Archaeology research projects

Explore the links below for our ground-breaking Archaeology research.

Human origins

• Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain
• Investigating the Deep Roots of Human Behaviour

Early village societies

• Boncuklu Höyük Excavations
• The Konya Plain Survey, Central Anatolia
• What’s in a house? Exploring the kinship structure of the world's first houses
• Illuminating the Land of Light - The Lycia Project
• Carved in Stone

Hillfort origins

• Penycloddiau Hillfort excavations
• Merrick’s Hill, Eddisbury excavations
• W.J. Varley Archive project

Domestic space

• Ancient Pistiros: a Classical emporium at Adjiyska Vodenitsa, Vetren (Bulgaria)
• Domestic space and household dynamics at Olynthos, Greece
• Grand designs in Ancient Greece

Materials science

• Roman Silver Coin Analysis
• Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean: 200 BC to AD 64

The Iron Age, Roman Iron Age and Early Medieval Irish Sea Zone

• Castell Henllys and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park 
• Small Enclosures in Wales and the Isle of Man
• Early Christian Irish Monasteries
• Experimental Archaeology
• Henllys Farm
• Rushen Abbey Excavations

Archaeologies of Death

• Archaeology of graveyards
• Past Lifeways and Deathways of the Disabled in 14th-18th Century Central Europe
• The Human Remains: Digital Library of British Mortuary Science and Investigation