Durham University Archaeology Dissertations

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AFSHAR, ZAHRA (2014) Mobility and economic transition in the 5th to the 2nd millennium B.C. in the population of the Central Iranian Plateau, Tepe Hissar. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
AL-GHAMDI, SAUD,ABDULAZIZ (2011) The Neolithic Archaeology of the South west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
AL-SADEQI, WALEED,MOHAMED,ABDULRAHIM (2013) The Ancient Beads of Bahrain: A Study of Ornaments from the Dilmun and Tylos Eras. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
ANDERSON, ARTHUR,WILLIAM (2012) Traditions and Transitions: Later and Roman Iron Age Communities in the North-East of England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
AZZOPARDI, GEORGE (2014) Religious Landscapes and Identities of the Maltese Islands in a Mediterranean Context: 700 B.C. - A.D. 500. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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BAKER, JOCELYN,MARGARET (2013) The Colour and Composition of Early Anglo-Saxon Copper Alloy Jewellery. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BERGIUS, GWENDOLINE,CLARE,COURTENA (2012) The Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture of Mercia as evidence for continental influence and cultural exchange. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BERNOFSKY, KAREN,STACY (2010) Respiratory health in the past: a bioarchaeological study of chronic maxillary sinusitis and rib periostitis from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval Period in Southern England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BERTINI, LOUISE,CATHERINE (2011) Changes in Suid and Caprine Husbandry Practices Throughout Dynastic Egypt Using Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BINDER, MICHAELA (2014) Health and Diet in Upper Nubia through Climate and
Political Change - A bioarchaeological investigation of health and living conditions at ancient Amara West between 1300 and 800BC. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BISHOP, ROSEMARY,RHIANNON (2013) Plant gatherers, plant managers or agriculturalists? The importance of wild and domestic plants in Mesolithic and Neolithic Scotland. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BLAIN, SOPHIE,EMILIE,LEA (2009) Ceramic building materials in early medieval churches in north-western France and south-eastern England.
Application of luminescence dating to building archaeology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BOLD, RACHAEL (2012) Norse Utilisation of Archaeobotanical Resources within the Myvatnssveit locale, Northern Iceland. Masters thesis, Durham University.
BRADBURY, JENNIE,NICOLE (2011) Landscapes of Burial? The Homs Basalt, Syria in the 4th-3rd
millennia BC. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BRITTON, KATE,HELENA (2010) Multi-isotope analysis and the reconstruction of prey species palaeomigrations and palaeoecology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BROWN, PETER,JAMES (2015) Adverse Weather Conditions in Medieval Britain: An Archaeological Assessment of the Impact of Meteorological Hazards. Masters thesis, Durham University.
BRUNDLE, LISA,MARY (2014) Image and Performance, Agency and Ideology:
Human Figurative Representation in Anglo-Saxon Funerary Art,
AD 400 – 750. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
BUCHANAN, BRIAN,GREGORY (2015) Households, Settlements, and Landscapes in Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval Northumbria: A Spatial Analysis of North-East England, c. 100 BC-AD 800. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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CAMPBELL, MHAIRI,MYFANWY (2013) Tell Nebi Mend: Trench VIII. Masters thesis, Durham University.
Colquhoun, Ian (2015) The Bronze Swords of Ireland. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
COONEY, WILLIAM (2011) Egypt’s encounter with the West: Race, Culture and Identity. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
CORREAS-AMADOR, MARIA (2013) Ethnoarchaeology of Egyptian mudbrick houses: towards a holistic understanding of ancient Egyptian domestic architecture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
CRAPS, DAVINA,DENISE (2015) Exploring New Research Avenues for Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis in Palaeopathology: Interdisciplinary Approaches Focusing on Methodological Techniques. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
CROWTHER, THOMAS,GREGORY,WILLIAM (2014) Bridging Gaps through Light: An Archaeological Exploration of Light and Dark in the Atlantic Scottish Iron Age. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
CUNLIFFE, EMMA,LOUISE (2013) Satellites and Site Destruction: An Analysis of Modern Impacts on the Archaeological Resource of the Ancient Near East. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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D'AMICO, ERICA (2011) Byzantine Finewares in Italy (10th to 14th Centuries AD):
Social and Economic Contexts in the Mediterranean World. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
DAROOGHEH-NOKHODCHERI, RANA (2014) Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology: The Case Study of Iran. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER,EDWARD (2013) Early Buddhist Monasteries in Sri Lanka: A Landscape Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
DIAZ-ZORITA-BONILLA, MARTA (2013) THE COPPER AGE IN SOUTH-WEST SPAIN:
A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PREHISTORIC SOCIAL ORGANISATION. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
DOOLEY-FAIRCHILD, SIRA,MADDALENA (2012) Material Belief: A Critical History of Archaeological Approaches to Religious Change in Anglo-Saxon England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
DREW, CARRIE,ANN (2010) Pigs from six medieval sites in Flanders: A multiple methodological approach to the study of their husbandry development. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
DRINKALL, HELEN,CLARE (2014) Expanding our horizons: an exploration of hominin landscape use in the Lower Palaeolithic of Britain and the question of upland home bases or lowland living sites. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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FOULDS, ELIZABETH,MARIE (2014) Glass Beads in Iron Age Britain: a social approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
FOULDS, FREDERICK,WILLIAM,FRANCIS (2012) Imperceptible Individuals: issues in the applications of social theory to Lower Palaeolithic material culture. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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GABER, AMR (2009) The Central Hall in the Egyptian Temples of the Ptolemaic Period. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
GIDNEY, LOUISA,JANE (2013) Offspring of the Aurochs: A comparison of a reference collection of Dexter cattle skeletons with archaeological and historical data. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
GIRDLAND-FLINK, LINUS (2013) Investigating patterns of animal domestication using ancient DNA. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
GRAF, JANICE,CAROL (2012) Windows into the past: an investigation into prior activity at Neolithic monuments in Britain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
GRAINGER, SCOTT (2009) Development of techniques for high-resolution spatially-resolved elemental analysis in materials of interest in luminescence dating. Masters thesis, Durham University.
GURLING, THOMAS (2009) Luminescence Dating of Medieval and Early Modern Brickwork. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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HARTIS, RICHARD,GEOFFREY (2010) Beyond Functionalism: A Quantitative Survey and Semiotic Reading of Hadrian's Wall. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
HUCKLESBY, CLARE,LOUISE (2008) An Anthropology of Conservation. Masters thesis, Durham University.
HUTTON, GILLIAN,MARIA (2011) Roads and Routeways in County Durham: 1530-1730. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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JENNINGS, JAIME,DORIS (2010) Stress Along the Medieval Anglo-Scottish Border? Skeletal Indicators of Conflict-Zone Health. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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KALKANIS, EMMANOUIL (2012) Reception and Artefacts in the Making of Late Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture: The Cultural Biography of Sir William Hamilton’s Vases. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
KELLEHER, RICHARD,MARK (2013) Coins, monetisation and re-use in medieval England and Wales: new interpretations made possible by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
KENDALL, ROSS (2014) Past Endemic Malaria and Adaptive Responses in the Fens and Marshlands of Eastern England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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LAIDLER, SOPHIE,JANE (2011) Contemporary and Competing Vistas: Public Perceptions of Wearmouth and Jarrow. Masters thesis, Durham University.
LANKESTER, FRANCIS,DAVID (2012) Predynastic & Pharaonic era Rock-Art in
Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert:
Distribution, Dating & Interpretation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
LAWRENCE, DAN (2012) Early Urbanism in the Northern Fertile Crescent: A Comparison of Regional Settlement Trajectories and Millennial Landscape Change. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
LEBRASSEUR, OPHELIE,MELODIE,MARINE (2014) Dogs, Chickens and Ants: Investigating the reliability of modern maternal genetic data in retracing early dispersals. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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MARSHALL, JENNY,LEE (2012) Missing Links:

Demic Diffusion and the Development of Agriculture on the Central Iranian Plateau. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
MASON, PAUL,MACKENZIE (2014) The Early English Factories of South-West India:
A Historical Archaeology Perspective. Masters thesis, Durham University.
MAZZILLI, FRANCESCA (2014) Beyond religion: cultural exchange and economy in northern Phoenicia and the
Hauran, Syria. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
MCCARRISON, KIRSTY,ELIZABETH (2012) Exploring Prehistoric Tuberculosis in Britain: A Combined Macroscopic and Biomolecular Approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
MILLSON, DANA,CORRINE,EMMILINE (2013) Ceramics of the Tyne-Forth Region, C. 3500-1500 BC. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
MUNDEE, MICHELLE,MARIE (2010) Exploring Diet and Society in Medieval Spain: New Approaches Using Stable Isotope Analysis. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
MURTAGH, PAUL,JOSEPH (2014) Materiality, community and identity: The Iron Age of west central Scotland. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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NISHITANI, AKIRA (2012) Typological Classification and the Chronology of Iron Age pottery in central-southern Britain. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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O'DONNELL, RONAN,PETER (2014) Landscape, agency and enclosure: transformations in the rural landscape of north-east England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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PERRI, ANGELA,RAY (2013) Global Hunting Adaptations to Early Holocene Temperate Forests: Intentional Dog Burials as Evidence of Hunting Strategies. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
PIOFFET, HELENE,CAROLE,SOPHIE (2015) Sociétés et Identités du Premier Néolithique de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande dans leur contexte ouest européen : caractérisation et analyses comparatives des productions céramiques entre Manche, Mer d'Irlande et Mer du Nord. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
PIRISINO, DANIELE (2015) The Route of the Pythaïs through Athens and Attica. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
PONCE, PAOLA,VANESA (2010) A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millenium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
PONROY, COME,VINCENT-MARIE (2014) Challenging models of Late Iron Age urbanism and state formation in Gaul: The Segusiavi territory between 600 BC and AD50. Masters thesis, Durham University.
POWELL, LINDSAY,ANNE (2014) Childhood Health and Diet in Roman London: The Palaeodemographic, Palaeopathological and Isotopic Evidence. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
PRIOR, JONATHAN,DAVID (2015) The Impact of Glassblowing on the Early-Roman Glass Industry (circa 50 B.C. – A.D. 79). Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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RAYNE, LOUISE,ELIZABETH (2014) Water and Territorial Empires. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
ROBERTSON, STUART (2015) The Crisis of the 3rd Century A.D.: Wage Increases and Inflation in Roman Egypt. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
ROHL, DARRELL,JESSE (2014) More than a Roman Monument: A Place-centred Approach to the Long-term History and Archaeology of the Antonine Wall. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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SAUNDERS, BEN,JOHN,OLIVER (2013) The trade and distribution of ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean 1250-1550AD

An analysis of current available assemblages from Arabia, Iran and East Africa. Masters thesis, Durham University.
SHARMAN, JENNIFER,ALEXIA (2013) Age, sex and the life course: population variability in human ageing and implications for bioarchaeology. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
SHAW, PATRICIA (2010) ANALYSIS OF PLANT MACROFOSSIL REMAINS IN THEIR STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE FROM
42-48 SCOTCH STREET, CARLISLE:

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MEDIAEVAL PERIOD WITH A BRIEF EVALUATION OF THE MATERIAL
IN RELATION TO OTHER
MEDIAEVAL REMAINS FROM CARLISLE. Masters thesis, Durham University.
SKINNER, ALEXIS,TUDOR (2014) Impact and change:
assembly practices in the Northern Danelaw. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
STANDLEY, ELEANOR,ROSE (2010) Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
Steer, K. A. (1938) The archaeology of Roman Durham. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
STRICKLAND, KEIR,MAGALIE (2011) The Jungle Tide:
“Collapse” in Early Mediaeval Sri Lanka. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
Swinbank, Brenda (1954) The vallum reconsidered. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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TALLYN, ASHLEY,ELIZABETH (2014) Quality of Life in Medieval Monasteries and Nunneries. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
TANCOCK, DEVON,LEE,KASE (2014) Congenital Defects in 18th and 19th Century Populations from Rural and Urban Northeast England. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
TREMBLAY, JENNIFER,CARRIE (2014) The Mauryan Horizon:
An Archaeological Analysis of Early Buddhism and the Mauryan Empire at Lumbini, Nepal. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
TSUNEKI, MAI (2014) Metalwork from Central Anatolia in the Assyrian Colony Period: A Review in the Light of Finds from the Level IIIc Destruction at Kaman-Kalehöyük. Masters thesis, Durham University.

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UPEX, BETHAN,ROSEMARY (2009) Enamel hypoplasia in modern and archaeological caprine populations:
The development and application of a new methodological approach. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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VILLALOBOS ACOSTA, CESAR (2011) Archaeology in Circulation: Nationalism and Tourism in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Coins, Notes, Stamps and Guidebooks. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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WALKER, JAMES,WILLIAM,PADDISON (2014) Rethinking the significance of the microlith for hunting in the terminal Pleistocene / Holocene: A comparative study. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
WEINSTEIN, ROSEMARY (2011) The Archaeology of Pewter Vessels in England 1200-1700: A Study of Form and Usage. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
WELLS, EMMA,JANE (2013) An Archaeology of Sensory Experience: Pilgrimage in the Medieval Church, c.1170-c.1550. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
WIECEK, MATTHEW,GREGORY (2013) South Asian Figurines in the British Museum: Literature Review and Analysis. Masters thesis, Durham University.
Wing, George (2015) Predynastic Egyptian representations of animals:
The journey from nature to art and beyond. Masters thesis, Durham University.
WINTCHER, AMANDA (2011) Post-palaeolithic Rock Art of Northeast Murcia, Spain: An Analysis of Landscape and Motif Distribution. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.