Dr. Andrew Shapland

Biography

Andrew Shapland is the Sir Arthur Evans Curator of Bronze Age Classical Greece at the Ashmolean Museum and a Supernumerary Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is specialized in Greek Archaeology and has an academic background in Archaeology and Anthropology from Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he earned his MA, followed by a PhD from University College London. His research primarily explores material culture in Bronze Age Crete, with a particular interest in human-animal relations, as demonstrated in his 2022 monograph titled Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete: History and Objects. Shapland's archaeological work includes field projects on Crete, notably as a member of the Knossos Urban Landscape Project and co-director of excavations at Palaikastro. He has also engaged in the digitization of the Ashmolean Museum’s Sir Arthur Evans Archive and has studied archaeological finds from the Macedonia region linked to the World War I Salonika Campaign. In teaching, he covers both undergraduate and graduate courses on Homeric Archaeology and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology.

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