Projects
Archaeological research in Cambridge
Current research
Als project
Investigating the changing social landscape of the southern Danish island of Als from the Neolithic to the Viking period
Amarna
Capital city of ancient Egypt
Archaeology and linguistics in the Andes
A cross-disciplinary series of international symposia, lectures, and publications, funded under the British Academy's UK-Latin American and Caribbean Link Programme
Balar Hisar
Investigating ancient Pushkalavati: Excavations at Balar Hisar, Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Bova Marina archaeological project
Excavation and survey in southern Aspromonte
Calabria
The submerged Neolithic of coastal Calabria
Calchaqui Valley, Argentina
Understanding power relations and social practice: Community development in the Calchaqui Valley, Argentina. Investigating changing power relations and the nature of leadership at Borgatta during the period before the Inka conquest (AD 1000???1450)
Canaanite amphorae, Egypt
Cape Verde
Archaeology of Cidade Velha, Cape Verde
Changing beliefs of the human body
Leverhulme Research Programme 2005???2009: Addressing the question of why and how humans change what they believe about the human body
Chinese chariot horses and the evolution of horse husbandry
Identifying osteological differences between riding, traction and free-living horses, resulting from their different life ways, in order to further our understanding of the origins and evolution of horse husbandry
CRIC
Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of identities after Conflict
Crustumerium project
Excavation in the cemetery area of the ancient Latin town of Crustumerium, Rome
Cultured Rainforest project
Investigating long-term and present-day interactions between people and rainforest in the Kelabit Highlands of central Borneo
Durrington Walls
Excavation at Durrington Walls, Woodhenge and the associated River Avon
East--West Millet project
Researching how and where broomcorn millet was first domesticated and why it appears on opposite sides of Asia at a similar time, 8,000 years ago
Ecology of Crusading
The environmental impact of conquest and colonisation in the medieval Baltic
Environmental constraints and human responses in northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC
Investigating the cultural and geographical transformations from the collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities
Environmental Imperialism: Colonial Activity in Mauritius
Investigating the socio-cultural and environmental impacts of colonialism
FOGLIP
Food globalisation in prehistory
Gangetic Plain
Ancient Settlements of the Gangetic Plain: Location and Territoriality
Gozo project
Investigating unsolved problems of the fourth and third millennium BC in Malta
Haua Fteah
The Cyrenaica prehistory project, Libya
Histories of Archaeology Research Network
Untangling the histories and philosophies of archaeology and making them intelligible
Ica Valley archaeological project
Keros
Excavations at Keros in the Cyclades
Kilise Tepe
A rescue excavation in the Goksu Valley, Turkey
Kurnool District, India
Languages and origins in Europe
Leverhulme-funded research into the linguistics and archaeology of the dispersal of the early Indo-European languages
Lepenski Vir culture
Investigating the spatial distribution of Mesolithic-Neolithic (c. 10000--5500 cal BC) archaeological sites in the hinterland areas of the Danube Gorges (Iron Gates) of the north-central Balkans
Lismore landscape project
Investigating the Iron Age landscape of the island of Lismore
Loughcrew project
Understanding the landscape of Loughcrew through airborne LIDAR survey and digital spatial analysis
Malta
Explorations into the conditions of spiritual creativity in prehistoric Malta
Mamasani archaeological project
Medieval origins of commercial sea fishing
A new interdisciplinary and collaborative research project that aims to explore the chronology, causes and implications of the rise of intensive sea fishing in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and North Atlantic from AD 600 to 1600
Memphis faience project
Middle Stone Age of the Lesotho Highlands, southern Africa
Exploring highland landscape use by Middle Stone Age societies in eastern Lesotho
Minaret of Jam archaeological project
Excavation at the magnificently-decorated Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan
Moravian Gate project
Bioarchaeological analysis of early cold-climate human ecology
NAPLEA
The Northeast Algonquin Palaeo-Lake and Environmental Assessment (NAPLEA)
Niah Caves, Sarawak
Initial colonisation and exploitation of rainforests in south-east Asia
North Karnak Survey
An international archaeological project working at North Karnak, Egypt
North Russian rock carvings
Increasing understanding of how archaeologists, as observers, are able to `see' in visual depictions created over four thousand years ago
Prehistory of languages project
Pupicina Cave project
Changing Paleoenvironments and Hunter-Gatherer Strategies in the Northern Adriatic Basin
Qasr Ibrim, Egypt
Quoygrew and the Viking Age transitions
Quoygrew is a late Viking Age and medieval rural settlement on the island of Westray in Orkney, Scotland. It was partially excavated between 1999 and 2005, after an initial archaeological assessment in 1997
Roman archaic architecture
The cataloguing of all buildings found in Rome referable to the VI-V century BC; the study of public and private architecture and building techniques; and the study of the relationship between architectural evidence and Roman archaic society
Roman urbanism in Italy
Roots of spirituality project
Investigating indications of the early occurrence and development of aspects of religious practices and belief
Sant' Ibenia
Sant' Ibenia: From Nuragic village to Roman villa
South Etruria enhancement project
A series of inter-related projects are enhancing knowledge of the South (east) Etruria area north of Rome
Southwest Iran
Exploring routes and plains in southwest Iran
Star Carr
Star Carr and the early postglacial occupation of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire
Suakin project
Archaeological study and conservation at a port on the Red Sea, Sudan
Szazhalombatta
The emergence of European communities
Tell Brak
The investigation of urban growth and administration in northern Mesopotamia in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC (north-east Syria)
The archaeology of ritual transmission
Developing a model for understanding long-term continuity and variation in prehistoric ritual practices
The Brough of Deerness and the Viking Age diaspora
Excavations at the Brough of Deerness, an enigmatic Viking Age site in Orkney
The Expansion of the Venetian Republic in the Adriatic
Investigating the dynamic role of the Venetian Republic
Tiber catchment
Mapping the lower and middle Tiber catchment: The aim of the project is to employ aerial photography, multi spectral data and LiDAR to investigate: Archaeological site recovery, erosion, water management (artificial channels (cuniculi)), land use, DEM precision, and demographic reconstruction
TiMe
Collapse and transformation in the Mediterranean 1200--500 BC
Tinnis and Ansina
Early Islamic provincial urbanism: Surveys of Tinnis and Ansina
Trang An project
Excavation at Hang Boi, the Fortune-Teller's Cave, Vietnam
Tyrrhenian Italy
This project regards the application and development of novel techniques of landscape archaeology in central Tyhrrenian Italy
Wyke Down project
Exploring the ancient landscape of Cranborne Chase from a perspective focused on land use
Ziyaret Lower Town project
Investigating and documenting the remains of the lower town at Ziyaret