Professor Andrew Wilson

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Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire
+44 (0)1865 278247
andrew.wilson@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Ancient water supply usage; ancient technology; the economy of the Roman Empire; Roman architecture; field survey.

 

Full details of teaching and research activities.

Doctoral supervision

I am happy to supervise on topics connected with the Roman economy, ancient technology, water management and supply, and archaeological evidence for settlement response to environmental change in the Roman period.

Current students

The Metal Detector: Potentials and Limitations: A Methodological Update to Roman Coin Finds
Rasmus Nielsen | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Christopher Howgego and Andrew Wilson
Cuniculi: Subterranean Water Systems in Italy during the First Millennium BCE
Christina Monroe | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Charlotte Potts and Andrew Wilson
Urban Development of North African Cities during the Severan Dynasty
Marie Theres Wittmann | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Quantifying Construction and Urban Development in Late Republican Rome: A Study of the Design Process, Logistics, and Economics of Construction
Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Dominik Maschek and Andrew Wilson
Timber Roof Construction in the Changing Social, Economic and Political Landscape of the Roman Empire: A Study of Temples
Maria Theodora Tzeli | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Dominik Maschek and Andrew Wilson
Military and Literary Landscapes of the Other: understanding castle building in Medieval North Wales
Meg Kirkpatrick | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: John Pouncett and Andrew Wilson
Modelling the Roman Economy: Understanding the Effects of the Roman Transport and Trade Systems on Tableware Distribution in the Late Roman East
Alex Chiu Smit | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Andrew Wilson and Christopher Howgego

Past students

Living Standards and Market Integration in the Rural Economy of Roman Britain
Margaret Burr (2022) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The Transformation of an Agricultural Economy. Forms of rural settlement in Epirus from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE
Nefeli Piree Iliou (2022) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Climate change and major plagues in the Roman Period
Brandon McDonald (2020) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Mining under Empire: Exploiting the Metal Resources of Roman Dacia
Swii Lim (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Absorbed Organic Residue Analysis of Amphorae from the Black Sea Region (3rd to 6th c.AD): Analyses and Methodological Considerations
Marshall Woodworth (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisors: Mark Pollard, Paul Reynolds and Andrew Wilson
Building the Countryside: A Regional Perspective on the Architecture and Settlement of Rural Tripolitania from the 1st c. BC to the 7th c. AD
Elizabeth Sheldrick (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Small-island Interactions: Pottery from Roman Malta
Maxine Anastasi (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Paul Reynolds and Andrew Wilson
The Dark Side of Vesuvius: Landscape Change and the Roman Economy
Girolamo De Simone (2015) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Roman Religious Ritual: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
Rachel Hesse (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Mark Robinson and Andrew Wilson
The port of Berenike Troglodytica on the Red Sea: A landscape-based approach to the study of its harbour and its role in Indo-Mediterranean trade
Anna Kotarba-Morley (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Damian Robinson and Andrew Wilson
Sicilian Amphorae (1st - 6th Centuries AD): Typology, Production and Trade
Carmela Franco (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The Economic Development of the Rhine River Basin in the Roman Period: 30 BC - AD 406
Tyler Franconi (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Houses and Identity in Roman Knossos and Kissamos, Crete: a study in emulative acculturation
Anna Kouremenos (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Roman Gems and Jewellery: a Quantitative Study on Trends in Roman Gem Supply and Use from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD
Gabriela Sotomayor (2013) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100BC to AD300
John Hanson (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Port Economies and Maritime Trade in the Roman Mediterranean: 166 BC to AD 300
Candace Rice (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Production and Trade of Roman and Late Roman African Cookwares
Victoria Leitch (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The economy of the Roman province of Dalmatia
Kristina Glicksman (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Roman Moesia Superior: the creation of a new provincial entity and processes of multicultural adjustment
Dragana Mladenovic (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
North Sea and Channel Connectivity during the Late Iron Age and Roman Periods (175/150 BC-AD 409)
Francis Morris (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Helena Hamerow and Andrew Wilson
Sculpted Stone and the Roman Economy: 100BC - AD300
Benjamin Russell (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Andrew Wilson
The Southern Necropolis of Cyrene
Luca Cherstich (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
The Design and Purpose of Roman Fortlets in the North-Western Frontier Provinces of the Empire
Matthew Symonds (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
A Reassessment of the Ancient Sailing Season. The Case for Wintertime Seafaring on the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean
James Beresford (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Water Supply and Management in the Near East 63BC-AD636
Zena Kamash (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Classical and Hellenistic Coarse Pottery from Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya): Archaeological and Petrological Approaches to Production and Inter-Regional Distribution
Keith Swift (2005) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Andrew Wilson

Key words: land use, urbanisation, material, populations and regions, silk road, trade, urbanism, wealth, Roman economy, technology, aqueducts, water management, mining, Classical-Roman, Europe, Africa, North Africa, Asia Minor, Levant