The project will research new analytical methodologies for investigating parasites from museum and archaeological collections to understand diet and life history signals from the past. The student will use standard insect identification techniques together with isotopic, DNA and other analytical ...
Petrographic analysis has traditionally required an appropriate optical microscope, access to the physical thin section samples, and an expert user to classify, measure and interpret the specimen. Samples could be viewed, and thus analysed, only one-at-a-time. Expert users can obtain qualitative ...
The Mary Rose and HMS Victory are arguably the two most important historic warships in the UK, and both face multiple challenges in terms of their conservation. This PhD project will investigate the preservation state of the oak timbers on the ships and explore how the different environments and ...