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Department Of Archaeology
Research Centres
- Centre for Iranian Cultural Studies
- Centre for Roman Cultural Studies
- Centre for the Archaeology of Central and Eastern Europe
- Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
- Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre
Research Groups
- Bioarchaeology Research Group
- Heritage, Archaeology, People & Places Research & Impact Group
- Landscapes of Complex Society Research Group
- North East Research Group
- Prehistory of Eurasia Research Group
- Visual and Material Culture Research Group
Research Facilities
- Conservation Laboratories
- Drawing Office
- Environmental Archaeology Laboratories
- Chemistry Laboratory
- Geophysical Laboratory
- Archive Room
- Luminescence Dating
- Old Fulling Mill Museum
- Photographic Studio
- Workshops
- GIS Laboratory
- Computer Room (Kiln Lab)
Research Projects
Completed Projects
- An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta
- Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB)
- Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) Project: The Citadel (Phase I)
- Clarendon Palace, Wiltshire
- Crayford Brickearths Project
- Hadrian's Wall Research Framework
- Newcastle upon Tyne, The Eye of the North: An Archaeological Assessment
- Origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe
- Shapwick Project, Somerset. A Rural Landscape Explored
- Trent Valley Palaeolithic Project (TVPP)
- Upper Tisza Project
Ongoing Projects
- A biography of power: Bagendon ‘oppidum’ and the Late Iron Age-Roman transition
- A capital landscape: survey of the Stanwick ‘oppidum’ and its environs
- A re-appraisal of the Early Neolithic Inhabitants of Shetland
- Adolescence, Migration and Health in Medieval England: the osteological evidence
- Aesthetics and Ethics of Archaeology Research Network
- Agriculture at Qasr Ibrim, Nubia, 1000 BC - AD 1800
- Amara West: Health and Diet in ancient Nubia through climate and political change
- Animal domestication and human dispersal
- Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) Project: The Hinterland (Phase II)
- Archaeological Investigations of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pashupati (Nepal)
- Artefact Studies
- Auckland Castle
- Bamburgh Bowl-Hole Anglian Cemetery: a contextual study
- Benchmarking the Social and Economic Impacts of Cultural Heritage in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India
- Benchmarking the social and economic impacts of the tangible and intangible heritage of Middle Egypt
- Binchester Roman Fort
- 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
- Caves in Context: the Place of Caves in Middle Bronze Age Southern Lazio, Italy
- Ceramics
- Charcoal production in the North Atlantic Islands
- Children of the Revolution: A rural/urban comparison of child health during the 18th-19th centuries in the North of England
- CHISEL: Church Building as Industry in Early Medieval Western Europe
- Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
- Conservation Theory
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
- Crossing the Divide: Dialogues in the First Millennium BC of Western Europe
- Developing new approaches to dating ancient irrigation features
- Discovering Roman (and pre-Roman) Britain
- Durham Medieval Archaeologists (DMA)
- Early urbanism in prehistoric Europe?: the case of the Tripillia mega-sites
- ESCOPES project. Evolving spaces: coastal landscapes of the Neolithic in the European Land’s Ends
- Etal: An Early Medieval Cemetery in Context
- Examining the nature of Late Iron Age urbanism in Gaul: Bibracte and the Sources de l’Yonne agglomeration
- Experimental archaeobotany and geoarchaeology
- Exploring the Medieval Hinterland of Polonnaruva
- From Africa to Ifriqiya: Investigating Lepcis Magna and its Territory
- Funerary Landscapes and Social Change in Early Medieval Northwest Europe
- Global History of Health Project (European Module)
- Gorgan Wall Project
- Hand stencils in Upper Palaeolithic cave art
- 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
- Identifying and communicating the ‘wows’ of archaeology outdoors
- Investigating Morbidity and Malaria in Anglo-Saxon Wetland Environments
- Iron Age & Roman Heritages: Exploring ancient identities in modern Britain
- 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
- Landscapes of the Great Depression in North-East of England
- Leprosy past and present: everything you needed to know, but were afraid to ask
- Lindisfarne: The search for the heart of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
- Luminescence Dating Techniques
- Managing Risk in Early Complex Societies
- Mapping the early church in Western Normandy: AD400-1200
- MASS Project
- Materiality and depositional practices in the later Prehistory in Europe: an interdisciplinary approach using central Iberia (Spain) record as a case study
- Medieval and post-medieval earthquakes in Europe
- Medieval Graffiti in the Prior’s Chapel, Durham Priory
- Medieval Window Glass: Archaeological Approaches
- Megaliths and cultural identity in Bulgaria
- Migrations of Crusaders
- Moncayo Archaeological Survey, NE Spain
- Nevern Castle – The Development of, and Life in, Welsh Castles
- North Sea Capital: Newcastle, the Making of a Mercantile Community; and Coal, Community and Capitalism
- North-East Heritage Partnership
- North-West Nile Delta Survey Project, Egypt
- Origins and Spread of Agriculture
- Palaeolithic art and archaeology of Creswell Crags, UK
- Palaeopopulation genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- People and Place: The Making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800
- Persia and its Neighbours: the Archaeology of Late Antique Imperial Power in Iran (Persia Project)
- Post-Conflict Archaeology of the Jaffna Peninsula
- Post-Earthquake Rescue Archaeology in Kathmandu
- Promoting the Protection of Heritage Sites in Nepal
- Qarn al-Harf
- Re-examination of the chronology of Pleistocene hominid sites circa 500,000-50,000 years ago
- Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu's Historic Urban Infrastructure
- REFIT: Resituating Europe’s first towns: A case study in enhancing knowledge transfer and developing sustainable management of cultural landscapes
- Religious orders on the frontier: monks on the edge of Christian Europe
- Rievaulx Landscapes Project
- Saïs and its Hinterland: Dynamics and Power in the West Nile Delta
- Sangro Valley Project (Opi, upper valley)
- Seaham Church Recording Project
- Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England
- Settlement and Landscape Development in the Homs Region, Syria
- Shuna Project
- Social-Ecological Transformations: HUMan-ANimal Relations Under Climate Change in NORthern Eurasia (HUMANOR)
- Socio-Economic Transformations in the Tehran Plain
- Sockburn Project, Co Durham
- Synergies between evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology
- 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 Assembly Project
- The CLaSS Project – Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society: Exploring Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East
- The Durham River Wear Assemblage Project
- The Fragile Crescent Project (Middle East): Settlement Change during the Urban Transition
- The Gristhorpe Man Project
- The history of syphilis: developing more nuanced approaches to understanding its impact on the past
- The Natal Landscape of the Buddha, Phase I: Lumbini
- The Natal Landscape of the Buddha, Phase II: Tilaurakot
- The Roman impact on the urban settlement pattern of peninsular Italy (350BC to AD200)
- The Semiyarka Urban Survey (SUS) Project
- 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
- Uig Landscape Project
- Uncovering Kathmandu's Early Urbanism: Pilot investigation and evaluation of the subsurface heritage of Handigaon, Kathmandu (Nepal)
- Understanding cardiovascular disease in the archaeological record
- Vanishing Landscape of Syria: ground and space mapping of a diverse world
- Varna Eneolithic cemetery
- Wearmouth and Jarrow: One Monastery in Two Places
- Williamson Collection Project
- Worked in Stone: Completing the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
- Yeavering: A Palace in its Landscape
Staff
Academic Staff
- Professor Ian Bailiff
- Dr Karis Baker
- Dr Mary Brooks
- Dr Anwen Caffell
- Professor Mike Church
- UNESCO Professor Robin Coningham
- Dr Marta Diaz-Guardamino
- Dr Catherine M. Draycott
- Dr Eva Fernandez-Dominguez
- Professor Chris Gerrard
- Professor Rebecca Gowland
- Dr Pam Graves
- Professor Richard Hingley
- Dr Tina Jakob
- Dr Derek Kennet
- Dr Dan Lawrence
- Professor Anna Leone
- Dr Karen Milek
- Dr Andrew R Millard
- Professor Janet Montgomery
- Dr Tom Moore
- Professor Paul Pettitt
- Dr David Petts
- Professor Graham Philip
- Professor Charlotte Roberts
- Dr Benjamin Roberts
- Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy
- Professor Chris Scarre
- Professor Sarah Semple
- Professor Robin Skeates
- Professor Mark White
- Dr Emily Williams
- Dr Penny Wilson
- Dr Robert Witcher
Research Staff
- Dr Kayt Armstrong
- Dr Arwa Badran
- Dr Kamal Badreshany
- Miss Maria Chicote
- Dr Derek Craig
- Dr Christopher Davis
- Dr Michelle W. de Gruchy
- Dr Paolo Forlin
- Dr Nicky Garland
- Dr Kurt Gron
- Dr Loïc Harrault
- Dr Kristen Hopper
- Dr Lucie Johnson
- Dr Sacha Kacki
- Dr Sonia Machause-López
- Dr Mark Manuel
- Dr Mariacarmela Montesanto
- Dr Sayantani Neogi
- Dr Ronan O'Donnell
- Dr Celia Orsini
- Dr Angela Perri
- Dr Kate Sharpe
- Dr Tudor Skinner
- Dr Elena Tiribilli
- Dr Gemma Tully
- Dr Valentina Tumolo
- Dr Alessandra Varalli
- Dr Lynn Welton
- Dr Alan Williams
- Dr Ran Zhang
Administrative Staff
- Mr Nathan Anderson
- Miss Elizabeth Burns
- Miss Louise Gascoigne
- Mrs Laura Haswell
- Mrs Cassandra Hodgkiss
- Mr Damian Johnson
- Mrs Joanne Patterson
- Dr Mark Shaw
- Mr Paul Zand
Technical Staff
Antiquity Staff
Archaeological Services Durham University
- Mr Daniel Adamson
- Ms Hilly Andrews
- Mr Richard Annis
- Mr Jamie Armstrong
- Dr Carrie Armstrong
- Ms Linda Bosveld
- Mr Peter Carne
- Mr Matt Claydon
- Dr Helen Drinkall
- Mr Lorne Elliott
- Miss Vicky Garlick
- Mr Jonathan Goldberg-booth
- Mr David Graham
- Mr Duncan Hale
- Ms Catrin Jenkins
- Mr Stuart Johnston
- Mr Jeff Lowrey
- Mr Benjamin Matus
- Ms Meghan McCarthy
- Mr Adam Mead
- Miss Alice Naylor
- Ms Jacqueline Neville
- Dr Charlotte O'Brien
- Mr Andy Platell
- Mr Al Rae
- Mr Mark Randerson
- Ms Jenny Richards
- Mr Dan Still
- Miss Natalie Swann
- Mr Richard Villis
- Ms Rebekah Walsh
- Mrs Janine Watson
- Miss Laura Watson
- Ms Rachel Wells
- Ms Hannah Woodrow
- Mr Mark Woolston-Houshold
Emeritus Staff
Research Student
- Mr Ali Almeqbaali
- Ms Susan Aylard
- Mr Pertev Basri
- Mr Samuel Bithell
- Mr Peter Brown
- Ms Enas Bubtana
- Mr John Carson
- Mr John Castling
- Mr Edward Caswell
- Ms Yuqing Chen
- Dr Riia Chmielowski
- Kelly Marie Clarke
- Ms Kayla Crowder
- Mr Luke Dale
- Ms Maria De Falco
- Mr Giuseppe Delia
- Mr Daniel Eddisford
- Mr Malcolm Evans
- Miss Ana Fernandes-de-Almeida
- Mr Andrew Ferrara
- Kori Lea Filipek
- Ms Anna Finneran
- Mrs Yasmine Galal Abdel-Maaboud Sallam
- Mr Perry Gardner
- Ms Gudrun Gisladottir
- Mr Adam Goodfellow
- Miss Helen Greetham
- Miss Ingrid Grueso-Dominguez
- Ms Emily Hanscam
- Miss Katie Haworth
- Miss Katherine Hill
- Mr Israel Hinojosa-Baliño
- Mr John Horrocks
- Ms Freya Horsfield
- Mr Simon Hughes
- Mr Stephen Humphreys
- Ms Ann Jacobsen
- Miss Kirsty Jones
- Mr Raphael Kahlenberg
- Ms Lauren Kancle
- Mrs Gulzhan Karibayeva
- Mrs Ellen Kendall
- Ms Eileen Kerhouant
- Mr Min Kwack
- Ms Anouk Lafortune-Bernard
- Mr Tristan Lake
- Ms Maryline Lambert
- Ms Allison Lee
- Mr Antony Lee
- Miss Mocen Li
- Ms Ziyi Li
- Ms Madeline Line
- Ms Tessi Loeffelmann
- Miss Esmeralda Lundius
- Mr Paschalis Makrogiannelis
- Mrs Giorgia Marchiori
- Miss Martina Massimino
- Miss Felicity Amelia McDowall
- Miss Charlotte McElvaney
- Miss Lisa-Elen Meyering
- Mr Nicolas Mias
- Mr Michal Michalski
- Ms Jiajing Mo
- Miss Sarah Morrison
- Mr Domhnall O'Meara
- Mr Latif Oksuz
- Miss Barbara Oosterwijk
- Mr Aryel Pacheco-Miranda
- Miss Julie Peacock
- Mr Bennjamin J. Penny-Mason
- Miss Lydia Prosser
- Ms Leslie Quade
- Mr Jonathan Quiery
- Mr Maxime Ratcliffe
- Mr Aaron Rawlinson
- Mrs Vanessa Reid
- Mrs Heidi Richards
- Mr Matthew Roberts
- Miss Bryony Rogers
- Ms Heidi Shaw
- Ms Christina Smith
- Miss Lisa Snape-Kennedy
- Mrs Sarah Steele
- Mrs Martha Stewart
- Mrs Margie Stewart-Piercy
- Mrs Beverley Still
- Mr Christoph Streb
- Mrs Rebeca Suarez Ferreira
- Mr Andrew Tibbs
- Ms Samantha Tipper
- Mr Edward Treasure
- Ms Katarzyna Tylawska
- Ms Christina Unwin
- Ms Azadeh Vafadari
- Ms Lauren Walther
- Ms Emma Watson
- Mr Samaratunga Weerasinghe
- Mr Kai Weise
- Ms Indra Werthmann
- Ms Janet Sue Wilson
- Miss Isobel Wisher
- Ms Ruopu Zhai