Transcript Recent advances in archaeological science

Archaeology & Science:
an introduction to new
research
Dr Gareth Perry
Dr Lizzy Craig-Atkins
Dr Gareth Perry
Ceramicist, Early Medieval Archaeologist
Laboratory and Technical Supervisor
Background
• Science and engineering
• MA and PhD, Dept. Archaeology,
University Of Sheffield
• Employed since October 2013
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Specialism
• Reconstructing ceramic technology,
experimental archaeology
• Ceramic petrology
• Pottery use and function
• Early Anglo-Saxon death and burial
• Saxon and medieval pottery
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Current Research Interests
• Pre-burial uses of AngloSaxon cremation urns
Cleatham
Manton Warren
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Current Research Interests
Manufacture of
pottery in Viking-Age
England
Kiln 13 <750oC
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Kiln 13 850-950oC
Dr Lizzy Craig-Atkins
Human Osteologist, Funerary Archaeologist
Lecturer in Human Osteology
Background
• AS-level maths, A-levels history,
chemistry, biology
• BA Archaeology, MSc Human Osteology
and Palaeopathology, PhD Archaeology
• Demonstrator in Biological Anthropology
• Lecturer in Human Osteology
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Specialism
• Lab-based analysis of the human skeleton
• Funerary archaeology in context
• Anglo-Saxon to post-med archaeology
• Multidisciplinary approaches to individual
identity in the past (history, medicine,
clinical)
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Current Research Interests
• Rites of passage (weaning, baptism,
individual autonomy)
• Disability and impairment in the
archaeological record
• The role of funerary ritual in the
establishment of individual and group
identities (status, gender, maternal,
professional identity)
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Current Themes
• Visibility and invisibility
• Scales of research: population vs
individual
• Social identity and biological identity
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Current Themes
• Visibility and invisibility
• Scales of research: population vs
individual
• Social identity and biological identity
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Current Themes
• Visibility and invisibility
• Scales of research: population vs
individual
• Social identity and biological identity
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