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Ancient Egypt: “From the bottom up”
Dr. Penny Wilson is a specialist in Egyptology with a particular focus in areas of both hieroglyphic texts as well as field archaeology. She is […]
Urban archaeology in Libya: Romans, Christians & early Islam
Dr Anna Leone is a reader in Durham University’s archaeology department. One of Anna’s primary research focuses is the end of the pagan religious tradition […]
The Archaeology of Leprosy: Challenging Stigma
Ms Kori Filipek-Ogden is a PhD student at Durham University’s archaeology department. Kori’s research examines Medieval skeletons to study the clinical and social effects of […]
Underwater Archaeology: Diving into Durham
Mr. Gary Bankhead is a post-graduate student at Durham University. He is trained in water rescue and employs these diving skills in exploring the River […]
Osteoarchaeology: Human stories from the bones
Becky Gowland is a senior lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the University of Durham. She currently teaches human skeletal analysis at both Undergraduate and Masters level. […]
Occupying the North Atlantic: Mesolithic middens & Viking diaspora
Mike Church’s key research theme is the investigation of the interaction between humans and the environment in the North Atlantic islands (including Atlantic Scottish islands, […]
Isotopes and archaeology
Janet Montgomery’s doctoral thesis awarded in 2002 (available to download from the AHDS website: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/montgomery_2005/) was the first study to apply combined radiogenic lead and […]
Oppida: Iron age urbanism in Europe
Dr. Tom Moore’s research interests focus mainly on the British and French Iron Age, particularly the late Iron Age-Roman transition.
Spy satellites and landscape archaeology
After a PhD at Edinburgh University (1988), Graham Philip spent nine months in Baghdad before moving to Jordan to become Assistant Director of the British […]