Dr Dante Abate and Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls have had an article published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage this week. The article, which outlines how LiDAR and photogrammetry was used to record the Treblinka extermination and labour camps, is open access for 50 days meaning you can download it for free (as of the…
The Digital Forensic Archaeology project team have recently participated in a number of high profile events to present the results of our work and have undertaken fieldwork in Cyprus. Dante Abate participated at the European Researcher’s Night which took place at the Carob Mill in Limassol, Cyprus, on the 28 September 2018. This follows on…
Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls delivered the keynote lecture at the “Material Culture and the Holocaust Symposium” this month. Her paper, entitled “Ordinary Things?: Reconsidering the Value and Representation of Holocaust Material Culture”, drew on a range of examples from recent archaeological investigations at Holocaust sites, and from museum and memorial contexts, to consider the breadth…
Collaborative research undertaken by Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls of the Centre of Archaeology and Robert Ehrenreich of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was presented at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) this month. The joint paper ‘Value in Context: Material Culture and Treblinka’ was presented at the ‘Contemporary Collections: Contested and Powerful’ conference…
The team at the Centre of Archaeology have been conducting archaeological research and fieldwork at sites of mass violence and terror as part of the HERA Accessing Campscapes: Inclusive Strategies for Using European Conflicted Heritage. Jasenovac In March 2018 the Centre joined their international partners at the Stara Gradiška internment complex near to the Croatian…
The Centre of Archaeology is pleased to welcome Daria Cherkaska to our research team. Daria started her PhD studies in 2018. Her previous research background involves studying of theory and history of Soviet archaeology. Currently her studies focus on the application forensic archaeological methods in Holocaust study in Ukraine. Daria also has experience working like archivist…
The second e-journal issue of the iC-ACCESS project, in which the Centre of Archaeology is a partner, has been published. The bulletin outlines the basis of the project “Accessing Campscapes: Integrated Strategies for Using European Conflicted Heritage (iC-ACCESS)” and includes feature articles on topics relating to research into Holocaust and Soviet-era camps across Europe.…
On the 29th January, Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The lecture, entitled “A Career in Conflict: Archaeological Approaches to Investigating Holocaust Landscapes”, will reflect on a decade of Professor Sturdy Colls’ work documenting Holocaust landscapes and sites of mass violence across Europe. Professor Sturdy Colls…
The results of a non-invasive archaeological survey in Rohatyn, Ukraine, undertaken by a team from the Centre of Archaeology are now available online. For nine days from late May to early June 2017, Rohatyn Jewish Heritage commissioned the Centre of Archaeology to undertake a non-invasive professional survey at three WW2-era Jewish mass grave…
On Sunday 17th September, the Sunday Times published an article entitled: “Channel Islands: EDF electricity plan could destroy Alderney’s ‘little Auschwitz’” which made reference to a report that Kevin Colls and I (Prof. Caroline Sturdy Colls) wrote in February 2016. This report was leaked to the Sunday Times by a third party without our knowledge…
