Vincent Gaffney

Date

30 November 2015 to 30 November 2020

Role

Principal Investigator

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

• MBE for services to science (1 January 2018)
• Research Project of the Year (1 January 2017)
• European Archaeological Heritage Prize (1 January 2013)
• Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education (1 January 1996)
• BT Development Award (1 January 1996)

• Society of Antiquaries of London, Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London
• Highways Agency Scientific Advisory Panel for the A303 tunnel,
• Archaeology Data service,

• University of Reading - BA
• University of Reading - PhD

• Wroxeter, the Cornovii, and the urban process: vol.1 researching the hinterland final report on the Wroxeter Hinterland project 1994-1997

  Gaffney, Vincent L.; White, R.H.; Goodchild, H.; Bevan, L. (2007)

• The West Coast Palaeolandscape Project

  Gaffney, Vincent L.; Fitch, Simon (2019)

• Curious Travellers: Repurposing imagery to manage and interpret threatened monuments, sites and landscapes

  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 (2019) Heritage Under Pressure - Threats and Solutions. Studies of Agency and Soft Power in the Historic Environment. Oxbow.

• Chapter 3.1 - The West Coast Palaeolandscapes Project

  Vince Gaffney and Simon Fitch (2019) Wales and the Sea: 10,000 years of Welsh Maritime History. In RedKnap M., Rees S., Aberg A. editor(s) Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

• Doggerland and the lost frontiers project (2015–2020)

  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. (2017) Coastal Research Library. 305-319.

• Visualising Space and Movement: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Palace of Diocletian, Split

  Gaffney V.;Sears G.;Gaffney C.;Schmidt A.;Goodchild H.;Lobb M.;Sparrow T.;Tomcik D.;Kirigin B.;Milosević A.;Barabrić V. (2013) Springer Series on Cultural Computing. 93-117.

• BradPhys to BradViz or from archaeological science to heritage science

  Gaffney V.;Cuttler R.;Bates R.;Gaffney C.;Ch'Ng E.;Wilson A. (2016) Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2016. n/a

• Merging the real with the virtual: Crowd behaviour mining with virtual environments

  Ch'Ng E.;Gaffney V.;Garwood P.;Chapman H.;Bates R.;Neubauer W. (2016) Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2016.

• Geophysical investigation of the neolithic Calanais landscape

  Bates, C.R.; Bates, M.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Raub, T.D. (2019)

• Durrington walls and the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project 2010-2016

  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. (2018) Archaeological Prospection. 25, 255-269.

• Sentinel-1 bathymetry for North Sea palaeolandscape analysis

  Stewart, C.; Renga, A.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Schiavon, G. (2016)

• Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation

  Ch'ng, E.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Hakvoort, G. (2016)

• Response to Comment on "Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago"

  Smith, O.; Momber, G.; Bates, R.; Garwood, P.; Fitch, Simon; Pallen, M.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Allaby, R.G. (2015)

• Thermal age, cytosine deamination and the veracity of 8,000 year old wheat DNA from sediments

  Kistler, L.; Smith, O.; Ware, R.; Momber, G.; Bates, R.; Garwood, P.; Fitch, Simon; Pallen, M.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Allaby, R.G. (2015)

• Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago

  Smith O.;Momber G.;Bates R.;Garwood P.;Fitch S.;Pallen M.;Gaffney V.;Allaby R. (2015) Science. 347, 998-1001.

• Unveiling the prehistoric landscape at Stonehenge through multi-receiver EMI

  De Smedt, P; Van Meirvenne, M.; Saey, T.; Baldwin, E.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L. (2014)

• Reconstructing North Sea palaeolandscapes from 3D and high-density 2D seismic data: An overview

  van Heteren, S.; Meekes, J.A.C.; Bakker, M.A.J.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Fitch, Simon; Gearey, B.R.; Paap, B.F. (2014)

• My Historic Environment

  Gaffney, Vincent L. (2014)

• Assessment of the CMD Mini-Explorer, a New Low-frequency Multi-coil Electromagnetic Device, for Archaeological Investigations

  Bonsall, James P.T.; Fry, Robert J.; Gaffney, Christopher F.; Armit, Ian; Beck, A.; Gaffney, Vincent L. (2013)

• Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland

  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. (2013)

• The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project

  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. (2012) Archaeological Prospection. 19, 147-155.

• Initial Results using GPS Navigation with the Foerster Magnetometer System at the World Heritage Site of Cyrene,Libya.

  Gaffney, Christopher F.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Cuttler, R.; Yorston, R. (2008)

• Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago

  Smith, O.; Momber, G.; Bates, R.; Garwood, P.; Fitch, Simon; Pallen, M.; Gaffney, Vincent L.; Allaby, R.G. (2015)

• The application of extensive 3D Seismic Reflection Data for the exploration of extensive inundated Palaeolandscapes

  Fitch, Simon; Gaffney, Vincent L. (2013)

• In praise of limestone and Dr Branko Kirigin: Landscape and landscape archaeology on the Dalmatian Islands

  Gaffney V.;Vujnović N.;Hayes J.;Kaiser T.;Forenbaher S. (2017) Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Povijest Dalmatinsku.