Archaeology and Ancient History
Current research students
| Name | Project title | |
| 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) |
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] |
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Kyra Hafren Elliott-Leigh (Academia.edu profile) |
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] |