Research projects

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies  

• Birds as a key line of evidence for human vulnerability and resilience to environmental shifts (DFF, PI: Lisa Yeomans)
• Changing Foodways in Prehistoric Southwest Asia (DFF, PI: Tobias Richter)
• The Ritual Landscapes of Murayghat (Susanne Kerner)
• Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change (TCEC)
• Shubayqa Archaeological Project
• Shkarat Msaied Neolitic Project

 Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities

Prehistoric Archaeology

• Deep histories of migration: the early Neolithic around the North Sea (DFF, PI: Rune Iversen)
• A World without Images: Uncovering the absence of figurative representations in Early Neolithic Northern Europe (Carlsberg, PI: Rune Iversen)

Classical Archaeology

• Life at the Furnace: Copper smelting ecosystems in the north-western Troodos (LAF) (Carlsberg, PI: Kristina Winther-Jacobsen)
• REFRAME – Greek Funerary and Votive Reliefs Reused for Display in the Ancient Mediterranean. A Long-term, Interdisciplinary, and Cross-cultural Approach (MSC, Gabriella Cirucci)

Centre for Textile Research (CTR)

• Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile (ERC, PI: Elsa Yvanez)
• Textile resources in Viking Age landscapes (TriVaL) (DFF, PI: Eva Andersson Strand)
• RECONTEXT: Reconstructing the history of Egyptian textiles from the 1st Millennium AD at the National Museum of Denmark (PI: Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert)
• Fashioning the Viking Age (PI: Eva Andersson Strand)
• EGYARN: Unravelling the thread: textile production in New Kingdom Egypt (1550-1070 BCE) (MSC, Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi)
• Trans-PLANT: Transformational uses of dye plants on Linear B tablets. New approaches to cultural identity and technologies in the Bronze Age Aegean (MSC, Rachele Pierini)
• Save the Loom: defining, documenting, and preserving (Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Beckett Foundation, Eva Andersson Strand)
• Lives of a mummy. Biographies of an ancient Egyptian woman (Augustinus Foundation, PI: Elsa Yvanez)

Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 

• AlpGen: Ancient Chewing Gums and the Archaeology of Alpine Lake Settlements (ERC, PI: Hannes Schroeder)
• Beasts to Craft: Biocodicology as a new approach to the study of parchment manuscripts
  (ERC, PI: Matthew Collins)
• PROSPER (ERC, PI: Frido Welker)
• ChemArch - Marie Skłodowska-Curie innovative training network (ITN)
  Double degree providing international doctoral training for the next generation of artefact scientists in archaeological chemistry and biomolecular archaeology between CNRS, University of York, Universitat de Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Copenhagen

Faculty of Theology

• Materiality of Incarceration in Mediterranean Antiquity (Carlsberg, PI: Matthew Larsen)