Landscape
This theme encourages active participation from all researchers, including postgraduates. It focuses on Holocene, with research across all periods from Mesolithic to present.
About
A key approach is integrative landscape archaeology.
We use geographical information systems (GIS) to analyse data created by techniques including:
- remote sensing (including geophysics and laser scanning)
- archaeological field survey and excavation
- geoarchaeology
- historic characterisation
- historic cartography and documentary studies
![Hadrian](/mediav8/history-classics-and-archaeology/images/hadrians-wall-dual.jpg)
Research interests
The research interests of academic staff in the strand include:
- ritual landscapes
- historic landscape characterisation
- frontier landscapes
Theme members meet for coffee every Wednesday morning at 09.30.
We meet at the School’s Senior Common Room (first floor, Armstrong Building).
The convenor is Professor Sam Turner.
![Olynthus, ancient Greek city situated on the Chalcidice Peninsula of northwestern Greece.](/mediav8/history-classics-and-archaeology/images/olynthos-dual.jpg)
McCord Centre for Landscape
Theme researchers work in the University’s McCord Centre for Landscape, established in 2014.
It's a focus for interdisciplinary and collaborative projects about landscape. These look at sites in Britain and across the globe.