Theses - Archaeology
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The Memory of a Forgotten Landscape: A socio-topographical inquiry into the remains of Later Prehistoric Norfolk
Four decades of meticulous collection of metal detected finds data in Norfolk by the Norfolk Historic Environmental Record (NHER) and the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) have given rise to one of the largest regional ... -
Ceramic traditions and ceramic landscapes of the Indus Civilisation: investigating the technologies and socio-economic complexity of rural pottery production in Bronze Age northwest India.
This thesis explores the technological choices made by rural communities of the Indus Civilisation (c.2600-1900BC) by analysing ceramic materials from three villages in north-west India. The Indus Civilisation has typically ... -
Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism and Diplomacy in Afghanistan (1919–2001)
Amid the wave of heightened nationalism sweeping across the Middle East in the wake of World War One, Afghanistan gained ‘independence’ from British control of its foreign affairs. Afghan political leaders immediately ... -
Intestinal parasites in the Roman Empire, their regional distribution and ecosocial determinants
As one of the main categories of pathogens, an understanding of parasitic infection in the past is essential to understanding disease in past populations. Evidence for parasites in the human past is steadily growing with ...
