PGRAS 2013 Schedule
Thursday, 23 May 2013 – Building 65, Lecture Theatre B
- 9:00 – 9:10 – Welcome: Dr Jo Sofaer
Session 1: 09:10 to 10:05 – The Roman Landscape
Chair: Sarah Green
- 09:10 – Geoff TAYLOR: Data – a cautionary tale
Supervisors: Dr Louise Revell, Dr Graeme Earle - 09:25 – Elizabeth RICHLEY: 3D Geophysical Data Integration and Visualisation at Portus
Supervisors: Professor Simon Keay, Professor Tony Brown - 09:40 – Carmen OBIED: Challenging maritime perceptions of the classical world – Roman imagination of coastal landscapes
Supervisors: Dr Lucy Blue, Dr Leif Isaksen - 09:55 – Question and Answer Session
- 10:05-10:20 – Break
Session 2: 10:20 to 11:30 – Forgotten Worlds
Chair: Kristen Heasley
- 10:20 – Andrew SPENCER: Boundaries: The use of prehistoric landscape features as physical andconceptual boundaries from the late Iron Age to the end of the Roman period in Britain
Supervisor: Dr Joshua Pollard - 10:35 – Tyra STANDEN: The Severn Estuary and its importance for Mesolithic studies
Supervisors: Dr Fraser Sturt and Dr Justin Dix - 10:50 – Rachel BYNOE: The Great Fossil Mine of the Southern North Sea: exploring the potential of
submerged Palaeolithic archaeology
Supervisors: Dr Fraser Sturt and Dr Justin Dix - 11:05 – Question and Answer Session
- 11:15 – 11:30 – Break
Session 3: 11:30 to 12:40 – Creativity and Artistic Expression
Chair: Dr Andrew Jones
- 11:30 – Jemma JONES: Neuroaesthetics and Ice Age Art: A Modern Interpretation of the Prehistoric Mind
Supervisors: Professor Clive Gamble, Dr William Davies - 11:45 – Sarah COXON : Still using the C word: The Case of the Belegiš
Supervisors: Dr Jo Sofaer, Dr Alison Gascoigne - 12:00 – Joana VALDEZ-TULLETT: Unbounded Atlantic Rock Art – a cross-border socio-cultural investigation
Supervisor: Andrew Jones - 12:15 – Vasko DEMOU: Performing ‘Sub/Liminal Ethnographies’
Supervisors: Professor Yannis Hamilakis, Professor Tim Champion - 12:30 – Question and Answer Session
- 12:40 – 13:25 – Lunch
Session 4: 13:25 to 14:20 – Architectural Space and Lived Landscape
Chair: Matthew Harrison
- 13:25 – Maria Cristina BIELLA: Giving voice to an ancient pre-Roman City: the case of Falerii Veteres
Supervisor: Professor Simon Keay - 13:40 – Isobel PINDER : The relationship between Roman city walls and urban space
Supervisors: Professor Simon Keay, Dr Graeme Earl - 13:55 – Cartriona COOPER: Using Acoustics to Explore Lived Experience at Late Medieval Sites
Supervisors: Dr Graeme Earl, Dr Alison Gascoigne - 14:10 – Question and Answer Session
- 14:20 – 14:35 – Break
Session 5: 14:35 to 15:30 – Ownership and Display
Chair: Jude Jones
- 14:35 – Chris ELMER: Engaging Archaeology
Supervisor: Professor Stephanie Moser - 14:50 – Elizabeth NORTON: John Lubbock: A Snapshot of Collecting at the British Museum
Supervisors: Professor Clive Gamble, Dr J. D. Hill , Dr Yvonne Marshall - 15:05 – Becky PEACOCK: After the literature – What is actually happening?
Supervisors: Professor Stephanie Moser, Dr Louise Revell - 15:20 – Peter BRUGGER: 3D rapid prototyping of archaeology within a museum – would there be a benefit?
Supervisor: Professor Stephanie Moser - 15:35 – Question and Answer Session
- 15:45 – 16:00 – Break
Session 6: 16:00 to 17:10 – Innovation in Method and Theory
Chair: Dr Marta Diaz-Guardamino
- 16:00 – Damien CAMPBELL-BELL: Justifying Uniformitarianism: Perception and the archaeological record
Supervisors: Dr David Wheatley, Dr Fraser Sturt - 16:15 – Tom FRANKLAND: Trends and future developments in the design of digital technologies for fieldwork
Supervisors: Dr Enrico Costanza, Dr Graeme Earl, Dr. Paul Reilly - 16:30 – Terhi NURMIKKO: Ontological representation of the narrative in Sumerian literary compositions
Supervisors: Dr Graeme Earl, Dr Nicholas Gibbins , Dr Jacob Dahl (Oxford) - 16:45 – Richard CHUANG: Flogging a Dead Horse? – a case study on Discriminating Romano Britain Domestic Equines using existing methods
Supervisor: Dr Jacobo Weinstock - 17:00 – Question and Answer Session
- 17:10 – Finish and Wine Reception – venue tbc
Friday, 24 May 2013 – Building 65, Lecture Theatre B
Session 1: 09:00 to 10:10 – Come Sail Away
Chair: Dr Lucy Blue
- 09:00 – Martin Roderick STEAD: Environmental factors in the development of Philippine indigenousboats
Supervisors: Dr Lucy Blue, Dr Jesse Ransley - 09:15 – Benedict HEANEY: Small Boat Technology
Supervisors: Dr Fraser Sturt, Dr Julian Whitewright , Professor Jon Adams - 09:30 – Amelia ASTLEY: The taphonomy of historic wreck sites
Supervisors: Dr Justin Dix, Dr Fraser Sturt, Dr Charlie Thompson - 09:45 – Denise REMPEL: Lake Mareotis: A reconsideration of Egyptian maritime history in the GrecoRoman period
Supervisor: Dr Lucy Blue - 10:00 – Question and Answer Session
- 10.10-10.25 — Break
Session 2: 10:25 to 11:35 – Modelling the Past
Chair: Eleonora Gandolfi
- 10:25 – Doug COWIE: Developing a system for integrating Bayesian dates into ArcGIS
Supervisor: Dr David Wheatley - 10:40 – Iza ROMANOWSKA: Modelling for hypotheses testing: the dispersal case study
Supervisor: TBC - 10:55 – Matthew HARRISON: Growing a Medieval City
Supervisors: Dr Alison Gascoigne, Dr Graeme Earl - 11:10 – Dave POTTS: Walking the Network: a trip through a maze of twisty Roman Transport Routes by Rules
Supervisors: Dr David Wheatley, Dr Graeme Earl - 11:25 – Question and Answer Session
- 11:35 – 11:50 – Break
Session 3: 11:50 to 12:45 – Engage Me
Chair: Emilie Sibbesson
- 11:50 – Helen STEFANOPOLOUS: Local Identities in Athens- the Omnipresent Past and its Alternative Narratives: The Case of Philopappou Hill and the Historical Neighbourhoods of Plaka, Makrygianni and Monastiraki
Supervisor: Professor Yannis Hamilakis, Dr Yvonne Marshall - 12:05 Nicole BEALE: We ‘like’ Archaeology: Evaluating the potential of social media for community archaeology
Supervisors: Dr Yvonne Marshall, Dr. Graeme Earl, Dr Silke Roth - 12:20 – Javier PEREDA: New Online Museum – How to Enhance Engagement with Online Museum Content
Supervisors: Dr Leif Isaksen, Dr Yuanyuan Yin, Dr Graeme Earl - 12:35 – Question and Answer Session
- 12:45 – 13:30 – Lunch
Session 4: 13:30 to 14:25 – The Body
Chair: Sarah Inskip
- 13:30 – Lucy SHIPLEY: Powerful Pots: User Experience and Ceramic Skills in Etruria
Supervisors: Dr Yvonne Marshall; Professor Simon Keay - 13:45 – Carolyn FELTON: Vertebral Degeneration and Morphology is there a link?
Supervisor: Dr Jo Sofaer - 14:00 – Ellie WILLIAMS: From Fresh Cadaver to Skeletal Matter: Text, practice and the Cluniac deathcourse
Supervisors: Dr Jo Sofaer, Dr Sonia Zakrzewski - 14:15 – Question and Answer Session
- 14:22 – 14:40 – Break
Session 5: 14:40 to 15:35 – Identity and the Dead
Chair: Roderick Stead
- 14:40 – Brittany HILL: Investigating the co-burial: the human-animal connection
Supervisors: Professor Yannis Hamilakis, Dale Serjeantson - 14:55 – Chiara BOTTURI: Old and new perspectives towards funerary evidence
Supervisors: Professor Simon Keay, Dr Graeme Earl - 15:10 – Christopher J KERNS: In the Shadow of the Past: Exploring the spatial structures and connections between Chambered cairns and Settlements during the Neolithic in Orkney
Supervisors: Dr Josh Pollard, Dr Sturt Fraser - 15:25 – Question and Answer Session
- 15:35 – 15:50 – Break
Session 6: 15:50 to 16:45 – Technological Change and Innovation
Chair: Professor Clive Gamble
- 15:50 – Peter CAMPBELL: Innovation in the Archaeological Record: Apples to Apples, Gorilla Suits, and Thomas Kuhn
Supervisors: Dr Lucy Blue, Professor Simon Keay - 16:05 – Lucie BOLTON: Simple Prepared Cores in Britain
Supervisors: Dr John McNabb, Dr William Davies - 16:20 – Kristen HEASLEY: Neanderthal Raw Material Economy in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of
Northeast Italy
Supervisors: Dr William Davies, Professor Clive Gamble - 16:35 – Question and Answer Session
- 16:45 – 17:00 – Closing Remarks