Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology (QEG)
Fieldwork gallery
Fieldwork in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan in January 2008
Jamie Woodward and Mark Macklin worked on the Holocene palaeochannel systems in the Dongola Reach of the Nile Valley as part of their Australian Research Council Discovery Project. The fieldwork was carried out in collaboration with a team of archaeologists from the British Museum.
The New Kingdom site of Kawa in Northern Sudan that was built by Tutankhamen. A pair of granite lions from this temple today flanks the entrance to the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery at the British Museum.
Analysis of the pottery from Kawa
Pottery from Kawa from the British Museum excavations in winter 2007/2008
Coring at Lake Plav in Montenegro
Rose Wilkinson (PhD), Jeff Blackford, Phil Hughes and Jamie Woodward carried out fieldwork in eastern Montenegro in November 2006. They collected a sediment core from Lake Plav which is a moraine-dammed lake close to the Albanian border. Rose will be working on this site for her PhD.
Gypsum Karst of SE Spain
Jamie Woodward and second year Geography students exploring the caves in the gypsum karst near Sorbas, SE Spain, in March 2006.
