Prof Ian Shaw BA, MA, PhD

A great deal of my research is multidisciplinary and collaborative. Between 1994 and 2000, I collaborated on fieldwork at Gebel el-Asr and Sikait-Zubara/Gebel Umm Kabu with the geologist Dr Judith Bunbury (Dpt of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)and the archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Bloxam (UCL). From 2003 to 2008 I collaborated with two Norwegian geologists (one a member of Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, the other based at Expert-Center für Denkmalpflege, Zürich) on geoarchaeological fieldwork at Gebel el-Asr. I currently collaborate with Dr Fredrik Hagen (University of Copenhagen) on a major international project concerning the Gurob harem-palace settlement in the Faiyum region of Egypt, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the ERC (the latter in the form of a Marie Curie Research Fellowship awarded to Dr Valentina Gasperini at the University of Liverpool).
My archaeological research since 1997 has focussed on the following four field projects:
(1) Survey and excavation at Gurob, site of a Ramessid harem-palace settlement and associated cemeteries
(2) Survey and excavation at the Gebel el-Asr gneiss and chalcedony quarries (Lower Nubia)
(3) Survey and excavation at the Hatnub travertine (Egyptian alabaster) quarries (Egypt)
(4) Geoarchaeological survey of the Roman and Byzantine emerald mines in Sikait-Zubara and Gebel Umm Kabu (Egypt)