Archaeology (Research) | Doctorate / PhD | Humanities & Culture | On Campus | 6 years | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom

Students registered for the MPhil may transfer to the PhD if their work is judged to be of suitable quality and promise. Research interests include: archaeobotany; human use of plants in the ancient Mediterranean; the importation of exotic plant species in Roman and Medieval Europe; zooArchaeology; human-animal relations and food ways across human History; the cultural significance of animals; hunting; the Archaeology of sustainability; archaeomaterials; the scientific analysis of glass from prehistory to post-Medieval; ethnoArchaeology; Anthropology; prehistoric Technology; Archaeology of Western Asia, with a particular focus on Iran and the Persian Gulf; Prehistoric Italy; early metallurgy; Mediterranean prehistory; Aegean Bronze Age; Greek Dark Age; later prehistory of Europe; Atlantic communities in the 1st millennium BC; underwater Archaeology; submerged settlements; new methods of underwater recording; Roman Archaeology of the Mediterranean, Balkans and Britain and the north-west provinces; epigraphy; Roman urbanism; the Archaeology of Late Antiquity; Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian) landscapes and settlement in Britain and North West Europe; maritime and coastal communities; material culture and social identity; Medieval and post-Medieval standing buildings Archaeology; historical Archaeology; urban landscapes and households.