Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology - Staff
Dr Gianna Ayala
Dr Gianna Ayala is a geoarchaeologist actively researching the relationship between later prehistoric and early historic human societies and landscape change in Italy and Sicily. She has a particular interest in field survey methodologies and in land use systems of the Mediterranean.
Prof John Bennet
John Bennet works on the archaeology of complex societies (particularly the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean) and on early writing and administrative systems (especially Mycenaean Linear B). He has extensive experience in regional field survey and a particular interest in the integration of material and textual evidence. In the context of multi-period survey projects in Greece, he has recently worked on Venetian and Ottoman archives.
Keith Branigan is the author of six books and dozens of papers on Aegean prehistory including Prepalatial and Dancing With Death. His social interests are pre- and early palatial Crete, settlement history and craft production.
Dr Peter Day
Peter Day has worked extensively on the production, exchange and consumption of Bronze Age ceramics in the southern Aegean and Mediterranean, with a particular focus on Crete and the Cyclades. His approach to the study of ceramics is founded on the integration of macro- and micro-scopic scales of analysis, informed by studies of contemporary potters and pottery use.
Dr Roger Doonan
Dr Roger Doonan has research interests in Aegean metals and craft production, as well as archaeological survey and geophysics. He also directs CONTACT -- Collections Networks for Archaeology and Classics Teaching, an FDTL-funded 3-year project whose aim is to innovate in material culture teaching and implement change in the curriculum.
Dr Paul Halstead
Paul Halstead works on the Neolithic and Bronze Ages of Greece, with a specialisation in the analysis of archaeozoological remains as evidence for the management and consumption of animals. His approach to both archaeology and archaeozoology draws heavily on `ethnoarchaeological´ study of recent farmers and herders in Mediterreanean Europe.
Prof Glynis Jones
Glynis Jones has published numerous articles on ancient and 'traditional' agriculture in the Aegean. Her particular interests are ethnoarchaeology, early Aegean crop husbandry, and analysis of plant remains.
Patrick Quinn
Patrick Quinn is Research Officer for Archaeological Ceramic Analysis. Patrick´s main research interests -- centred in the Aegean -- include ceramic compositional analysis and its role in the study of material culture, geoarchaeology and the application of micropalaeontology to the study of archaeological remains, experimental ceramic archaeology, and the potential of information technology within archaeoceramics research and teaching.
Dr Jane Rempel
Dr Jane Rempel has research interests under the broad categories of the archaeology of the north coast of the Black Sea and ancient Greek colonization, more specifically in territorial expansion and identity construction in the Bosporan kingdom. Other areas of interest include the Hellenistic east, landscape archaeology and funerary commemoration. She is currently involved in a field project investigating mortuary landscapes in the Syunik region of southern Armenia.
Dr Susan Sherratt
Susan Sherratt's research interests are in the Late Bronze and early Iron Age of the Aegean, Cyprus and the wider eastern Mediterranean and in all aspects of trade and interaction within and beyond these regions. She holds a DTI research fellowship in the department.