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Rowan Stanley English

Title

Postdoc

Primary affiliation

Rowan Stanley English

Areas of expertise

  • Iron Age/Early Medieval Archaeology
  • Ivory and The Ivory Trade
  • Late Antiquity
  • Theoretical Archaeology
  • Roman and Post-Roman Britian

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Profile

 

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher on the Carlsberg Foundation funded project Milestone (PI Sarah Croix). My role involves charicterising the outward connections of Linholm Høje cemetey across six centuries, and contributing to new intepretaions of change at the site.

 

My PhD project ''The North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean: Using ivory to reveal long-distance trade networks in the early medieval period'' explored ivories transfomation across three seas and its depostion in furnished graves of northwest Europe. 

I hold a BA (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Newcastle and an MPhil in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. 

 

Research

My research interests include: 

The Funerary Archaeology of Early Medieval Northern Europe (4th-10th centuries CE).

Late Antique trade and economics.

The Archaeology of Ivory and the Ivory Trade. 

Global approaches to the past. 

Teaching activities

I have previously taught on the following modules:

E23 - Teoretiske perspektiver (Theoretical perspecitves) 

F23 - Forhistorisk arkæologi III: Yngre jernalder og Vikingtid (Prehistoric Archaeology III: Younger Iron Age and Viking Age)

E22 -Udgravningsledelse og antikvarisk virksomhed (Excavation management and antiquarian buisness) - Practical supervison of students on Excavation. 

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