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Department Of Archaeology
Research Centres
- Centre for Iranian Cultural Studies
- Centre for Past Peoples and Palaeoenvironments
- Centre for Roman Cultural Studies
- Centre for the Archaeology of Central and Eastern Europe
- Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
- Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Research Groups
- Bioarchaeology Research Group
- Landscapes of Complex Society Research Group
- North East Research Group
- Prehistory of Eurasia Research Group
- Ritual, Religion, Belief and Place Research Group
Research Facilities
- Computer Room (Kiln Lab)
- Conservation Laboratories
- Drawing Office
- Environmental Archaeology Laboratories
- Chemistry Laboratory
- Geophysical Laboratory
- Archive Room
- Luminescence Dating
- Old Fulling Mill Museum
- Photographic Studio
- Workshops
- GIS Laboratory
Research Projects
- Archaeology of Assembly and Governance: European Themes
- Durham Medieval Archaeologists (DMA)
- Luminescence dating of bricks from medieval buildings
- Medieval Women’s Lives in England
- Megaliths and cultural identity in Bulgaria
- Mesolithic Denmark and southern Sweden
- Migrations of Crusaders
- North Sea Capital: Newcastle, the Making of a Mercantile Community
- Re-examination of the chronology of Pleistocene hominid sites circa 500,000-50,000 years ago
- Socio-Economic Transformations in the Tehran Plain
- Temples and cult sites: long term religious traditions in Britain
- Time and Heritage: stability and conflict in global and local cultures
Completed Projects
- Amara West: Health and Diet in ancient Nubia through climate and political change
- An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta
- Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB)
- Bioarchaeology of pig domestication and husbandry
- Dryslwyn Castle – The Development of, and Life in, Welsh Castles
- Hadrian's Wall Research Framework
- Origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe
- Prehistoric origins of Orcadian cultural exchange networks: biomolecular and morphometric studies of Orkney voles
- Shapwick Project, Somerset. A Rural Landscape Explored
- Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: human dispersal and exchange networks in the Holocene
- Trent Valley Palaeolithic Project (TVPP)
- Upper Tisza Project
Ongoing Projects
- Adolescence, Migration and Health in Medieval England: the osteological evidence
- Agriculture at Qasr Ibrim, Nubia, 1000 BC - AD 1800
- An Imperial Frontier in its Landscape: The Gorgan and Tammisha Walls in North-east Iran
- Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) Project: The Citadel (Phase I)
- Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) Project: The Hinterland (Phase II)
- Artefact Studies
- Bamburgh Bowl-Hole Anglian Cemetery: a contextual study
- Bibracte environs and agglomeration of ‘Sources de l’Yonne’
- Binchester Roman Fort
- Bioarchaeology of leprosy: a global perspective on a declining disease
- Biomolecular archaeology of ancient tuberculosis in Britain and Europe
- Building Silbury Hill - where did the antler picks come from?
- Burial Environments & Preservation in Situ.
- Canon Greenwell and the Development of Archaeology in the North of England
- Charcoal production in Medieval Iceland
- Charsadda (Pakistan) Project: The Bala Hisar
- Clarendon Palace, Wiltshire
- Conservation Theory
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
- Crayford Brickearths Project
- Discovering Roman Britain
- Durham River Assemblage Project
- Early urbanism in prehistoric Europe?: the case of the Tripillia mega-sites
- Experimental archaeobotany and geoarchaeology
- Global History of Health Project (European Module)
- Health, diet and living environment in the Roman Empire: the skeletal and funerary evidence
- Heart of the Atlantic: cultural landscapes of Sandoy, Faroe Islands
- Human impact on Norse landscapes in the North Atlantic
- Investigating Morbidity and Malaria in Anglo-Saxon Wetland Environments
- Island of the dead? The buried Neolithic landscape of Herm (Channel Islands)
- Journeys to the Underworld: Ritual Transformations of Persons, Objects and Caves in Prehistoric Central Sardinia
- Kadhima : an Early Islamic settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay
- Land of Carchemish (Syria) Project
- Mapping the early church in Western Normandy: AD400-1200
- MASS Project
- Moncayo Archaeological Survey, NE Spain
- Nevern Castle – The Development of, and Life in, Welsh Castles
- Nineveh Digital Archive Project
- North-West Nile Delta Survey Project, Egypt
- Origins and Spread of Agriculture
- Saïs and its Hinterland: Dynamics and Power in the West Nile Delta
- Settlement and Landscape Development in the Homs Region, Syria
- Shuna Project
- Tales of the Frontier: political representations and practices inspired by Hadrian's Wall
- The ‘Invisible Dead’ and the Development of Early Human Beliefs about the Body
- The Aesthetics and Ethics of Archaeology Research Network
- The Fragile Crescent Project (Middle East): Settlement Change during the Urban Transition
- The Taphonomic Effects of Marine Submersion on Human Skeletal Remains
- The Tell Nebi Mend Post-Excavation and Publication Project (Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age)
- The Upper Simeto Valley Project (Sicily): an Inside-out View of a Rediscovered Landscape
- Timelines in Teeth: investigating the timing and pattern of enamel maturation in developing human teeth
- Understanding the birth of a capital: Bagendon ‘oppidum’ and the Late Iron Age-Roman transition
- Vanishing Landscape of Syria: ground and space mapping of a diverse world
- Varna Eneolithic cemetery
- Williamson Collection Project
Staff
Academic Staff
- Prof Ian Bailiff
- Dr Mary Brooks
- Dr Anwen Caffell
- Dr Chris Caple
- Professor John Chapman
- Dr Mike Church
- Professor Chris Gerrard
- Dr Becky Gowland
- Dr Pam Graves
- Prof Richard Hingley
- Dr Tina Jakob
- Dr Derek Kennet
- Dr Greger Larson
- Dr Anna Leone
- Dr Andrew R Millard
- Dr Janet Montgomery
- Dr Tom Moore
- Prof Paul Pettitt
- Dr David Petts
- Prof Graham Philip
- Prof Charlotte Roberts
- Dr Benjamin Roberts
- Prof Peter Rowley-Conwy
- Prof Chris Scarre
- Dr Sarah Semple
- Dr Robin Skeates
- Dr Mark White
- Professor Tony Wilkinson
- Dr Penny Wilson
- Dr Robert Witcher
Research Staff
- Dr Eva Alarcon
- Dr Bruce Albert
- Dr Antonio Blanco-Gonzalez
- Dr Jennie Bradbury
- Dr Derek Craig
- Dr Niko Galiatsatos
- Dr Bisserka Gaydarska
- Dr Mandy Jay
- Dr Gary King
- Dr Dan Lawrence
- Dr Anna Linderholm
- Dr Mark Manuel
- Dr Jamie Sewell
- Dr Kate Sharpe
Administrative Staff
- Mrs Joanne Devlin
- Ms Thelma Ellison
- Mrs Helen Skea
- Miss Laura Cheetham
- Mrs Joanne Dean
- Mrs Cassandra Hodgkiss
- Mrs Helen Wood
Technical Staff
Archaeological Services Durham University
- Mrs Janice Adams
- Mr Richard Annis
- Mr Jamie Armstrong
- Miss Janet Beveridge
- Ms Linda Bosveld
- Mr Peter Carne
- Mr Matt Claydon
- Mr Lorne Elliott
- Mr David Graham
- Mr Duncan Hale
- Ms Jenny Jones
- Ms Jacqueline Neville
- Dr Charlotte O'Brien
- Mr Andy Platell
- Mr Al Rae
- Mr Mark Randerson
- Mr Dan Still
- Miss Natalie Swann
- Mr Richard Villis
- Miss Janine Watson
Emeritus Staff
Research Student
- Mrs Heba Abd-El-Gawad
- Miss Zahra Afshar
- Mr Majed Alonazi
- Mr Waleed Alsadeqi
- Mr George Azzopardi
- Miss Jocelyn Baker
- Mr Gary Bankhead
- Mr James Bennett
- Miss Michaela Binder
- Miss Rosie Bishop
- Mr Andrew Blair
- Mr Andrew Bonfini
- Miss Amanda Brend
- Miss Ellis Bridgers
- Miss Lisa Brundle
- Mr Brian Buchanan
- Miss Mhairi Campbell
- Mr Cameron Clegg
- Mr David Clinnick
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- Mrs Setsuko Cornish
- Miss Maria Correas-Amador
- Miss Davina Craps
- Mr Thomas Crowther
- Mrs Emma Cunliffe
- Miss Rana Daroogheh-Nokhodcheri
- Mr Christopher Davis
- Ms Michelle De Gruchy
- Mr Michel De Vreeze
- Ms Marissa Demello
- Marta Diaz-Zorita-Bonilla
- Mr Jeremy Disley
- Miss Helen Drinkall
- Mrs Joy Eddy
- Ms Marieke Gernay
- Mr Linus Girdland-Flink
- Mr Charles Hartfelder
- Miss Kristen Hopper
- Miss Devon Kase
- Mr Richard Kelleher
- Mrs Ellen Kendall
- Mr Ross Kendall
- Mrs Eftychia Kouroukla
- Miss Harriet Lacey
- Ms Maria Lahtinen
- Miss Ophelie Lebrasseur
- Ms Armineh Marghussian
- Mr Paul Mason
- Ms Jo Zalea Matias
- Miss Francesca Mazzilli
- Mrs Anne Mortimer
- Mr Paul Murtagh
- Mr Marco Nebbia
- Miss Samantha Neil
- Miss Sophie Newman
- Mr Ronan O'Donnell
- Mr Don O'Meara
- Mr Joseph Owen
- Mr Panayiotis Panayides
- Ms Julie Peacock
- Miss Angela Perri
- Miss Helene Pioffet
- Miss Stephanie Piper
- Mr Daniele Pirisino
- Miss Kimberly Plomp
- Mr Come Ponroy
- Miss Lindsay Powell
- Ms Sarah Price
- Miss Agni Prijatelj
- Mr Jonathan Prior
- Mr Rune Rattenborg
- Mr Stuart Robertson
- Mr Darrell J. Rohl
- Mr Ben Saunders
- Miss Elizabeth Schech
- Miss Ariadne Schulz
- Ms Jennifer Sharman
- Miss Jessica Shepherd
- Miss Brittney Shields
- Ms Joanne Shoebridge
- Mrs Letizia Silvestri
- Mr Tudor Skinner
- Mr Stefan Smith
- Miss Elena Soulioti
- Mr William Southwell-Wright
- Miss Ashley Tallyn
- Miss Veronica Tamorri
- Mr James Taylor
- Mrs Karlena Tomc-Barbosa
- Mr Lyle Tompsen
- Miss Jennifer Tremblay
- Ms Alexandra Trinks
- Miss Mai Tsuneki
- Miss Sofia Turk
- Mr James Walker
- Ms Lauren Walther
- Miss Emma Wells
- Mr Benjamin Westwood
- Mr Sam Wilford
- Mr Ran Zhang