Letty ten Harkel
My interdisciplinary research focuses on past and present identities in the North Sea and Mediterranean regions, forging links between history, archaeology, literature and archaeological science. Key themes include:
• Material culture and identity
• Archaeological method, practice and heritage at risk in the 21st century
• Cultural interactions
• Settlement development and the rise of urban identities
• Landscape archaeology
• Stable isotopes and burial archaeology
Current and recent projects at the University of Oxford:
• Postdoctoral Researcher, EAMENA project (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk)
• Principal Investigator, Medieval Migrant of the North Sea World (https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/medieval-migrants-north-sea-world)
From 2017-2020, I was Editor of the peer reviewed journal Medieval Settlement Research, which welcomes research papers and reports on all aspects of medieval landscape and settlement archaeology (https://medieval-settlement.com/publications/journal).
Publication project, together with Pieterjan Deckers: A Central Place on the World's Edge (working title), an English-language volume presenting new and existing research on early medieval Domburg and surroundings to an international audience (jointly published by Brepols and Zeeuwsch Genootschap).
Past projects:
• Investigating the Dead in Early Medieval Domburg (IDEMD), with Robert van Dierendonck (joint PI)
• Landscapes and Identities: the case of the English landscape 1500 BC - AD 1066 (EngLaId) (early medieval researcher)
• Material culture and identity
• Archaeological method, practice and heritage at risk in the 21st century
• Cultural interactions
• Settlement development and the rise of urban identities
• Landscape archaeology
• Stable isotopes and burial archaeology
Current and recent projects at the University of Oxford:
• Postdoctoral Researcher, EAMENA project (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk)
• Principal Investigator, Medieval Migrant of the North Sea World (https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/medieval-migrants-north-sea-world)
From 2017-2020, I was Editor of the peer reviewed journal Medieval Settlement Research, which welcomes research papers and reports on all aspects of medieval landscape and settlement archaeology (https://medieval-settlement.com/publications/journal).
Publication project, together with Pieterjan Deckers: A Central Place on the World's Edge (working title), an English-language volume presenting new and existing research on early medieval Domburg and surroundings to an international audience (jointly published by Brepols and Zeeuwsch Genootschap).
Past projects:
• Investigating the Dead in Early Medieval Domburg (IDEMD), with Robert van Dierendonck (joint PI)
• Landscapes and Identities: the case of the English landscape 1500 BC - AD 1066 (EngLaId) (early medieval researcher)
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The basis for this volume is The English Landscapes and Identities project, which synthesised all the major available sources of information on English archaeology to examine this crucial period of landscape history from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to the Domesday survey (c. 1086 AD). It looks at the nature of archaeological work undertaken across England to assess its strengths and weaknesses when writing long-term histories. Among many other topics it examines the interaction of ecology and human action in shaping the landscape; issues of movement across the landscape in various periods; changing forms of food over time; an understanding of spatial scale; and questions of enclosing and naming the landscape, culminating in a discussion of the links between landscape and identity. The result is the first comprehensive account of the English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period. It also offers a celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially the intensive large-scale investigations that have taken place since the 1960s and transformed our understanding of England's past.
Papers: Britain by Letty ten Harkel
The basis for this volume is The English Landscapes and Identities project, which synthesised all the major available sources of information on English archaeology to examine this crucial period of landscape history from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to the Domesday survey (c. 1086 AD). It looks at the nature of archaeological work undertaken across England to assess its strengths and weaknesses when writing long-term histories. Among many other topics it examines the interaction of ecology and human action in shaping the landscape; issues of movement across the landscape in various periods; changing forms of food over time; an understanding of spatial scale; and questions of enclosing and naming the landscape, culminating in a discussion of the links between landscape and identity. The result is the first comprehensive account of the English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period. It also offers a celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially the intensive large-scale investigations that have taken place since the 1960s and transformed our understanding of England's past.
century. The processes and decisions that shaped the formation of the EAMENA dataset, including its methodology and the structure of the database, will be discussed next. The final part of this chapter introduces the various papers that make up this Special Issue, starting with those that have helped to shape the project’s most important achievement to date — the database itself — and continuing with a few initial explorations of the research potential of the emerging dataset.
With Stephen McPhillips and Owen Murray.
This paper will explore how we can use such data to trace patterns of settlement and landscape use. Analysis was carried out across three transects of ~700 km2, each running from coast to hills in northern, central, and southern Lebanon, giving us a holistic overview of the landscape. The majority of the database records for these areas are characterised by the remains of abandoned buildings and agricultural terraces, and – to a lesser extent – religious sites. Our results show profound differences between northern and southern Lebanon, as well as between coastal and inland zones. These differences reflect historical differences in land use, subsistence economies, and belief systems which often bear little relevance to modern socio-political boundaries. Our study demonstrates the importance of large, holistic datasets for previously understudied site types and periods in piecing together past patterns of land use and change over time.