Approaches to the Study of Communication around the European Atlantic Seaboard and Islands in the Early Medieval Period

Principal investigator: Liam
Level: PhD level research

My PhD project involves using artefactual information, specifically common types of artefacts, to study communication and trade links between Early Medieval sites in Britain and the North West coast of Europe. In order to accomplish this I am building a database containing information about artefact finds of a variety of types and their associated sites from a number of locations. Therfore I am consolidating information from different sources such as site reports, and where available on-line databases and I believe that the information held in the PAS database would make an extremely valuable contribution to my data collection.

My intention is to use the methods of network analysis in order to investigate the nature of the links between the sites. To this end the data held in my database can be extracted in a format suitable for use in some of the software developed to visualise and undertake statistical analysis on networks. I anticipate that these analyses when taken in conjunction with othjer contextual information will provide an insight into the nature of trade and other contacts during the Early Medieval period.

http://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/research/research-students/keith-scholes/

I am currently in the data gathering phase of the project, and am in the second year of my PhD, I intend to complete and submit my PhD in late 2013/early 2014.

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