Dr Nichole Sheldrick
Senior Research Associate in Digital Archaeology
School/Department: Archaeology and Ancient History, School of
Email: ens4@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Publications
Books:
Sheldrick, N. 2021. Building the Countryside: Rural Architecture and Settlement in Tripolitania during the Roman and Late Antique Periods. Society for Libyan Studies.
Articles:
Bokbot, Y., Fenwick, C., Mattingly, D.J., Sheldrick, N., & Sterry, M. 2021. Horses and Habitations: Protohistoric Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco. Journal of African Archaeology.
Rayne, L., Gatto, M.C., Abdulaati, L, Al-Haddad, M., Sterry, M., Sheldrick, N., & Mattingly, D. 2020. Detecting change at archaeological sites in North Africa using open-source satellite imagery. Remote Sensing 12, 3694. doi:10.3390/rs12223694.
Nikolaus, J., Rayne, L., & Sheldrick, N. 2020. The EAMENA and MarEA Projects: Notes on current Training and Research in Libya and beyond. Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia 22.
Bewley, R., Bishop, M., Cunliffe, E., Kennedy, D., Sheldrick, N., & Wilson, A. 2018. Roman Military Archaeology in Danger. In Limes XXIII: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies Ingolstadt 2015: 1060-1063.
Sheldrick, N. & Zerbini, A. 2017. A heritage inventory for documenting endangered archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. IV-2-W2, 237-241, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W2-237-2017.
Rayne, L., Sheldrick, N. & Nikolaus, J. 2017. Endangered Archaeology in Libya: recording damage and destruction. Libyan Studies 48: 23-49.
Fradley, M. & Sheldrick, N. 2017. Satellite imagery and heritage damage in Egypt: a response to Parcak et al. (2016). Antiquity 91(357): 784-792.
Conferences
Conferences as Co-organiser:
Protecting the Past: People Communities Heritage. Agadir Morocco. 10-12 Dec 2019.
Protecting the Past: Documentation as a Tool for Heritage Protection in Tunisia and Libya. Tunis Tunisia. 2-4 Dec 2017.
Recent Conference and Seminar Papers:
w/ Louise Rayne. “Detecting Change at Archaeological Sites in North Africa using Open-Source Satellite Imagery”. CAA 2021. Online. 15 Jun 2021.
“The House of the Large Oecus: excavations in an elite roman residence at Utica (Tunisia).” Classical Archaeology Lecture Series LMU. Munich Germany. 8 Jul 2019.
“Big Data Heritage Management and the EAMENA Project”. SAA 84th Annual Meeting. Albuquerque NM United States. 11 Apr 2019.
“Rural Architecture and Settlement in Late Antique Tripolitania”. Roman Archaeology Conference 2018. Edinburgh UK. 14 Apr 2018.
w/ Andrea Zerbini. “A heritage inventory for documenting endangered archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa.” CIPA Ottawa 2017 26th International Symposium. 31 Aug 2017.
“Endangered Archaeology in Arid Lands: Remote Sensing and Heritage Management”. SAA 82nd Annual Meeting. Vancouver Canada. 30 Mar 2017.
Interests
Qualifications
DPhil Archaeology. 2016. Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK. Thesis: Building the Countryside: A Regional Perspective on the Architecture and Settlement of Rural Tripolitania from the 1st c. BC until the 7th c. AD
MA Classical Archaeology. 2008. University of Alberta, Canada.
BA Hons. Classics and Anthropology. 2004. McMaster University, Canada.