Medieval and Historical Archaeology

Medieval and historical archaeology at Aberdeen brings together expertise and considerable experience spanning northern Europe, the North Atlantic and high-latitude North America, as well as the recent archaeology of the Pacific.

Researchers in the Department of Archaeology and associated disciplines bring:

• theoretical
• landscape
• anthropological
• scientific
• ethno-archaeological

and other interdisciplinary approaches to exploring issues such as the impact of culture contact, expressions of social identity, transformations in ideology, ritual practices and power.

Particular strengths lie in:

• the prehistoric and indigenous origins of the medieval and later northern world
• the Picts and their neighbours
• the Viking world
• colonial and post-colonial archaeology
• diet
• the social archaeology of conflict
• proto-urbanism
• ecclesiastical structures and the archaeology of the house

• Dr Kate Britton
• Dr Charlotta Hillerdal
• Dr Rick Knecht
• Dr Gordon Noble
• Dr Jeff Oliver

• Animal Husbandry in the Intertidal Zone: A Stable Isotope Approach to Changing Subsistence Strategies in the Belgian Coastal Plain
• Colonial Landscapes on the Northwest Coast of North America
• European Migrant Landscapes
• Isotope Analysis at St. Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen: Diet, Health and Mobility in a Medieval Maritime Society
• Paradigms of Piracy: Private Law and Social Order in the Premodern World
• Peleliu 1944: Social Archaeologies of World War II in Palau, Micronesia
• The Bennachie Landscape Project: Community Connections in the North-East of Scotland
• The Northern Picts Project
• The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
• Vikings Remembered: Late Iron Age Funerary Ritual and the Making of Norse Mythology
• Wild Signs: Graffiti and the English Landscape