Congratulations to Hallvard Indgjerd on passing his PhD! His thesis is entitled “Settlement and Contact on Late Roman and Early Byzantine South Naxos, Keros and Kato Kouphonisi”. Hallvard works on island settlement and connectivity in the Cyclades during the Late Roman and Early Medieval period. Using survey pottery from southern Naxos and the Lesser Cyclades,…
Tag: Archaeology
Congratulations to Jackie Whalen
Congratulations to Jackie Whalen on passing her PhD! Jackie’s thesis is entitled ‘The Topography of Cult in Archaic and Classical Sparta: an archaeological approach to Spartan society’.
Doors Open Days – East Fife
Join us in the Archaeology room from 2-4pm on Sunday 2nd September, and learn about our cutting edge research project “Through A Glass Darkly“. This combines the latest digital technology with experimental archaeology! The artefacts range in date from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine period and include stone tools, pottery vessels, lamps, figurines and votive…
Omnium Annalium Monumenta
The book “Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome” edited by Kaj Sandberg & Christopher Smith, was published in December 2017 by Brill. More information: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004355552
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for Christopher Smith
Congratulations to Christopher Smith who has just been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research fellowship from October 2017 to work on a book project entitled ‘The Roman Kings: A Study in Archaeology, History and Power’. Christopher has been on secondment as Director of the British School at Rome since October 2009: we are looking forward to…
Leventis Fellow and Inaugural lecture of the new Centre for Landscape Studies
The Centre is delighted to announce that its first event will take place on Friday with a seminar by Dr Thanasis Vionis, Assistant Professor in Byzantine Archaeology and Art, University of Cyprus. The seminar entitled ‘Landscape approaches and settlement archaeology in post-Roman central Greece’ will be followed by a drinks reception in Swallowgate. We are…
Photogrammetry and 3D Imaging; Bridges Collection: 123D Catch
By Sophia Mirashrafi This past August, I was given the opportunity to work closely with the Bridges Collection through the continuation of the 3D scanning project. It was my aim to discover a quicker way to scan these artefacts on the computer, and to make them more accessible to the public online. Although it produces…
The Bridges Collection
By Catherine Cruickshank From January – August 2014 I selected a range of Cypriot artefacts from The Bridges Collection for 3D scanning and modelling, held in the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. This was an experimental project conducted in collaboration with the School of Classics, Computer Science and Museum Collections, which formed the…
Portable Antiquities Scheme – one million finds
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) announced its one millionth find on Friday September 26th 2014. This is not only a major milestone for the project, but also a reminder of the usefulness of technology and public engagement in the field of archaeology. The PAS is an archaeological project which aims to collect data from local finds in…
The Mosaics of Roman Crete
Rebecca Sweetman’s book, The Mosaics of Roman Crete: Art, Archaeology and Social Change was published in May 2013 by Cambridge University Press. For further information please view http://tinyurl.com/mosaics-crete
Archaeology workshops
The School of Classics and the Museum Collections Unit within the University are offering practical archaeology sessions for students in primary and secondary schools in Fife and Tayside. Different types of workshops are available including handling sessions of the Cypriot Pottery collection and more structured workshops on a series of topics, such as excavation and…
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