Division of Archaeology

Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Projects

Archaeological research in Cambridge

Past research

Abu Salabikh

Ancient Egyptian architecture

Approaching the question of how architecture was perceived in ancient Egypt

Ancient musical instruments

Antiquities at auction

Bannu archaeological project

Barbados ceramics

Study of the pottery from excavations at Heywoods, Barbados

Bellary district archaeological project

Investigating Neolithic and Iron Age South India

Bloody Meadows

Cape Province Farms, South Africa

Carthage-Demerc

Investigating the Byzantine basilica and associated structures at Carthage-Demerc

Catalhoyuk research project, Turkey

Excavation and survey at the Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk, Turkey

Catalhoyuk West Mound project

Cerveteri

Chagar Bazar

Changing patterns in hunting behaviour

Chiltern Hills

Crop processing and crop husbandry, South Asia

Deccan pathways, India

Dolni Vestonice/Pavlov

Exploring the seasonal behaviour of Gravettian communities

Farm lives, South Africa

Great Wilbraham

Gubbio project

A programme of regional survey, selected excavation and environmental reconstruction to understand the development of the valley of Gubbio

Human skeletons and society in prehistoric Italy

Focussing upon skeletal signs of health, violence and activity in prehistoric Italian skeletons

Illicit Antiquities Research Centre

The only centre in the world dedicated to researching illicit antiquities

Inner Mongolia

Sacred sites

Keros

Keros and the international spirit of the Cycladic Early Bronze Age

Kohla project

Exploring migration histories/memory, landscape and Early Medieval settlement in the Himalayan highlands of West-Central Nepal

Kuwait, Site H3

Lalibela and elsewhere

Ethiopian Rock Churches at Lalibela and elsewhere

Lark Valley

Late Quaternary dispersals

The archaeology of Late Quaternary dispersals

Markiani

Material engagement

Middle Palaeolithic Lefkas, Greece

Nepi project

Investigating the urban development of Nepi

Niah Cave earthenware ceramics

Analysis of an important collection of earthenware ceramics from the secondary cave mouths at the Niah Cave complex, held in the Sarawak Museum in Kuching

North Kharga survey

The first archaeological survey of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert

Nourlangie rock art

Palaeopathology of horse husbandry

Developing methods for identifying the early stages and development of horse husbandry and its social and economic impact

Phylakopi

Re-examining and managing the Bronze Age town of Phylakopi, Melos

Phytoliths as climatic indicators

Prisse-la-Charriere

The excavation of a Middle Neolithic long mound

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Rock art and landscape in Early Bronze Age Scotland and southwest Norway

Roman pottery database

Shamanism

Origins of Shamanism

Shire District archaeological survey, Ethiopia

Southern British Neolithic long-barrow sites

Examining the relationship between small productive activities and the broader landscape during the early Neolithic

Southern Deccan Neolithic

Herders' monuments:Ashmounds of the Southern Deccan Neolithic

Stage 3 project

Assessing whether the climate of the mild middle part of the last glacial period might have played a role in the extinction of the Neanderthals

Tandilia Range, Argentina

Phytoliths of the Tandilia Range, Argentina

TEMPER project

Research, conservation and promotion of public awareness of the Mediterranean???s prehistoric heritage

Troina project

Investigating the long-term archaeological history of the Troina region

Tyrolean land-use and settlement

Wandlebury hill fort

Assessing, inside and outside the ringwork, the extent, nature, date and palaeo-environmental context of associated settlement at Wandlebury hillfort

Wardaman Country, Australia

Weichselian tephra

Western Arnhem Land rock art

Aboriginal rock art in Western Arnhem Land, north Australia