Brian Buchanan
My research interests focuses on the landscape and built environment of Britain from the late Iron Age to Medieval periods. As a GIS specialist and landscape archaeologist, I am interested in how past patterns of practice are reflected in the spatial organisation of households and settlements across temporal and spatial boundaries. My doctoral thesis investigated continuities in the visual arrangement of settlements in Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval Northumbria.
I have supervised field projects throughout North America, and am an active participant in ongoing projects throughout Britain. Currently I am an Assistant Professor of Geography and Anthropology at Eastern Washington University. I have experience teaching at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels classes in GIS, archaeological theory, the archaeology of British landscapes, and early medieval Britain. In addition, I have designed courses on archaeological GIS for undergraduates, taught postgraduates, and research postgraduates.
My thesis examined space and identity during the transitional period at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. Focusing on northeastern England, a region containing a wide variety of sites from the Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval periods, my research used spatial and visibility analyses to examine if their were continuities and disruptions during the transitional period.
Supervisors: Robert Witcher, David Petts, and Sarah Semple
I have supervised field projects throughout North America, and am an active participant in ongoing projects throughout Britain. Currently I am an Assistant Professor of Geography and Anthropology at Eastern Washington University. I have experience teaching at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels classes in GIS, archaeological theory, the archaeology of British landscapes, and early medieval Britain. In addition, I have designed courses on archaeological GIS for undergraduates, taught postgraduates, and research postgraduates.
My thesis examined space and identity during the transitional period at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. Focusing on northeastern England, a region containing a wide variety of sites from the Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval periods, my research used spatial and visibility analyses to examine if their were continuities and disruptions during the transitional period.
Supervisors: Robert Witcher, David Petts, and Sarah Semple
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The chapter and book can be downloaded open access at:https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/566350?language=en&tab_body=toc-75135
This chapter explores the waterways in and along frontiers as not only geographically expedient end points of the built environment but that have a linked materiality that has not been critically appraised and brought into discussions of these frontiers. Through a comparative approach focusing on portions of Hadrian’s Wall as well as the Roman frontier along the Lower Danube, this chapter demonstrates that an understanding of the interactions between the built and natural boundaries is essential for understanding their long-term impact on modern socio-political landscapes. Using spatial analysis within a geographical information system (GIS), this chapter probes the dual nature of waterways as both barriers and networks and how these aspects worked together to create perceived border zones that still exist in popular imagination of borders today.
Proposals for sessions should be emailed to: trac.2017@durham.ac.uk
www.trac.org.uk
We look forward to welcoming you to Durham!
Visibility Graph Analysis is used to statistically measure the visual arrangement of built space in order to examine continuities or disruptions to the organisation of structures and settlements. The results alter our understanding of this period by revealing broad continuities in the spatial organisation of the built environment across the analysed time periods. This suggests that regional identity was influential in the formation and use of the built environment in the two study regions between c. 100 BC and AD 800. This has significant implications for understanding how Britain was transformed over the longue durée between the Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. These findings suggest that continuities in the spatial arrangement and organisation of the built environment are indicative of gradual change rather than abrupt disruption, and adds to current debates on how regions of Britain were transformed between late prehistory and the early historic era.
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The chapter and book can be downloaded open access at:https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/566350?language=en&tab_body=toc-75135
This chapter explores the waterways in and along frontiers as not only geographically expedient end points of the built environment but that have a linked materiality that has not been critically appraised and brought into discussions of these frontiers. Through a comparative approach focusing on portions of Hadrian’s Wall as well as the Roman frontier along the Lower Danube, this chapter demonstrates that an understanding of the interactions between the built and natural boundaries is essential for understanding their long-term impact on modern socio-political landscapes. Using spatial analysis within a geographical information system (GIS), this chapter probes the dual nature of waterways as both barriers and networks and how these aspects worked together to create perceived border zones that still exist in popular imagination of borders today.
Proposals for sessions should be emailed to: trac.2017@durham.ac.uk
www.trac.org.uk
We look forward to welcoming you to Durham!
Visibility Graph Analysis is used to statistically measure the visual arrangement of built space in order to examine continuities or disruptions to the organisation of structures and settlements. The results alter our understanding of this period by revealing broad continuities in the spatial organisation of the built environment across the analysed time periods. This suggests that regional identity was influential in the formation and use of the built environment in the two study regions between c. 100 BC and AD 800. This has significant implications for understanding how Britain was transformed over the longue durée between the Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. These findings suggest that continuities in the spatial arrangement and organisation of the built environment are indicative of gradual change rather than abrupt disruption, and adds to current debates on how regions of Britain were transformed between late prehistory and the early historic era.