vincent and the wider Caribbean, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 32 (August) Article No. 102393.
- Caister A, Carr DJ, Campbell PD, Brock F & Breeze J (2020) The ballistic performance of bone when impacted by fragments, International Journal of Legal Medicine, 134 (4) 1387-1393.
- Kemp V, McDonald A, Brock F & Shortland AJ (2020) LA-ICP-MS analysis of late bronze age blue glass beads from Gurob, Egypt, Archaeometry, 62 (1) 42-53.
- Beltrán M, Schibille N, Brock F, Gratuze B, Vallcorba O & Pradell T (2019) Modernist enamels: composition, microstructure and stability, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 40 (April) 1753-1766.
- Brock F, Eastaugh N, Ford T & Townsend JH (2019) Bomb-pulse radiocarbon dating of modern paintings on canvas, Radiocarbon, 61 (1) 39-49.
- Beltran M, Brock F & Pradell T (2019) Thermal properties and stability of Catalan Modernist blue and green enamels, International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 10 (3) 414-425.
- Briant RM, Brock F, Demarchi B, Langford HE, Penkman KEH, Schreve DC, Schwenninger JL & Taylor S (2018) Improving chronological control for environmental sequences from the last glacial period, Quaternary Geochronology, 43 (February) 40-49.
- Brock F, Dee M, Hughes A, Snoeck C, Staff R & Ramsey CB (2018) Testing the effectiveness of protocols for removal of common conservation treatments for radiocarbon dating, Radiocarbon, 60 (1) 35-50.
- Lindroos A, Ringbom A, Heinemeier J, Hodgins G, Sonck-Koota P, Sjoberg P, Lancaster L, Kaisti R, Brock F, Ranta H, Caroselli M & Lugli S. (2018) Radiocarbon dating historical mortars: lime lumps and/or binder carbonate?, Radiocarbon, 60 (3) 875-899.
- Jennings RM, Malbon C, Brock F, Harrisson S & Carr DJ (2018) A preliminary study into injuries due to non-perforating ballistic impacts into soft body armour over the spine, Injury, 49 (7) 1251-1257.
- Wood F, Brock F & Uden J (2018) An Investigation of a Baroque Musette Bourdon Using Micro-Computed Tomography, Galpin Society Journal, 71 (Mar) 179-188-271, 275.
- Jennings RM, Malbon C, Brock F, Harrisson S & Carr DJ (2018) A preliminary study into the skeletal injuries sustained to the spine from posterior non-perforating ballistic impacts into body armour, Journal- Royal Army Medical Corps, 164 (3) 186-190.
- Ostapkowicz J, Roberts A, Thistlewood J, Brock F, Wiedenhoeft AC, Snoeck C, Schulting R & Bray W (2018) The Origins of Tradescant's 'India Occidentali' wooden clubs: 14C dating material identification and strontium isotope studies, Antiquaries Journal, 98 (April) 187-218.
- Ostapkowicz J, Schulting RJ, Wheeler R, Newsom L, Brock F, Bull I & Snoeck C (2017) East-central Florida pre-Columbian wood sculpture: Radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope studies, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 13 (June) 595-608.
- Huels CM, van der Plicht J, Brock F, Matzerath S & Chivall D (2017) Laboratory intercomparison of Pleistocene bone radiocarbon dating protocols, Radiocarbon, 59 (5) 1543-1552.
- Brock F, Ostapkowicz J, Wiedenhoeft AC & Bull ID (2017) Radiocarbon dating wooden carvings and skeletal remains from Pitch Lake, Trinidad, Radiocarbon, 59 (5) 1447-1461.
- Ostapkowicz J, Brock F, Wiedenhoeft AC, Schulting R & Saviola D (2017) Integrating the Old World into the New: an ‘Idol from the West Indies’, Antiquity, 91 (359) 1314-1329.
- Ostapkowicz J, Brock F, Widenhoeft AC, Snoeck C, Pouncett J, Baksh-Comeau Y, Schulting R, Claeys P, Mattielli N, Richards M & Boomert A (2017) Black pitch, carved histories: radiocarbon dating, wood species identification and strontium isotope analysis of prehistoric wood carvings from Trinidad's Pitch Lake, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 16 341-358.
- Bonneau A, Staff RA, Higham T, Brock F, Pearce DG & Mitchell PJ (2017) Successfully dating rock art in Southern Africa using improved sampling methods and new characterization and pretreatment protocols, Radiocarbon, 59 (3) 659-677.
- Bonneau A, Pearce D, Mitchell P, Staff R, Arthur C, Mallen L, Brock F & Higham T (2017) The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates, Antiquity, 91 (356) 322-333.
- Brock F & Cook GT (2017) Forensic Radiocarbon Dating of Human Remains: The Past, the Present, and the Future, Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science, 1 (1) 3-16.
- Brown S, Higham T Slon V, Pääbo S, Meyer M, Douka K, Brock F, Comeskey D, Procopio N, Shunkov M, Derevianko A & Buckley M (2016) Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis, Scientific Reports, 6.
- Snoeck C, Staff RA & Brock F (2016) A Reassessment of the Routine Pretreatment Protocol for Radiocarbon Dating Cremated Bones, Radiocarbon, 58 (1) 1-8.
- Bayliss A, Brock F, Farid S, Hodder I, Southon J & Taylor RE (2015) Getting to the bottom of it all: A Bayesian approach to dating the start of Catalhoyuk, Journal of World Prehistory, 28 (1) 1-26.
- Gallego Llorente M, Jones E, Eriksson A, Siska V, Arthur K, Arthur J, Curtis M, Stock J, Coltorti M, Pieruccini P, Stretton S, Brock F, Higham T, Park Y, Hofreiter M, Bradley D, Bhak J, Pinhasi R & Manica A (2015) Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent, Science, 350 (6262) 820-822.
- Ramsey CB, Higham TFG, Brock F, Baker D, Ditchfield P & Staff RA (2015) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS System : Archaeometry datelist 35, Archaeometry, 57 (1) 177-216.
- Dee MW, Wengrow D, Shortland AJ, Stevenson A, Brock F & Ramsey CB (2014) Radiocarbon dating and the Naqada relative chronology, Journal of Archaeological Science, 46 (June) 319-323.
- Higham T, Douka K, Wood R, Ramsey CB, Brock F, Basell L, Camps M, Arrizabalaga A, Baena J, Barroso-Ruiz C, Bergman C, Boitard C, Boscato P, Caparros M, Conard NJ, Draily C, Froment A, Galvan B, Gambassini P, Garcia-Moreno A, Grimaldi S, Haesaerts P, Holt B, Iriarte-Chiapusso MJ, Jelinek A, Pardo JFJ, Maillo-Fernandez JM, Marom A, Maroto J, Menendez M, Metz L, Morin E, Moroni A, Negrino F, Panagopoulou E, Peresani M, Pirson S, de la Rasilla M, Riel-Salvatore J, Ronchitelli A, Santamaria D, Semal P, Slimak L, Soler J, Soler N, Villaluenga A, Pinhasi R & Jacobi R (2014) The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance, Nature, 512 (7514) 306-309.
- Ives JW, Froese DG, Janetski JC, Brock F & Ramsey CB (2014) A high resolution chronology for Steward's Promontory Culture collections, Promontory Point, Utah, American Antiquity, 79 (4) 616-637.
- Zazula GD, MacPhee RDE, Metcalfe JZ, Reyes AV, Brock F, Druckenmiller PS, Groves P, Harington CR, Hodgins GWL, Kunz ML, Longstaffe FJ, Mann DH, McDonald HG, Nalawade-Chavan S & Southon JR (2014) American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (52) 18460-18465.
- Schlolaut G, Brauer A, Marshall MH, Nakagawa T, Staff RA, Ramsey CB, Lamb HF, Bryant CL, Naumann R, Dulski P, Brock F, Yokoyama Y, Tada R & Haraguchi T (2014) Event layers in the Japanese Lake Suigetsu 'SG06' sediment core: description, interpretation and climatic implications, Quaternary Science Reviews, 83 157-170.
- Snoeck C, Brock F & Schulting RJ (2014) Carbon exchanges between bone apatite and fuels during cremation: impact on radiocarbon dates, Radiocarbon, 56 (2) 591-602.
- Nalawade-Chavan S, Zazula G, Brock F, Southon J, MacPhee R & Druckenmiller P (2014) New single amino acid hydroxyproline radiocarbon dates for two problematic American Mastodon fossils from Alaska, Quaternary Geochronology, 20 23-28.
- Ives JW, Froese D, Collins M & Brock F (2014) Radiocarbon and protein analyses indicate an early Holocene age for the Osseus Rod from Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada, American Antiquity, 79 (4) 782-793.
- Quiles A, Valladas H, Geneste JM, Clottes J, Baffier D, Berthier B, Brock F, Ramsey CB, Delque-Kolic E, Dumoulin JP, Hajdas I, Hippe K, Hodgins GWL, Hogg A, Jull AJT, Kaltnecker E, de Martino M, Oberlin C, Petchey F, Steier P, Synal HA, van der Plicht J, Wild EM & Zazzo A (2014) Second radiocarbon intercomparison program for the Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave, Ardeche, France, Radiocarbon, 56 (2) 833-850.
- Staff RA, Reynard L, Brock F & Ramsey CB (2014) Wood pretreatment protocols and measurement of tree-ring standards at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU), Radiocarbon, 56 (2) 709-715.
- Brock F, Geoghegan V, Thomas B, Jurkschat K & Higham TFG (2013) Analysis of bone "collagen" extraction products for radiocarbon dating, Radiocarbon, 55 (2-3) 445-463.
- Tennant RK, Jones RT, Brock F, Cook C, Turney CSM, Love J & Lee R (2013) A new flow cytometry method enabling rapid purification of fossil pollen from terrestrial sediments for AMS radiocarbon dating, Journal of Quaternary Science, 28 (3) 229-236.
- Dee M, Wengrow D, Shortland A, Stevenson A, Brock F, Flink LG & Ramsey CB (2013) An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 469 (2159).
- Brock F, Higham T & Ramsey CB (2013) Comments on the use of Ezee-filters and ultrafilters at ORAU, Radiocarbon, 55 (1) 211-212.
- Facorellis Y, Karkanas P, Higham T, Brock F, Ntinou M & Kyparissi-Apostolika N (2013) Interpreting Radiocarbon Dates from the Paleolithic Layers of Theopetra Cave in Thessaly, Greece, Radiocarbon, 55 (2-3) 1432-1442.
- Staff RA, Schlolaut G, Ramsey CB, Brock F, Bryant CL, Kitagawa H, van der Plicht J, Marshall MH, Brauer A, Lamb HF, Payne RL, Tarasov PE, Haraguchi T, Gotanda K, Yonenobu H, Yokoyama Y & Nakagawa T (2013) Integration of the Old and New Lake Suigetsu (Japan) Terrestrial Radiocarbon Calibration Data Sets, Radiocarbon, 55 (4) 2049-2058.
- Ottoni C, Flink LG, Evin A, Georg C, De Cupere B, Van Neer W, Bartosiewicz L, Linderholm A, Barnett R, Peters J, Decorte R, Waelkens M, Vanderheyden N, Ricaut FX, Cakirlar C, Cevik O, Hoelzel AR, Mashkour M, Karimlu AFM, Seno SS, Daujat J, Brock F, Pinhasi R, Hongo H, Perez-Enciso M, Rasmussen M, Frantz L, Megens HJ, Crooijmans R, Groenen M, Arbuckle B, Benecke N, Vidarsdottir US, Burger J, Cucchi T, Dobney K & Larson G (2013) Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in Western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30 (4) 824-832.
- Staff RA, Nakagawa T, Schlolaut G, Marshall MH, Brauer A, Lamb HF, Ramsey CB, Bryant CL, Brock F, Kitagawa H, Van der Plicht J, Payne RL, Smith VC, Mark DF, MacLeod A, Blockley SPE, Schwenninger JL, Tarasov PE, Haraguchi T, Gotanda K, Yonenobu H & Yokoyama Y (2013) The multiple chronological techniques applied to the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sediment core, central Japan, Boreas, 42 (2) 259-266.
- Brock F (2013) Radiocarbon dating of historical parchments, Radiocarbon, 55 (2-3) 353-363.
- Ostapkowicz J, Ramsey CB, Brock F, Cartwright C, Stacey R & Richards M (2013) Birdmen, cemis and duhos: material studies and AMS C-14 dating of Pre-Hispanic Caribbean wood sculptures in the British Museum, Journal of Archaeological Science, 40 (12) 4675-4687.
- Schlolaut G, Marshall MH, Brauer A, Nakagawa T, Lamb HF, Staff RA, Ramsey CB, Bryant CL, Brock F, Kossler A, Tarasov PE, Yokoyama Y, Tada R & Haraguchi T (2012) An automated method for varve interpolation and its application to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan, Quaternary Geochronology, 13 52-69.
- Cook GT, Higham TFG, Naysmith P, Brock F, Freeman SPHT & Bayliss A (2012) Assessment of infinite-age bones from the Upper Thames Valley, UK, as 14C background standards, Radiocarbon, 54 (3-4) 845-853.
- Ostapkowicz J, Ramsey CB, Brock F, Higham T, Wiedenhoeft AC, Ribechini E, Lucejko JJ & Wilson S (2012) Chronologies in wood and resin: AMS C-14 dating of pre-Hispanic Caribbean wood sculpture, Journal of Archaeological Science, 39 (7) 2238-2251.
- Parkes RJ, Brock F, Banning N, Hornibrook ERC, Roussel EG, Weightman AJ & Fry JC (2012) Changes in methanogenic substrate utilization and communities with depth in a salt-marsh, creek sediment in southern England, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 96 (1) 170-178.
- Housley RA, Lane CS, Cullen VL, Weber MJ, Riede F, Gamble CS & Brock F (2012) Icelandic volcanic ash from the Late-glacial open-air archaeological site of Ahrenshoft LA 58 D, North Germany, Journal of Archaeological Science, 39 (3) 708-716.
- Brock F, Ostapkowicz J, Ramsey CB, Wiedenhoeft A & Cartwright C (2012) Paired dating of pith and outer edge (terminus) samples from pre-Hispanic Caribbean wooden sculptures, Radiocarbon, 54 (3-4) 677-688.
- Brock F, Wood R, Higham TFG, Ditchfield P, Bayliss A & Ramsey CB (2012) Reliability of Nitrogen Content (%N) and Carbon:Nitrogen Atomic Ratios (C:N) as Indicators of Collagen Preservation Suitable for Radiocarbon Dating, Radiocarbon, 54 (3-4) 879-886.
- Nakagawa T, Gotanda K, Haraguchi T, Danhara T, Yonenobu H, Brauer A, Yokoyama Y, Tada R, Takemura K, Staff RA, Payne R, Ramsey CB, Bryant C, Brock F, Schlolaut G, Marshall M, Tarasov P & Lamb H (2012) SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes, Quaternary Science Reviews, 36 164-176.
- Dee MW, Rowland JM, Higham TFG, Shortland AJ, Brock F, Harris SA & Bronk Ramsey C (2012) Synchronising radiocarbon dating and the Egyptian historical chronology by improved sample selection, Antiquity, 86 (333) 868-883.
- Higham T, Bronk Ramsey C, Basell L, Brock F, Wood R & Davies W (2012) Radiocarbon dating & Bayesian modelling from the Grotte du Renne & a Neanderthal origin for the Chatelperronian, Before Farming, 2012 (3).
- Higham T, Brock F, Ramsey CB, Davies W, Wood R & Basell L (2012) Chronology of the Grotte due Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, Frace: a response to Zilhao et al (this issue), Before Farming, 2012 (3) 1-5.
- Ramsey CB, Staff RA, Bryant CL, Brock F, Kitagawa H, van der Plicht J, Schlolaut G, Marshall MH, Brauer A, Lamb HF, Payne RL, Tarasov PE, Haraguchi T, Gotanda K, Yonenobu H, Yokoyama Y, Tada R & Nakagawa T (2012) A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr BP, Science, 338 (6105) 370-374.
- Rebollo NR, Weiner S, Brock F, Meignen L, Goldberg P, Belfer-Cohen A, Bar-Yosef O & Boaretto E (2011) New radiocarbon dating of the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel, Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (9) 2424-2433.
- Staff RA, Ramsey CB, Bryant CL, Brock F, Payne RL, Schlolaut G, Marshall MH, Brauer A, Lamb HF, Tarasov P, Yokoyama Y, Haraguchi T, Gotanda K, Yonenobu H & Nakagawa T (2011) New 14C determinations from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: 12,000 to 0 cal BP, Radiocarbon, 53 (3) 511-528.
- Higham TFG, Ramsey CB, Brock F, Baker D & Ditchfield P (2011) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS System : Archaeometry datelist 34, Archaeometry, 53 (5) 1067-1084.
- Brock F, Lee S, Housley RA & Ramsey CB (2011) Variation in the radiocarbon age of different fractions of peat: A case study from Ahrenshoft, northern Germany, Quaternary Geochronology, 6 (6) 550-555.
- Bonneau A, Brock F, Higham T, Pearce DG & Pollard AM (2011) An improved pretreatment protocol for radiocarbon dating black pigments in San rock art, Radiocarbon, 53 (3) 419-428.
- Arnold LJ, Roberts RG, Macphee RDE, Haile JS, Brock F, Moller P, Froese DG, Tikhonov AN, Chivas AR, Gilbert MTP & Willerslev E (2011) Paper II - Dirt, dates and DNA: OSL and radiocarbon chronologies of perennially frozen sediments in Siberia, and their implications for sedimentary ancient DNA studies, Boreas, 40 (3) 417-445.
- Dee MW, Brock F, Bowles AD & Ramsey CB (2011) Using a silica substrate to monitor the effectiveness of radiocarbon pretreatment, Radiocarbon, 53 (4) 705-711.
- Higham T, Brock F, Ramsey CB, Davies W, Wood R & Basell L (2011) Chronology of the site of Grotte due Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France: implications for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour, Before Farming, 2011 (2) 1-9.
- Ostapkowicz J, Wiedenhoeft A, Ramsey CB, Ribechini E, Wilson S, Brock F & Higham T (2011) 'Treasures ... of black wood, brilliantly polished': five examples of Taino sculpture from the tenth-sixteenth century Caribbean, Antiquity, 85 (329) 942-959.
- Dee MW, Brock F, Harris SA, Ramsey CB, Shortland AJ, Higham TFG & Rowland JM (2010) Investigating the likelihood of a reservoir offset in the radiocarbon record for ancient Egypt, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37 (4) 687-693.
- Ramsey CB, Dee MW, Rowland JM, Higham TFG, Harris SA, Brock F, Quiles A, Wild EM, Marcus ES & Shortland AJ (2010) Radiocarbon-based chronology for dynastic Egypt, Science, 328 (5985) 1554-1557.
- Tyler J, Kashiyama Y, Ohkouchi N, Ogawa N, Yokoyama Y, Chikaraisha Y, Staff RA, Ikehara M, Bronk Ramsey C, Bryant C, Brock F, Gotandam K, Haraguchi T, Yonenobu H & Nakagawa T. (2010) Tracking aquatic change using chlorine-specific carbon and nitrogen isotopes: The last glacial-interglacial transition at Lake Suigetsu, Japan, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11 (9).
- Brock F, Higham T, Ditchfield P & Ramsey CB (2010) Current pretreatment methods for AMS radiocarbon dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU),, Radiocarbon, 52 (1) 103-112.
- Ascough PL, Bird MI, Meredith W, Wood RE, Snape CE, Brock F, Higham TFG, Large DJ & Apperley DC (2010) Hydropyrolysis: Implications for radiocarbon pretreatment and characterization of black carbon, Radiocarbon, 52 (3) 1336-1350.
- Brock F, Higham T & Ramsey CB (2010) Pre-screening techniques for identification of samples suitable for radiocarbon dating of poorly preserved bones, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37 (4) 855-865.
- Ramsey CB, Dee MW, Rowland JM, Higham TFG, Harris SA, Brock F, Quiles A, Wild EM, Marcus ES & Shortland AJ (2010) Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt, Science, 328 (5985) 1554-1557.
- Brock F, Froese DG & Roberts RG (2010) Low temperature (LT) combustion of sediments does not necessarily provide accurate radiocarbon ages for site chronology, Quaternary Geochronology, 5 (6) 625-630.
- Zazula GD, MacKay G, Andrews TD, Shapiro B, Letts B & Brock F (2009) A late Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) partial carcass from Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28 (25-26) 2734-2742.
- Stynder DD, Brock F, Sealy JC, Wurz S, Morris AG & Volman TP (2009) A mid-Holocene AMS C-14 date for the presumed upper Pleistocene human skeleton from Peers Cave, South Africa, Journal of Human Evolution, 56 (4) 431-434.
- Brock F & Higham TFG (2009) AMS radiocarbon dating of Paleolithic-aged charcoal from Europe and the Mediterranean rim using ABOx-SC, Radiocarbon, 51 (2) 839-846.
- Ascough PL, Bird MI, Brock F, Higham TFG, Meredith W, Snape CE & Vane CH (2009) Hydropyrolysis as a new tool for radiocarbon pre-treatment and the quantification of black carbon, Quaternary Geochronology, 4 (2) 140-147.
- Meredith W, Ascough PL, Snape CE, Large DJ, Bird MI, Brock F, Higham TFG, Wood RE & Vane CH (2009) Hydropyrolysis as a method for radiocarbon pre-treatment, and the quantification of black carbon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (13 Supplement) A872-A872.
- Higham T, Brock F, Peresani M, Broglio A, Wood R & Douka K (2009) Problems with radiocarbon dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy, Quaternary Science Reviews, 28 (13-14) 1257-1267.
- Higham TFG, Barton H, Turney CSM, Barker G, Ramsey CB & Brock F (2009) Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from tropical sequences: results from the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, and their broader implications, Journal of Quaternary Science, 24 (2) 189-197.
- Broglio A, De Stefani M, Gurioli F, Pallecchi P, Giachi G, Higham T & Brock F (2009) L’art aurignacien dans la décoration de laGrotte de Fumane (The decoration of Fumane Cave in the picture of the Aurignacian art), L'Anthropologie, 113 (5) 753-761.
- Ramsey CB, Higham TFG, Brock F, Baker D & Ditchfield P (2009) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS System : Archaeometry datelist 33, Archaeometry, 51 323-349.
- Zazula GD, Harrington CR, Telka AM & Brock F (2009) Radiocarbon dates reveal that Lupinus arcticus plants were grown from modern not Pleistocene seeds, New Phytologist, 182 (4) 788-792.
- Wild EM, Neugebauer-Maresch C, Einwogerer T, Stadler P, Steier P & Brock F (2008) C-14 dating of the Upper Paleolithic site at Krems-Hundssteig in lower Austria, Radiocarbon, 50 (1) 1-10.
- Demuro M, Roberts RG, Froese DG, Arnold LJ, Brock F & Ramsey CB (2008) Optically stimulated luminescence dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from perennially frozen loess in western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison with radiocarbon chronologies for the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra, Quaternary Geochronology, 3 (4) 346-364.
- Arnold LJ, Roberts RG, MacPhee RDE, Willerslev E, Tikhonov AN & Brock F (2008) Optical dating of perennially frozen deposits associated with preserved ancient plant and animal DNA in north-central Siberia, Quaternary Geochronology, 3 (1-2) 114-136.
- Parkes RJ, Cragg BA, Banning N, Brock F, Webster G, Fry JC, Hornibrook E, Pancost RD, Kelly S, Knab N, Jorgensen BB, Rinna J & Weightman AJ (2007) Biogeochemistry and biodiversity of methane cycling in subsurface marine sediments (Skagerrak, Denmark), Environmental Microbiology, 9 (5) 1146-1161.
- Higham TFG, Ramsey CB, Brock F, Baker D & Ditchfield P (2007) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 32, Archaeometry, 49 (Supplement S1) S1-S60.
- Brock F, Ramsey CB & Higham T (2007) Quality assurance of ultrafiltered bone dating, Radiocarbon, 49 (2) 187-192.
- Brock F, Parkes RJ & Briggs DEG (2006) Experimental pyrite formation associated with decay of plant material, PALAIOS, 21 (5) 499-506.
- Banning N, Brock F, Fry JC, Parkes RJ, Hornibrook ERC & Weightman AJ (2005) Investigation of the methanogen population structure and activity in a brackish lake sediment, Environmental Microbiology, 7 (7) 947-960.
- Grimes ST, Davies KL, Butler IB, Brock F, Edwards D, Rickard D, Briggs DEG & Parkes RJ (2002) Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization, Journal of the Geological Society, 159 493-501.
- Grimes ST, Brock F, Rickard D, Davies KL, Edwards D, Briggs DEG & Parkes RJ. (2001) Understanding fossilization: experimental pyritization of plants, Geology, 29 (2) 123-126.
Conference Papers
- Dee MW, Wengrow D, Shortland AJ, Stevenson A, Brock F & Bronk Ramsey C (2016) Radiocarbon dating of Early Egyptian pot residues. In: Vienna 2 - Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century, Vienna, 14-18 May 2012.
- Hodgins G, Lindroos A, Ringbom A, Heinemeier J & Brock F 14C dating of Roman mortars - preliminary tests using diluted hydrochloric acid injected in batches. In: Building Roma Aeterna ; Current Research on Roman Mortar and Concrete, 27 March 2008.
- Lindroos A, Ringbom A, Kaisti R, Heinemeier J, Hodgins G & Brock F The oldest parts of Turku Cathedral. C-14 chronology of fire damaged mortars. In: Archaeology and History of Churches in Baltic Region, Visby, 8 June 2010.
- Lindroos A, Heinemeier J, Ringbom A, Brock F, Sonck-Koota P, Pehkonen M & Suksi J Problems in radiocarbon dating of Roman pozzolana mortars. In: Building Roma Aeterna ; Current Research on Roman Mortar and Concrete, 27 March 2008.
- Ringbom A, Heinemeier J, Lindroos A & Brock F Mortar dating and Roman pozzolana, results and interpretation. In: Building Roma Aeterna ; Current Research on Roman Mortar and Concrete, 27 March 2008.
- Ranta H, Hansson J, Lindroos A, Ringbom A, Heinemeier J, Brock F & Hodgins G Om datering av Gotlands medeltida kyrkor.
Books
- Adlington LW, Freestone IC, Seliger L, Martinon-Torres M, Brock F & Shortland A. (2020) Chapter 10: In situ methodology for compositional grouping of medieval stained glass windows: introducing the "windolyzer" for handheld x-ray fluorescence spectrometry. In: Archaeological chemistry: a multidisciplinary analysis of the past, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 176-201.
- Marshall P, Bronk Ramsey C, Russell N, Brock F & Reimer P (2016) Interpreting the chronology of the cist. In: Preserved in the Peat: An extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context, Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 183-194.
- Higham T, Lloyd-Smith L, Barton H, Brock F & Turney C (2016) Radiocarbon dating. In: Archaeological investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Barker G, Farr L (ed.), Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, p. 219-232.
- Higham TFG, Ramsey CB, Cheney H, Brock F & Douka K (2012) The radiocarbon chronology of Gorham's Cave. In: Neanderthals in Context: A report of the 1995-1998 excavations at Gorham's and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar. Barton RNE, Stringer C, Finlayson C (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph Series, p. 62-76.
- Brock F (2012) Preparing samples for AMS Radiocarbon Dating. In: Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt. Shortland AJ, Ramsey CB (ed.), Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 48-52.
- Brock F & Dee MW (2012) Sample selection for radiocarbon dating. In: Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt. Shortland AJ, Ramsey CB (ed.), Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 40-47.
- Ostapkowicz J, Ramsey CB, Wiedenhoeft AC, Brock F, Higham T & Wilson SM (2011) 'This Relic of Antiquity': Fifth to fifteenth century wood carvings from the southern Lesser Antilles. In: Communities in contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory & ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean. Hofmann CL, van Duijvenbode A (ed.), Leiden: Sidestone Press, p. 137-170.
- Pollard AM & Brock F (2011) Provenancing parchment, leather and paper using stable isotopes. In: The technological study of books and manuscripts as artefacts (BAR International Series 2209). Neate S, Howell D, Ovenden R, Pollard AM (ed.), Oxford: Archaeopress, p. 85-90.