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Staff in Archaeology

 
Academic Staff in Archaeology
Name Area of Interest
Judith Barringer (Classics)

Greek sculpture, vase painting; mythology and religion

László Bartosiewicz

Animal husbandry and hunting in Europe; Human-animal relationships; Reconstruction of animal size; Aquatic environments

Clive Bonsall

Hunter-gatherer societies; transition from foraging to farming; Stone Age technology; human–environment interactions; reconstruction of ancient diets

Jim Crow

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

Glenys Davies (Classics)

Roman funerary art; women in Classical art

Robert Leighton

Western Mediterranean prehistory (especially Italy, Sicily and small islands); Etruscan-Italic-Phoenician-Greek interaction; history of the discipline; prehistoric trade/exchange; early state formation

Kath McSweeney

Human osteology; Palaeopathology; Violence and warfare in prehistory

Magda Midgley

Early village farming societies of Europe; Monumental burial mounds of Neolithic Europe

Ian Ralston

Archaeology of Eastern Scotland; Later Iron Age in France

Eberhard W. Sauer (Classics)

Roman archaeology; religion; the army; monetary history

Ulf-Dietrich Schoop

The emergence of food production in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean; the archaeology of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Anatolia; Hittite archaeology; archaeometallurgy

Gordon Thomas

Ancient technology; Archaeological Illustration; Experimental archaeology; Prehistoric buildings; Site formation processes


Emeritus Staff in Archaeology
Name Area of Interest

Dennis Harding

Air photography; Early Celtic art
Experimental archaeology; Hillforts and Settlements in Iron Age Britain and Europe; Later Prehistory of Atlantic Scotland


Honorary Fellows in Archaeology
Name Area of Interest
Tertia Barnett

Prehistoric rock art and symbolism; Emergence of food production in North Africa; Rock art recording methodologies

Jonathan Benjamin

Submerged cultural landscapes; The Neolithisation of Europe; Aerial, satellite and bathymetric interpretation of Paleocoastlines; Prehistoric human and cultural migrations; Underwater archaeology

Diane Bolger

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

Ruby Cerón-Carrasco

Analysis of fish and shellfish remains; Analysis of marine shell artefacts; Ethnoarchaeology; Marine exploitation through time

Paul Croft

Zooarchaeology, especially of the prehistoric East Mediterranean and Levant; Manager, Lemba Archaeological Research Centre, Cyprus

Caroline Finkel

Andrew McCarthy

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

Roger Mercer

Neolithic of the British Isles; Archaeological survey; Landscape archaeology

Edgar Peltenburg

Socio-political dynamics of small-scale societies; Rise of States in the Ancient Near East; Early technology: the development of vitreous materials

Alison Sheridan

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

Alistair Small (Classics)

Archaeology of pre-Roman; Roman, and immediately post-Roman Italy and especially South Italy.

Trevor Watkins

Beginnings of village type communities in the Near East; Origins of agriculture


Administrative Support Staff in Archaeology
Name Support Role
Karen Howie

eLearning and Web Development Officer

Catriona Pickard

Technical Officer

Sarah Larios

Administrator

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