Department of Classics and Archaeology

Archaeology news archive 2013

Ancient naval battle site 'rammed' with relics of war

Description
The Battle of the Egadi Islands is the first ancient naval battle site ever discovered and it is now being surveyed in minute detail.
Date:
11/12/2013

PhD funding: application deadline 9 Jan

Description
UK/EU PhD students in Archaeology are invited to apply for AHRC-funded studentships through the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.
Date:
29/11/2013

Underwater archaeology - Jon Henderson helps to survey ancient naval battle site

Description
The Battle of the Egadi Islands is the first ancient naval battle site ever discovered and it is now being surveyed in minute detail.
Date:
20/11/2013

Identifying bones of the earlierst northerner - Lecturer Hannah O'Regan involved in analysis project

Description
Analysis of bones that were found in the early 1990s have now been identified as the earliest known human remains from northern Britain. Teams from The University of Nottingham and Liverpool John Moores University have been working together on the project analysing bones that were found at Kents Bank Cavern on the edge of Morecambe Bay. The fragment of human bone is thought to be just over 10000 years old.
Date:
20/09/2013

Archaeology students to visit Palaikastro, Crete

Description
The site of Palaikastro is located at the east end of Crete, a few hundred meters away from the sea. It is a large Bronze Age (Minoan) settlement with substantial town blocks and cemeteries in use from the Early Bronze Age through to the latter stages of the Late Bronze Age, a period of some 1500 years. Six University of Nottingham archaeology students will be visiting the site in July.
Date:
04/06/2013

University and National Trust partnership to promote Britain's wild venison

Description
It's cheap, healthy and sustainable and its provenance can easily be traced back to its free-range, organic roots. So why aren't we Brits eating more wild venison?Archaeologists at The University of Nottingham are joining forces with the National Trust to promote the benefits of eating the meat by charting the history of fallow deer herds at their properties, starting at Charlecote Park in Warwickshire.
Date:
07/03/2013

Students and Staff Making News

Description
Tune in to BBC1 this evening at 7.30pm for Inside Out, in which Dr Chris King will be talking about recent discoveries being made by the Department of Archaeology's 'Southwell Project', but it is not just staff that are set to feature in the programme.
Date:
25/02/2013

Traces of Horse found in The Department of Archaeology's Research

Description
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate, Dr Kristopher Poole, whose doctoral research has recently been making the headlines.
Date:
22/02/2013
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