Recently published projects
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| James Mill's common place books | A three-year Collaborative Doctoral Award to transcribe and digitally publish James Mill's common place books, currently held in the archive of the London Library. The project is also researching James Mill's intellectual history, particularly the period of his close relationship with Jeremy Bentham (1808-1832). Because Mill was raised and educated in Scotland, there is also a significant Scottish Enlightenment context to the project. |
| Island of the dead? The buried Neolithic landscape of Herm (Channel Islands) | This project seeks to study the relationship between the cluster of megalithic tombs (5th-3rd millennium BC) at the northern end of the small Channel Island of Herm, in the Guernsey archipelago. The tombs came to light during quarrying activity in the 19th century, and several of them were excavated at that period. Those excavations made |
| Experience and meaning in north Indian classical music | The major research project Experience and meaning in music performance investigates how musical performance is experienced by musicians and listeners, and how this experience relates to the meaning people ascribe to it. The core of the project focuses on north Indian raga performance, with other strands concentrating on jazz, rock, Cuban popular music and Afro-Brazilian Congado. This interdisciplinary project is pursued by a team of researchers working in close collaboration, employing a combination of ethnographic and empirical methods. It involves the recording of professional quality video and audio recording and the development of new methods for their analysis. |
| The Beaker isotope project: mobility, migration and diet in the British Early Bronze Age | Were the `Beaker people´ immigrants or indigenous to prehistoric Britain? Nineteenth century antiquarian barrow-diggers observed that the wide-headed (brachycephalic) skulls of Beaker burials were distinguishable from the narrow (dolichocephalic) skulls within Neolithic long barrows, and attributed these to different populations. Since then, theories of a migrant `Beaker folk´ have been contested by alternative theories which interpret the distinctive material culture as part of a Europe-wide `Beaker package´ or cultural pattern adopted by local communities. The objectives of the project are to resolve this question by: a) systematically sampling a large proportion of the surviving, well-preserved skeletal remains of the Beaker period for a comprehensive range of isotopes relating to the reconstruction of individuals´ diet and mobility, b) systematically recording and/or reassessing these individuals´ dentition (through studies of microwear and macrowear) and skeletal remains which will shed light on diet, health, trauma, physical stress and funerary manipulation, and c) improving knowledge of these individuals´ social and temporal context through systematic study of their burial contexts, circumstances of discovery and chronology. |
| ShipShape: solid modelling and visualisation of the Newport Medieval Ship from 3D digital record | The Newport Ship, discovered in 2002, is the most substantial medieval ship found in Britain in modern times. Since its recovery, the thousands of timbers making up the find have been recorded using 3-dimensional recording arms to produce a digital record of the ship's structural elements. The reconstruction will involve using laser sintering to produce an exact 1:10 scale model of the ship. Research outputs will also include enhanced website information, journal articles and conference papers and the creation an exhibition in collaboration with Newport Museum and Heritage Service. This project seeks to use digital three-dimensional modelling to reconstruct the original hull form of the medieval Newport Ship, the most substantial medieval ship find made in Britain in modern times. This is a partnership project between the University of Wales Lampeter and Newport City Council's Museum and Heritage Service and is due for completion in April 2011. |