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Dominic Powlesland

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Dominic Powlesland
Born (1954-11-12) 12 November 1954 (age 69)[1]
Romford, Essex, England
NationalityBritish
Known forLong-term landscape investigation of the Vale of Pickering, Computational archaeology
AwardsFellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsLandscape Archaeology
InstitutionsLandscape Research Centre, University of York, University of Leeds

Dominic Powlesland, FSA (born 1954) is a British landscape archaeologist based in North Yorkshire. He has contributed to the methodologies of field archaeology and landscape survey, particularly geophysics and the use of computers when recording and processing archaeological data. He is the director of the Landscape Research Centre and visiting professor at the universities of York, Leeds, Huddersfield and Vienna.[2]

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Early life

Powlesland was born in Romford (Essex) and began participating in archaeological excavations aged 11 in Colchester and continued through his teenage years.[3]

Career

Powlesland's archaeological work has focused on the Vale of Pickering in Yorkshire. He has been working on this landscape since 1977, not only recording the archaeology but pioneering investigation techniques and methods that have influenced the discipline internationally.[4] These include several major excavation projects and landscape investigations using geophysics, aerial photography and field survey methods.[5] In 1984 Powlesland consolidated his team into the Landscape Research Centre, a charitable trust "dedicated to undertaking and disseminating archaeological research at a landscape scale".[6]

West Heslerton

The West Heslerton project focused on the excavation of over 20 hectares (49 acres) of Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemetery.[7] It was one of the largest and most detailed archaeological investigations ever conducted, recording more than 300,000 artefacts in three dimensions and comprehensively recording occupations from prehistory to well after the Anglo-Saxon occupation.[4][8]

Landscape archaeology

Powlesland has advocated a detailed, landscape-scale approach to archaeology, arguing that studying sites in isolation misses the 'connective tissue' of past landscapes.[9][10] The Landscape Research Centre has carried out this approach; for example studying 400 hectares (990 acres) of Vale of Pickering with geophysics, topographic and aerial survey, and the use of soil sampling for sediments and finds.[11] The Heslerton Parish Project studied 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi) around the village of West Heslerton in order to set the excavations in context. It included multi-spectral aerial photography and geophysical magnetometer survey.[12]

Computing and archaeology

Powlesland was an early adopter of computers as part of the archaeological recording process - beginning by writing his own programs for a Wang 2200 in 1982.[2] Digital methods for recording, processing, analysing and presenting the results of archaeological research were developed and tested by Powlesland and his team throughout various projects.[13][14] His work has been lauded by others in the field, particularly for the detailed three-dimensional recording of artefacts.[7]

Honours

On 1 February 2007, he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).[15] In 2009, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of York in 2011 in recognition of his pioneering work in landscape archaeology and computer applications in archaeology.[16]

In 2019, he was awarded the Landscape Archaeology Medal by the British Academy.[17]

References

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  2. ^ a b "Keynotes". Computer Applications in Archaeology. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Dominic Powlesland Honorary Professor". University of York. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b Powlesland, Dominic; et al. (1998). "The West Heslerton Assessment". Internet Archaeology. 5 (5). doi:10.11141/ia.5.4. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Prof Dominic Powlesland: Field Archaeologist in Residence". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  6. ^ "About the LRC". Landscape Research Centre. 13 July 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  7. ^ a b Conolly, James; Mark Lake (2007). Geographical information systems in archaeology (Repr. ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780521797443. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  8. ^ Is The Anglo-Saxon Invasion Of Britain A Myth? | King Arthur's Britain | Chronicle, Chronicle on YouTube, accessed 2021-10-28
  9. ^ Campana, Stefano; Salvatore Piro (2009). "Putting everything together: GIS-based data integration and interpretation". In Stefano Campana, Salvatore Piro (ed.). Seeing the unseen : geophysics and landscape archaeology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 379–380. ISBN 978-0415447218. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  10. ^ Powlesland, Dominic; James Lyall; Guy Hopkinson; Danny Donoghue; Maria Beck; Aidan Harte; David Stott (1 October 2006). "Beneath the sand—remote sensing, archaeology, aggregates and sustainability: a case study from Heslerton, the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK". Archaeological Prospection. 13 (4): 291–299. doi:10.1002/arp.297. ISSN 1099-0763. S2CID 129037453.
  11. ^ "Characterising, modelling and managing the buried landscape in the Vale of Pickering: securing sustainability through survey before management". Landscape Research Centre. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  12. ^ Powlesland, Dominic; Lyall, James; Donohoe, Danny (1997). "Enhancing the record through remote sensing: the application and integration of multi-sensor, non-invasive remote sensing techniques for the enhancement of the Sites and Monuments Record. Heslerton Parish Project, N. Yorkshire, England". Internet Archaeology (2). doi:10.11141/ia.2.4.
  13. ^ Powlesland, Dominic; Heather Clemence; Lames Lyall (1998). "West Heslerton: WEB-CD - The application of HTML and WEB Tools for creating a distributed excavation archive in the form of a WEB-CD". Internet Archaeology (5). doi:10.11141/ia.5.2. ISSN 1363-5387. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  14. ^ Powlesland, Dominic; Keith May (2010). "Excavations in Heslerton: DigIT approaches to Digital Recording". Internet Archaeology (27). doi:10.11141/ia.27.2. ISSN 1363-5387. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  15. ^ "Fellows Directory - Powlesland". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  16. ^ "University awards nine honorary degrees". University of York. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  17. ^ "Landscape Archaeology Medal". The British Academy. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

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