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Noviodunum Archaeological Project

It was an important strategic point: defences from the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, 19th and 20th century are all visible. During the Roman period it was the base of the lower Danube fleet, the Classis Flavia Moesica, and in the fourth century the commander of the Legio I Iovia was stationed here. The site is mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum and by Ammianus Marcellinus, as well as other sources. Around the important military base was a sizable civilian settlement. Continue reading →

CinBA

Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe (CinBA) brings together partners from the Universities of Southampton, Cambridge and Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet) and the Crafts Council. Continue reading →

Polychrome Statuary in Context

The Polychrome Statuary in Context project represents a collaboration between the Archaeological Computing Research Group at the University of Southampton and the Herculaneum Conservation Project. The project draws upon predictive rendering methodologies and utilises high performance computing systems available at the University of Southampton in order to produce physically accurate hypothetical visualisations of Roman polychrome statuary. Continue reading →

Zupanja Southampton Archaeology Project

Led by Dr. Sandy Budden and Andreja Malovoz, the project has been excavating since 2008, and combines the use of topographic survey and excavation to establish the spatial relationships between each tumulus and the sit as a whole. ZSAP is a community archaeology project, encouraging continuing involvement by the local community.  The ACRG support the project’s use of social media to support dissemination of its work, adopting an open, reflexive approach to sharing findings. Continue reading →

Revisualizing Ptolemy's Geography

Revisualizing Ptolemy’s Geography uses modern Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical visualization to explore this unique dataset. In doing so it hopes to bring to light structural phenomena that may tell us more about its sources and construction. One of the key methods used is to derive linear maps automatically from the coordinates themselves. Ptolemy’s great contribution to cartographic science was the separation of geographic data from its representation. Continue reading →

Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire

Cantum pulcriorem invenire: Thirteenth-Century Music and Poetry is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (£0.6m) and started on 1 October 2010. Via a monograph, three commercial CDs, an online catalogue and two PhDs, the project aims to develop an understanding of the 12th and 13th century conductus based around both texts and music. Continue reading →