Studies of ancient materials, technologies and human-material-environment interactions through complementary scientific, archaeological, historical and anthropological approaches.
Ancient Greek and Roman art and archaeology; classical literature, culture and thought; visual-verbal relations; classical traditions and reception; theologies of art; cultural history of ornament; history of aesthetics
The archaeology and ecology of early farming; comparative perspectives on recent farming systems; the social implications of agriculture, including for resilience and inequality
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