WAERC is involved in a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects throughout the world. Most of our research projects to date have been focused, broadly, within the remit of the Environmental Archaeology & Wetlands Research.
However, we also work in other areas of archaeology, including human remains analysis, palaeopathology at the transition to agriculture, Mesolithic-Neolithic transitions, and Iron Age studies. In collaboration with colleagues at Harvard, we are developing research into the full DNA analysis of an Iron Age cemetery in the Yorkshire Wolds region of eastern Yorkshire, and we have also collaborated on a paper that studies the Genomic History of Southeastern Europe (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25778).
Iron Age revelations – WAERC are developing a research agenda linked to recent excavations at Iron Age cemetery sites in the Yorkshire regionÂ
In Ukraine Professor Lillie continues to investigate the chronology, pathology and diet of prehistoric human populations
In Situ preservation studies in southwest Scotland – six crannog sites were monitored as part of an assessment for sustainable management
WAERC staff have undertaken microbiological assessment of soils within Silbury Hill for English Heritage’s assessment of the state of preservation (2007)
WAERC staff have undertaken In Situ preservation studies linked to archaeology as part ALSF funded research at Newington on the River Idle, Bawtry, England
On-going research at the Iron Age site of Sutton Common in Yorkshire has highlighted the limitations of inappropriate management strategies in exacerbating erosion impacts
Wetland Archaeology & Environments Research Centre 