Archaeology and Ancient History

Current research students

Name Project title Email
Abigail Ford Hallowed Objects: the boundaries between magic and religion in Scotland c. AD 1200-1700 [email protected]
Aphrodite Skarpa A Theoretical Underworld: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Hades [email protected]
Alex Hirons Biomolecular archaeology of the ageing body; a multi-omics analysis of age-at-death & geriatric disease [email protected]
Alvaro Ortega Gonzalez Transitional foodways: Investigating the Anglo-Saxon transition through a multidisciplinary study of consumption practices in 3rd-8th century Northamptonshire [email protected]
Amy Arden Celestial Motherhood: Understanding the cultural context of gender and motherhood in ancient Greece through archaeoastronomy and constellation mythology [email protected]
Andrew Thompson The Duke of Bedford's Tavistock Estate from 'Improvement' to World Heritage Site [email protected]
Andy Rogers Ontologies of Personhood and the Body in Colonial Central America and the Caribbean  [email protected]
Anni Byard The Iron Age to Roman transition in Britain from the perspective of Coin Hoards  [email protected]
Ben Donnelly-Symes Opening up the archives: Engaging non-specialists with archaeological archives at the Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC) [email protected]
 Beth Frangleton  Set in Stone: Understanding Ancient Farming Communities through Dartmoor's Prehistoric  [email protected]
Bianca Miranda Cardoso A Bank of Bones: Mortuary practices and ethnicity in Hellenistic Anatolia  [email protected]
Blagovesta Angelow  Eighteenth-Century Receptions of Sculptures in Roman Wall Paintings  [email protected]
Brad Marshall Gendered and social status disparities in the physical and cultural lifeways of children in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia [email protected]
Brodhie Molloy Stories4Cities: An investigation into the utility of archaeology, as a knowledge producing discipline, in the re-representation and inclusion of those experiencing homelessness [email protected]
Carol Gurnham The Lost Long Barrows of Leicestershire and Rutland: searching for the archaeological landscape of the Neolithic [email protected]
Chris Chinnock Opening up the archives: A re-appraisal of the osteological archive for the small towns of Roman Northamptonshire and the publication of several key assemblages [email protected]
Chris Edley  Nucleated Settlements in Roman Britain  [email protected]
Christine Downton  Model Citizens: the iconography of excellence in Athenian Art, c.550-350 BC  [email protected] >
Clinton Briar An Appropriation of An: A ‘Theography’ of An/Anu from the Uruk through the Seleucid Period of Mesopotamian History  [email protected] 
Dane Magoon  The People of Mussel and Shell: An Isotopic Investigation of Palaeodiet and Mobility at the Hatch Site (44PG0051) during the Late Woodland I Period (AD 900 to 1300)  [email protected]
Debbie Frearson Community Archaeology in the East Midlands – past, present and future [email protected]
Elisabeth Aslesen  Bodied Objects: Personhood and imagery on clothed objects form Nrway in the first millennium CE  [email protected] 
Elliot Elliott  Defining the prevalence of leprosy in peri-domestic animals using osteoarchaeology  [email protected]
Emma Stockley Predicting and Protecting Lithic Landscapes [email protected] 
Emma Thompson Collision and Cohesion: comparing the (re)negotiations of mortuary identities in England and Denmark (c. 800-1100 CE) [email protected]
Farrell Monaco Bread and Pastry in Ancient Rome: Origins, Evolution, Function and Manufacture [email protected]
Giulia Bison  Metals, craft products and urban economy in late antique Rome  [email protected] 
 Hadley Sharman Contextualising Roman coinage from Camulodunum: understanding economy and identity in the original Romano-British capital  [email protected]
Hamish Darrah Cutting edge technology: constructing and contextualising Late Bronze Age toolkits [email protected]
Hannah Curry Beyond extractivist geographies: reconceptualizing resource landscapes in Bronze Age Cornwall [email protected]
Hannah McQuail  Innovative Use of Earth Observation for Archaeological Discovery from Space  [email protected] 

Inês Almendra Castro (Academia.edu profile)

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Setting Sail for Tomorrow: Assemblage Thinking and the Reimagining of Maritimity in Portuguese Transatlantic Exchange  [email protected]
Jacob Metson Stone tools in a Metallic World [email protected]
Joel Rodrigues Oliveira Dos Santos An archaeological journey into the layers of loneliness and solitude in the past [email protected]
Jon Walsh Foodways in medieval to post-medieval Leicester: assessing the archaeology and socio-urban implications of the Waterside faunal assemblages [email protected]
Judith Margarita López Aceves Drug cultures and wellbeing: Investigating drug use in the precolonial Caribbean  [email protected]
Katarina Kompauerova  Bringing ancient disabilities and the emotions associated with them to the present-day disabled people – ‘Their own stories in the past’  [email protected]
Kate Evetts Understanding the Plant Economy of Small Towns in Medieval England (c1200–1600). A synthetic analysis and interpretation of archaeobotanical evidence [email protected]
Kayt Hawkins  Let food be thy medicine: an analysis of the manufacture, use and deposition of ceramic ‘baby bottles’ in Roman Britain and the north-western Roman provinces [email protected]
Kirstie Hartlett  Castle Typologies, Landscape and Settlement: Interrogating the Derbyshire Resource  [email protected] 
Kirsty Henson  Biocultural effects on ancient vitamin D deficiency in the United States and their role in spinal pathology  [email protected] 

Kyra Hafren Elliott-Leigh  (Academia.edu profile)

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Looking into the Abyss: Is there space for subaltern identities in Sri Lanka's archaeological heritage and national identity narrative? [email protected]
 Lesa Glover  Oral Health, Oral Frailty, and Advancing Age: Exploring the relationships between oral health, dental health, systemic health and frailty within past populations [email protected]
Meg Gaillard  While I Breathe, I Hope: Heritage at Risk within the Southeastern United States, South Carolina as a Case Study  [email protected]
Michael Curtis Imperial ports and harbours of Crete: the development of a Provincial maritime and coastal infrastructure (late 1st BCE - 3rd century CE)  [email protected]
Molly Pye The role of public value in the development of archaeology and the discipline’s relationship with the public in Britain from 1830 to 1880 [email protected]
Naomi Allman Hermaphroditos in the museum: the intersex body for ancient and modern audiences [email protected]
Paul Duffy  From Stones to Structures – the Lost Architecture of Medieval Dublin  [email protected]
Rebecca Kibble  Using open source GIS to enable the multiscalar, spatio-temporal analysis and visualisation of complex zoo-archaeological datasets  [email protected]
Renate Larssen  Living with humans: how animals shaped early medieval Northern Europe (400-1100 CE)  [email protected]
Shannon Loftus Owl Cave: Southeastern Idaho and the Oldest Folsom, Bison Hunting Site in the Desert West? [email protected] 
Sima Yadollahy  Agency and its relation with Social, Cognitive complexities in Cheshmeh Ali culture  [email protected]
Tofie Benson   Parental Expectations  [email protected]
Vicky Bailey   [email protected]
Victoria Szafara  ‘Paired’ Brooches in Roman Britain: Their Context and Distribution  [email protected]
Wenxuan Zhang Use of Archaeological Sites: Bring the Public Archaeology into Museums and Heritage Sites [public archaeology in China and UK] [email protected]
William Moody Synergy in a Litho-Metallic World: Material Convergence in Craft in the Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland [email protected]
Yvonne O'Dell  Ontologies of Affect: Exploring emotional encounters and transformations in the Caribbean  [email protected]
Zoe Schofield In Search of the Decorator: The Analysis of Roman Wall Decoration through the Study of Roman Decorative Borders in Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae  [email protected]
Zoe Tomlinson  A re-evaluation of Romano-British painted wall plaster across the East Midlands, to understand the contemporary purpose and meaning of different painted schemes to both patrons and viewers, with a particular focus on the Roman colour palette  [email protected]
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