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Research

‌MATCH fosters and supports research and impact work on the following interdisciplinary themes covering past and present human culture around the world:

Materiality, Art and Heritage

Expanded Interiors (C. Huber & I. Haynes)
Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (S. Turner & R. Collins)
The Visceral Body in Medicine (O. Turner)
Thinking Through Things: Object Encounters in the Medical Humanities (O. Turner)
Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers (T. Ivleva & R. Collins)
Valence (O. Turner)

Artefacts and Material Culture Studies

Masks Unmasked: Rethinking Concepts of Personhood 40,000- 4,000 BC (C. Conneller & B. Elliott)
Newcastle and Boston Radiocarbon Project (J. Gerrard)
Pre-Construct Archaeology (J. Gerrard)
The First European Daggers: Function, Meaning, and Social Significance (A. Dolfini & I. Caricola)
Tintagel: Trans-European Connections in the Post-Roman World (M. Duggan)

Physical and Digital Technologies

‌Post-disciplinary and Experimental Glass Group (PEGG) (C. Duckworth)
Analysing Britain’s Most Elusive Roman Sculptures (I. Haynes & L. Allason-Jones)
Spaces of Making (B. Riley)
Archaeology and Biofuels - biofuels and respiratory health (L.-M. Shillito)
Stories from the Frontier: Linking Past and Present at Vindolanda through Digital Gameplay (C. Stocks & R. Collins)
Practical Patriotism: The Sutherland Reclamations, 1868-1893 (A. Tindley)

MATCH proudly supports the Newcastle Experimental Archaeology Research Network (EXARN). Led and managed by our research students, EXARN promotes the study of material culture and ancient technologies through experimental archaeology.

Past Projects supported by MATCH