We also discovered that some 75% of these sherds were from white porcelain teacups and saucers, many with gilded lines and many made of fine bone china. Student volunteers from the Australian National University sorted some 2,000 ceramic fragments into their different types to reveal at least ten different toy tea sets, which provide insights into children's play activities and into the socialising processes for young children living in this remote region, surrounded by the Australian bush and sheep. This project, directed by Dr Penelope Allison, has been surveying and excavating the Old Kinchega Homestead in western New South Wales, Australia, and researching the station records of the Kinchega Pastoral Estate, to investigate the household practices of the families of managers and overseers who occupied this outback homestead between 18. Post-excavation artefact studies for the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project have turned up some interesting discoveries. Kinchega Archaeological Research Project: Tea-drinking in the Australian outback This project aims to help address this widespread issue of female socio-economic immobility by conducting female-centred cultural/scientific research into chicken husbandry, past and present, to support Ethiopia's future economic/heritage development. Since November 2016, we have been part of a new GCRF project funded by the AHRC: 'Going Places: Empowering Women, Enhancing Heritage and Increasing Chicken Production in Ethiopia'. We also collaborate with artists to explore new ways of representing the complexity of past human-animal relations. Exploring the ways in which relationships between people and poultry in 18th to 20th-century Belfast reflect wider changes in perceptions of gender, education, sport, public spaces, welfare and disease ( Dr B Tyr Fothergill).Studying urban provisioning practices in England (Dr Rebecca Gordon).Investigation of livestock 'improvement' in London from the 14th century onward ( Dr Richard Thomas, Dr Matty Holmes, Dr James Morris).Examining Victorian canine inhumation in Toronto, Canada (Eric Tourigny).Charting the global development of chicken breeds through skeletal analysis (Alison Foster).The Centre for Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester supports a wide range of research into relationships between human and non-human animals, including the work of PhD researchers, staff, students and colleagues at other institutions. This is a collaborative project, with staff and students from Iranian and UK institutions sharing expertise and training. The analysis of space and relationships in these village may also help us to develop a model of similar settlements in the Chalcolithic period in the Tehran Plain. These abandoned, self-contained villages represented the social and economic order for a large segment of the Iranian population for centuries prior to land reform in the 1960s and 70s, and they provide an excellent opportunity to explore such issues as the use of space and creation of place within confined and defined areas how relationships between landlord and farmer were expressed in material culture and how relationships between farmers were expressed in material culture. This project about landlord villages in the Tehran Plain, directed by Dr Ruth Young and Dr Hassan Fazelli of Tehran University, has conducted three seasons of fieldwork (2007, 2008, 2009), which have shown the combination of building recording and analysis, ethnographic interview and excavation to be very effective as a means of exploring the landlord villages of the Tehran Plain. Historical archaeology (or the archaeology of the very recent past) is a new area of study within Iran. Landlord villages of the Tehran Plain, Iran
It examines the ways in which the power of the criminal corpse was harnessed, by whom, and to what ends in Britain between the late 17th and 20th centuries. Generously funded by the Wellcome Trust, this five-year project explores the criminal corpse from the disciplines of archaeology, medical and criminal history, folklore, literature and philosophy. Harnessing the power of the criminal corpse, our flagship project, was directed by Professor Sarah Tarlow and started in 2011. It had social, symbolic, medicinal, judicial, political and scientific power. The criminal corpse, even when life had left the body, was still a powerful object. Harnessing the power of the criminal corpse