Projects

Our staff are engaged in a wide range of research projects, covering topics as diverse as prehistoric basketry and medieval landscapes. Our research takes place around the world. Each of these projects are related to our research themes.

Featured project

Understanding Landscapes: Empowering communities to preserve their heritage

In 2017 the University of Exeter started the Understanding Landscapes project, which is generously funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by the public and a network of project partners from the heritage sector. The project will use field-based and desk-based heritage activity days to enable communities in two distinct parts of Devon and Cornwall to investigate and analyse the origins of their surrounding historic landscapes, as well as contribute to their ongoing management.

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Impact Case Study

'Revitalising Ancient Forest Practices in the Amazon for Sustainable, Biodiversity-Friendly Futures’ is an Impact Case Study by Professor José Iriarte.

The Amazon rainforest is facing several threats to biodiversity, indigenous heritage and community identity. Professor Iriarte’s research has generated a long-term baseline for assessing these transformations.

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Hidden Kingdoms: the South-West of Britain in Late Antiquity	Professor Stephen Rippon
Warhorse: The Archaeology of a Military Revolution?	Professor Oliver Creighton; Professor Alan Outram
The End of the Journey: The Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Colonisation of South America	Professor José Iriarte
Exploring Easter e.g. Shifting Baselines and Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Biological “Aliens”	Professor Naomi Sykes
Late Gravettian archaeology as a reflection of hunter-gatherer ecological diversity in the Upper Pleniglacial Central Europe	Dr Alexander Pryor
Glass Networks: Tracing Early Medieval Long-Distance Trade, c. AD 800-1000	Dr Hajnalka Herold
Pegasus: The makeup of the modern horse: a history of the biological changes introduced by human management	Professor Alan Outram
A social landscape without a centre: The circulation of artefacts, materials and skills in NW Argentina (first millennium AD)	Dr Marisa Lazzari
Aspects of the archaeology of the Avar Khaganate: the site of Zillingtal in context (7th–8th centuries AD)	Dr Hajnalka Herold
Calstock Roman fort	Dr Chris Smart ; Professor Stephen Rippon
Exmoor Iron	Dr Gill Juleff
Exeter: A place in time	Professor Stephen Rippon
The Intellectual development of Egyptology and popular perceptions of Egypt, 1780-1880	Dr Robert Morkot
Investigating Neolithic and Bronze Age basketry and cordage	Dr Linda Hurcombe; Lucy Williams; Linda Lemieux
The Ipplepen Project	Professor Stephen Rippon
Linear Furnaces and pan-Asian ferrous metallurgy	Dr Gill Juleff
Understanding Landscapes	Professor Stephen Rippon

Anarchy? War and Status in Twelfth-Century Landscapes of Conflict	Professor Oliver Creighton
The Archaeology of Cultural Revitalization Movements, Clovis	Professor Bruce Bradley
The Archaeology of Cultural Revitalization Movements, Pueblo	Professor Bruce Bradley
The Lord-Collins Site: A Late Pleistocene Human Use of Southeastern Maine, USA	Professor Bruce Bradley
The Gault project: Palaoindian and pre-Clovis archaeology in Texas	Professor Bruce Bradley
Between the Carolingian west and the Byzantine east: Fortified élite settlements of the 9th and 10th centuries AD in central Europe	Dr Hajnalka Herold
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): a tool for the analysis of air flows in pre-industrial furnaces	Dr Gill Juleff
Contextualizing change on the Lower Danube: Roman impact on Daco-Getic landscapes	Dr Ioana Oltean
The Fields of Britannia: landscape transition in the Roman to medieval periods	Professor Stephen Rippon; Dr Chris Smart
From materials to material culture	Dr Linda Hurcombe
Gender: Perceptions and material culture	Dr Linda Hurcombe
Horse domestication in the Botai Culture, Eneolithic Kazakhstan	Professor Alan Outram
Identities as socio-material networks: Past and present configurations in South America and beyond	Dr Marisa Lazzari
Improving public access to the countryside: Stonebridge, near Southend-on-Sea, Essex	Professor Stephen Rippon
Jê Landscapes of Southern Brazil: Ecology, History and Power in a Transitional Landscape During the Late Holocene	Professor José Iriarte
Medieval silver mining in Bere Ferrers, Devon	Professor Stephen Rippon; Dr Peter Claughton; Dr Chris Smart
The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village	Professor Alan Outram; Professor Bruce Bradley; Dr Adrian Hannus
Monsoon Steel	Dr Gill Juleff
NeoMilk: The milking revolution in temperate Neolithic Europe	Professor Alan Outram
OpenArch	Dr Linda Hurcombe
Pioneering Metallurgy: the origins of iron and steel making in the Southern Indian subcontinent	Dr Gill Juleff
Planning in the early medieval landscape	Professor Stephen Rippon; Dr Chris Smart
Poltimore Community Landscape Project	Professor Oliver Creighton; Professor Henry French; Dr Penny Cunningham
Technological traditions of the early Middle Ages in Lower Austria	Dr Hajnalka Herold
Touching the untouchable: increasing access to archaeological artefacts by virtual handling	Dr Linda Hurcombe
Trade and technology transfer in central and south-eastern Europe in the Carolingian and Ottonian period	Dr Hajnalka Herold
Ancient Salt in Carpathian Europe	Professor Anthony Harding
Bone fat exploitation and the importance of fat as a resource	Professor Alan Outram
Castles and landscapes: expressions of power in medieval England	Professor Oliver Creighton
Crandon Bridge Romano-British port	Professor Stephen Rippon
Early stone tools in Pakistan	Dr Linda Hurcombe
Excavation and survey at the large Bronze Age fortified site of Corneşti, Romanian Banat	Professor Anthony Harding
Excavations at the Ballyarnet Bronze Age site, Northern Ireland	Professor Bruce Bradley
Experimental investigation of heat damage characteristics for interpreting lithic artefacts	Dr Linda Hurcombe; Rachael Durbin
Extreme archaeology in Polar Siberia: The Zhokhov Mesolithic project	Professor Bruce Bradley
Greater Exmoor project	Professor Stephen Rippon
The Les Maitreaux Palaeolithic project	Professor Bruce Bradley
Lithic analysis: use-wear, experimental work and cultural choice	Dr Linda Hurcombe
Meare: medieval exploitation of wetland resources in the Somerset Levels	Professor Stephen Rippon
Medieval urban defences	Professor Oliver Creighton; Dr Robert Higham
North Somerset Levels project	Professor Stephen Rippon
Our Wetland Heritage	Professor Stephen Rippon
The Paleolithic and Pleistocene of Asia	Professor Robin Dennell
Sacred places and funerary rites: southern Jê monumental landscapes of the Southern Brazilian highlands and Argentina	Professor José Iriarte
Understanding prehistoric hunters' economic choices	Professor Alan Outram
Wadi Faynan landscape project, Jordan	Professor Oliver Creighton
Whittlewood landscape project	Professor Stephen Rippon