Archaeology & Science: an introduction to new research

Dr Gareth Perry Dr Lizzy Craig-Atkins

Dr Gareth Perry

Ceramicist, Early Medieval Archaeologist Laboratory and Technical Supervisor

Background

• Science and engineering

• MA and PhD, Dept. Archaeology, University Of Sheffield

• Employed since October 2013

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Specialism

• Reconstructing ceramic technology, experimental archaeology

• Ceramic petrology

• Pottery use and function

• Early Anglo-Saxon death and burial

• Saxon and medieval pottery

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Current Research Interests • Pre-burial uses of Anglo-

Saxon cremation urns

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Cleatham

Manton Warren

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Current Research Interests

Kiln 13 <750oC Kiln 13 850-950oC

Manufacture of pottery in Viking-Age England

Dr Lizzy Craig-Atkins

Human Osteologist, Funerary Archaeologist Lecturer in Human Osteology

Background

• AS-level maths, A-levels history, chemistry, biology

• BA Archaeology, MSc Human Osteology and Palaeopathology, PhD Archaeology

• Demonstrator in Biological Anthropology

• Lecturer in Human Osteology

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Specialism

• Lab-based analysis of the human skeleton

• Funerary archaeology in context

• Anglo-Saxon to post-med archaeology

• Multidisciplinary approaches to individual identity in the past (history, medicine, clinical)

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Current Research Interests • Rites of passage (weaning, baptism,

individual autonomy)

• Disability and impairment in the archaeological record

• The role of funerary ritual in the establishment of individual and group identities (status, gender, maternal, professional identity)

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• Visibility and invisibility

• Scales of research: population vs individual

• Social identity and biological identity

Current Themes

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Current Themes

• Visibility and invisibility

• Scales of research: population vs individual

• Social identity and biological identity

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Current Themes

• Visibility and invisibility

• Scales of research: population vs individual

• Social identity and biological identity

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To Discover And Understand.