Wessex Archaeology

Department Member, Coastal & Marine

Other Affiliations: Loughborough University, Geography

Marine Archaeologist / Geoarchaeologist

About

I'm employed by Wessex Archaeology, a UK-wide charitable company.  I am a Marine Archaeologist in the Coastal & Marine Division and based in Edinburgh predominantly researching the offshore and coastal regions of the UK for development projects.

I am a Geoarchaeologist primarily interested in Mediterranean archaeological landscapes during the Holocene.  My recently completed doctoral thesis focused upon reconstructing the Holocene development of the southern, distal end of the Tiber Delta.  Important Imperial Roman period archaeological remains are preserved within the Presidential estate of Castelporziano and they have a fundamental, diachronic relationship with the progradation of the Tiber delta during the last 5000 years.

I specialise in geochronology using luminescence and radiocarbon techniques as well as petrology, sedimentology and diatom analysis to investigate archaeological landscapes.

I am a co-organiser of a conference entitled 'All at Sea? Synergies between past and present coastal processes & ecology', which is to be held at Loughborough University on the 9th & 10th of September 2010 with a second meeting hosted by the University of York in September 2011.

The conference aims to better integrate ecological and palaeoecological approaches within complex coastal environments, whilst assessing implications of long and short-term climate change in these dynamic and important environments.

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