Postgraduate Research Degrees

 

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Doctoral students are central to the archaeological research community in Oxford with over a hundred students studying across the whole range of disciplines.  

Although students are encouraged to attend lectures, participate in research seminars, and undertake training, there is no pre-determined course of instruction. Students are guided in their research by supervisors, academic or senior research staff, who are experts in their field of research.

All graduate students are also members of the student-led Graduate Archaeology at Oxford which organises a wide range of events and an annual conference.

Whether they are preparing a thesis by publication, or in the traditional monograph form, many students publish their work both during their time as students or after submission.

Degree options

There are three research degrees in Archaeology, examined solely by thesis: the DPhil in Archaeology, the DPhil in Archaeological Science (for which candidates can also submit a thesis by papers), and the DPhil in Classical Archaeology, but projects which cross these disciplinary boundaries are welcome, and students are enrolled in the most appropriate degree.

Degree structure

The DPhil is a full-time degree and students are expected to complete their theses, which have a maximum word length of 80,000 words, within three or at the most four years. To begin with, students are admitted as Probationer Research Students, transferring to full doctoral status within four terms of their arrival. Their progress is formally assessed through the submission of written work and an interview by a small assessment panel ('transfer of status'), while a further similar assessment ('confirmation of status') is held within seven terms of their arrival. At each stage students also make a short formal presentation of their research at one of the Doctoral Student Symposia organised by the School of Archaeology, which help students develop their presentational skills at an early stage of their careers. Successful doctoral theses must, among other things, display evidence of substantial and original research, lucid and scholarly presentation and a sound knowledge of the general field within which the thesis falls.

Information for current students

For all on-course materials, please login to the CANVAS online virtual learning platform (SSO required)  

Applying

The application process

Full details of the application procedures relating to all (taught and research) degrees administered by the School of Archaeology, including access to the online application form, can be found on the University admissions pages. Questions about their detail should be directed in the first instance to the Graduate Admissions Office. What follows is a summary outline of the procedures followed and the steps that you need to take.

Funding

Details of the possible funding mechanisms for new students is given on our Funding for Graduates page.  Most funding is specific to the student rather than being allocated to specific projects.

Deadlines for receipt of applications

The University has a number of application deadlines allowing applications to be assessed against each other at a series of dates throughout the academic year. You can apply to study archaeology at Oxford in time for any of the deadlines.

Many programmes are able to consider applications submitted after the last relevant deadline if places are still available but be aware that courses and college places do fill up and so you should apply as soon as possible.

Deadlines for candidates applying for grants

If you are applying for a grant from a UK Research Council, or for Clarendon or other awards, you must apply by the January deadline. You should also indicate on your application that you are applying for a specific award.

The exception to this is the Rhodes Scholarships which have their own deadline typically a year before starting as a student.

Graduate Admissions criteria

Please see https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/social-sciences/archaeology

Submitting your application

Your application can only be assessed once all relevant information has been supplied. Please therefore make sure to complete all appropriate sections of the application form and arrange for references and written work to be submitted on time. You will need to provide:

  • evidence of previous academic study, including final degree result (or predicted result if you have not yet completed your studies) and academic transcript (where available);
  • information on how you will pay fees and support yourself while a graduate student, including information on any scholarships or awards for which you may be applying;
  • personal statement, and a research proposal for a DPhil (<1500 words);
  • three academic references;
  • two pieces of written work.

Existing students

If you are currently studying for a taught course at Oxford and wish to apply to continue onto a research degree with no break in your study you can apply using the Re-admission form. You will need to meet all of the same deadlines and requirements as other applicants except that you will not need to pay a fee to apply. Please see information in the Application guide at https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/applying-to-oxford/application-guide#readmission

Choosing a College

Please see https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/social-sciences/archaeology

Assessment of your application

All applications are assessed by two members of the School of Archaeology with relevant experience and expertise, chosen by the Director of Graduate Studies. If need be, additional advice is also taken. Assessments are made solely on academic grounds, and in the majority of cases interviews are not held. We strongly encourage you to email or visit academic or senior research staff that are likely to supervise your project discuss your research plans before making your application as they can help and advise on the project proposal. The assessment is based on the material submitted with your application after consideration of your previous qualifications, references, personal statement or research proposal and the submitted written work, as outlined above.  

Funding status considerations

Whether you have yet secured funding is not taken into consideration in the decision to make an initial offer a place, but please note that the initial offer of a place will not be confirmed until the college which gives you an initial offer of a place is satisfied that you have sufficient funding to cover your fees and living costs for the standard period of fee liability for your course.

Disability, health conditions and specific learning difficulties.

Students are selected for admission without regard to gender, marital or civil partnership status, disability, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age or social background. Decisions on admission are based solely on the individual academic merits of each candidate and the application of the selection criteria appropriate to the programme of study. Further information on how these matters are supported during the admissions process is available at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/disabilities

Current projects

A list of the current doctoral projects underway is given here with a link to the student and supervisor pages.

Ancient Greek Vases - 'Locating, Cataloguing, and Interpreting the UK National Trust’s Collections of Ancient Greek Vases'
Abigail Allan | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
Rethinking the Robberg Technocomplex of Late Pleistocene Southern Africa: The Phase 5 Assemblages of Ntloana Tšoana in Context of the Later Stone Age Miniaturised Lithic Strategies
Svenja Arlt | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Charles Arthur
Thracian Chamber Tombs (5th-2nd Centuries BC)
Blagovesta Atanassova | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
The Influence of International Funders in Post-Conflict Heritage Reconstruction: State-Building and Reconciliation in Iraq and Afghanistan
Kristen Barrett-Casey | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Timothy Clack
The Cult of Hercle in Archaic Southern Etruria (ca 580-480 BC)
Allia Benner | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Charlotte Potts
Applications of Computational and Spectral Imaging for Epigraphy
Taylor Bennett | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Charles Crowther
Understanding the Spatial-Temporal Trends of the Southern African Middle Stone Age
Ruby-Anne Birin | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Christopher Bronk Ramsey
The Characterisation and Prediction of Roman Settlement, Farming and Land Use Patterns in Central and Southern England
Paul Chadwick | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Hisarlik, Site of Troy
Susan Chai | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Why Not “Collapse”? Maintenance and Continuity in Late and Terminal Classic Lamanai, Belize
Guopeng Chen | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Alexander Geurds
Modelling the Roman Economy: Understanding the Effects of the Roman Transport and Trade Systems on Tableware Distribution in the Late Roman East
Alex Chiu Smit | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Andrew Wilson and Christopher Howgego
Markers of Cultural Identity on Pottery: An Integrated Approach to Pottery Analysis from Border Zones
Mikayla Coad | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Shadreck Chirikure
Cretan Hieroglyphic in process: Rethinking the ecology of writing in the Cretan Bronze Age
Arthur Coppée | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Nourishing Life and Movement: Understanding Diet and Mobility in the Intermediate and Middle Bronze Age in Israel
Lev Cosijns | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
Wearable Containers of Meaningful Things: English Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewellery to Enclose, Conceal, and Enshrine
Caroline Croasdaile | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Eleanor Standley
Onesimos and his workshop
Ollie Croker | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
Hellenistic Mouldmade Relief Bowls in Thessaly
Anna Dalgkitsi | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
Unlocking Basque Uniqueness: A Multifaceted Approach
Valentin Darre | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Greger Larson
Pirate Societies: An Archaeology of Liminal Maritime Spaces
Adam Dawson | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Pouncett and Damian Robinson
'Clazomenian' Black-Figure Pottery
Leonie Defonteyne | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
Viking-Age Scandinavian settlement in northern England. A geospatial model for reconceptualizing the cultural landscape
Anthony Del Rio | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Helena Hamerow and Jane Kershaw
Celadon of the Six Dynasties (AD220-589) in South China: Production, Consumption, and Identity of Shizu Literati
Esther Ding | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Anke Hein
Moulding Emotion: later medieval badges in England and Wales
John Dinges | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Eleanor Standley
Revealing Human-Animal relationships through time via Paleogenetics and Bioarchaeology
Alice Dobinson | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
Forging a new Age: the technological origins of iron metallurgy in the Late Bronze Age Near East.
Robert Downes | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Christopher Salter and Mark Pollard
An assemblage and material agency approach to the function of jades in a mortuary context: the case of Fu Hao's tomb in late Shang China
Xuying Du | MLitt Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Ancient Egyptian Ship and Boat Models between Theory and Experimental Simulation
Nesrin Elgaly | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
The Aegean influence on the social organization of Italian communities in the Late Bronze Age
Angela Falezza | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Lisa Bendall
Screw Piles, Syringes and Selfies: Birch’s Seaside Piers in Crisis.
Lindsay Fricker | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Dan Hicks and Damian Robinson
Sacred Heritage, Memory and Identity: Mazu belief of the Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia
Yuxin Fu | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Timothy Clack and Anke Hein
Unravelling the complex meanings and origins of 'zisha' teapots in the Ming and Qing dynasties
Xuyang Gao | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Anke Hein and Chris Doherty
Horse Power: Interactions between China, Mongolia and the steppe 2000-0 BCE
Akari Goda-Maurezzutt | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Local-scale network and connectivity in in-land water proximity sites of the Maya Lowlands during the Maya periods using emerging technologies
Cristina Gonzalez | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Pouncett and Alexander Geurds
The Social Life of Late Antique Sarcophagi: Location, Audience, and Meaning
Alexis Gorby | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Peter Stewart
Living in the ruins: Geyre, Aphrodisias, and the archaeology of memory
Miranda Gronow | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Ine Jacobs
Monumental Fountains of the Roman West: 50 BCE – 250 CE
Kate Halcrow | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Janet DeLaine and Ine Jacobs
The identification of natural organic components in the construction materials of ancient sites in China
Yushen He | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Thibaut Deviese and Mark Pollard
The epidemiological transition: farming in sickness and in health. What was the extent of the pathogenic burden of Neolithic &Bronze Age populations?
Katherine Hearne | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Greger Larson and Amy Bogaard
Aesthetic Preference, Cognitive Ecologies, and Pleistocene Lithics: Towards an Enactive Evolutionary Aesthetics
Jim Hicks | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Colonialism, Visuality and Monumentalism: National Trust Country Houses, c. 1895-1937
Becky Hodgkinson | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Dan Hicks
The Late Period and Ptolemaic figurines from Thonis-Heracleion
Leonie Hoff | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Investigating changing subsistence strategies during the Neolithic in the Southwestern Balkans
Amy Holguin | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Extricating the importance of freshwater resource use within prehistoric diets: combining the power of bulk and compound specific stable isotope analysis with established freshwater reservoir effects on radiocarbon dates
Corrie Hyland | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Amy Styring
‘Nobody wets clay with water and leaves it’: investigating the materials, techniques, and manufacturers of Post-Mauryan terracotta figurines
Shem-Raz Idrees | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Understanding Bronze Vessel Use in Ancient China through Organic Residues
Kostja Junglas | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard, PeterDitchfield and Ruiliang Liu
Military and Literary Landscapes of the Other: understanding castle building in Medieval North Wales
Meg Kirkpatrick | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Pouncett and Andrew Wilson
Why have there been no great women patrons? – Examining the cultural phenomenon of Renaissance female art patronage
Carolin Koenig | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Dan Hicks
Storage Practices in Early Greece: The Late Geometric and Archaic Pithos in the Cyclades.
Myrto Kokkalia | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Between the Caves and the Sea: the Late Glacial occupation of the English East Midlands
Julia Kotthaus | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Nick Barton
Ship A and its cargo. A hypothetical reconstruction of a Middle Imperial Age merchant ship.
Cristina Laurenti | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Disruptive Materiality, Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Southeast Asian Archaeology
Michael Leadbetter | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Attic Black and Red-Figure Pottery in the Southern Levant
Ariel Levine | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
The Taste of Tea and Shape of Smell: A Sensory Archaeology Approach to Chinese Tea and Ceramics
Melody Li | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Anke Hein
Nomadic Empires and the Nomadic Buddha: The influence of Kushan royal portraits in Central and East Asia, 100-800 CE
Yicong Li | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
A techno-socioeconomic investigation of the Husi kiln complex in the middle Yangtze River Valley
Zihan Li | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Anke Hein and Chris Doherty
Nuna Nalluyuituq/The Land Remembers: Spatial technology, collaborative community engagement, and capacity building in Southwest Alaskan cultural landscapes
Jonathan Lim | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and John Pouncett
Brick Tombs in the Sichuan Basin during the Eastern Han Period (AD 25-220): Regional Identity and Cultural Fusion
Lily Liu | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Wendy Morrison and Ine Jacobs
Byzantine hermitages and hermits of the geographically north part(s)of Cyprus: An ethnoarchaeological approach
Gabriella Makri | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Ine Jacobs
How to structure the world in your mind. Archives and archival texts in Mycenaean Greece and the Ancient Near East in the second millennium BC.
Miriam Mann | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Lisa Bendall
Clayful Phenomenology and Material Engagement: explorations in contemporary cognitive archaeology
Paul March | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Small Fish, Big Pond: Archaeologies of fishing on a fragile Lake Victoria
Campbell Martin | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Plantiness: Re-evaluating Plant-Human Relationships Across Temporal Landscapes in Britain
Molly Masterson | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Quantifying Construction and Urban Development in Late Republican Rome: A Study of the Design Process, Logistics, and Economics of Construction
Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Dominik Maschek and Andrew Wilson
Exploring the Sirens’ Symbolism and Ties to the Female Mythological World of Archaic and Classical Greece
Theodoros Mazis | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
Excavating the Archives: Reassessing the Archaeological Histories of the Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Basilica di San Clemente
Kelly McClinton | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Ine Jacobs
From Pompey to Augustus: What can coinage contribute to our understanding of client kingdoms in central Asia Minor during the late-republican period?
Denise Miebach | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Jerome Mairat and Ine Jacobs
Conceptions of Childhood in Ancient Thessaly: A diachronic analysis of the funerary assemblages of children (Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic Period)
Kristen Millions | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
Digital Technology, Cultural Heritage, and the Creation of Landscapes of Power.
Savannah Milton | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and John Pouncett
Archaeology in the Information Age: theoretical and practical aspects of archaeological outreach in the past and present.
Jakov Mlinarevic | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: David Griffiths and Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Decolonizing maritime archaeology and democratizing archaeological data: an alternative way to promote and protect maritime cultural heritage in HK
Jay Mok | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Damian Robinson and Anke Hein
Elephant Evolutions: Knowledge Production between Egypt and Sudan 300BC - AD400
Tim Moller | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Cuniculi: Subterranean Water Systems in Italy during the First Millennium BCE
Christina Monroe | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Charlotte Potts and Andrew Wilson
Intersecting Constructions of Race and Gender Identities of Black Africans in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Art
Eleanor Newman | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
The Metal Detector: Potentials and Limitations: A Methodological Update to Roman Coin Finds
Rasmus Nielsen | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Christopher Howgego and Andrew Wilson
Potting in the Pandemic: Investigating pottery skill development and its affective impact in COVID-19 Britain
Catherine O'Brien | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Climate and Chronology: Environmental Variability and the Archaeology of Marine Isotope Stage 3
Monty Ochocki | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Thomas Higham and Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Excavating the Image: Records of Violence and Displacement in Contemporary Levantine Visual Culture
Sari Patnaik | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Dan Hicks
A Lithic Approach to Testing a Nilotic Origin for the Iberomaurusian
Nicolas Perrault | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Nick Barton
Style as Memory: A Cross-disciplinary Approach to the Knossian Kamares Style
Emanuele Prezioso | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Worth a Thousand Words: Military and city-state iconography and collective identity in ancient Greece.
Mads Proitz | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
Early rice agriculture in Bangladesh: methodological and archaeobotanical perspectives
Mizanur Rahman | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
An Anthropological Theory of Dispossession
Sydney Rose | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Dan Hicks
Gender, Sexuality, and the Construction of Masculine Identities in Late Bronze Age to Archaic Crete (1400–480 BC)
Filippos Roussos | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Palaeogenomics and bioarchaeology Form or function? Assessing spatiotemporal variation in selection pressures of domestic dogs.
Lachie Scarsbrook | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis and New Metabolomics Techniques to Explore Novel Dietary Biomarkers for Palaeodietary Reconstruction
Michael Scott | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: James McCullagh and Amy Styring
Becoming Chu: Interaction and Ideology during the Eastern Zhou Period
Shui Shen | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Change and Continuity in the Spatial and Social Organisation of Late Longshan (2500-1900BC) Sites on Zhengzhou Plains, Henan, China
Muyang Shi | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Anke Hein
Rethinking the Chaine Operatoir Approach: Agency, Cognition, and Temporality in Bronze Age Aegean Pottery Production
Katie Slaughter | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Archaeology and Disaster: Geospatial approaches for determining the susceptibility of archaeology to disaster
Rachel Smith | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Sacral Landforms in Western Anatolia (600 BC – AD 300)
Serra Somersan | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Maria Stamatopoulou and Joshua Thomas
Weaving Material Mind Maps: Cognitive Networks Based on the Semiotic Variants of Dolmens on the Korean Peninsula
Hoin Song | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and John Pouncett
Foraging to farming: diet and health on the frontier of maize agriculture in pre-Columbian central Chile
Jaime Swift | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
A comparative analysis of how armed conflict and the destruction of cultural heritage impacts communities
Beth Timmins | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Timothy Clack and Dan Hicks
Relating Fluvial and Social Dynamics in pre-Hispanic Nicaragua: Archaeological study of human adaptation to the Mayales River basin
Irene Torreggiani | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Alexander Geurds, Mike Charles and William Harvey
Timber Roof Construction in the Changing Social, Economic and Political Landscape of the Roman Empire: A Study of Temples
Maria Theodora Tzeli | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Dominik Maschek and Andrew Wilson
The network of fortified settlements of Eastern Central Greece from the late 6th c to the Ottoman Conquest
Katerina Vavaliou | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Ine Jacobs
A Spatial Analysis of the Built Environment Surrounding Mosaics in Imperial Period Greece and Asia Minor
Nikki Vellidis | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Reconstructing the ecology and chronology of Neolithic agropastoral management at Dispilio, Lake Orestias
Doris Vidas | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Amy Bogaard, Amy Styring and Mike Charles
A tale of two continents: refining the tephrostratigraphies for two volcanic regions; Campania, Italy and Lake Suigetsu, central Japan
Sophie Vineberg | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Victoria Smith and Paul Albert
The role of materiality in the formation of social memory: Studying the life histories of the Mycenaean Shaft Grave stelae
Chaoying Wang | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Focusing on the systematic typological study and through a great deal of induction and arrangement work
Ruyue Wang | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
A multi-isotope approach to hunter-gatherer mobility and microregional connectivity in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Southern Siberia
Karolina Werens | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
Early Anglo-Saxon barrow burials in England: spatial analysis and contextualisation of the Sixth and Seventh Century nationwide funerary landscape.
Wyatt Wilcox | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Pouncett and Helena Hamerow
Collaborative Custodians: Practical Solutions to Curation & Knowledge Revival Through Zimbabwean Museums
Thandiwe Wilson | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Shadreck Chirikure and Laura van Broekhoven
Victorian Collections of Classical Antiquities
Roswyn Wiltshire | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Children and Childhood in Greece during the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period.
Holly Winch | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Urban Development of North African Cities during the Severan Dynasty
Marie Theres Wittmann | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
An integrated study of Neolithic wetland agroecology in the Lower Yangtze river basin, China
Rubi Wu | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
A Potter’s Story of the Blue-and-White: Manufacturing Porcelain Beyond the Imperial Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, in the Late Ming Dynasty (1522-1644)
Siyi Wu | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Doherty and Anke Hein
Seafaring in Gujarat: enquiry into the geo-climatic factors and maritime tradition up to 500 CE
Ajay Yadav | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Culture Contact and Interregional Interaction Across the East Rim of the Tibetan Plateau from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age
Yidan Zhang | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Anke Hein
The Role of South and East Africa in the Indian Ocean Rim
Muchen Zhou | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Shadreck Chirikure
Art and Archaeology of the Chengdu Plains: Understanding the Bronze Age Technological Development and Interaction at Sanxingdui.
Jingyuan/Yvonne Zou | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Anke Hein
Completed projects

A list of completed doctoral projects is given here.  For recent thesis there is a link to the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) which holds theses since 2007.  Some earlier theses may also be deposited.

'For a quart of ale is a dish for a king'? Malting, brewing and beer in the Mid Anglo-Saxon period: a case study of Sedgeford
Hannah Caroe (2023) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Human Influences on Animals from an Ancient DNA Perspective: Case Studies on Chinese Domestic Cats (Felis silvestris catus), Chinese Leopard Cats (Prionailurus bengalensis), Eurasia Fallow Deer (Dama dama), and Chinese Domestic Pigs (Sus scrofa)
Yu Han (2023) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
Crete and the Sea: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Late Hellenistic and Imperial Crete
Dimitrios Karampas (2023) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Late Holocene Cultural Dynamics and Trans-Saharan Connections in Southeastern Mauritania: A Remote Sensing Approach
Gonzalo Linares Matas (2023) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Warrior Women: The changing appeal of the Amazon in the art of Greece and the wider Mediterranean c. 600-300 B.C.
Alice Parkin (2023) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Mannack
The Technology of Tang Sancai Glaze
Yun Zhang (2023) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Chris Doherty
Violence Leaves Scars: A Biocultural Approach to Violence in Prehistoric Jomon Japan
Izumi Braddick (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Mark Hudson
Archaeological marine carbonates in northern Hokkaido, Japan: methodology, chronology and palaeothermometry
Tansy Branscombe (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Julia Lee-Thorp
Living Standards and Market Integration in the Rural Economy of Roman Britain
Margaret Burr (2022) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Collecting Worlds: Biocultural Comparison and the HMS Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836
Danielle Gilbert (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Dan Hicks
In the Spirit of Engagement: Memories and the sensorium in Algonquin canoe building
Jonathan Goldner-Jacobs (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
What to Cook and How to Cook it: Understanding the interplay of subsistence, ceramic technology, and local environments in the emergence of pottery in Northeast Asia through residues
Jennifer Keute (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Anke Hein and Thibaut Deviese
Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Laconia: Settlements, cemeteries and sanctuaries (1200-700 BC)
Deborah Koussiounelos (2022) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Dressing as horsemen: The universalisation of steppe dress in the first half of Tang dynasty China (618-755)
Kyoko Nomoto (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
The Transformation of an Agricultural Economy. Forms of rural settlement in Epirus from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE
Nefeli Piree Iliou (2022) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
‘To call each thing by its right name?’ Exploring the potential of geometric morphometrics to interpret the diversity of archaeobotanical wheat grains
Tina Roushannafas (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles
Histological, Physicochemical, and Osteogenic Reaction-Related Approaches to Identifying the Pre-Burning Condition of Bone
Emese Vegh (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
The role of conflict during the adoption of agriculture in the Southwestern Japanese Archipelago: Late-Final Jomon and Yayoi Period Traumatic Lesions
Julia White (2022) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Mark Hudson
Cities and the Mongol Conquest: Urban Change in Central Asia from 1200-1400
Katie Campbell (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Paul Wordsworth and Chris Gosden
Recovery and analysis of organic residues from metal corrosion
Luciana Carvalho (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Colin Johnston
Chinese apocrypha titled Foshuo fumu enzhong jing as material culture in medieval Chinese society
Ying Chen (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Amy Bogaard
Figural sculpture in Roman Britain and its Continental relationships
Penny Coombe (2021) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Technological transfer in production of Majiayao-style pottery between Neolithic communities in northwest China
Evgenia Dammer (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Anke Hein
Ancient DNA perspectives on pathogen evolution in domestic animals
Evangelos Dimopoulos (2021) ORA | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
The Rise of Shimao 2800–1300 BC in the North Loess Plateau, China: An Exploration of the climate, demographic, economic, and material culture influences
Ying Fung (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Julia Lee-Thorp and Amy Styring
Taming Metals: The Use of Leaded Bronze in Early China, 2000-1250 BCE
Limin Huan (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Tradigital Knowledge? Indigenous Video Games, Intellectual Property Law, and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Kathy-Anne Hughes (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Graeme Dinwoodie
Deep-Sea Archaeology in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus
Achilleas Iasonos (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Rats, cats and hares: exploring natural and humanly-mediated dispersal through a genetic approach
Alexandra Jamieson (2021) ORA | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
Diet and Health in a time of transition: Pictish and Viking age Orkney
Alexandra Johnson (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Helena Hamerow
The Bay of Biscay as a sphere of interaction (2900-1100 BC): big data and big thinking in the Bronze Age
Juan Latorre-Ruiz (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
The origin of Chinese glasses and the glass trade along the Silk Road from the Warring States (475 BC-221 BC) to the Han Dynasty (202 BC- AD 220)
Qian Ma (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Agriculture and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from Western Anatolia
Tom Maltas (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Reconstructing diet and pottery technology of the Early Bronze Age ‘Kura-Araxes Culture’: a multi-analytical approach
Nyree Manoukian (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Chris Doherty and Mark Pollard
Landscape Archaeology and Aerial Photography in the Central Ionian Islands
Gian Milani (2021) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Catherine Morgan
Primate Archaeology: Comparative models for the evolution of primate technical cognition through tool use
Hannah Mosley (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
The Representation of Gods on Roman Historical Narrative Reliefs, 200 BC-AD 315
Thomas Pears Runeckles (2021) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Imperial Villas in Italy, Antoninus Pius to Maxentius: a Study in Architecture and Functions
Alice Poletto (2021) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Janet DeLaine and Dominik Maschek
Communities of Practice Theory in Egyptian Archaeology: A Case Study for Its Application with Old Kingdom Sealings and Seal Impressions from Giza
Siobhan Shinn (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and Paul Collins
A bioarchaeological study of intensification of pig husbandry in the middle Yellow River region during the Yangshao Period (7000–5000 BP)
Quan Zhang (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Julia Lee-Thorp and Amy Styring
The Marble Kyklos: Social Cognition, Social Complexity and Material Engagement in the Aegean Bronze Age
Alexander Aston (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
The Roman public baths of Central Italy during the Imperial period: An architectural study
Konogan Beaufay (2020) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Janet DeLaine and Charlotte Potts
A Study of How Packaging Reveals Categorisation and Status in the Qianlong Emperor’s Collection
Ying-Ching Chou (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Jessica Rawson and Henrietta Harrison
Remnants of a Roman Past: the reuse of Roman objects in early Anglo-Saxon graves, c. AD 5th-7th centuries
Jessica Dunham (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Changing Meanings of Megalithic Monuments in the Upper Baram, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
Nicholas Gani (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Prehistoric Aesthetics: An Ontology of Stone Age Art from the Lower Palaeolithic until the Neolithic
Brecht Govaerts (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and Chris Gosden
Affect and materiality in therapeutic spaces. A contemporary archaeology of hospices
John Harries (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Lambros Malafouris
Understanding past abrupt climatic change through the reduction of chronological uncertainty
Rebecca Kearney (2020) ORA | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Richard Staff and Paul Albert
Climate change and major plagues in the Roman Period
Brandon McDonald (2020) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Late Glacial Geography of the Channel River Network. Southeastern England and its Central Position in the British Peninsular and Ties with Northwestern Europe
William Mills (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Alison Roberts
Modelling Seafaring in Iron Age Atlantic Europe
Karl Smith (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and John Pouncett
Women, Gender, and Society in Late Antiquity: A Study in Visual Culture
Grace Stafford (2020) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Ine Jacobs
Underwater Acoustic Localization and Referencing: An Enhanced Subsurface Positioning Method for Archaeological Data Collection of Submerged Cultural Resources
Matthew Thompson (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Pouncett and Damian Robinson
Cosmology, Fashion and Good fortune: Chinese auspicious ornament in the Han dynasty (206BC - 220AD)
Shengyu Wang (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
A chronometric investigation of the initial peopling of the Americas
Lorena Becerra Valdivia (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Thomas Higham and Aikaterini Douka
Ancient Shipwrecks and Archaeological Science: Characterising cargo items through stable isotope, organic residue, and DNA analysis
Elizabeth Briggs (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Damian Robinson and Greger Larson
Looking to the North Sea: Isotopic and osteological evidence for medieval diet, mobility, and health at Stoke Quay, Ipswich
Eleanor Farber (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Julia Lee-Thorp and Helena Hamerow
The Hellenistic Terracottas from Demetrias
Stylianos Ieremias (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
Palaeogenomics of Animal Domestication: Integrating ancient and modern DNA using bioinformatics and population genetics
Evan Irving-Pease (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
Radiocarbon dating Late Pleistocene megafauna in southern Europe
Eileen Jacob (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Thomas Higham and Thibaut Deviese
The Archaeology of Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias
Hugh Jeffery (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Ine Jacobs
Gilded wreaths from the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Rosemary Jeffreys (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Maria Stamatopoulou and Chris Doherty
The agricultural economies of early urban systems in the northern Fertile Crescent
Hyunyoung Kim (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
The Ceramic Trade between China and Southeast Asia during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Peining Li (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Julia Lee-Thorp
Maritime Infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean: a context based approach to continuity and innovation in nautical technology (c.1400-700 BC)
Tzveta Manolova (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Establishing a detailed tephrochronological framework for Japan to aid the synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records across the Asian/Pacific region
Danielle McLean (2019) ORA | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Victoria Smith and Paul Albert
Imperial portrait practice in the second century AD: Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger
Christian Niederhuber (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Assessing the Local Radiocarbon Marine Reservoir Effect
Eduardo Queiroz Alves (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Kita Macario
Novel Approaches to Assess the Prevalence of Palaeoparasites in European Archaeological Sites
Hannah Ryan (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Greger Larson and Adrian Smith
Assessing the composition and timing of Late Quaternary volcanic eruptions in southern South America using tephra layers from lacustrine and peat sequences
Rebecca Smith (2019) ORA | Environmental Research (NERC DTP) - Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Victoria Smith, Karen Fontijn and Stefan Wastegard
Exploring the Lower Xiajiadian in Northeast China (ca. 2000-1300 BC)
Xiaojia Tang (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Jessica Rawson and Mark Pollard
Funerary Stelai from Roman-period Anatolia, 100BC to AD400: Regional Considerations of Cultural, Social, and Economic Expressions in Funerary Contexts
Sydney Taylor (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Burial Rite of Enchytrismos in Attica, Euboea and Boeotia during the late Geometric and Archaic periods: Towards an understanding of social dimension
Alexandra Vlanti (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Steppe and Local Identities on the Frontier of the State and Empire of Qin during the 7th to 3rd centuries BC
Wai Wong (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Jessica Rawson and Anke Hein
Identity and Society within Landscapes of Memory: Iron Age Cult at Bronze Age Ruins (1000-700 BC)
Christopher Adamson (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The social world of hunter-gatherers in Early Holocene Lesotho: Integrating Theory and Method
Charles Arthur (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400-146 BC)
Anna Blomley (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
The Monetary Circulation of Moesia Inferior from the beginning of the 2nd Century AD to the end of the 3rd Century AD
Ivan Bonchev (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Christopher Howgego
Stable Isotopes as Tracers of Copper Corrosion in the Atmosphere and Soil Environment: A Geographic Study on Brochantite and Malachite Formations on Historic and Archaeological Material Using δ18O, δ13C and δD
Daniela Boos Pedroza (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Exploitation, Technology and Function of Plant Resins in Oceania: Molecular Analysis of Ethnographic Museum Artefacts and the Implications for Archaeological Resin Analysis
Fiona Bradshaw (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
The Zhou identity: its construction, perception and development in the early Western Zhou (1045-978 B.C.)
Yu Cheng (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Feeding the City: a comparative study of agricultural production in Bronze Age urban systems of Western Asia
Charlotte Diffey (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Macedonian Urbanism? Cities, public building, and the character of political space in Macedonia, ca. 350-150 BC
Martin Gallagher (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
Assessing the nature of early farming in Neolithic Western Asia: a functional ecological approach to emerging arable weeds
Laura Green (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Territory and state formation in the Archaic Peloponnese: a survey-based approach to the development of the early polis
Kira Hopkins (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
A Matter of Time – Towards an Absolute Chronology for the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Biocultural Shift along the Danube Fluvial Corridor
Rachel Hopkins (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Thomas Higham
Tracing Tradition: Patterns of technological innovation and the circulation of copper in Southwest Asia from the 8th to 1st millennia BCE
Philippa Howarth (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Peter Hommel
Thessaly: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (c. 1600-700 BC)
Eleni Karouzou (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Making of Philip's Macedonia: the archaeology of the Macedonian kingdom from the Persian Wars to the fall of Perdiccas III (c.510-359BC)
Laura Laslett (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Maria Stamatopoulou
Untangled: Species identification of silks by protein mass spectrometry
Boyoung Lee (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Mining under Empire: Exploiting the Metal Resources of Roman Dacia
Swii Lim (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Formal Methods for Evolutionary Inference using Ancient DNA
Liisa Loog (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Greger Larson
Connecting Past and Present: The Archaeology of the Contemporary Past in the Glades of Embobut, Kenya
Samuel Lunn-Rockliffe (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
The Bronze-Iron Age Transition in Achaea, Western Greece: Continuity and Change from the 12th to the 8th Century BC
Christina Marini (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Marble Statuettes from the Athenian Agora, first century BC to fourth century AD
Brian Martens (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Role of Anglo-Saxon Great Hall Complexes in Kingdom Formation, in comparison and in context, AD500-750
Adam McBride (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
The impact of iron technology on the economy of the Aegean and Cyprus from 1200-850 BCE
Joanna Palermo (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Neolithic occupation and stone working on the Yorkshire Wolds
John Pouncett (2018) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Dynamics underlying Plasmodium Vivax mitochondrial genome diversity across the Eastern Hemisphere. A past human migratory perspective
Leonie Raijmakers (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Amy Bogaard and Alyssa Barry
Mercenaries in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to Iron Age
Hannah Ringheim (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Integrating Art, Landscape, and Archaeology. Investigations of Prehistoric Wall Paintings at Çatalhöyük
Ina St George (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Mark Pollard
Identifying and comparing meteorological and geographical influences on high resolution climate signals in the oxygen isotope values of different environmental archives
Elisabeth Thompson (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christopher Bronk Ramsey
'Stuck like glue': Assessing variability in hafting adhesives during the southern African Later Stone Age
Margaret-Ashley Veall (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Peter Mitchell
Chinese Ceramics in the Islamic World from the 8th to 10th centuries CE
Wen Wen (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: William Treadwell
A comparative study of the lithic technology, subsistence and bioclimatic settlement patterns of Neanderthals in the Iberian Peninsula (Cantabrian and Betic regions)
Marco Bernal (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Higham
Birds in the Aegean Bronze Age
Julia Binnberg (2017) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Lisa Bendall
The North-Eastern Aegean 1050-600 BC
Ioannis Chalazonitis (2017) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Cultural Interactions during the Zhou Period (C.A. 1000 - 350 B.C.): A Study of Networks from the Suizao Corridor
Beichen Chen (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
How did the iron industry in Southern Britain change from the Iron Age to the Roman period?
Steven Crabb (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Wendy Morrison
Apollo-Mithras and Jupiter Dolichenus: forming gods in Commagene and the Roman Empire from the first century BC to the third century AD
Dominic Dalglish (2017) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: John Elsner
Trade, development and resilience: An archaeology of contemporary livelihoods in Turkana, Northern Kenya
Samuel Derbyshire (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Dan Hicks
From Individuals to Settlement Patterns. Bridging the Gap between the Living and the Dead in Early Medieval Populations by an Agent-Based Demographic Model
Andreas Duering (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Forging bonds: Gold and Silver in High-Status Interaction of Eastern Eurasia, 6th to 9th century
Jiemin Fang (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Christian Stucco Decoration in Southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf Region, sixth to ninth centuries
Agnieszka Lic (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Marlia Mango and Janet DeLaine
Capturing changes: applying the Oxford system to further understand the movement of metal in Shang China
Ruiliang Liu (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Diets in England: Change, Continuity and Regionality between the Iron Age and Domesday Book (700 B.C. - 1086 A.D.)
Sarah Mallet (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Coinage in Etruria: Circulation and Uses 500-32 BC
Matthew Naiman (2017) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Christopher Howgego
Landscape and Connections: Petroglyphs of the Altai in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE
Rebecca O'Sullivan (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Jessica Rawson and Courtney Nimura
The supply of building materials to construction projects in Roman Oxfordshire: logistics, economics, and social significance
Edward Peveler (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Janet DeLaine and Chris Doherty
Carmen Heroum: Greek Epic in Roman Friezes
Alison Pollard (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
The Prehistory of Madagascar: Microbotanical and Archaeological Evidence from Coastal and Highland Sites
Solomon Pomerantz (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
From Trash to Treasure: The Recycling of Glass in Roman and Early Medieval Britain
Victoria Sainsbury (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Wendy Morrison
Towards an Absolute Chronology of Early Mesopotamia: a Radiocarbon Perspective
Maciej Wencel (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Michael Dee
Absorbed Organic Residue Analysis of Amphorae from the Black Sea Region (3rd to 6th c.AD): Analyses and Methodological Considerations
Marshall Woodworth (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard, Paul Reynolds and Andrew Wilson
Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean contacts: Internal networks and external connections
Wijerathne Bohingamu Herath Mudiyanselage (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Nicole Boivin, Derek Kennet and Damian Robinson
From Hispalis to Ishbiliyya: the ancient port of Seville, from the Roman Empire to the end of the Islamic Period (45 BC - AD 1248)
Carlos Cabrera Tejedor (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Marlia Mango and Damian Robinson
Roles of Weapons: Significance, Identity and Value in Shang (c.1600-1050 B.C.) Society in China
Qin Cao (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Jessica Rawson and Wendy Morrison
The Orientalising Phenomenon on Crete, 9th-7th centuries BC
Ann-Sofie Diener (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
A Study in Grey: Grey Literature and Archaeology in England 1990 to 2010
Victoria Donnelly (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Two Million Years of Environmental Change: A case study from Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape, South Africa
Michaela Ecker (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Julia Lee-Thorp
Rehydroxylation Dating
Vincent Hare (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christopher Bronk Ramsey
New Insights into Old Problems: The Application of a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Early Egyptian Ceramic Chronology, with a Focus on Luminescence Dating
Amber Hood (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Jean-Luc Schwenninger
Dynamic Flows of Copper and Copper Alloys across the Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe from 2000 to 300 BCE
Yiu-Kang Hsu (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Jessica Rawson and Mark Pollard
Exploring palaeoaridity using stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in small mammal teeth: a case study from two Late Pleistocene archaeological cave sites in Morocco, North Africa
Amy Jeffrey (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Julia Lee-Thorp
Sea Surface Temperatures from Oxygen Isotopes in Marine Molluscs in Middle and Later Stone Age Sites, South Africa
Emma Loftus (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Julia Lee-Thorp and Judith Sealy
Revisiting the Origins of Islamic Glazed Pottery: A Technological Examination of 8th-10th Century AD Ceramics from Islamic Lands
Moujan Matin (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Oliver Watson and Mark Pollard
Materiality in numerical cognition: Material Engagement Theory and the counting technologies of the Ancient Near East
Karenleigh Overmann (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and Chris Gosden
Fruits of the Forest: Human Stable Isotope Ecology and Rainforest Adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sri Lanka
Patrick Roberts (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Michael Petraglia and Julia Lee-Thorp
Chemical Composition, Thermodynamics and Recycling: The Beginnings of Predictive Behavioural Modelling for Ancient Copper-based Systems
Benjamin Sabatini (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Transition from the Late Roman Period to the Early Anglo-Saxon Period in the Upper Thames Valley based on Stable Isotopes
Yurika Sakai (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Helena Hamerow and Julia Lee-Thorp
From the Andes to the Coast: Human mobility and diet in the Atacama Desert during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900-1450)
Francisca Santana Sagredo (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Julia Lee-Thorp
Building the Countryside: A Regional Perspective on the Architecture and Settlement of Rural Tripolitania from the 1st c. BC to the 7th c. AD
Elizabeth Sheldrick (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The circulation of flesh: regional food producing/consuming systems in Southern England 1500BC-AD1086
Daniel Stansbie (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
An Archaeobotanical investigation into the Chalcolithic economy and social organisation of central Anatolia
Elizabeth Stroud (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
Art and Natural Science in the Hellenistic World
Joshua Thomas (2016) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Avon Valley in the fifth to mid-seventh centuries: contacts and coalescence in a frontier polity?
Abigail Tompkins (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Neolithic agricultural management in the Eastern Mediterranean: new insight from a multi-isotope approach
Petra Vaiglova (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Julia Lee-Thorp and Amy Bogaard
Mobilising Stone: Investigating Relations of Materiality, Movement and Corporality in Holocene Saharan Rock Art
Anna Waldock (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Chris Gosden
The fluvial landscape of Angkor: an integrated study
Veronica Walker Vadillo (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Damian Robinson and Linda Hulin
Hellenistic and Roman bronze statuettes in the Ashmolean Museum: a study in ancient and modern reception
Nicholas West (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Susan Walker and Bert Smith
Palaeodietary Reconstruction in Late Antique Spain and Assessing Means of Inter-Site Comparison
Margaret Ziriax (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
Portrait Busts of Roman Women in the Third Century AD
Helen Ackers (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Small-island Interactions: Pottery from Roman Malta
Maxine Anastasi (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Paul Reynolds and Andrew Wilson
Neolithic Anatolia and Central Europe: Disentangling Environmental Impacts from Diet Istotope Studies
Chelsea Budd (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
Detecting Archaeological sites in the Eastern Sahara using satellite remote sensing and digital image processing
Robert Corrie (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Baines and Gary Lock
Tephrochronology as a tool for assessing the synchronicity of Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Palaeolithic techno-complexes in the Caucasus
Victoria Cullen (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Victoria Smith
The Dark Side of Vesuvius: Landscape Change and the Roman Economy
Girolamo De Simone (2015) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Holistic Shipwreck Assemblages in 14th and 15th Century Southeast Asia
Brian Fahy (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
The Rites of Spring: A Cognitive Analysis of Ritual Activity in the Agricultural Transition in South-West Asia and North-Western Europe
Michael Gantley (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Harvey Whitehouse and Amy Bogaard
Royal Coinage in Hellenistic Bactria: a die study of coins from Euthydemus I to Antimachus I
Simon Glenn (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Shailendra Bhandare and Bert Smith
In Search of the Dioskouroi: Image, Myth and Cult
Sarah Graham (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Robert Parker and Donna Kurtz
Early Life Histories: A Study of Past Childhood Diet and Health Using Stable Isotopes and Enamel Hypoplasia
Rowena Henderson (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Julia Lee-Thorp
Roman Religious Ritual: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
Rachel Hesse (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mark Robinson and Andrew Wilson
The Prehistory of Material Signification: Tracing the Nature and Emergence of Early Body Ornamentation through a Pragmatic and Enactive Theory of Cognitive Semiotics
Antonios Iliopoulos (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Michael Petraglia and Lambros Malafouris
The port of Berenike Troglodytica on the Red Sea: A landscape-based approach to the study of its harbour and its role in Indo-Mediterranean trade
Anna Kotarba-Morley (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Damian Robinson and Andrew Wilson
Understanding Violence in Medieval London: An Examination of the Skeletal Evidence
Kathryn Krakowka (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
Early microlithic technologies and behavioural variability in southern Africa and South Asia
Laura Lewis (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Michael Petraglia
A GIS-based analysis of hillfort location and morphology
Jessica Murray (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Ian Ralston and Gary Lock
The Gatherer and the Grindstone: towards a methodological toolkit for grindstone analysis in southern Africa
Luiseach Nic Eoin (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Mark Pollard
Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections: a Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps
Laura Perucchetti (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Greek Myths Abroad: A Regional Comparative Study of their Funerary Uses in Fourth-Century BC Apulia and Etruria
Valeria Riedemann Lorca (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
What is Icenian coinage?
John Talbot (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
The Spatial Construct of Social Relations: social transformation in early Kau-Shi, Taiwan
Mu-Chun Wu (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Gary Lock and Chris Gosden
The value of osteology in an historic context: a comparison of osteological and historical evidence for trauma in the late 18th to early 19th century British Royal Navy
Ceridwen Boston (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Images, objects and imperial power in the Roman and Qin-Han Empires
John Carlson (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Jessica Rawson
On the Endurance of Indigenous Religious Culture in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Evidence of Material Culture
Tiffany Chezum (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Judith Mckenzie and John Baines
Using commensals as proxies for historical inference in the Indian Ocean: Genetic and Zooarchaeological Perspectives
Heidi Eager (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Nicole Boivin
Molecular archaeoparasitology as a novel tool for the study of trading and migration networks through history
Patrik Flammer (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard and Adrian Smith
Sicilian Amphorae (1st - 6th Centuries AD): Typology, Production and Trade
Carmela Franco (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The Economic Development of the Rhine River Basin in the Roman Period: 30 BC - AD 406
Tyler Franconi (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Byzantine Ports. Central Greece as a link between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
Alkiviadis Ginalis (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Marlia Mango and Damian Robinson
The Statuettes and Amulets of Thonis-Heracleion
Sanda Heinz (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and John Baines
Archaic Trade in the Northern Aegean: The case of Methone in Pieria, Greece
Alexandra Kasseri (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Voluntary Barbarians of the Maloti-Drakensberg: The BaPhuthi Chiefdom, Cattle Raiding, and Colonial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa
Rachel King (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) Stone Carved Tombs in Central and Eastern China
Chen Li (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Archaeological Manifestations of Rank and Status, the wooden-chamber tombs in the Mid-Yangzi Region (206BC-AD25)
Yan Liu (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
The Archaeology of Greek Warriors and Warfare from the Eleventh to the Early Seventh Century B.C.E.
Matthew Lloyd (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
An Archaeobotanical Analysis of Silchester and the Wider Region Across the Late Iron Age-Roman Transition
Lisa Lodwick (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Mark Robinson
The Coinage of the Gallic Empire
Jerome Mairat (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Roger Bland and Christopher Howgego
The Context of Organic Residues in Archaeological Vessels of Ceramic and Bronze
Kristine Merriman (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Lisa Bendall and Mark Pollard
Images of Rural Activities on Mosaic Pavements in Late Antiquity in the Levant
Elizabeth Montgomerie (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Ancient Mortar Production in Ostia, Italy: Builders and their choices
Jennifer Murgatroyd (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard, Marie Jackson and Janet DeLaine
Social Being and the Navan Complex: c.4000BC - c.90BC
David Price (2014) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
The mid Upper Palaeolithic of European Russia: chronology, culture history and context: a study of five Gravettian backed lithic assemblages
Natasha Reynolds (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Thomas Higham
Roman Diet and Nutrition in the Vesuvian Region: A study of the bioarchaeological remains from the Cardo V sewer at Herculaneum
Erica Rowan (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Mark Robinson
A Burning Question: Structural and Isotopic Studies of Cremated Bone in Archaeological Contexts
Christophe Snoeck (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Rick Schulting and Julia Lee-Thorp
Honorific Statuary in the Third Century AD
Silja Spranger (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The co-occurrence of terracotta wheelmade figures and handmade figurines in mainland Greece, Euboea, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades and the Northern Aegean islands, 1200 - 700BC
Caroline Thurston (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Place of Lead in an Egyptian Port City during the Late Period
Elsbeth van der Wilt (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Iron Anchors and Mooring in the Ancient Mediterranean (until ca. 1500 CE)
Gregory Votruba (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Calcium isotopes in sheep dental enamel: a new approach to studying sheep weaning and dairying in the archaeological record
Carrie Wright (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Robert Hedges and Julia Lee-Thorp
The role of aquatic systems and the re-occupation and settlement of the North European Plain during the Lateglacial
Cassian Bramham Law (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christine Lane
Royal Statues in Egypt 300BC-AD220: Context and Function
Elizabeth Brophy (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and John Baines
Eastern Han (AD25-220) Tombs in Sichuan
Xuan Chen (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Rethinking the Bronze-Iron transition in Iran: Copper and iron metallurgy before the Achaemenid period
Aurelie Cuenod (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
The Spaces between Places: a landscape study of foragers on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape, Southern Africa
Timothy Forssman (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Food for Thought: Genetic, Historical and Ethnobotanical Studies of Taro (Colocasia Esculenta (L.) Schott) in Africa
Ilaria Grimaldi (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Nicole Boivin
Palaces and Elite Residences in the Hellenistic East, late fourth to early first century BC: formation and purpose
Maria Kopsacheili (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Houses and Identity in Roman Knossos and Kissamos, Crete: a study in emulative acculturation
Anna Kouremenos (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Aqueducts and Water Supply in the Towns of Post-Roman Spain (AD400-1000)
Alan Martinez (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Agricultural Development in Mid Saxon England
Mark McKerracher (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Helena Hamerow and Amy Bogaard
'That Which Was Missing': The Archaeology of Castration
Kathryn Reusch (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
Long-distance Trade and the Exploitation of Arid Landscapes in the Roman Imperial Period (First-Third centuries AD)
Katia Schorle (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
Roman Gems and Jewellery: a Quantitative Study on Trends in Roman Gem Supply and Use from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD
Gabriela Sotomayor (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Identifying Multiple Gender Identities in the first-century AD: A Study of Personal Adornment and Skeletal Remains from the Bay of Naples
Courtney Ward (2013) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Susan Walker
Travel in the Late Antique Levant: a study of networks of communication and travel infrastructure in the 4th-7th centuries
Marlena Whiting (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
An Archaeology of Memory: The `Reinvention? of Roman Sarcophagi in Provence during the Middle Ages
Rose-Marie Wyche (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: John Elsner
Human and Environmental Change at North Atlantic Coastal Settlements, ca AD900-1800: A chronological perspective
Jamie Anderson (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: David Griffiths and Mark Pollard
The Palaeolithic Occupation of the Thar Desert
James Blinkhorn (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Nicole Boivin and Michael Petraglia
The Western Caucasus - Imported Armour in the Hellenistic Period
Sujatha Chandrasekaran (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Michael Vickers
The Redefined Centre, Periphery and Margin: The long-term interaction sphere of southern China 3000-221 BC
Yi Chen (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Dating the Aterian using techniques of luminescence dating and implications for mapping the dispersal of modern Homo Sapiens
Laine Clark-Balzan (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Jean-Luc Schwenninger
An Archaeological and Documentary Investigation of Ephesus from the Middle Byzantine into the Ottoman Period
Halil Dalanay (2012) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Plant Use, Crop Husbandry and Animal Diet at early-mid Neolithic Catalhoyuk Central Anatolia
Dragana Filipovic (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Amy Bogaard
Hominin Dispersals and the Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia
Huw Groucutt (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Michael Petraglia
An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100BC to AD300
John Hanson (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World: Combining historical linguistic and archaeological approaches
Tom Hoogervorst (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Nicole Boivin and Chris Gosden
Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c.1500-400 BC): An analysis of settlements and monuments in the mid-Korean peninsula
Sun Kim (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Rick Schulting
Bayesian Methods for the Construction of Robust Chronologies
Sharen Lee (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Development and Application of an Analytical Method for Radiocarbon Dating Bones using the Amino Acid Hydroxyproline
Anat Marom-Rotem (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Robert Hedges, PeterDitchfield and James McCullagh
Foragers on the Frontiers: The |Xam Bushmen of the Northern Cape, South Africa, in the Nineteenth Century
Mark McGranaghan (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Complex assemblages, complex social structures: rural settlements in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley 100BC-AD100
Wendy Morrison (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Stable Isotope Evidence for Diet Change in Roman and Medieval Italy: local, regional and continental perspectives
Erika Nitsch (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Robert Hedges and James McCullagh
Late Holocene Archaeology in Namaqualand, South Africa: Hunter-Gatherers and Herders in a Semi-Arid Environment
Jayson Orton (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Port Economies and Maritime Trade in the Roman Mediterranean: 166 BC to AD 300
Candace Rice (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The Development of Emotional Rendering in Greek Art 525-400
Jonah Rosenberg (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Placed Deposits in Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon Rural Settlements
Clifford Sofield (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Interregional Interaction and Social Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin
Vajk Szeverenyi (2012) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Greek and Related Pottery from Al Mina. A Case Study of Production, Consumption and Distribution of Greek Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 9th to the end of the 7th Century BC
Alexander Vacek (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
After the Achaemenids: Exchange, Transmission and Transformation in the Visual Culture of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria c.330 - c.100BC
Rachel Wood (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Performative Construction of Identity in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties
Neil Coomber (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Investigating the Chronology of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Mediterranean Europe by Improved Radiocarbon Dating of Shell Ornaments
Aikaterini Douka (2011) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
Bernicia and the Sea: Coastal Communities and Landscape in North-East England and South East Scotland, C.450-850 A.D.
Christopher Ferguson (2011) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Maa-Palaeokastro and the settlement histories of Cyprus in the twelfth century BC
Artemis Georgiou (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
A Re-evaluation of the Evidence of Anglian-British Interaction in the Lincoln Region
Caitlin Green (2011) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
The Changing Scale and Mode of Textile Production in Late Saxon England : Its Relationship to Developments in Textile Technology
Philippa Henry (2011) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Salt Production, Distribution and Use during the British Iron Age
Janice Kinory (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Gary Lock
Carbon Isotopic Dietary Signatures of Amino Acids
Anthony Lynch (2011) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Robert Hedges and James McCullagh
A Multi-Proxy Approach to Examining Palaeoenviromental Signals and Tephrochronology during the Middle Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Phases at Grotte des Pigeons, Gaforalt, Morocco
Yein Oh (2011) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
The Portraiture of Caracalla and Geta: Form, Context, Function
Guido Petruccioli (2011) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Praxiteles`s Knidia: The statue and its reception
Sadie Pickup (2011) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Accommodating the Divine: The Form and Function of Religious Buildings in Latial and Etruscan Settlements c.900-500 B.C.
Charlotte Potts (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
Social Change Along the Middle Yangzi River: Re-configurations of Late Neolithic Society
Sascha Priewe (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Research on Radiocarbon Calibration Records, Focussing on New Measurements from Lake Suigetsu, Japan
Richard Staff (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christopher Bronk Ramsey
The Cobalt Blue Pigment used on Islamic Ceramics and Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain
Rui Wen (2011) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
The Contribution of New Radiocarbon Dating Pre-treatment Techniques to Understanding the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Iberia
Rachel Wood (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Thomas Higham
Pompeii, Insula IX. 3: A case study of urban infrastructure
Heini Ynnila (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
Demolition, salvage and reuse in the City of Rome 100 BC - AD 315
Simon Barker (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
Tang Sancai
Qichen Jiang (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Cults and Relics at Constantinople: Their Origins and Development Before Iconoclasm (A.D. 330-720)
Georges Kazan (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches, 850-1050
Jane Kershaw (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Production and Trade of Roman and Late Roman African Cookwares
Victoria Leitch (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Egyptian statuary from the Abukir Bay: Ptolemaic and Roman finds from Herakleion and Canopus
Emma Libonati (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and John Baines
Votive Stelae, Religion and Cultural Change in Africa Proconsularis and Numidia, 200BC-AD300
Matthew McCarty (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Extracting Social Information from Bronze Age Ceramics
David Mitchell (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Irene Lemos and Gary Lock
Recycling the Roman Villa: The use of architectural components as raw materials for small-scale production in the late Roman period
Elizabeth Munro (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
Numerical Modelling of Environmental Dose Rate and its Application to Trapped Charge Dating
Roger Nathan (2010) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Geometric Rock Art Along the Luangwa Escarpment, Zambia and its Relationship with the Later Stone Age in Southern and South-Central Africa
Marcelle Olivier (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Dynamics of the Transport, Distribution and Crystallisation of Soluble Salts in Sandstone: Implications for Conservation of Historic Buildings
Satish Pandey (2010) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Heather Viles and Mark Pollard
The Art of Hellenistic Warfare: Context, Images and Violence
Roberto Rossi (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Towards the Greek Colonization: the interaction between Greece and Italy from the end of the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
Giulia Saltini Semerari (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Facade Tombs of Petra: From Exterior to Interior
Lucy Wadeson (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Judith Mckenzie
The Zhou Chariot: Politics, Cultural Interaction, and Identity
Hsiao-Yun Wu (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
How Others Drink their Wine: An Inter-contextual Approach to the Ethnic Makeup of the Ebro Valley (Spain) in the Iron Age
Aaron Alzola Romero (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Barrington Cunliffe
Gestures, Postures and Body Actions in Hellenistic Art
Jane Anderson (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Modelling Bullet Trajectories on Historic Battlefields Using Exterior Ballistics Simulation and Target-Oriented Visibility
Michael Athanson (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Gary Lock
Tomb Portraits under the Roman Empire: Local Contexts and Cultural Styles
Lucy Audley-Miller (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Calabria, 500-1700AD
Dominique Bouchard (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Exploring the Social Basis of Technology: Reanalysing Regional Archaeometric Studies of the First Copper and Tin-Bronze Use in Great Britain and Ireland
Peter Bray (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Cruelty and Sentimentality: Greek attitudes to animals, 600-300 BC
Louise Calder (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
The Production and Display of Monumental Figural Sculpture in Constantinople, AD 829-1204
Simon Davies (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
A High-Precision Radiocarbon Chronology for Ancient Egypt using Bayesian Statistical Modelling
Michael Dee (2009) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christopher Bronk Ramsey
The material culture of folklore: British ethnographic collections between 1890 and 1900
Oliver Douglas (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Heading for Trouble: Skeletal Evidence for Interpersonal Violence in Neolithic Northwest Europe
Linda Fibiger (2009) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Rick Schulting
The Acadians of Mi`kma`ki: An Archaeology of Acadian Identities Prior to 1755
Jonathan Fowler (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Skeuomorphs and Stone Working: Elaborate Lithics from the Early Metal-Using Era in Coastal Northwest Europe
Catherine Frieman (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
The economy of the Roman province of Dalmatia
Kristina Glicksman (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Techniques of Red-Figure Vase-Painting in Late Sixth- and Fifth-Century Athens
Chia-Lin Hsu (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Change in the Iron Age of the Lower Rhone: Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism or Colonization?
Victoria Jefferson (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
The Long Term Dynamic Influence of Human Activity on Topsoil Magnetic Susceptibility
Anthony Johnson (2009) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Gary Lock and Adrian Allsop
Resemblance and Resistance: Contacts Between the Shang and the South During the Period from c.1500-c.1045BC
Celine Lai (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
A Study of the Painted Funerary Portraits from Roman Antinoopolis
Lauren Martin (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Susan Walker
Art and Text in Late Antiquity: The Language of Christian Narrative Images
Rebecca McGann (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: John Elsner
Sacred and Civic Stone Monuments of the Northwest Roman Provinces
Stacey McGowen (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Roman Moesia Superior: the creation of a new provincial entity and processes of multicultural adjustment
Dragana Mladenovic (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
North Sea and Channel Connectivity during the Late Iron Age and Roman Periods (175/150 BC-AD 409)
Francis Morris (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Helena Hamerow and Andrew Wilson
Jin Dynasty Tombs in Southern Shanxi: Popular contribution to northern Chinese burial patterns
Benedetta Mottino (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
Early Iron Age Exchange in the West: Phoenicians in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
Eleftheria Pappa (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Sculpted Stone and the Roman Economy: 100BC - AD300
Benjamin Russell (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Andrew Wilson
Antiquities Trade: Cultural biographies of two Euphronios vases looted from Etruria
Vernon Silver (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy, 4th Century BC - AD271
Saskia Stevens (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
For the Glory of the Nation: The reception of Graeco-Roman antiquities in eighteenth-century Spain
Alessandra Sulzer (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Sumptuary Behaviour in Early Bronze Age Anatolia; The Royal Tombs of Alacahoyuk and the Treasure Deposits of Troy
Christoph Bachhuber (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Barrington Cunliffe
Development of LM OSL Analysis Techniques for Applications to Optical Dating
Diana Bailey (2008) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
Tessa Verney Wheeler: Women and Archaeology before World War Two
Lydia Carr (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Barrington Cunliffe
Delineating Pastoralist Behaviour and Long-Term Environmental Change: A GIS Landscape Approach on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
Michael Causey (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Gary Lock
The Impact of the Horse on the Amatola 'Bushmen': New Identity in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of Southern Africa
William Challis (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Food and Society in Late Roman Britain: Determining Dietary Patterns Using Stable Isotope Analysis
Colleen Cummings (2008) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
An Applied Archaeological and Anthropological Study of Intensive Agriculture in the Northern Cherangani Hills, Kenya
Matthew Davies (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
A Study of Late Bronze Age Tholos Tombs in the Aegean, ca 1700-1200 B.C.
Ioannis Galanakis (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donald Bennet
The Arrival of Sailing Technology in the Aegean
John Gallagher (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donald Bennet
The Palaeodietary Implications of Amino Acid Stable Isotope Analysis: Developments in the Application of Compound Specific Isotope Techniques to Archaeological Bone Collagen
Noah Honch (2008) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
Social Differentiation and Diet in Early Anglo-Saxon England: Stable Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Human and Animal Remains
Bradley Hull (2008) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Robert Hedges and Helena Hamerow
Church Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia, AD300-800
Elif Keser Kayaalp (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Exploring the Variability of Microtephra Deposits: Chemical Characterisation and Discrimination Methods
Christine Lane (2008) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Mark Pollard
The Iron Age Archaeology of the Upper Thames and North Oxfordshire Region, with especial reference to the Eastern Cotswolds
Alexander Lang (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Barrington Cunliffe
Mors Immatura: Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments in the West
Jason Mander (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
Mobility, Climate Change and Cultural Development. A revised view from the Lower Tilemsi Valley, north eastern Mali
Katie Manning (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Aspects of the Archaeology of Western Asia Minor in the post-Roman period, with particular reference to the Thrakesion Theme and to the production and circulation of amphorae
Theodore Papaioannou (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Jars of Clay: The use of Protocorinthian Pottery in Corinthian and Syracusan Society
Thomas Patrick (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
The Metalware from the Sanctuary Complex at Herakleion-Thonis
Zoe Robinson (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Damian Robinson
African Slavery and Forced Migration to Barbados: An Isotopic Perspective
Hannes Schroeder (2008) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
Hellenistic Gymnasia: The Built Space and Social Dynamics of a Polis Institution
Styliani Skaltsa (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (ca. 630-570 B.C.)
Alexandra-Fani Alexandridou (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
The Southern Necropolis of Cyrene
Luca Cherstich (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Portable Goddesses: The Use and Significance of Pipeclay Figurines of Venus in the Northern Roman Provinces from the First-Third Centuries CE
Cynthia Drakeman (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Martin Henig
Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth to First Century B.C.
Myrina Kalaitzi (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Images and Monuments of Local Rulers in the Roman Near East (100BC-AD100)
Andreas Kropp (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The City in Motion: Movement and Space in Roman Architecture and Gardens from 100BC to AD150
Elizabeth Macaulay Lewis (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Janet DeLaine
Development of new analytical techniques for amino acid isotope analysis with application to palaeodietary reconstruction
James McCullagh (2007) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
Town and Gown: Amateurs and Academics. The Discovery of British Prehistory; Oxford 1850-1900 'A Pastime Professionalised'
Elizabeth Price (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
The Application of Stable Hydrogen Isotope Analysis to the Study of Ancient Diet
Linda Reynard (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
Refitting Repasts: A Spatial Exploration of Food Processing, Sharing and Disposal at the Dunefield Midden Campsite
Brian Stewart (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Mitchell
Early Byzantine Jewellery and Related Finds from the Underwater Excavations in Abuqir Bay in Egypt: Their Classification, Production, and Function
Yvonne Stolz (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
The Design and Purpose of Roman Fortlets in the North-Western Frontier Provinces of the Empire
Matthew Symonds (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Sacred Sites and Power in West Hallstatt Chiefdoms: The Cases of Bourges, Vix, Chatillon-Sur-Glane and Hochdorf
Adriene Tacla (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Barrington Cunliffe
Villae Expolitae: Aspects of the Architecture and Culture of Roman Country Houses on the Bay of Naples (c. 100 BCE - 79 CE)
Mantha Zarmakoupi (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Statues of Children in the Hellenistic Period
Olympia Bobou (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Islander, landscape and identity in the Channel Islands, U.K. during the Neolithic
David Bukach (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Barrington Cunliffe
Images and Identities in the Funerary Art of Western Anatolia, 600-450BC: Phrygia, Hellespontine Phrygia, Lydia
Catherine Draycott (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
Maize and Sociopolitical Complexity in the Ayacucho Valley, Peru
Brian Finucane (2006) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
Reusing Roman Monuments in Arles and Nimes: An Evaluation of Heritage Management Strategies in Local Government
Paul Gardner (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden
Defining Monumental Realities: A Study of Inscriptions as Monuments in the Urban Landscapes of Ephesus and Aphrodisias
Abigail Graham (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Alan Bowman
Athenian Black-Figure Iconography Between 510 and 475 BC
Eleni Hatzivassiliou (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Burial Practices of the Liao (907-1125) Khitan Elite: A Reflection of Hybrid Culture
Hiromi Kinoshita (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jessica Rawson
The World of Cosmas: The Universe Described and Depicted in Byzantine Manuscripts of the Christian Topography
Maja Kominko (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Elizabeth Jeffreys
Texts as Contexts for Viewing: Ekphrasis, Inscribed Decoration and Glass Open-work Vessels in Late Antiquity
Hallie Meredith (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
The Discovery, Collection and Scholarship of Classical Greek and Greco-Scythian Antiquities in Imperial Russia
Hans-Caspar Meyer (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
New Developments in the Interpretation of Dendrochronology as Applied to Oak Building Timbers
Daniel Miles (2006) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Christopher Bronk Ramsey
The Production of Middle Byzantine Ivory, Bone and Wooden Caskets with Secular Decoration
Anthousa Papagiannaki (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Sleepers in the Valley: Athenian Vase Painting 600-400 B.C. and 'Beautiful Death'
David Saunders (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donna Kurtz
Studies in Extracting Isotopic Information from Archaeological Bone
Ji Shin (2006) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Robert Hedges
The Mycenaean Presence in the Prefecture of Macedonia
Archondia Thanos (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donald Bennet
Techniques of Production of Hellenistic and Roman Mosaics
William Wootton (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Bert Smith
A Reassessment of the Ancient Sailing Season. The Case for Wintertime Seafaring on the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean
James Beresford (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Late Roman to early Medieval transition in the province of Namur (Belgium)
Gesine Bruss (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Medieval Cappadocia (9th to Mid 11th Century) and the Byzantine Elite: The Archaeological Evidence
James Cooper (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Silver in the Late Iron Age and Early Roman East Anglia
Megan Dennis (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Jeremy Northover
A Study of Byzantine Sgraffito Wares (11th-13th Century ) Classification, Production, Circulation, and Art Historical Analysis
Johanna Dimopoulos (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
The Technology of Egyptian Blue
Gareth Hatton (2005) | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Michael Tite
An Archaeology of Minoan Religion in the Neopalatial Period
Matthew Haysom (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Donald Bennet
Water Supply and Management in the Near East 63BC-AD636
Zena Kamash (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Byzantine Coinage AD 1204 -1453: Some Problems in Monetary Affairs
Eleni Lianta (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Nicholas Mayhew
A Bioanthropological Perspective on the Punic Period in Ibiza (Spain) as Evidenced by Human Skeletal Remains
Nicholas Marquez-Grant (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: James Allan
Economic Production in the Monasteries of Egypt and Oriens, AD 320-800
Lukas Schachner (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Classical and Hellenistic Coarse Pottery from Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya): Archaeological and Petrological Approaches to Production and Inter-Regional Distribution
Keith Swift (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Religion, Community and Territory: Defining Religion in the Severn Valley and the Adjacent Hills from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval Period
Stephen Yeates (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Martin Henig and Barrington Cunliffe
Construction of space in early Holocene iron gates
Vuk Trifkovic (2004) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Gary Lock and Chris Gosden
Supervisors

Supervisors including their research interests and contact details, can be found on our academic/senior research staff pages.  In addition a list of potential supervisors, with the topics they are able to supervise on is given below to help find the right people to contact.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact a prospective supervisor (academic member of staff) before applying to establish if they are accepting new students, and to get their advice on the research proposal and feasibility of the project given the resources available.

 

Supervisor Topics Key words
Amy Bogaard Late prehistoric archaeology, including topics on farming, food, agroecologies, inequality, households, urbanisation and domestication, including novel methodological approaches. bioarchaeology, biocultural heritage, farming and herding, inequality, land use, urbanisation, later prehistory, Europe, W Asia, Eurasia, Africa, W Asia
Mike Charles Farming societies of western Asia; origins and spread of agriculture; plant domestication; the role of plants in prehistory; crop/livestock integration; palynological approaches to past land use systems. Establishing impact of preservation processes on plant material. bioarchaeology, farming and herding, domestication, land use, urbanisation, woodlands, later prehistory, W Asia, Europe, Eurasia
Shadreck Chirikure Ancient materials and technologies including archaeometallurgy, low and high temperature ceramics and glass; cross craft overlaps in techniques, skills, knowledge and how natural and artificial materials and technologies used to work them shaped the evolution of societies of the past 10 000 years. material, technologies of making, trade, interaction, materiality, museums, pottery, resilience, material culture, artefacts, exchange, later prehistory, Africa, Eurasia, Americas
Timothy Clack Contemporary archaeology, conflict archaeology, landscape archaeology, the role of the material past in the construction of modern memories and identities, protection and destruction of cultural heritage, theoretical and methodological approaches to past and present conflicts, and the relationship between archaeology and anthropology. decolonisation, endangered heritage, wellbeing, policy, land use, conflict, climate change, memory, identity, media, contemporary, Africa, Central Asia, Europe, South Atlantic, Antarctica, Caucasus
Bill Finlayson Topics relating to hunter-gather - farmer transitions, especially the social and material culture contexts in SW Asia and NW Europe (chipped stone technology and use; built landscape; knowledge transfer; experimental archaeology); the weoponisation, destruction and protection of cultural heritage. decolonisation, domestic space, endangered heritage, inequality, materiality, policy, technologies of making, earlier prehistory, contemporary, W Asia, Europe
Dylan Gaffney The archaeology of the Pacific and Southeast Asia, global Pleistocene archaeology, exploratory archaeological survey and excavation, zooarchaeological analyses of past human–animal interactions, multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of vegetational and faunal change, technological and geochemical examinations of lithic or ceramic artefacts to examine mobility and exchange patterns, ethnoarchaeological research on technology and subsistence. excavations, human evolution, humans and other animals, biocultural heritage, migration, trade, longue duree, technologies of making, island archaeology, human ecology, lithics, zooarchaeology, pottery, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, contemporary, SE Asia, Oceania
David Griffiths Historical/medieval, Viking-Age, landscape archaeology and heritage. excavations, endangered heritage, populations and regions, urbanism, landscape, medieval, first millennium CE, Europe, Britain, Scandinavia
Helena Hamerow A broad range of topics related to the archaeology of early medieval Europe, including its rural economy, mortuary practices, and material culture, in particular for the period c. 400-900. trade, migration, gender and identity, archives, domestic space, excavations, farming and herding, inequality, medieval, Europe
Anke Hein Chinese and broader East and Southeast Asian Archaeology, in particular but not limited to prehistoric and early historic periods, including research on ceramic technology, culture contact and human movement, and the history and practice of archaeological research as well its broader societal impact. archives, technologies of making, decolonisation, gender and identity, interaction, materiality, mobility, museums, theories and practice, policy, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, contemporary, early historic, historic, E Asia, SE Asia
Dan Hicks All aspects of the archaeology and material and visual culture of the post-medieval, 19th-century, modern and contemporary past, including heritage studies, museum studies, histories of landscape and the built environment, and the intersections between histories of art and histories of science. Particular current thematic areas of interest include colonialism/decolonisation, conflict/war, memory cultures/memorialisation, and histories of the climate emergency. decolonisation, biocultural heritage, curation, endangered heritage, materiality, museums, policy, contemporary, post-medieval, Europe, Africa, Americas
Christopher Howgego Topics connected with the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project: https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/. digital archaeology, trade, wealth, Classical-Roman, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Roman coinage, Roman economy, coin hoards, coin circulation, numismatics
Ine Jacobs Topics related to late antique urbanism, the archaeology of religion and popular culture in Late Antiquity, and the Byzantine Dark Ages. domestic space, excavations, gender and identity, religion, resilience, urbanism, wealth, material religion , architecture, Classical-Roman, medieval, late antique, Byzantine, Europe, W Asia
Jane Kershaw Any aspect of Viking-Age archaeology, especially gender, resource exploitation, systems of exchange, rural and maritime landscapes and interactions at the edges of the 'Viking world', particularly in the east. materiality, gender and identity, maritime, material, mobility, trade, wealth, silk road, metals and money, landscape, medieval, early medieval , Viking Age, Eurasia, Europe
Greger Larson Domestication, phylogenetics, evolutionary genomics, human / animal interactions. bioarchaeology, farming and herding, longue duree, humans and other animals, human evolution, interaction, mobility
Irene Lemos Wide range of topics on the Late Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean including interactions, exchange patterns, burial practices, regional and interregional analyses, material culture, societal structures and relations. excavations, material culture, Burial practices, resilience, social structures, Classical-Greek, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Archaic Period, Early Classical, Europe, Mediterranean, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Levant
Lambros Malafouris General areas of cognitive, anthropological and theoretical archaeology; material engagement theory, the relationship cognition and material culture, the anthropology of technics, creativity, making, self and the body, human becoming, material semiotics, and the effects of materiality on mental health. materiality, wellbeing, cognitive archaeology, anthropological archaeology, archaeological theory, self and the body, creativity and human becoming
Liam McNamara The archaeology and material culture of ancient Egypt and Sudan, particularly the late Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods (late 4th–early 3rd millennium BC), for which the Ashmolean holds the most significant collections outside Egypt. archives, curation, decolonisation, excavations, material, museums, technologies of making, urbanisation, Egyptology, ancient Egyptian art, fieldwork, object distribution, history of collections, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, Predynastic Egypt, Early Dynastic Egypt, Dynastic Egypt, Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Nubia
Milena Melfi Hellenistic and Roman Greece, archaeology of religion, memory, change and cultural history. Topics relating to the use of casts, copies and replicas of Greek and Roman objects in museum displays, especially in connection with colonial/imperial policies. curation, decolonisation, excavations, health, religion, resilience, material, mobility, Classical-Greek, Classical-Roman, contemporary, Europe
Peter Mitchell Topics relating to the archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa with a strong preference for southern regions of the continent and/or the archaeology of Middle and Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Research related to human/equine and human/canine interactions would also be of potential interest. excavations, endangered heritage, farming and herding, humans and other animals, trade, hunter-gatherers, impacts of colonialism, later prehistory, Africa
Catherine Morgan Greek Archaeology, including topics on political organization, sanctuaries, landscape, trade, and manufacturing and extractive industries. I specialize in mainland Greece, the Adriatic, and the Black Sea. trade, technologies of making, excavations, endangered heritage, museums, mobility, pottery, religion, political organization, later prehistory, Classical-Greek, contemporary, Europe, Greece, Adriatic, Black Sea
Courtney Nimura Material culture from the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe; rock art (Europe, South Africa, Australia); portable art and prehistoric art (Europe); other topics situated in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe; Ashmolean collection-related topics; curatorial and museum studies topics. curation, digital archaeology, material, materiality, museums, religion, trade, interaction, later prehistory, Europe, rock art, portable art, prehistoric art
Charlotte Potts Topics relating to the archaeology of Etruscan and Latin religion, architecture in early central Italy, and approaches to the display of these cultures in modern museums. curation, materiality, museums, religion, architecture, contemporary, Classical-Roman, later prehistory, pre-Roman Italy, Archaic Italy, Europe, central Italy
John Pouncett Spatial archaeology or landscape archaeology, including studies on GiS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, archaeological prospection, ancient woodlands, isoscapes and geographic assignment. digital archaeology, land use, mobility, woodlands, spatial analysis, GIS, landscape, archaeological prospection, later prehistory, Europe, Eurasia
Christopher Bronk Ramsey Interdisciplinary topics (especially involving mathematical, physical or data sciences), applications of chronological modelling, and lessons from past climate change. chronology, digital archaeology, human evolution, resilience, policy, radiocarbon calibration, climate change, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, medieval, Quaternary, Europe, Americas, E Asia, Egypt, Japan
Damian Robinson Maritime archaeology, including topics on shipwrecks, ports and harbour infrastructure, maritime cultural and sunken landscapes, studies on material culture from maritime sites, and methodological approaches. maritime, excavations, interaction, materiality, trade, later prehistory, Classical-Greek, Classical-Roman, medieval, Europe, SE Asia, Mediterranean, Egypt, maritime and fluvial Northern Europe, Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean
Rick Schulting Topics addressing human and animal diet and mobility, individual life histories, inequality, conflict and human adaptations to coastal zones and islands. bioarchaeology, diet, mobility, chronology, health, farming and herding, inequality, resilience, hunter-gatherers, conflict, violence, warfare, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Europe, Eurasia, Americas, Britain, Ireland, Siberia, Bahamas, Japan
Jean-Luc Schwenninger Research into the application and development of luminescence dating of samples from archaeological excavations and museum collections including, extending the age range by using different chronometers and novel methods of analysis such as infrared radio-fluorescence, exploring the use of spatially resolved luminescence with low light imaging devices, developing new methods for studying unconventional types of sample and improving existing capabilities for assessing the environmental dose rate. chronology, museums, pottery, human evolution, longue duree, migration, bioarchaeology, excavations, islands, human impact, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, medieval, post-medieval, Classical-Roman, Classical-Greek, contemporary, Quaternary, Pleistocene , Holocene, Africa, Europe, Eurasia, S Asia, SE Asia, Eurasia, W Asia, Americas
Andrew Shapland Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, particularly Minoan Crete and the history of the discipline; approaches to human-animal relations through material culture/iconography; topics involving the Ashmolean Museum's Greek collections (Bronze Age-Classical). archives, curation, humans and other animals, materiality, museums, human-animal relations, later prehistory, Classical-Greek, Minoan, Bronze Age, Homeric, Europe, Greece, Crete
Victoria Smith Tephrochronology, tephrostratigraphy, volcanic geology, and using tephra layers to provide chronology for archaeological and palaeonvironmental sequences. chronology, resilience, archives, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, E Asia, Europe, Eurasia, Americas
Maria Stamatopoulou Topics on Greek archaeology and art, in particular funerary archaeology, archival archaeology, iconography, painting, terracottas, domestic space, material religion; specialisation in mainland Greece, in particular Thessaly and Macedonia during the first millennium BCE. archives, domestic space, excavations, pottery, material, religion, gender and identity, Thessaly, Macedonia, Classical-Greek, eastern Mediterranean, Europe, mortuary practices, iconography
Eleanor Standley Later medieval archaeology topics, particularly those with a strong focus on artefacts, and archaeologies of beliefs, religion, the body and emotion. material, materiality, gender and identity, religion, museums, archives, curation, religion, later medieval material culture, archaeology of emotion, archaeology of the body, memory and beliefs, medieval, post-medieval, later medieval, early modern, Europe, Britain
Peter Stewart Graeco-Roman art, including topics on Roman sculpture, Roman provincial art, antiquities collecting, and connections between Rome and the wider world of ancient art (e.g. Gandhara, India, and Central Asia). archives, biography, digital archaeology, museums, silk road, art, sculpture, painting, global ancient art, collecting, Classical-Roman, Classical-Greek, post-medieval, early modern, Europe, Central Asia, S Asia, W Asia, Mediterranean
Amy Styring Topics involving reconstructing past diets (of both humans and animals), cultivation and animal management practices, and their impact on the environment using isotopic analysis, particularly projects aiming to advance compound specific isotope approaches to address these questions. bioarchaeology, biocultural heritage, diet, farming and herding, land use, woodlands, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, medieval, Africa, Eurasia
Andrew Wilson Topics connected with the Roman economy, ancient technology, water management and supply, and archaeological evidence for settlement response to environmental change in the Roman period. land use, urbanisation, material, populations and regions, silk road, trade, urbanism, wealth, Roman economy, technology, aqueducts, water management, mining, Classical-Roman, Europe, Africa, North Africa, Asia Minor, Levant
Rachel Wood Projects where radiocarbon dating plays a key role in the thesis, including projects developing new methodologies (including for example compound specific approaches and investigations into the impact of diagenesis) and projects applying radiocarbon dating to a wide range of archaeological and forensic questions; projects where radiocarbon plays a large role in a thesis within other fields, e.g. geoscience or carbon cycle research (as a co-supervisor). chronology, earlier prehistory, later prehistory, medieval, Africa, Americas, Central Asia, E Asia, Eurasia, Europe, S Asia, SE Asia