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ProfessorRoland Fletcher

Professor of Theoretical and World Archaelogy

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor of Theoretical and World Archaelogy
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: Theory and philosophy of archaeology

Summary of opportunity:

Over the past thirty years I have developed a global and interdisciplinary perspective in Archaeology, that integrates research, teaching and service. My fields of expertise are the theory and philosophy of archaeology, the study of settlement growth and decline and the analysis of large-scale cultural phenomena over time. In 1995 I published The Limits of Settlement Growth: a theoretical outline - an analysis of the past 15,000 years of settlement-growth and decline - with Cambridge University Press. I have an international reputation as a radical theorist and as the instigator of the Greater Angkor Project, which derives from my theoretical work and is part of a major research program in Cambodia.


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This program of research on Angkor has developed international collaborations for the University and has enhanced its public profile through media presentations, such as the National Geographic International TV program 'Lost City'. The Angkor research team also serves the intentional community through the applied research of the Living with Heritage Project at Angkor, in collaboration with the Cambodian government and UNESCO.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    "Monarchies and Monasteries" Christianisation and Centralisation Along Anglo-Saxon Waterways
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Reimagined Past: Are Mobility, Pastoralism, and Cattle the Socioeconomic and Technology Drivers of the Middle Holocene Transformation?
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Systematic Comparison of the Bas-reliefs of the Bayon's Outer Gallery and Banteay Chhmar's Third Enclosure
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Inquiry into Non-Buddhist Religious Elements in Gandhāra from the 3rd BCE to the 3rd century CE
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Analysis of Chinese Agrarian based Urban Settlement Size Distributions and Growth Rates
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Beyond the Faces in the Jungle, An archaeology of settlement patterns and urbanisation in Insular Southeast Asia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Continuity in British Landscapes - 700 BC to AD 200: a geospatial analysis of landscapes and routeways in the Midlands and Northern England
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Garbage Dumps and the Expansion of Sydney from the Late- 18th to the Mid-20th Century
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Horses for Courses: Enduring Cultural Landscapes and Steppe Pastoralism – Accounting for Significant Pastoralist Settlements of the Steppe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating traces of past activities, consumption and trade through the organic residue analysis of Chinese glazed tradeware and stoneware ceramics from Cambodia.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Iron Age Settlement Patterns and the Urbanism of Roman Britain
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Issues of Iron and Ice: Norse Iron Use in Medieval Greenland
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Low-Density Coordination: Mobility Modularity and Memory in the Early Iron Age Aegean
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Low-density urban settlement patterns: identifying relationships between internal structure and the edges of settlements a variety of GIS methodologies
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Material Prerequisites and the Transition to Compact Urbanism: An Investigation of Four Regional Centres
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    More than a Hill to Die on: a GIS-based reassessment of the Diachronic Transformations and Economic Significance of Early English Castles
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Please do not step on the moss : An archaeology of Chernobyl and other landscapes of abandonment.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Scale, Density, Morphology: a regional study of low-density settlements in Mainland Southeast Asia, c. 1st-19th centuries CE
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    V. Gordon Childe and the Great War: a conflict of ambition and conscience