Letty ten Harkel
Universiteit Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology, Faculty Member
- University of Oxford, School of Archaeology, Department Memberadd
- Anglo-Saxon history, Vikings, Material Culture Studies, Monetary history, Urbanism (Archaeology), Anglo-Saxons, and 22 moreEarly Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Mortuary archaeology, Old English Literature, Frankish history, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeology, Identity, Urbanism, Early Medieval History, Viking Age Archaeology, Material Culture, Viking Studies, Medieval Chronicles, Early Medieval Period, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Management, Levantine Archaeology, Crusader Archaeology, Ottoman History, Protection of cultural heritage, Lebanon, and Egyptian Archaeologyedit
- My interdisciplinary research focuses on past and present identities in the North Sea and Mediterranean regions, forg... moreMy interdisciplinary research focuses on past and present identities in the North Sea and Mediterranean regions, forging links between history, archaeology, literature and archaeological science. Key themes include:
• Material culture and identity
• Archaeological method, practice and heritage at risk in the 21st century
• Cultural interactions
• Settlement development and the rise of urban identities
• Landscape archaeology
• Stable isotopes and burial archaeology
Current and recent projects at the University of Oxford:
• Postdoctoral Researcher, EAMENA project (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk)
• Principal Investigator, Medieval Migrant of the North Sea World (https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/medieval-migrants-north-sea-world)
From 2017-2020, I was Editor of the peer reviewed journal Medieval Settlement Research, which welcomes research papers and reports on all aspects of medieval landscape and settlement archaeology (https://medieval-settlement.com/publications/journal).
Publication project, together with Pieterjan Deckers: A Central Place on the World's Edge (working title), an English-language volume presenting new and existing research on early medieval Domburg and surroundings to an international audience (jointly published by Brepols and Zeeuwsch Genootschap).
Past projects:
• Investigating the Dead in Early Medieval Domburg (IDEMD), with Robert van Dierendonck (joint PI)
• Landscapes and Identities: the case of the English landscape 1500 BC - AD 1066 (EngLaId) (early medieval researcher)edit
Issue 35 of Medieval Settlement Research (2020)
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Volume 33 (2018) of Medieval Settlement Research includes a range of papers relevant to the British Isles, the Netherlands, Italy and even the Middle East and North Africa, ranging from artefact studies to remote sensing, and from studies... more
Volume 33 (2018) of Medieval Settlement Research includes a range of papers relevant to the British Isles, the Netherlands, Italy and even the Middle East and North Africa, ranging from artefact studies to remote sensing, and from studies of individual houses to entire landscapes.
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Volume 32 of international peer-reviewed journal Medieval Settlement Research - see https://medieval-settlement.com/publications/journal/ for more information.
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Guest editor on specialist issue of Landscapes, publishing the proceedings of the first workshop of the English Landscapes and Identities project, held in Oxford in 2012.
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This paper discusses the role of ‘towns’ in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on insights from the discipline of archaeology. How did the Chronicle depict these places? Can we discern changes over... more
This paper discusses the role of ‘towns’ in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on insights from the discipline of archaeology. How did the Chronicle depict these places? Can we discern changes over time? Through an analysis of the Chronicle texts as a living set of documents, the paper comments both on the role of ‘towns’ in early medieval England and on the function of the Chronicle in contemporary society. It concludes that ‘towns’ in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle existed between material reality and literary topos: their physicality carried as much symbolism as their literary depictions.
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This paper asks, what can decorative metalwork tell us about the way in which identities were expressed in Viking- Age Lincoln? It presents the non-ferrous metalwork material from early medieval Lincoln, England (c. AD 800–1100), for the... more
This paper asks, what can decorative metalwork tell us about the way in which identities were expressed in Viking- Age Lincoln? It presents the non-ferrous metalwork material from early medieval Lincoln, England (c. AD 800–1100), for the first time as a coherent assemblage. The artefact types – mainly dress-accessories and related decorative objects – are described in terms of their art-historical and stylistic characteristics, and placed within the context of manufacturing evidence from Lincoln. The question is asked, did the production of decorative metalwork play a key role in the deliberate creation or manipulation of ‘ethnic’ identities? Many of the objects found in Lincoln reveal Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Hiberno-Norse and Frankish influences, and provide insights into the complex identities of Lincoln’s ninth- to eleventh-century inhabitants on multiple levels. However, the manufacturing evidence, providing an insight into the deliberate choices that were made by Lincoln’s metalworkers with respect to the manipulation of such identities, suggests that ethnic considerations may perhaps have been less important than is sometimes assumed.
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Summary paper of my PhD research.
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Summary of the project 'English Landscapes and Identities: the case of the English landscape 1500 BC - AD 1086'.
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The attached file includes the Dutch journal paper as well as the dissertation chapter - in English - on which it was based.
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Ringwalburgen in Zeeland: A paper discussing the different types of supra-local power that had an impact on the early medieval coastal island of Walcheren in the Netherlands, combining historical and literary sources relevant to the area... more
Ringwalburgen in Zeeland: A paper discussing the different types of supra-local power that had an impact on the early medieval coastal island of Walcheren in the Netherlands, combining historical and literary sources relevant to the area with an archaeological discussion of the ringforts (ringwalburgen) of Middelburg, Domburg and (Oost-)Souburg.
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Also see ‘Est haec effera gens’: landscapes of negotiation on the former island of Walcheren, the Netherlands for a more up-to-date discussion
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When you are looking at historical satellite imagery from the 1960s and 1970s, and comparing it to modern satellite imagery on Google Earth, it feels like you are time travelling. Old satellite imagery, now increasingly available to us,... more
When you are looking at historical satellite imagery from the 1960s and 1970s, and comparing it to modern satellite imagery on Google Earth, it feels like you are time travelling. Old satellite imagery, now increasingly available to us, provides a unique glimpse of past landscapes, and can also lead to important insights into changes that took place over the last half century. The EAMENA project has recently purchased historical imagery from the so-called KH-7 and KH-9 satellite systems for a number of study areas including South Sinai. In this blog post, we give a brief overview of the history of these satellite systems, and then use the images to look at some major landscape changes, focusing on the area near St Catherine’s Monastery in the High Mountains Region (also see Ten Harkel et al. 2018).
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Published in the 2021 Spring Newsletter of the SPMA (http://www.spma.org.uk/), this is a summary of a research project recording several Late Ottoman rural buildings in the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve (https://www.jabalmoussa.org) in... more
Published in the 2021 Spring Newsletter of the SPMA (http://www.spma.org.uk/), this is a summary of a research project recording several Late Ottoman rural buildings in the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve (https://www.jabalmoussa.org) in Mount Lebanon. A mill, a lime kiln, a bridge and a farm house were recorded with the help of funding from the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the G.A. Wainwright Fund.
With Stephen McPhillips and Owen Murray.
With Stephen McPhillips and Owen Murray.
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A lecture given at the Middlebury/CMRS centre in both 2018 and 2019 on the relationship between archaeology, nationalism and European identity.
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Lecture in UCL/British Museum Early Medieval Archaeology seminar, December 2017.
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A discussion of the research history of early medieval Domburg, including a summary of the IDEMD project (see conference papers), jointly carried out with Robert van Dierendonck, Pieterjan Deckers, Michael Dee, Raphaël Panhuysen, Esther... more
A discussion of the research history of early medieval Domburg, including a summary of the IDEMD project (see conference papers), jointly carried out with Robert van Dierendonck, Pieterjan Deckers, Michael Dee, Raphaël Panhuysen, Esther Jansma, Petra Doeve and Petrus Le Roux.
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A paper based on work carried out by the English Landscapes and Identities project, with Chris Gosden, Chris Green, Anwen Cooper, Tyler Franconi, Laura Morley, Dan Stansbie, Sarah Mallet, Victoria Donnelly, Miranda Creswell, Roger Glyde... more
A paper based on work carried out by the English Landscapes and Identities project, with Chris Gosden, Chris Green, Anwen Cooper, Tyler Franconi, Laura Morley, Dan Stansbie, Sarah Mallet, Victoria Donnelly, Miranda Creswell, Roger Glyde and Zena Kamash.
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A brief exploration of the theoretical complexities of studying Viking identities in the Low Countries, in relation to the circular forts in the province of Zeeland.
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A discussion of the research history of early medieval Domburg, including a summary of the IDEMD project (see conference papers), jointly carried out with Robert van Dierendonck, Pieterjan Deckers, Michael Dee, Raphaël Panhuysen, Esther... more
A discussion of the research history of early medieval Domburg, including a summary of the IDEMD project (see conference papers), jointly carried out with Robert van Dierendonck, Pieterjan Deckers, Michael Dee, Raphaël Panhuysen, Esther Jansma, Petra Doeve and Petrus Le Roux.
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A discussion of the preliminary results of a programme of radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis of a small assemblage of early medieval skeletons from Domburg, the Netherlands
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EAA 2018, Barcelona
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Conference presentation during specialist workshop on Diaspora, Migration, and the Sciences: Towards a New Integrated Approach, 3-7 September 2018
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BANEA conference, 2018
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Conference on Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna, November 2017