Wessex–Armorica: Territories, Connections and Hierarchies

Project description

A Bronze Age look at Europe’s busiest shipping route

The English Channel – the world’s busiest seaway – is a body of water that separates southern England from northern France. Stretching 560 km in length, over 500 ships pass through the channel every day. The EU-funded WATCH project is taking a closer look at the English Channel’s past maritime connections – going all the way back to the early Bronze Age. Combining archaeology with methods and data from geography and environmental sciences, this interdisciplinary study aims to understand how communities living in the Channel coastlands became interdependent at a time when trade in tin and copper was strengthening the foundations for an extensive prehistoric European union.

Fields of science

• social sciences › educational sciences
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › physical geography › cartography › geographic information systems
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › environmental sciences
• humanities › history and archaeology › archaeology
• social sciences › political sciences › political policies › civil society

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Net EU contribution

€ 224 933,76

Address

Fern Barrow Bournemouth University
BH12 5BB Poole
United Kingdom

Region

South West (England) › Dorset and Somerset › Bournemouth

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

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Non-EU contribution

€ 0,00