Archaeology Research students

Some of our current and recent research degree students.

Click on the project title links for a pdf poster.

Alexandra Knox (a.e.s.knox@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Anglo-Saxon Settlements.
Supervised by: Professor Roberta Gilchrist ,  Dr Gabor Thomas

Alice Rogers (wt018476@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Coastal connections: the archaeology of the North Sea coastline from 4000-1500 BC.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Amanda Moore (a.j.moore@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Image and Identity in Roman Egypt.
Supervised by: Dr Anna Boozer ,  Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Amy Poole (a.e.poole@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Chemical analysis of buried soils from experimental earthworks and comparison to archaeological case studies.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Professor Martin Bell

Amy Richardson
The expression of identities through Samnite portable material culture contextualising the archaeological evidence.
(Completed: 01/03/2010 )
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Anna Kutner
Development of in-situ technologies for the assessment of NORM contaminated facilities and land.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Dr Stuart Black

Anwen Cooper
Recent Transformations in British Prehistoric Research.
(Completed: 18/08/2010 )
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Ash Lenton (d.a.lenton@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Building Medieval Identities: an archaeology of colonisation, migration and diaspora in 'Reconquista Spain'.
Supervised by: Professor Roberta Gilchrist

Bernadette Manifold
An Investigation into the Skeletal Preservation of Non-Adult Remains and its implications for Bioarchaeology and Forensic Antrhoropology.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis

Carole Wheeler
The very stuff of past lives - a re-examination of the use of finds on medieval sites.
(Completed: 24/05/2011 )
Supervised by: Professor Grenville Astill ,  Professor Roberta Gilchrist

Ceri Falys (c.falys@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Extending the life course: developing new methods for identifying the "elderly" in the archaeological record.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis

Christine Bunting (c.j.bunting@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Quantifying the Heritage Resource Potential of Lowland Wetlands in NW Europe.
Supervised by: Dr Nicholas Branch ,  Dr Steve Robinson ,  Professor Penny Johnes

Christopher Speed
Bioturbation on Archaeological Sites.
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell ,  Professor Mark Hodson

Courtney Nimura (c.r.nimura@student.reading.ac.uk)
Scandinavian-wide survey of rock and portable art from the Mesolithic through to the Early Iron Age.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Daniel Young
Holocene climate change in Southern Ireland.
Supervised by: Dr Nicholas Branch ,  Dr Stuart Black

Darko Maricevic
Later Prehistory of Tiree and Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland: Application of geophysics in archaeological investigation of cultural landscapes.
(Completed: 01/03/2010 )
Supervised by: Professor Steven Mithen ,  Dr T R Astin

David Dunkin
Environmental change and metalwork during the Bronze Age.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley ,  Professor Martin Bell

David Jordan
The Electrical Resistivity of Archaeological Remains.
(Completed: 16/06/2010 )
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr T R Astin

David Mullin
The Later Prehistory of the Anglo Welsh Borderland.
(Completed: 12/10/2011 )
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley ,  Prof C Richards (Manchester Univ)

Elena Martelli
Roman Archaeology - Terracotta material from Roman Ostia.
Supervised by: Dr Hella Eckardt ,  Professor Michael Fulford

Elise Fraser
Regional traditions among Bronze Age burials of Britain.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Emma Durham
Bronze Figurines in Roman Britain.
(Completed: 19/01/2011 )
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Georgia Koromila (mp024388@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
A geoarchaeological study of Neolithic open spaces in N. Greece.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Professor Martin Bell

Guido Guarducci (g.guarducci@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
The Lands of Nairi: social and material culture networking among the communities of Eastern Anatolia during the late Bronze and Iron Ages.
Supervised by: Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Helen Crossman (h.e.crossman@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Contextual analysis of economic and social networks: the circulation of Bronze Age soft-stone artefacts in Bahrain and Cyprus.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Dr Stuart Black ,  Professor Bob Chapman

Jade Whitlam (j.t.whitlam@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Archaeobotany and the Neolithic of Western Iran.
Supervised by: Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Nicholas Branch ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Justine Tracey (j.t.tracey@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Cultural Behaviour or Natural Processes? A review of Southern Britain Iron Age Skeletal Remains.
(Completed: 14/03/2012 )
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley ,  Dr Mary Lewis

Karen Wicks
Vegetation history and human interactions in Scottish prehistory: an island perspective from Tiree, Coll and northwest Mull, Inner Hebrides.
Supervised by: Professor Steven Mithen ,  Dr Nicholas Branch ,  Dr P Dark

Kathryn Turner (kathryn.turner@student.reading.ac.uk)

Supervised by: Dr Stuart Black ,  Dr Nicholas Branch

Kay Lakin
Diet and Migration in medieval London: Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains.
(Completed: 21/06/2010 )
Supervised by: Professor Roberta Gilchrist ,  Dr Gundula Müldner

Lindsey Smith
Poor Man's Silver? Pewter tableware: its function, significance and contribution to our understanding of life in Roman Britain.
(Completed: 07/12/2011 )
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Louise Jones (l.a.jones@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
In situ Preservation of Wetland Heritage: Hydrological & Chemical Change in the Burial Environment of the Somerset Levels, UK.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr Steve Robinson

Mara Vejby (m.d.f.vejby@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Megalithic tombs of Atlantic Europe: Iron Age perceptions of the past.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley ,  Professor Bob Chapman

Margaret Andrews
Palaeopathology of Populations of Southern England in Romano/Anglo Saxon Transition.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis ,  Dr Gabor Thomas

Meike Weber (m.b.weber@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Samian supply to the North Western Provinces of the Roman Empire.
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Michael Cowie
Management of naturally occurring radioactive material in the Oil & Gas Industry.
Supervised by: Dr Stuart Black ,  Khalid Mously (Saudi Aramco)

Michela Sandias
Integrating Resources in Ancient Jordan: Reconstruction of Diet and Environment by Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Faunal Skeletal Remains.
(Completed: 01/12/2010 )
Supervised by: Dr Gundula Müldner ,  Professor Steven Mithen

Pascal Flohr (p.flohr@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of archaeological and experimentally grown cereals from Jordan.
Supervised by: Dr Gundula Müldner ,  Dr E Jenkins (Bournemouth)

Petra Verlinden (p.verlinden@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Adolescence, Migration and Health in Medieval England.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis

Philip Stastney (p.stastney@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Examining the relationships between Holocene climate change, palaeohydrology and human activities in the Midlands of Ireland.
Supervised by: Dr Nicholas Branch ,  Dr Stuart Black

Rebecca Watts (r.watts@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
The impact of environmental stress experienced during development on adult lifespan.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis

Robert Davis (r.j.davis@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Palaeolithic archaeology of the Solent river: human occupation inits stratigraphic context.
Supervised by: Dr Robert Hosfield ,  Professor Martin Bell ,  Nick Aston (British Museum)

Rosemary Stewart
The use of cherts and other siliceous lithic materials in British late prehistory.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Rosie Weetch (r.weetch@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Late Anglo-Saxon brooches in context.
Supervised by: Dr Gabor Thomas

Rowena Banerjea
Characterising Urban Space: A Case Study from Insula IX, Silchester, Hants UK
(Completed: 12/10/2011 )
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Sandy Briden (nee Davies)
NMR analysis of hair.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Dr Stuart Black

Sarah Elliott (sarah.elliott@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Micromorphological investigation of early animal management in the Zagros, Iran.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Stuart Black

Sophie Raynaud (s.raynaud@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Isotopic analysis of hair for the determination of forensic applications.
Supervised by: Dr Stuart Black ,  Dr M Almond (Chemistry)

Stephen Myers (s.d.myers@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Early Roman Settlement to the Late Medieval Periods.
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Nicholas Branch ,  Professor Grenville Astill

Tom Walker (t.walker@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Molluscs in Environmental Archaeology.
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr Stuart Black

Victoria Taylor
Shell middens in the late Palaeolithic and early Holocene of North Africa.
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr Stuart Black

Wei Chu (w.chu@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Experimental investigations into site formation processes and the earlier Palaeolithic record.
Supervised by: Dr Robert Hosfield ,  Professor Martin Bell