Professor Christopher Gaffney,Professor
Information about Professor Christopher Gaffney at the University of Bradford.
- School of Archaeological & Forensic Sci
(Faculty of Life Sciences) - Email:
- c.gaffney@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 233542
Biography
Chris Gaffney is a British archaeological geophysicist and Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Bradford. Professor Gaffney's research interests are based on understanding how geophysical data can aide archaeology in the understanding of the life and culture of ancient peoples. In pursuing these research goals he has pursued research in challenging environments where technical excellence and novel methodological approaches can lead to enhanced interpretation of the past. In doing so, Gaffney has undertaken research and managed surveys within Britain and across the world . These have included research projects across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Significant research projects include work his work as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, research on World Heritage Sites at Diocletian’s Palace, Split, in Croatia and at Fountains Abbey, UK, the Greek colony at Megara Hyblaea (Sicily) and ancient Cyrene in Libya. More recently he has participated in major projects directed at broader cultural issues including the Curious Travellers project,[2] utilising web-scraping technologies to reconstruct heritage under threat, but also projects which have sought to understand the relationship between above ground and below ground remains.
Publications
There are 45 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Christopher Gaffney. They are listed as:
- book (2)
- book chapter (10)
- conference publication (3)
- editorial (1)
- other journal (2)
- peer reviewed journal (25)
- published report (2)
Book
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnetometry for Archaeologists | 2008 | Aspinall, A.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Schmidt, Armin R. | |||||||||
| Revealing the Buried Past | 2003 | 0 | Gaffney, C and Gater, J | 0752425560 | The History Press |
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curious Travellers: Using Web-Scraped and Crowd-Sourced Imagery in Support of Heritage Under Threat | 2022 | Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science | Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science | Andrew S. Wilson, Vincent Gaffney, Chris Gaffney, Eugene Ch’ng, Richard Bates, Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, Gareth Sears, Tom Sparrow, Andrew Murgatroyd, Eddy Faber, Adrian Evans & Robin Coningham | Ch'ng, E., Chapman, H., Gaffney, V., Wilson, A.S. | 978-3-030-77028-0_4 | Springer | ||||
| A Rapid Approach to the Digital Documentation of Bradford's Rich Industrial Heritage | 2022 | Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science | Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science | Moore, J., Gaffney, C., Sparrow, T., Irving, H., Ali, S., Middleton, R., Campbell, S., Ackroyd, J., Walker, A., Simpson, S., Ritchings, J., Wilson, A.S. | Ch'ng, E., Chapman, H., Gaffney, V., Wilson, A.S. | 978-3-030-77028-0_18 | Springer Nature | ||||
| Entremont: Une agglomeration de Provence au II siecle avant notre ete | 2021 | Entremont: Une agglomeration de Provence au II siecle avant notre ete | Entremont: Une agglomeration de Provence au II siecle avant notre ete | Ian Armit, Ashley Bryant, Chris Gaffney, Andrew Parkyn, Robert Friel and Lindsey Buster | Revue Archeologique de Narbonnaise | ||||||
| Curious Travellers: Repurposing imagery to manage and interpret threatened monuments, sites and landscapes | 2019 | Heritage Under Pressure - Threats and Solutions. Studies of Agency and Soft Power in the Historic Environment | Heritage Under Pressure - Threats and Solutions. Studies of Agency and Soft Power in the Historic Environment | Andrew S. Wilson, Vince Gaffney, Chris Gaffney, Eugene Ch'ng, Richard Bates, Gareth Sears, Tom Sparrow, Andrew Murgatroyd, Edward Faber and Robin A.E. Coningham | 978-1-78925-246-0 | Oxbow | |||||
| Exploring urbanisation in the southern French Iron Age through integrated geophysical and topographic prospection | 2014 | Armit, Ian; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Marty, F.; Thomas, N.; Friel, R.; Hayes, A. | |||||||||
| Visualising Space and Movement: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Palace of Diocletian, Split | 2013 | Springer Series on Cultural Computing | Springer Series on Cultural Computing | 93 - 117 | Gaffney V.;Sears G.;Gaffney C.;Schmidt A.;Goodchild H.;Lobb M.;Sparrow T.;Tomcik D.;Kirigin B.;Milosević A.;Barabrić V. | 2195-9056 | 10.1007/978-1-4471-5535-5_6 | ||||
| A decade of ground-truthing: reappraising magnetometer prospection surveys on linear corridors in light of excavation evidence | 2014 | Bonsall, James P.T.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Armit, Ian | |||||||||
| The use of geophysical techniques in landscape studies: experience from the commercial sector. | 2009 | Gaffney, Christopher F. | |||||||||
| Geophysical Survey | 2008 | Gaffney, Christopher F. | |||||||||
| Geophysical Survey and the Emergence of Underground Archaeological Landscapes: The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. | 2007 | Card, N.; Gater, J.A.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Wood, E. |
Conference Publication
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BradPhys to BradViz or from archaeological science to heritage science | 2016 | Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2016 | Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2016 | n/a | 1 | Gaffney V.;Cuttler R.;Bates R.;Gaffney C.;Ch'Ng E.;Wilson A. | 9781467389938 | 10.1109/VSMM.2016.7863167 | |||
| 2016 | Change is good: adapting strategies for archaeological prospection in a rapidly changing technological world | Change is good: adapting strategies for archaeological prospection in a rapidly changing technological world | Bonsall, James P.T.; Gaffney, Christopher F. | ||||||||
| 2016 | Cityscapes without figures: geophysics, computing and the future of urban studies | Cityscapes without figures: geophysics, computing and the future of urban studies | Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Neubauer, W.; Ch'ng, E.; Goodchild, H.; Murgatroyd, Philip; Sears, G.; Kirigin, B.; Milosovic, A.; White, R. |
Editorial
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archaeological prospection - The first fifteen years | 2008 | Archaeological Prospection | 15 | 241 - 245 | Aspinall A.;Gaffney C.;Conyers L. | 1075-2196 | 10.1002/arp.342 |
Other Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 2019 Excavations and Geophysical Exploration at the Knowe of Swandro | 2020 | Orkney Archaeology Review | Orkney Archaeology Review | 5 | Dockrill, S.J., Bond, J.M., Gaffney, C. | George Vickers | Orkney Archaeology Society | ||||
| From sites to landscapes: How computing technology is shaping archaeological practice | 2011 | Computer | Computer | 44 | 40 - 46 | Ch'ng E.;Chapman H.;Gaffney V.;Murgatroyd P.;Gaffney C.;Neubauer W. | 0018-9162 | 10.1109/MC.2011.162 |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge | 2020 | Internet Archaeology | 55 | Vincent Gaffney, Eamonn Baldwin, Martin Bates, C. Richard Bates, Christopher Gaffney, Derek Hamilton, Tim Kinnaird, Wolfgang Neubauer, Ronald Yorston, Robin Allaby, Henry Chapman, Paul Garwood, Klaus Löcker, Alois Hinterleitner, Tom Sparrow, Immo Trinks, Mario Wallner and Matt Leivers | Internet Archaeology | https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.55.4 | |||||
| Geophysical Investigation of the Neolithic Calanais Landscape | 2019 | Remote Sensing | 11 | Bates, R.C., Bates, M., Gaffney, C., Gaffney, V. and Raub, T.D. | ISSN 2072-4292 | MDPI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11242975 | ||||
| Magnetic geophysical mapping of prehistoric iron production sites in central Norway | 2019 | Stamnes, A.A.; Stenvik, L.F.; Gaffney, Christopher F. | |||||||||
| Durrington walls and the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project 2010-2016 | 2018 | Archaeological Prospection | 25 | 255 - 269 | Gaffney V.;Neubauer W.;Garwood P.;Gaffney C.;Löcker K.;Bates R.;De Smedt P.;Baldwin E.;Chapman H.;Hinterleitner A.;Wallner M.;Nau E.;Filzwieser R.;Kainz J.;Trausmuth T.;Schneidhofer P.;Zotti G.;Lugmayer A.;Trinks I.;Corkum A. | 1075-2196 | 10.1002/arp.1707 | ||||
| TOWARDS A MULTI-SCALAR, MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CLASSICAL Greek CITY: THE OLYNTHOS PROJECT | 2017 | Annual of the British School at Athens | 112 | 155 - 206 | Nevett L.;Tsigarida E.;Archibald Z.;Stone D.;Horsley T.;Ault B.;Panti A.;Lynch K.;Pethen H.;Stallibrass S.;Salminen E.;Gaffney C.;Sparrow T.;Taylor S.;Manousakis J.;Zekkos D. | 0068-2454 | 10.1017/S0068245417000090 | ||||
| Still searching for graves: an analytical strategy for interpreting geophysical data used in the search for "unmarked" graves | 2015 | Gaffney, Christopher F.; Harris, Chrys; Pope-Carter, F.; Bonsall, James P.T.; Fry, Robert J.; Parkyn, Andrew K. | |||||||||
| You know its summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer: Analysing repetitive time-lapse earth resistance data to determine ‘optimal’ survey climate conditions | 2015 | Bonsall, James P.T.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Armit, Ian | |||||||||
| Unveiling the prehistoric landscape at Stonehenge through multi-receiver EMI | 2014 | De Smedt, P; Van Meirvenne, M.; Saey, T.; Baldwin, E.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L. | |||||||||
| Assessment of the CMD Mini-Explorer, a New Low-frequency Multi-coil Electromagnetic Device, for Archaeological Investigations | 2013 | Bonsall, James P.T.; Fry, Robert J.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Armit, Ian; Beck, A.; Gaffney, Vincent L. | |||||||||
| Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland | 2013 | Gaffney, Vincent L.; Fitch, Simon; Ramsey, E.; Yorston, R.; Ch'ng, E.; Baldwin, E.; Bates, R.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Ruggles, C.; Sparrow, Thomas; McMillan, A.; Cowley, D.; Fraser, S.; Murray, C.; Murray, H.; Hopla, E.; Howard, A. | Gaffney V, Fitch S, Ramsey E, et al (2013) Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland. Internet Archaeology 34. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.34.1 | ||||||||
| Space and movement in an Iron Age oppidum: Integrating geophysical and topographic survey at Entremont, Provence | 2012 | Antiquity | 86 | 191 - 206 | Armit I.;Gaffney C.;Hayes A. | 0003-598X | 10.1017/S0003598X00062542 | ||||
| Space and movement in an Iron Age oppidum: integrating geophysical and topographic survey at Entremont, Provence | 2012 | Armit, Ian; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Hayes, A. | |||||||||
| The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project | 2012 | Archaeological Prospection | 19 | 147 - 155 | Gaffney C.;Gaffney V.;Neubauer W.;Baldwin E.;Chapman H.;Garwood P.;Moulden H.;Sparrow T.;Bates R.;Löcker K.;Hinterleitner A.;Trinks I.;Nau E.;Zitz T.;Floery S.;Verhoeven G.;Doneus M. | 1075-2196 | 10.1002/arp.1422 | ||||
| From sites to landscapes: How computing technology is shaping archaeological practice | 2011 | Computer | Ch'ng, E.;Chapman, H.;Gaffney, V.;Murgatroyd, P.;Gaffney, C.;Neubauer, W.; | 10.1109/MC.2011.162 | |||||||
| The square array revisited : a lightweight multisensor platform form vulnerable soil environments. | 2009 | Parkyn, Andrew K.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Schmidt, Armin R.; Walker, R. | |||||||||
| What do all the numbers mean? Making sure that we have all the pieces of the puzzle. | 2009 | Sparrow, Thomas; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Schmidt, Armin R. | |||||||||
| Initial Results using GPS Navigation with the Foerster Magnetometer System at the World Heritage Site of Cyrene,Libya. | 2008 | Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Cuttler, R.; Yorston, R. | |||||||||
| Detecting trends in the prediction of the buried past: A review of geophysical techniques in archaeology. | 2008 | Gaffney, Christopher F. | |||||||||
| Archaeological Prospection - the first fifteen years. Evolution of a specialist journal devoted to shallow prospecting. | 2008 | Aspinall, A.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Conyers, L. | |||||||||
| Detecting trends in the prediction of the buried past: A review of geophysical techniques in archaeology | 2008 | Archaeometry | 50 | 313 - 336 | Gaffney C. | 0003-813X | 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00388.x | ||||
| D-Day: geophysical investigation of a World War II German site in Normandy, France. | 2004 | Gaffney, Christopher F.; Adcock, J.; Gater, J.A.; Saunders, T. | |||||||||
| Geophysical surveys at King Lobengula's Palace KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe. | 2004 | Gaffney, Christopher F.; Hughes, G.; Gater, J.A. | |||||||||
| The Schlumberger array—potential and pitfalls in archaeological prospection | 2001 | Archaeological Prospection | 8 | 199 - 209 | Aspinall A.;Gaffney C. | 1075-2196 | 10.1002/arp.169 | ||||
| The Schlumberger array - potential and pitfalls in archaeological prospection | 2001 | Gaffney, Christopher F.; Aspinall, A. | |||||||||
| Community Archaeology and the Archaeological Geophysicist. | 2009 | Gaffney, Christopher F. |
Published Report
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EAC Guidelines for the use of Geophysics in Archaeology: Questions to Ask and Points to Consider. | 2015 | Schmidt, Armin R.; Linford, P.; Linford, N.; David, A.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Sarris, A.; Fassbinder, J. | |||||||||
| Preparing for the future: A reappraisal of archaeo-geophysical surveying on Irish National Road Schemes 2001-2010 | 2014 | Bonsall, James P.T.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Armit, Ian |