The Team
Our team is diverse and always in motion. Our 'Archaeologists Connected' network of international MA students and PhD candidates is intended to help young career researcher connect and develop their skills and ideas, while united in investigating processes of connectivity in local detail and transregional scope. Our methods have included documentation, scientific analysis, and interpretation of large quantities of newly excavated, currently unpublished, rarely studied, and urgently threatened archaeological evidence of exchange patterns that connected sites and regions across the ancient world. Examples of such materials are ceramics, petroglyphs, architectural structures and other finds from excavations, depots, and older catalogs. The project so far has published statistical and scientific analyses, heritage rescue documentation, and interpretative studies of archaeological sites and materials from Egypt, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The study of these data allows for verifiable reconstructions of the actual trade routes that connected people in the past, and a more factual and comprehensive insight into the diversity of ancient trade cities.
We actively engage in archaeological heritage protection and Open Access output. For our Karakorum Rescue Project, we work with Pakistani archaeologists and local communities to document threatened rock art and make our data widely accessible in digital form. We continue to aim for open source publications in all our projects.
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