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Archaeology Research Projects

Current and completed research projects.

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KNIROH: Knaresborough and Irchester Roman Hoards

KNIROH is a re-evaluation of two of the greatest late Roman copper-alloy vessels hoards found in Britain

2019 - present

Reimagining 'aliens'

Nomenclatures of invasion, interdisciplinary connections and the impact on broader discourses about the spread of non-human species.

Rome Transformed

Interdisciplinary analysis of Political, Military and Religious regenerations of the city’s forgotten quarter C1-C8 CE

2019 - 2024

WHAM: WHat this Awl Means

A functional and social analysis of prehistoric metal awls from Europe

2021 - 2023

HERILAND

Cultural HERItage and the planning of European LANDscapes

2019 - 2023

TerraSAgE

Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments

2020 - 2022

HiLSS: Historic Landscape and Soil Sustainability

2020 - 2022

Tintagel

Trans-European connections in the post-Roman world

2016 - 2022

EuroDag

The first European daggers: function, technology and social significance

2019 - 2021

Unmasking Masks

Rethinking concepts of personhood in Europe 40,000-4000BC

2019 - 2021

Hadrian’s Wall Community Landscape Archaeology Project

2017 - 2021

Analysing Britain's most elusive Roman sculptures

2018 -2020

Sacred Landscapes in Late Byzantium

2018 - 2020

Assessing the historic character of cultural landscapes

An integrative approach using remote sensing, scientific dating and digital data analysis

2017 - 2020

Paisley Caves

Investigating the nature and timing of the earliest human occupation of North America using a novel biogeochemical approach

2016 - 2020

Round Mounds of the Isle of Man

2016 - 2020

Written Rock of Gelt

2019

Archaeology on the front line

Cultural politics and archaeological projects in the land of Ionia (1919-1922)

2018 - 2019

Austen Henry Layard in Newcastle and Beyond

2018 - 2019

Expanded Interiors

Bringing contemporary site-specific fine-art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii

2017 - 2019

CoHERE

2016 - 2019

CHiLaT

Cultural heritage in landscape: planning for development in Turkey

2016 - 2019

Unlocking the Ionian landscape

Historic Landscapes of Urla-Çesme Peninsula (Izmir, Turkey)

2016 - 2019

Biofuels’ and respiratory health

The potentials of the archaeological record

2017 - 2018

Co-creating heritage

Bottom-up planning for heritage management in rural areas

2017 - 2018

Addressing the Invisible

Recycling, glass and technological practice in the 1st millennium AD

2016 - 2018

ChroMoLEME

The Character of Monastic Landscapes in Early Medieval Europe

2016 - 2018

Cultural Heritage Through Time

2015 - 2018

Excavation projects of the Roman Villa at Lufton

2016 - 2018

Beyond Destruction

2017

War and the Moral Outdoors

2017

Characterising Historic Landscapes

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

2016 - 2017

Forestry and woodland futures

Assessing impacts of forestry strategies

2016 - 2017

Bogsak in Isauria

New approaches to historic landscapes

2015 - 2017

Global Glass

Global Glass Adornments in the Late Iron Age and Roman Period Frontiers

2015 - 2017

RES.CO.PART Research Consultation and Participation

Developing a tool for managing cultural heritage and landscape

2015 - 2017

TEMPI

2015 - 2017

The cemeteries of Çatalhöyük from Christianity to Islam

2015 - 2016

The First Halberds in Europe

2015 - 2016

Wallington Rothley Phase 2

2015 - 2016

Cheriscape

Cultural Heritage in Landscape

2014 - 2016

RESTOMO: Reintroducing Stone and Mortar

2014 - 2016

The Roman Temples Project Maryport

2013 - 2016

Drapers Gardens

2015

Piercebridge, County Durham

2013 - 2014

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