Professor Vince Gaffney
Chair in Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics, Head of Research and Knowledge Transfer, College of Arts and Law
Professor Vincent Gaffney is Chair in Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics and Director of the Visual and Spatial Technology Centre (VISTA). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and sits on a number of committees including the AHRC 3DViz management team, the JISC Geospatial Data working Party and the steering committee of the European Associated Laboratory ModeLTER (Modelling of Landscapes and Territories over the Long Term) and the Archaeology Data Service management team (special responsibility for Aerial Photography and Remote sensing) and the Roman Society’s Archaeology committee. In 1992 and 1993 He received awards for contributions to environmental and cultural conservation from the Croatian Heritage Service and the Commune of Hvar. He has close associations with many international institutions and recently spent a very happy sabbatical in the Slovene Academy’s Centre for Spatial Analysis .
Recent fieldwork includes a major research project investigating the wetland landscape of the river Cetina in collaboration with Mr Ante Milosevic (Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments). Fieldwork in Italy with Dr Helen Patterson (British School in Rome) and Dr Paul Roberts (British Museum), centred on the Roman town at Forum Novum (web map), Sabina. British projects include mapping the inundated landscapes of the Southern North Sea in collaboration with Dr Ken Thomson (GEES). Other computer-based projects include historic landscape characterisation at Fort Hood (Texas), internet mapping of the Mundo Maya region and web-based GIS’ and virtual representations to explore the landscape of Stonehenge. He is working with Dr Georgios Theodoropopulos on an agent-based model of the battle of Manzikert (1071). Professor Gaffney is a member of the Cyrene Archaeological Project and leads the UK team creating 3D and virtual imaging of the remains at Cyrene and an extensive programme of geophysical survey exploring the unexcavated and largely unknown areas of the city.
Professor Gaffney’s PhD, completed in 1991, involved research on the island of Hvar, Croatia. He was Co-Director of the Adriatic Islands Project and carried out excavation and survey campaigns on Iron Age sites in the region, including the hillfort at Talez (Vis). and Skrip (Brac) as part of that project. Following this he was principal investigator on the Wroxeter Hinterland Project which carried out the first comprehensive geophysical survey of a major Romano-British town.
Any aspect of landscape archaeology in Britain and much of Europe
Computer applications in archaeology and particularly the use of Geographic Information Systems
Monographs
Gaffney V., Thomson K. and Fitch S. (Eds.) 2007. Mapping Doggerland: The Mesolithic Landscapes of the Southern North Sea. Archaeopress. Oxford.
Gaffney V.L, White R.H.and Goodchild H. 2007. . Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 68.
Barratt G., Dingwall L., Gaffney V.,Fitch S., Huckerby C. and Maguire T. 2007. Heritage management at Fort Hood, Texas: Experiments in Historic Landscape Characterisation. 2007. Archaeopress
Gaffney V. and Kirigin B. (Eds.) 2006. The Adriatic Islands Project Volume 3. The Archaeological Heritage of Vis, Bisevo, Svetac, Palagruza and Solta. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1492.
Exon, S., Gaffney V., Yorston R. And Woodward A. 2001. Stonehenge Landscapes: Journeys Through Real-And-Imagined Worlds. Archaeopress. Oxford. (CD published 2000).
Edited Books
Davison D., Gaffney V. and Marin E. 2006. Dalmatia: Research in the Roman Province 1970-2001. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1576.
Gaffney C. and Gaffney V. (Eds.) 2000. Non-invasive Investigations at Wroxeter at the end of the 20th Century. Archaeological Prospection 7(2).
Selected Recent Papers
Fitch S., Gaffney V. and K. Thomson 2007. In sight of Doggerland: From speculative survey to Landscape Exploration. Internet Archaeology 22. Mesolithic Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue22/fitch_index.html
Smith, D.N. VL Gaffney, AJ Howard, W Smith, EA Tetlow et al. 2006. Assessing the environment archaeology of the Cetina Valley, Croatia, Environmental Archaeology, 11, 2, 171-186.
Gaffney V. 2007 Always the Bridesmaid and never the Bride: Archaeology and the E-science agenda. Processings of science. (Lighting teh Blue Touchpaper for UK e-science). 1-5.
Gaffney V. et al. 2006. A game of Numbers: rural settlement in Dalmatia and the Central Dalmatian Islands. In Davison D., Gaffney V. and Marin E. 2006. Dalmatia: Research in the Roman Province 1070-2001. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1576.89-106.
Gaffney V. 2005. 'Who's in command here? The digital basis of historical, military, logistics', in J.F. Haldon, ed., General issues in the study of medieval logistics: sources, problems, methodologies (Brill: Leiden 2005)
Gaffney V., Patterson, H and P. Roberts. 2004. Forum Novum (Vescovio): a new study of the town and Bishopric. In Patterson H. (Ed.) Bridging the Tiber: Approaches to Regional Archaeology in the Middle Tiber Valley. British School in Rome. 237-248.
Gaffney V, Cace S., Hayes J., Kirigin B., Leach P. and Vujnovic N. 2002. Secret Histories: the pre-colonial archaeological context for Greek settlement of the Central Adriatic Islands. In Cambi N., Cace S. and Krigin B. (Eds.) Greek Influence along the East Adriatic Coast. Knizenvi Krug Split. 25-44.
Gaffney V., Cace S., Kirigin B., Leach P., and Vujnovic N., with Wardle K and D. 2000. Enclosure and defence: the context of Mycenaean contact within central Dalmatia. In Karageorgis V. and Morris C.E. (Eds.) Defensive Settlements of the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean after c. 1200 B.C. Nicosia. 137-156.
