Roman and Byzantine archaeology; the archaeology of urbanism and especially infrastructures and fortifications; Roman Frontiers in northern Britain and in the eastern empire; landscape archaeology; archaeology and cultural history
Western Mediterranean prehistory (especially Italy, Sicily and small islands); Etruscan-Italic-Phoenician-Greek interaction; history of the discipline; prehistoric trade/exchange; early state formation
The emergence of food production in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean; the archaeology of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Anatolia; Hittite archaeology; archaeometallurgy
Air photography;
Early Celtic art
Experimental archaeology;
Hillforts and Settlements in Iron Age Britain and Europe;
Later Prehistory of Atlantic Scotland
Submerged cultural landscapes; The Neolithisation of Europe; Aerial, satellite and bathymetric interpretation of Paleocoastlines; Prehistoric human and cultural migrations; Underwater archaeology
Gender and society in the ancient Near East; Gender, cognition and human evolution; Ceramic technology and craft specialization in prehistoric Cyprus; Ceramics of the Uruk and local Late Chalcolithic cultures of Syria
David Breeze (Classics)
Roman frontiers (in particular Hadrian's Wall and Antonine Wall); the Roman Army; cultural resource management
Theoretical and cognitive archaeology; Gender, ethnic and political identity formation; Chronology and social development of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age Near East and East Mediterranean; Glyptic (seals and seal impressions) of the greater Near East
Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland; Ancient technology — especially ceramics, faïence and jet; Scottish human remains documentation; Radiocarbon dating of prehistoric Scottish material
Archaeology
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University of Edinburgh
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