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E.L.Morris@soton.ac.uk

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Visiting Fellow

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Dr Elaine Morris is a Visiting Fellow in Archaeology at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.

I received my BA in Anthropology and Archaeology from Cornell University and my PhD on salt and ceramic exchange in western Britain during the first millennium BC from the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ (supervisor, Prof. David Peacock).  My earlier professional work was focussed on the analysis of post-Roman pottery from rescue excavations in Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire for the West Midlands Rescue Archaeology Committee. Subsequently I worked as a self-employed post-excavation and prehistoric pottery specialist and then Finds Manager for Wessex Archaeology from 1985-1993.  I managed the Later Prehistoric Pottery Collections Gazetteer, a database register and bibliography of later prehistoric pottery collections in England, funded by English Heritage which is available for access via the Archaeological Data Service (ADS).

I am co-founder, past Chair, and Committee Member of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group.

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Research interests

My interests lie in the study of ceramics, in particular pottery, briquetage (salt production) and fired clay objects, and what analysis can reveal about the technological and social history of the people who made and used them.  I specialise in the production, distribution and use of later prehistoric ceramics in Britain, as well as prehistoric pottery in the Caribbean.  I use ceramic petrography to investigate the character of ceramic fabrics and identify inclusions as a scientific method to provenance vessels and objects.

I am currently immersed in the analysis of pottery assemblage from a midden-rich prehistoric site and four assemblages of handmade, coarseware Afro-Caribbean pottery from historical period sites all excavated on the island of Nevis as part of the Nevis Heritage Project. With regard to archaeological science, I have initiated research in collaboration with Dr Rex Taylor (Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanographic Centre) to explore the potential for using ICP-MS and Pb-isotope analysis to identify the changing modes of production for Afro-Caribbean pottery over the past 350 years through characterisation of rocks, clays and pottery fabrics from Nevis.  Recently, I have been invited to analyse assemblages of coarseware, historical period creole pottery recovered from sites in Cape Verde for colleagues at Cambridge University.

Research group

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Ceramics Research Group

Affiliate research group

Centre for Applied Archaeological Analyses

Research project(s)

NEVIS heritage project

In 1995, the Government of St Kitts-Nevis in the Leeward Islands announced that it would begin to develop the Newcastle Airport on Nevis in response to demand from increasing tourism and general economic growth in the Caribbean.

Dr Elaine Morris
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ
Avenue Campus, Highfield
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SO17 1BF
United Kingdom

Room Number : 65/3025

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