Professor Vincent Gaffney,50th Anniversary Chair
Information about Professor Vincent Gaffney at the University of Bradford.
- School of Archaeological & Forensic Sci
(Faculty of Life Sciences) - Email:
- v.gaffney@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 234235
Biography
Professor Vincent Gaffney is Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford. Current research projects include the AHRC Taken at the Flood and Unptath'd Waters project. He continues his research in the Stonehenge Landscape as part of the LBI_ArchPro “Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes” Project where he leads the UK team creating 3D and virtual imaging of the landscape from an extensive programme of geophysical survey of the largely unmapped landscape. He is also a member of the Avon Riverside project team.Previous research projects include the ERC-funded Advanced Grant project - "Lost Frontiers: exploring climate change, settlement and colonisation of the submerged landscapes of the North Sea basin using ancient DNA, seismic mapping and complex systems modelling". During 2016 he was part of the "Curious Travellers" team which received AHRC funding to crowd-source images for reconstruction of damaged cultural sites. He led the analysis of the Mesolithic pit alignment at Warren Field Crathes, and took part in agent-based modelling of the battle of Manzikert (1071) in Anatolia and he was Co-PI on the EPSRC Gravity Gradient Project providing imaging for novel gravity sensor development. Other fieldwork has included a major project investigating Roman Wroxeter, survey of Diocletian’s Mausoleum in Split, the wetland landscape of the river Cetina (Croatia), fieldwork in Italy centred on the Roman town at Forum Novum, historic landscape characterisation at Fort Hood (Texas) and internet mapping of the Mundo Maya region. Professor Gaffney has wider interests in knowledge exchange and co-PI’d the ERDF/AWM-funded Visual and Imaging Network for the West Midlands industrial region.
Professor Gaffney has received national and international awards for his work including the 2013 European Archaeological Heritage Prize awarded by the European Association of Archaeologists and the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education. His work on inundated marine landscapes received the 2007 award for Heritage Presentation at the British Association for the Advancement of Science. His book “Europe’s Lost World” was awarded the “Best Publication” prize at the British Archaeological Awards in 2010. In 2017 his work at Durrington Walls received "Best Research Project" prize, whilst in 2018 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Awards for services to scientific research
Research
I have a wide range of research interests centred around landscape archaeology and previous and current research projects.These include -
- Landscape Archaeology
- Inundated marine paleolandscapes
- Croatian Archaeology
- British Prehistory
- Mediterranean landscape archaeology
- Digital Humanities
Research projects
| Role | Date | Title/description | Funder | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Investigator | 2015-11-30T00:00:00 | The only lands on Earth that have not been explored in any depth by science are those that have been lost to the oceans. Global warming at the end of the last Ice Age led to the inundation of vast landscapes that had once been home to thousands of people. These lost lands hold a unique and largely unexplored record of settlement and colonisation linked to climate change over millennia. Amongst the most significant is Doggerland. Occupying much of the North Sea basin between continental Europe and Britain it would have been a heartland of human occupation and central to the process of re-settlement and colonisation of north Western Europe during the Mesolithic and the Neolithic. Within this submerged landscape lies fragmentary yet valuable evidence for the lifestyles of its inhabitants including the changes resulting from both the encroaching sea and the introduction of Neolithic technologies. This inundated landscape cannot be explored conventionally, however pioneering work by members of this project has led to the rediscovery of Doggerland through the creation of the first detailed topographic maps relating to human occupation in the Early Holocene. Within the Europe's Lost Frontiers project, innovators in the fields of archaeo-geophysics, molecular biology and computer simulation will develop new paradigms for the study of past environments, ecological change and the transition between hunter gathering societies and farming in north west Europe that will involve the following elements: Seismic Mapping Environmental Analysis Sedimentary DNA Computer Simulation See https://lostfrontiers.teamapp.com/ for more information |
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Professor Vincent Gaffney is as follows:
Education
- University of Reading - BA
- University of Reading - PhD
Publications
There are 27 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Vincent Gaffney. They are listed as:
- book (1)
- book chapter (5)
- conference publication (3)
- other journal (1)
- peer reviewed journal (14)
- published report (2)
- reviews (1)
Book
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wroxeter, the Cornovii, and the urban process: vol.1 researching the hinterland final report on the Wroxeter Hinterland project 1994-1997 | 2007 | Gaffney, Vincent L.; White, R.H.; Goodchild, H.; Bevan, L. |
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| Doggerland and the lost frontiers project (2015–2020) | 2017 | Coastal Research Library | Coastal Research Library | 20 | 305 - 319 | Gaffney V.;Allaby R.;Bates R.;Bates M.;Ch’ng E.;Fitch S.;Garwood P.;Momber G.;Murgatroyd P.;Pallen M.;Ramsey E.;Smith D.;Smith O. | 2211-0577 | 10.1007/978-3-319-53160-1_20 | |||
| Chapter 3.1 - The West Coast Palaeolandscapes Project | 2019 | Wales and the Sea: 10,000 years of Welsh Maritime History | Wales and the Sea: 10,000 years of Welsh Maritime History | Vince Gaffney and Simon Fitch | RedKnap M., Rees S., Aberg A. | 9781784615277 | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales | ||||
| The West Coast Palaeolandscape Project | 2019 | Gaffney, Vincent L.; Fitch, Simon |
Conference Publication
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||||||
| Merging the real with the virtual: Crowd behaviour mining with virtual environments | 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 | Ch'Ng E.;Gaffney V.;Garwood P.;Chapman H.;Bates R.;Neubauer W. | 9781467389938 | 10.1109/VSMM.2016.7863209 | |||||
| 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 |
Other Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||||||||
| Response to Comment on "Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago" | 2015 | Smith, O.; Momber, G.; Bates, R.; Garwood, P.; Fitch, Simon; Pallen, M.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Allaby, R.G. | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
| Thermal age, cytosine deamination and the veracity of 8,000 year old wheat DNA from sediments | 2015 | Kistler, L.; Smith, O.; Ware, R.; Momber, G.; Bates, R.; Garwood, P.; Fitch, Simon; Pallen, M.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Allaby, R.G. | |||||||||
| Reconstructing North Sea palaeolandscapes from 3D and high-density 2D seismic data: An overview | 2014 | van Heteren, S.; Meekes, J.A.C.; Bakker, M.A.J.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Fitch, Simon; Gearey, B.R.; Paap, B.F. | |||||||||
| Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation | 2016 | Ch'ng, E.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Hakvoort, G. | |||||||||
| My Historic Environment | 2014 | Gaffney, Vincent L. | |||||||||
| Sentinel-1 bathymetry for North Sea palaeolandscape analysis | 2016 | Stewart, C.; Renga, A.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Schiavon, G. | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||
| Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago | 2015 | Science | 347 | 998 - 1001 | Smith O.;Momber G.;Bates R.;Garwood P.;Fitch S.;Pallen M.;Gaffney V.;Allaby R. | 0036-8075 | 10.1126/science.1261278 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Geophysical investigation of the neolithic Calanais landscape | 2019 | Bates, C.R.; Bates, M.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Raub, T.D. |
Published Report
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago | 2015 | Smith, O.; Momber, G.; Bates, R.; Garwood, P.; Fitch, Simon; Pallen, M.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Allaby, R.G. | |||||||||
| The application of extensive 3D Seismic Reflection Data for the exploration of extensive inundated Palaeolandscapes | 2013 | Fitch, Simon; Gaffney, Vincent L. |
Reviews
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In praise of limestone and Dr Branko Kirigin: Landscape and landscape archaeology on the Dalmatian Islands | 2017 | Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Povijest Dalmatinsku | 110 | 601 - 613 | Gaffney V.;Vujnović N.;Hayes J.;Kaiser T.;Forenbaher S. | 1845-7789 |