Research Projects in the Department of Archaeology

Archaeometallurgical contributions to various research areas such as the provenance of Shang bronzes, ingenious adaptations of metallurgical technologies to different ecological and socioeconomic constraints, and regional developments of metallurgical traditions.

Excavation and survey in southern Aspromonte.

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

A project investigating the Mamasani district in the highlands of Fars in southwest Iran.

The analysis of a fuzzy frontier between the Etruscans and the Umbrians.

Investigating the development of historic environments along the longest river drainage system in Japan.

Cambridge is home to world-leading researchers across archaeological science, technical art history and heritage science, based at Department of Archaeology, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the Hamilton Kerr Institute, among others. There are multiple synergies across these institutions in terms of research methodologies, goals and ambitions in the field of technical and scientific investigation of works of art and archaeological objects.

Investigating unsolved problems of the fourth and third millennium BC in Malta.

Mapping the lower and middle Tiber catchment: Archaeological site recovery, erosion, water management (artificial channels), land use, DEM precision, and demographic reconstruction.

Collapse and transformation in the Mediterranean 1200-500 BC.