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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Ranked 9th in the Guardian University Guide 2013

 

Research interests

Research Themes

While much of my research has found a regional focus in Nubia, Sudan and Sudanic Africa, my research interests remain more general –  above all, I’m interested in the ‘social’:

Archaeology and Social Landscapes – taking landscape archaeology into unfamiliar territory (e.g. Sudanic Africa) -  African mortuary archaeologies  - Historical and Islamic Archaeology in Sudanic Africa - social histories of pottery -  early trade and exchange - comparative approaches to the archaeology of religion and belief

Current Projects

Language, Settlement and Long-term History in Upper Nubia with University of Khartoum, Sudan, supported by British Institute in Eastern Africa. This interdisciplinary landscape project (focussed on the Third Cataract region) has been integrating archaeological, historical, toponymic and environmental research in an ivestigation of the long-term settlement history of the region and its social landscapes. Monograph recently published: Edwards, D. N. (ed.) 2012. The Archaeology of a Nubian Frontier, Leicester: Mauhaus

Pottery and Society in the Middle Nile: an ongoing investigation of the social history of pottery and pottery-use in the Middle Nile

Archaeology of Kerma/Kush (2009-2012 with AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship working with British Museum)

Topics available for Supervision

    • Sudanese/Nubian archaeology (including Egypt in Nubia)
    • Sudanic Africa/ trans-Saharan perspectives, especially medieval - historical archaeology
    • Landscape archaeology - especially in non-European environments
    • Mortuary archaeologies