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Wessex–Armorica: Territories, Connections and Hierarchies

Descripción del proyecto

Una visión de la Edad de Bronce de la ruta marítima más activa de Europa

El canal de la Mancha, la vía marítima más transitada del mundo, es una masa de agua que separa el sur de Inglaterra y el norte de Francia. Cada día, más de quinientos barcos atraviesan este canal, cuya longitud alcanza los 560 km. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos WATCH está analizando en mayor profundidad las conexiones marítimas de este canal en el pasado, remontándose hasta principios de la Edad de Bronce. Este estudio interdisciplinario, que combina la arqueología con métodos y datos de geografía y ciencias medioambientales, tiene como finalidad comprender cómo las comunidades que habitaban en las tierras costeras del Canal se hicieron independientes en un momento en que el comercio del estaño y el cobre consolidaba las bases de una amplia unión europea prehistórica.

Objetivo

The aim of the WATCH project is to model the organisation of territories, economic and political connections, and social hierarchies promoted and sustained by maritime connections across and around the English Channel during the early Bronze Age (EBA). This study is crucial to understand how communities living in the Channel coastlands became interdependent at a time when trade in tin and copper was strenghtening the foundations for an extensive prehistoric European union. Central to the project is the study of burials within their human, social, and natural environments using Geographical Information System (GIS) analysis. The project is interdisciplinary, rooted in archaeology but borrowing concepts, methods, and data from geography and environmental sciences. This project will enable the fellow to achieve the research and transferable skills, which will allow him to become a mature independent researcher and international expert of the EBA northwestern Europe. The fellow will be able to apply the most up-to-date GIS skillset to different problems in the field of prehistoric archaeology, which will extend an exciting research career. This project offers the opportunity to the fellow to conduct innovative research and transnational mobility while providing benefits for the European Research Area, the Bournemouth University, the supervisor, the partner organisation and the fellow. This project will allow the fellow to develop a research agenda that will lead to a range of research and consultancy projects with European academic and non-academic institutions for the better understanding of EBA societies and cross-Channel relationships, thus enhancing research excellence and addressing recognized research questions in Europe, and beyond. Finally, the fellow aims to offer civil society the demonstration of how and why both sides of the Channel became socially and economically interdependent in the past is relevant to considering the future of our societies.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Coordinador

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 224 933,76
Dirección
FERN BARROW BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
BH12 5BB Poole
Reino Unido

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Región
South West (England) Dorset and Somerset Bournemouth
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 224 933,76