Postgraduate research
Archaeology and Ancient History
Ancient History
- Greek historiography
- Greek religion including divination
- Classical Greek literary culture
- The Trojan War and its receptions
- Republican and early Imperial cultural and political history
- Stigma in the ancient world
- Roman religion
- Ancient magic
- Greek and Latin epigraphy
- Ancient body language
- Status and social prejudice in Antiquity
- Funerary practices and commemoration
- Anatolia in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Greek monuments and sculpture
- Roman Britain
- Roman Africa
- The Roman economy
- Aspects of Roman imperialism, identity
- Roman and Post-Roman North Africa
- Late antique and early medieval history - especially in western Mediterranean
- Classical and medieval 'geographical' writing
- Historiography and historical writing
- Greek geographical writings
- Textual tradition of Xenophon
- Greek political landscapes
- Politics and economies of Hellenistic Greece
- The Peloponnese and Greek islands
- Greek archaeoastronomy
- Late Hellenistic and Roman Greece
- Roman Crete
- Text and material culture
- Assyria and Babylonia
- Cuneiform literature and scholarship
- Mesopotamian religion and ritual
- Divination
- The history of ideas in the ancient Near East
Bioarchaeology
- Osteology
- Mortuary archaeology
- Bronze Age Britain
- Bronze Age Europe
- Archaeology of age and ageing
- Palaeopathology
Dr Huw Barton
- Hunter-gatherer studies
- Analysis of ancient starch granules
- Functional analysis of stone tools
- Australian archaeology
- Surface archaeology
- Osteoarchaeology
- Palaeopathology
- Past Intoxicants
- Hansen's Disease
- Medieval
- Post Medieval England
- Zooarchaeology
- Past human-animal relationships
- Animal palaeopathology
- Agricultural economy
- Food as material culture
Greek Archaeology
- Greek and Latin epigraphy
- Funerary practices and commemoration
- Anatolia in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Greek monuments and sculpture
- Greek political landscapes
- Politics and economies of Hellenistic Greece
- The Peloponnese and Greek islands
- Greek archaeoastronomy
- Late Hellenistic and Roman Greece
- Roman Crete
- Text and material culture
- Archaeological field surveys, urban and rural
Historical Archaeology
- Early Medieval and Medieval archaeology
- Urbanism
- Defence
- Italy and Spain
- Late Roman to Early Medieval Christianity
- Sudanese/Nubian archaeology including Egypt in Nubia
- Sudanic Africa/Trans-Saharan perspectives, especially medieval to historical/Ottoman archaeology
- Landscape archaeology, especially in non-European environments
- Mortuary archaeologies
- Later prehistory in Scandinavia and northern Europe
- Viking Archaeology
- Architecture, settlements and households
- Archaeologies of the body
- Osteoarchaeology
- Palaeopathology
- Past intoxicants
- Hansen's disease
- Medieval
- Post medieval England
- Indigenous Caribbean archaeology
- Pre-Columbian and colonial Caribbean
- Households, settlements and caves
- Integrated landscapes and religion
- Material culture
- Roman provincial art
- Romano-British villas and mosaics
- Archaeological approaches to art
- History of British archaeology
- Public and community archaeology
- History of British archaeology
- Archaeology of the period 1500-1900
- Historical archaeology of Britain and Northern Europe
- Archaeological ethics
- Archaeology of death and burial
- Zooarchaeology
- Past human-animal relationships
- Animal palaeopathology
- Agricultural economy
- Food as material culture
- Archaeology of South Asia and the Middle East
- Historical archaeology of South Asia and the Middle East
- Post-conflict archaeology and heritage
- Archaeological heritage in and of South Asia and the Middle East
Landscape Archaeology
Dr Huw Barton
- Hunter-gatherer studies
- Australian archaeology
- Surface archaeology
- African archaeology
- Prehistoric landscape archaeology
- Geoarchaeology including geomatics
- Experimental archaeology
- Late Roman archaeology
- Early Medieval and Medieval archaeology
- Defence
- Late Roman to Early Medieval landscapes
- Sudanese/Nubian archaeology including Egypt in Nubia
- Sudanic Africa/trans-Saharan perspectives, especially medieval to historical/Ottoman archaeology
- Landscape archaeology, especially non-European environments
- Later Prehistory in Scandinavia and Northern Europe
- Viking Archaeology
- Architecture, settlements and households
- Archaeologies of the body
- Roman Britain
- Roman Africa
- The Roman economy
- Aspects of Roman imperialism, identity
- Roman landscapes
- Saharan archaeology
- Indigenous Caribbean archaeology
- Pre-Columbian and colonial Caribbean
- Households, settlements and caves
- Integrated landscapes and religion
- Late Hellenistic and Roman Greece
- Roman Crete archaeological field surveys, urban and rural
- Archaeology of later prehistoric and Roman landscapes
- Archaeology of the western Roman provinces, especially urban rural inter-relations
- Relationships between theory and method in landscape-based research
- Archaeology of South Asia and the Middle East
- Historical archaeology of South Asia and the Middle East
- Post-conflict archaeology and heritage
- Archaeological heritage in and of South Asia and the Middle East
Material Culture Studies
Dr Huw Barton
- Functional analysis of stone tools
- Surface archaeology
- Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland
- Archaeological theory
- Metalwork wear analysis
- Material worlds
- Neolithic Britain
- Archaeological theory
- Archaeologies of the body
- Monumentality
- Material worlds
- Architecture, settlements and households
- Archaeologies of the body
- Greek and Latin epigraphy
- Ancient body language
- Greek monuments and sculpture
- Material worlds
- Households, settlements and caves
- Hellenistic assemblages and styles
- Hellenistic and Roman assemblages
- Roman Crete
- Text and material culture
- Food as material culture
Prehistoric Archaeology
- Osteology
- Mortuary archaeology
- Bronze Age Britain
- Bronze Age Europe
- Archaeology of age and ageing
- Palaeopathology
Dr Huw Barton
- Hunter-gatherer studies
- Analysis of ancient starch granules
- Functional analysis of stone tools
- Australian archaeology
- Surface archaeology
- Human evolution in Africa and Europe
- African archaeology
- Prehistoric landscape archaeology
- Macro-scale lithic analyses
- Rock art and mobiliary art
- Experimental archaeology
- Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland
- Archaeological theory
- Metalwork wear analysis
- Neolithic Britain
- Archaeological theory
- Archaeologies of the body
- Monumentality
- Later Prehistory in Scandinavia and Northern Europe
- Viking Archaeology
- Architecture, settlements and households
- Archaeologies of the body
- Indigenous Caribbean archaeology
- Pre-Columbian and colonial Caribbean
- Households, settlements and caves
- Integrated landscapes and religion
- Material culture
- Archaeology of later prehistoric and Roman landscapes
- Relationships between theory and method in landscape-based research
Roman Archaeology
- Late Roman archaeology
- Early medieval and medieval archaeology
- Urbanism
- Defence
- Late Roman and early medieval Christianity
- Italy and Spain
- Roman Britain
- Roman Africa
- The Roman economy
- Aspects of Roman imperialism, identity
- Roman landscapes
- Saharan archaeology
- Roman and post-Roman North Africa
- Late Antique and early medieval history, especially western Mediterranean
- Classical and medieval 'geographical' writing
- Historiography and historical writing
- Roman provincial art
- Romano-British villas and mosaics
- Archaeological approaches to art history of British archaeology
- Public and community archaeology
- Archaeology in education
- Late Hellenistic and Roman Greece
- Roman Crete
- Text and material culture
- Archaeological field surveys, urban and rural
- Archaeology of later prehistoric and Roman landscapes
- Archaeology of the western Roman provinces, especially urban rural inter-relations
- Relationships between theory and method in landscape-based research