About the Group
Exploring the Past
Understanding the Present
Shaping the Future
We are concerned with all aspects of the Historic Environment as evidence of past human activity and its associated consequences that people can find, see, hear, understand, feel, debate, and contest in the present world. Archaeology provides a systematic study of human cultures through material remains asking who did what? When? Where? How? And Why? Physical and biological Anthropology both informs archaeological studies and assists in crime-scene investigations, the preparation of evidence for use by courts of law, and the application of technical and scientific knowledge to legal problems. Heritage, both cultural and natural, tangible and intangible, focuses on the things inherited from the past that we choose to investigate, document, manage, interpret, use, and represent in various ways.
Our research themes:- Landscape and Townscape Archaeology
- Environmental Archaeology
- Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology
- Cultural Resource Management
- Science-based Archaeology
- Marine and Coastal Archaeology
