Professor Henry Chapman FSA

Professor Henry Chapman

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Professor of Archaeology

Contact details

Telephone
+44(0)121 45505
Email
h.chapman@bham.ac.uk
Address
ERI Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

My research interests centre on the later prehistoric period, particularly the relationships between human activity and environmental change within past landscapes and focusing on wetland sites. I specialise in the use of digital technologies to enable the modelling and analysis of the wide range of information required for such study to engage with past sites and landscapes. This interest in the potential of digital technologies within heritage has also expanded to research into the use of these within galleries, museums, libraries and archives.

Qualifications

  • BA (Exeter)
  • PhD (Hull)

Postgraduate supervision

Henry can supervise postgraduate study in the areas of later prehistory, wetland archaeology, landscape archaeology and the application of digital and spatial technologies within heritage.

He currently supervises students researching digital approaches to conflict archaeology, the landscape archaeology of European bog bodies, predictive modelling of centres of power in Bronze Age Anatolia using GIS, valuing archives in the 21st century, the landscape archaeology of Neolithic causewayed enclosures, and the archaeology of Iron Age marsh-forts.

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Research

Currently, Henry is involved in a range of projects that combine his research interests and expertise. Specific projects include:

  • The Stonehenge hidden landscapes project
  • The landscape archaeology of European bog bodies
  • Iconoclasm and European later prehistory
  • Causewayed enclosures on the edge of Europe

Henry has recently completed a project that focused on the investigation of landscape archaeology within the 鈥榟idden鈥� landscapes of peatlands, combining palaeoenvironmental analyses, chronological modelling, excavation, and GIS analysis, and a second project that investigated the later prehistory of the Waveney valley in East Anglia (both funded by Historic England). Previously, Henry has led projects focusing on the application of digital technologies within museums, for example, through the generation of a virtual museum of the Eton Myers Collection of ancient Egyptian art (funded by JISC).

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Gearey, BR & Chapman, HP 2022, . Studying Scientific Archaeology, vol. 6, Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia. <>

Ch鈥檔g, E, Chapman, H, Gaffney, V & Wilson, A (eds) 2022, . Springer Series on Cultural Computing, 1 edn, Springer Nature.

Chapman, H 2018, . Routledge.

Gearey, B, Chapman, H & Howard, A 2016, . Oxbow, Oxford.

Article

De Smedt, P, Garwood, P, Chapman, H, Deforce, K, De Grave, J, Hanssens, D & Vandenberghe, D 2022, '', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 143, 105557.

Gaffney, V, Baldwin, E, Bates, M, Bates, CR, Gaffney, C, Hamilton, D, Kinnaird, T, Neubauer, W, Yorston, R, Allaby, R, Chapman, H, Garwood, P, L枚cker, K, Hinterleitner, A, Sparrow, T, Trinks, I, Wallner, M & Leivers, M 2020, '', Internet Archaeology, vol. 55, 4.

Chapman, H, Van Beek, R, Jennings, B, Smith, D, Helt Nielson, N & Zein - Elabdin, Z 2020, '', European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 23, no. 2. ,

Chapman, H 2020, '', The Historic Environment: policy & practice.

Stevens, J & Chapman, H 2020, '', Journal of Wetland Archaeology, vol. 19, no. 1-2, pp. 131-153.

Chapman, H & Gearey, B 2019, '', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 214-227.

Harpster, M & Chapman, H 2019, '', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 111, 104997.

Gaffney, V, Neubauer, W, Garwood, P, Gaffney, C, L枚cker, K, Bates, R, De Smedt, P, Baldwin, E, Chapman, H, Hinterlietner, A, Wallner, M, Nau, E, Filzwieser, R, Kainz, J, Trausmuth, T, Schneidhofer, P, Zotti, G, Lugmayer, A, Trinks, I & Corkum, A 2018, '', Archaeological Prospection, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 255-269.

Wagstaff, S, Cheetham, J, Davis, A, Williams, J, Outram, Z, Priddy, D & Chapman, H 2016, '', Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, vol. 18, no. 1-3, pp. 156-169.

Commissioned report

Acton, J, Anderson, P, Andres, L, Angus, M, Amor, P, Arrowsmith, J (ed.), Asmelash, H, Bartington, S (ed.), Bengtsson, F, Bhullar, L, Bloss, W, Bonet, B, B枚rner, S, O Bonsu, N, Bryson, JR, Burns, V, Burrows, A, Calvert, C, Cassidy, N, Cavoski, A, Chadyiwa, M, Chapman, H, Chapman, L, Cockram, M, Degendardt, L, Dickinson, D, Ding, Y, Dobrzynski, D, Dolo, M, Dora, J, Ercolani, M, Ersoy, A, Farag, H, Ferranti, E, Fisher, R, Freer, M, Goldmann, N, Goode, CE, Greenham, S, Gulati, S, Hadfield-Hill, S, Harper, G, Hegerl, G, Hillmansen, S, Holmes, J, Huang, JJ, Huser, C, Jackson, R, Jaroszweski, D, Jefferson, I, Johnson, J, Kaewunruen, S, Kelly-Akinnuoye, F, Kettles, G, Kraftl, P, Krause, S, Leckebusch, GC, Lee, R, Lockwood, B (ed.), Lohse, J, Luna Diez, E, Lynch, I (ed.), MacKenzie, R, Maddison, D, Makepeace, J, Mann, V, Marino, R, Mavronicola, N, McDonald, M, McGowan, K (ed.), Metje, N, Ng, K, Nicol, J, O'Sullivan, C, Phalkey, N, Prestwood, E, Pyatt, N, Quinn, A, Radcliffe, J (ed.), Ravi, M, Reardon, L, Reeder, T, O鈥橰egan, P, Remedios, L, Roberts, J, Rogers, C, Rungskunroch, P, van Schaik, W, Swan, J (ed.), Thomson, I, Toft, H (ed.), Tong, J, Botello Villagrana, F, Walton, A, Wason, C (ed.), Weir, C, Wood, R & Zhong, J 2021, . University 麻豆精选.

Conference contribution

Garwood, P, Ch鈥檔g, E, Gaffney, V, Chapman, H, Bates, R & Neubauer, W 2017, . in 2016 22nd InternationalConference on Virtual Systems& Multimedia (VSMM 2016). ACM/IEEE, 2016 22nd International Conference on Virtual System & Multimedia , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 17/10/16.

Expertise

  • Archaeology, particularly prehistory;
  • New technologies for archaeology,
  • GPS, laser scanning, geophysics, GIS;
  • Archaeology in the media

Media experience

Henry has extensive experience in the media having worked on . He has experience in broadcast and print media, communicating his work on digital heritage, the North Sea mapping project and most recently the extensive new survey of the Stonehenge landscape. Henry has also appeared on a range of archaeology programmes as a presenter and expert contributor for Discovery, BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, and National Geographic. 

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Expertise

  • Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes
  • Development
  • Environment
  • Wetlands
  • Heritage and conservation
  • Innovation, digital and communications 
  • Museums