Historical Archaeology

Urban Archaeology, Footwear, Garbage Archaeology, waste management, Museology

Egyptology

• Funerary and settlement archaeology in Ancient Egypt and the Levant (First Intermediate Period, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period (ca. 2200 – 1550 BCE) • Interconnections between Egypt and the Levant: Egyptian and Levantine material culture of these periods and cultural contact studies (incl. commodity exchange) • Culture contacts as theoretical models - Cultural Mixing • Appropriation of material culture • Archaeology of identity • Transfer of knowledge • Application of archaeological theories to data derived from Egypt and the Levant • Contextual interpretation of material culture and archaeological contexts • Evaluation of textual, pictorial and archaeological sources in ancient Egypt • Object studies under application of theoretical concepts • Manufacturing technology of objects including study of chaîne opératoire, use traces, consumption, and object biographies (pottery, stone tools, stone vessels, metal tools, etc.)

Protohistoric Archaeology

Archaeology, Protohistory, Anthropology, Social Sciencies, Humanities Iron Age, Iberian culture, Complex Societies, Western Mediterranean Domestic architecture, Settlement patterns, Social use of space, Household Archaeology Building techniques, Experimental Archaeology, Earthen Architecture Burial sites, Archaeology of Death, Funerary Rituals, Palaeodemography Museography

Prehistoric Archaeology

Archaeology, Prehistory, Anthropology, Social sciences, Humanities, Archaeometry, Geology, Paleoenvironment European Neolithic, specifically: the Settlement during the Neolithic in the Alps and the Bell Beaker Culture in Europe during the 3rd millenium BC, the European Chalcolithic: ceramics, copper, peopling history, settlement, spatial analysis, isotopes Pb, Sr Middle Palaeolithic, anthropology of Neandertal, occupations of territory, lithic technology, in Asia and in Europe Archaeological Excavation in the Eremita Cave in Piémont, Italy. Since 2012 ; international project.

Egyptology

Archaeology, cultural studies

Prehistoric archaeology, maritime prehistory, ancient globalisation, emergence of agriculture, human dispersals, archaeological theory, material culture, molecular genetics, ethics and relevance of archaeology

My main research focuses on the emergence of connectivity and trade in the early Indian Ocean, from the Bronze Age through to the historical era. I am interested in the circulation of material goods, technologies and ideas in this maritime arena, as well as the linked translocation of a range of biological species through human activities. My research draws upon a range of methods, in particular archaeology, but also molecular genetics, linguistics and palaeoenvironmental studies.

Egyptology

Settlement archaeology and Social relationships Material culture (including semiotic aspects of interpreting the archaeological evidence) Cultural identities (in particular Kushites in Egypt) Funerary culture and Mortuary architecture Cult of Osiris at Abydos

Classical Archaeology, Ancient Iconography, Ancient History, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies

Interdisciplinary approach of Classical culture, Images and anthropology of the Past, History of ludic culture as cultural fabric, History of medicine, magic and of the body, History of women and childhood

History of Archaeology, Prehistoric Art, Prehistory, Identity, Heritage

History of Archaeology - academic networks; internationalism; transnationalism; imperialism; colonialism Prehistoric rock art: post-palaeolithic; biographies; landscape Identity: gender, ethnicity; nationalism - all in combination with the above research interests. Heritage - public archaeology; ethics; tourism

Archaeology, Archaeological Science, Palaeoanthropology, Human Evolution, Radiocarbon Dating, Palaeoproteomics

Prehistory and Protohistory (worldwide)

Late Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, prehistoric hunter-gatherers, lithic technology

Art history

Islamic art and architecture, al-Andalus, Exchange and transfer processes Islamic World / West, Orientalism, Glass art, Provenance research

Geosciences, Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, Rock-magnetism

Geomagnetic field changes, Paleointensity, Environmental magnetism, Archeomagnetism

African Archaeology

archaeology of the Sahel, global medieval archaeology, empires

Prehistory, human evolution, evolutionary diet, plant use before agriculture, coastlines

Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, evolutionary diet, ethnoarchaeology, dental calculus, coastal and maritime archaeology, scientific methods in archaeology

Classical archaeology

Anthropology of images, concepts of the body, material culture studies, urban studies, theory

Landscape Archaeology

As a cultural landscape archaeologist and theorist, my current areas of research involve monuments, landscapes, astronomy, depositional behaviour and the belief systems of ‘prehistoric’ peoples.  I investigate the roles that monuments and the natural world may have had in past people’s belief systems. Further, I undertake to understand the degree to which people in different regions possessed 'shared worlds' or shared understandings/cosmologies. The geographical coverage of my specialist research is the British Isles and Europe with a particular focus on western Britain and western Iberia. My investigations include the development and implementation of geographical information systems (GIS) as well as the application of statistics and other mathematically-oriented approaches used in astrophysics and social sciences.  I collaborated with philosophers by applying major interpretive analysis through the critical use of phenomenology and ideas about materiality.

Scandinavian prehistory; historiography; feminist theory and gender

Scandinavian prehistory Historiography Feminist theory and gender

Pre-Roman Metal Ages, especially Bronze Age; Archaeology of landscapes and settlements; Urban Archaeology

Bronze Age elite culture, Monastic archaeology, Funeral practices, Material culture

Prehistoric archaeology in southeastern Europe, in the Aegean und in western Anatolia

Neolithization Emergence of proto-urban centres Neolithic - Chalcolithic - Bronze Age Social systems in a changing environment

Prehistoric Archaeology

Stone Age hunter-gatherer Archaeology and Coastal Archaeology Middle Pleistocene / Middle Stone Age coastal adaptations Zooarchaeology of Marine Invertebrates Taphonomy of marine invertebrate assemblages Complex and trans-egalitarian hunter-gatherers Palaeoecology & Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions Culture Contact Archaeology (hunter-gatherer / pastoralists) Computer simulation in Archaeology Complex Adaptive Systems Emergent Properties in Social Systems

Archaeology and numismatics

Roman archaeology Antique numismatics Ancient history

Archaeology/Prehistory and Early History, Classical Archaeology, Art History

Underwater Archaeology, Science Communication, Museum Studies, Material Studies, Museology, Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Evolutionary Paleobiology, hard tissue paleohistology

Life History Evolution Evolutionary Ecology Evolutionary Physiology Islands and other Resource-limited Environments Trends and Rules in Evolution Evolution of Brain and Nervous System

Historical Archaeology

Globalization Migration Diaspora Urbanity Consumption

Archaeozoology, Environmental archaeology

Palaeozoology, fauna history (fish and sea mammals), archaeo-ichthyology, archaeogenetics, digital archaeozoology (data management)

Anthropocene, environmental oscillations, climate change, global change, global health, geochemistry and pollution, thresholds, fossil organic compounds, palaeoceanography, palaeoclimate, natural sciences, history, archaeology

Within the Anthropocene new epoch, the consequences of environmental oscillations at time scales relevant to human life and societal development are as yet to be explored. My research interest lies in setting boundaries to possible causes of changes occurring when thresholds are crossed in the Earth’s system: involving the temporal and spatial distribution of insolation, volcanic activity, wind patterns, ocean’s thermohaline pump, extension and retreat of marine and continental ice and the chemistry of the atmosphere. The Arctic, North Atlantic and Mediterranean regions are taken as the laboratory for tracing these processes and the tools for detecting them are fossil organic compounds originally forming part of diverse organisms, such as bacteria, archaea or eucarya (e.g. marine and terrestrial flora). The study of how transition phenomena occur in the past and present will place events to come in their proper context.

Historical Archaeology

Material culture, Theory and methods, History of research, Maritime archaeology

Early prehistory

Late Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, palaeodiet, shell middens, excavation, Star Carr

Mediterranean Bronze Age, Early Modern Iberian Colonialism, Gender Archaeology

Archaeology, Prehistory of the Argaric Bronze Age, Historical Archaeology Gender and Archaeology Funerary Behaviour and Identity

Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology

Landscape Archaeology, Bronze Ages, Iron Age, Prehistoric Archaeology, Trade and Exchange, Social Models, System Approaches, Transfer of Ideas and Concepts, Excavation Methods, GIS, Remote Sensing, Archaeological Science, Material Studies

Archaeology, prehistory, typological studies, material culture studies, theoretical archaeology and craft studies;Archaeometallurgy, metallographic and elemental scientific methods, isotope studies (lead and tin), metal trade, provenance studies; Historic and prehistoric craftGoldsmithingExperimental archaeology (here Bronze Age casting and forging techniques), viking age crafts

Prehistoric metals, X-ray fluorescence analyses, scanning electron microscopy, metallography -mass spectrometry for lead (and tin) isotope measurements, surface analysis, craft technique, history of craft (craft knowledge), mobility of people, material culture and ideas in prehistory and history

archaeochemistry

Ancient diet and health, Organic residue analysis, Migrations, Isotope analysis

Roman history, Roman political culture, Roman rituals, perfomances and spectacles, Classical reception

Roman triumphs, Roman funerals and communal grief, Roman defeats, Roman memory sanctions, Roman calendars, Roman memorials, Agrippina the Elder

Computational Archaeology (Archaeoinformatics, Digital Archaeology), Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Digital Humanities

Archaeology of cities and settlements, landscape archaeology, spatial analysis, 3D modelling, urban networks, Geographic Information Systems, computer simulation

Classical (Mediterranean) Archaeology

Greek, Cypriot and Roman archaeology, Specialisation: pottery and vase-painting, especially Hellenistic pottery, Specific areas of research: Greek and related pottery and vase-painting, Urban landscape and development of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, Greek colonies in the Black Sea especially intercultural relation between Greeks and native populations (e.g. Scythians), Modern technologies in archaeology

Archaeology (archaeobotany)

Prehistoric agriculture Origins and spread of agriculture Agricultural technology North-African Prehistory Hunter/gatherer subsistence Food Ethnoarchaeology

Analytical Chemistry, Quaternary science, Geochronology, Biomolecular archaeology

Christian archaeology, patristics, Ephesus, Eastern and Southern Europe

Christian archaeology, early Christianity in Ephesus Patristics Late antiquity/early Christian monuments in Eastern and Southern Europe Late antiquity/early Christian textiles from Egypt

Egyptology

Egyptian philology and material culture Concepts of man and nature The junction of Egyptology and the natural sciences Intellectual history of Ancient Egypt (incl. interactions with Greece) The botany and pharmacobotany of Egypt and the Greco-Roman world Metrology Mummification

Classical Archaeology, The Levant, Field archaeology

Urban archaeology from the Hellenistic to the early Medieval period Ancient iconography (portraiture and sculpture) Fieldwork archaeology - theory and methods

Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Specialist of archaeology and history of Egypt from the 7th c. BC to the 3rd c. AD, Particularly interested in the foreign (ie Greek and Roman) presence in Egypt, its expressions and consequences

Prehistoric Archaeology, settlement archaeology, economic archaeology, technoarchaeology

Neolithic Anatolia, human stature in prehistory, prehistoric food studies, prehistoric animal traction and mechanisation

Prehistory

Palaeolithic, use-wear, residues, stone tools, tool use, hafting, human evolution

Humans and their Environments: Evolutions, Interactions

Evolution of techniques, pre- and protohistory of southern Levant, ethnoarchaeology, ceramic technology

The Old Testament and the environment of the Bible, ancient Near Eastern iconography and the religious history of Palestine/Israel, feminist exegesis and hermeneutics

Ancient Oriental art The iconography of Palestine/Israel Gender and biblical studies

Classical Archaeology

Greek Archaeology Archaeology of Cult Funerary culture Topographic Studies Iconography

Physical Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, European Prehistory

Prehistoric Balkans, Neolithisation, Fertility, Paleoobsteric, Paleopediatry, Prehistoric Cooperative Breeding, Ancient births, mothers and babies. My research in the field of prehistoric bioarchaeology combines standard anthropological methods and the application of state-of-the art techniques through the wide network of scientific collaboration. Bioarchaeology investigates human past, however I am motivated to transform it as a discipline which will employ the huge potential of ancient skeletal heritage in the study of biological phenomena relevant to modern people – e.g. the study of fertility and foetal development. Ancient skeletal remains await on this new horizon as a vast unread library and as valuable biological heritage of ancient humans. If we change the way we perceive and study our biological heritage, and shift the focus of study from reconstructing the past to resolving current biological issues, our research may lead to new knowledge of utmost significance for present humanity.

Palaeontology, Palaeozoic palaeontology, Ordovician and Silurian

Evolution, Palaeontology, Fossils, Fossilization, Palaeozoic

Near Eastern archaeology

Use of urban structures and spaces Technological development Culture of remembrance

Humans and their Environments: Evolutions, Interactions

Study of ancient personal ornaments Characterisation of prehistoric societies, in particular their social organisation, exchange systems and ethno-cultural units, through the study of personal ornaments found in burials and settlement sites Ethnoarchaeological research on personal ornaments Creation of modern, fossil, experimental and ethnographic reference collections for the study of prehistoric personal ornaments, taphonomic and technological analyses, microscopy, macrophotography, GIS, multivariate statistical analyses, creation of databases

Realia studies

Iconography and interpretation of images Historical study of images Gender history Study of dress