2025-2031
PI: Matthew Collins
Horizon Europe ERC Synergy Grant
Research projects
Overview of ongoing externally funded research projects within the School of Archaeology.
Past projects
- 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
- REFRAME – Greek Funerary and Votive Reliefs Reused for Display in the Ancient Mediterranean. A Long-term, Interdisciplinary, and Cross-cultural Approach (MSC, Gabriella Cirucci)
- 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)
- EGYPTIAN FABRICS: How to redefine textiles from the 1st Millennium AD at the National Museum of Denmark (Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond and Agnes Geijers Fond, PI: Maria Mossakowska Gaubert).
- Silk ribbons in Museum Amager – A window to Europe (Dronning Margrethe og Prins Henriks Fond; Manufakturhandlerforeningen i Kjøbenhavns Almene Fond; Louis-Hansen Foundation, PI: Elsa Yvanez, Susanne Lervad)
- Beasts to Craft: Biocodicology as a new approach to the study of parchment manuscripts
(ERC, PI: Matthew Collins) - 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