Current research
Als project
Investigating the changing social landscape of the southern Danish island of Als from the Neolithic to the Viking period
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Amarna
Capital city of ancient Egypt
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Archaeology and linguistics in the Andes
A cross-disciplinary series of international symposia, lectures, and publications, funded under the British Academy's UK-Latin American and Caribbean Link Programme
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Balar Hisar
Investigating ancient Pushkalavati: Excavations at Balar Hisar, Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
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Bova Marina archaeological project
Excavation and survey in southern Aspromonte
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Calchaqui Valley, Argentina
Understanding power relations and social practice: Community development in the Calchaqui Valley, Argentina. Investigating changing power relations and the nature of leadership at Borgatta during the period before the Inka conquest (AD 1000???1450)
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Canaanite amphorae, Egypt
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Cape Verde
Archaeology of Cidade Velha, Cape Verde
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Changing beliefs of the human body
Leverhulme Research Programme 2005???2009: Addressing the question of why and how humans change what they believe about the human body
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Chinese chariot horses and the evolution of horse husbandry
Identifying osteological differences between riding, traction and free-living horses, resulting from their different life ways, in order to further our understanding of the origins and evolution of horse husbandry
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CRIC
Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of identities after Conflict
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Crustumerium project
Excavation in the cemetery area of the ancient Latin town of Crustumerium, Rome
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Cultured Rainforest project
Investigating long-term and present-day interactions between people and rainforest in the Kelabit Highlands of central Borneo
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Durrington Walls
Excavation at Durrington Walls, Woodhenge and the associated River Avon
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East--West Millet project
Researching how and where broomcorn millet was first domesticated and why it appears on opposite sides of Asia at a similar time, 8,000 years ago
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Ecology of Crusading
The environmental impact of conquest and colonisation in the medieval Baltic
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Environmental constraints and human responses in northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC
Investigating the cultural and geographical transformations from the collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities
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Environmental Imperialism: Colonial Activity in Mauritius
Investigating the socio-cultural and environmental impacts of colonialism
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FOGLIP
Food globalisation in prehistory
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Gangetic Plain
Ancient Settlements of the Gangetic Plain: Location and Territoriality
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Gozo project
Investigating unsolved problems of the fourth and third millennium BC in Malta
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Haua Fteah
The Cyrenaica prehistory project, Libya
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Histories of Archaeology Research Network
Untangling the histories and philosophies of archaeology and making them intelligible
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Ica Valley archaeological project
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Keros
Excavations at Keros in the Cyclades
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Kilise Tepe
A rescue excavation in the Goksu Valley, Turkey
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Kurnool District, India
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Languages and origins in Europe
Leverhulme-funded research into the linguistics and archaeology of the dispersal of the early Indo-European languages
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Lepenski Vir culture
Investigating the spatial distribution of Mesolithic-Neolithic (c. 10000--5500 cal BC) archaeological sites in the hinterland areas of the Danube Gorges (Iron Gates) of the north-central Balkans
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Lismore landscape project
Investigating the Iron Age landscape of the island of Lismore
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Loughcrew project
Understanding the landscape of Loughcrew through airborne LIDAR survey and digital spatial analysis
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Malta
Explorations into the conditions of spiritual creativity in prehistoric Malta
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Mamasani archaeological project
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Memphis faience project
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Middle Stone Age of the Lesotho Highlands, southern Africa
Exploring highland landscape use by Middle Stone Age societies in eastern Lesotho
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Minaret of Jam archaeological project
Excavation at the magnificently-decorated Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan
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Moravian Gate project
Bioarchaeological analysis of early cold-climate human ecology
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NAPLEA
The Northeast Algonquin Palaeo-Lake and Environmental Assessment (NAPLEA)
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Niah Caves, Sarawak
Initial colonisation and exploitation of rainforests in south-east Asia
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North Karnak Survey
An international archaeological project working at North Karnak, Egypt
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North Russian rock carvings
Increasing understanding of how archaeologists, as observers, are able to `see' in visual depictions created over four thousand years ago
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Personal Histories
An on going, educational, oral-history research initiative
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Prehistory of languages project
Pupicina Cave project
Changing Paleoenvironments and Hunter-Gatherer Strategies in the Northern Adriatic Basin
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Qasr Ibrim, Egypt
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Quoygrew and the Viking Age transitions
Quoygrew is a late Viking Age and medieval rural settlement on the island of Westray in Orkney, Scotland. It was partially excavated between 1999 and 2005, after an initial archaeological assessment in 1997
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Roman archaic architecture
The cataloguing of all buildings found in Rome referable to the VI-V century BC; the study of public and private architecture and building techniques; and the study of the relationship between architectural evidence and Roman archaic society
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Roman urbanism in Italy
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Roots of spirituality project
Investigating indications of the early occurrence and development of aspects of religious practices and belief
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Sant' Ibenia
Sant' Ibenia: From Nuragic village to Roman villa
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South Etruria enhancement project
A series of inter-related projects are enhancing knowledge of the South (east) Etruria area north of Rome
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Southwest Iran
Exploring routes and plains in southwest Iran
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Star Carr
Star Carr and the early postglacial occupation of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire
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Suakin project
Archaeological study and conservation at a port on the Red Sea, Sudan
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Szazhalombatta
The emergence of European communities
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Tell Brak
The investigation of urban growth and administration in northern Mesopotamia in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC (north-east Syria)
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The archaeology of ritual transmission
Developing a model for understanding long-term continuity and variation in prehistoric ritual practices
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The Brough of Deerness and the Viking Age diaspora
Excavations at the Brough of Deerness, an enigmatic Viking Age site in Orkney
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The Expansion of the Venetian Republic in the Adriatic
Investigating the dynamic role of the Venetian Republic
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The Origins of Weaving Project
The origins of weaving project aims to contribute to the understanding of weaving by focusing on the identification of plants used in making the earliest textiles (about 28,000 to 20,000 years ago).
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Tiber catchment
Mapping the lower and middle Tiber catchment: The aim of the project is to employ aerial photography, multi spectral data and LiDAR to investigate: Archaeological site recovery, erosion, water management (artificial channels (cuniculi)), land use, DEM precision, and demographic reconstruction
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TiMe
Collapse and transformation in the Mediterranean 1200--500 BC
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Tinnis and Ansina
Early Islamic provincial urbanism: Surveys of Tinnis and Ansina
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Trang An project
Excavation at Hang Boi, the Fortune-Teller's Cave, Vietnam
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Tyrrhenian Italy
This project regards the application and development of novel techniques of landscape archaeology in central Tyhrrenian Italy
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Wyke Down project
Exploring the ancient landscape of Cranborne Chase from a perspective focused on land use
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Ziyaret Lower Town project
Investigating and documenting the remains of the lower town at Ziyaret
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