Research Projects in the Department of Archaeology

The aim of the ERC project Beasts to Craft (B2C) is to document the biological and craft records in parchment in order to reveal the entangled histories of improvement and parchment production in Europe from 500-1900 AD.

A multidisciplinary project investigating the interrelations between crop plants, insect pollinators, and human management in prehistory.

Study of the sustainability and subsequent radical change amongst the Maltese Temple Building populations of prehistoric Malta in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC.

MendTheGap - Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia.

The Must Farm project is the first landscape scale archaeological investigation of deep Fenland, with its complex geological history.

The Promised project forms a network of excellence in Bioarchaeology and Archaeological Materials Science within the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) at the Cyprus Institute linked with the advanced research centres in Archaeological Science at KU Leuven and the University of Cambridge.