Professor Simon Keay BA PhD FSA

Research interests: Professor Simon Keay researches into the archaeology of the Roman Empire, with particular emphasis on trade, urbanism and culture change in the west Mediterranean basin and ploughzone archaeology. He has undertaken field projects in Spain at Tarragona, Peñaflor and Italica as well as in Italy as co-director of the Roman Towns in the Tiber Valley Project. He is the Director of the British School's new flagship project, The Roman Ports Project, and is co-director of the Portus Project.

Recent publications

Keay, S., Millett, M., Paroli, L. and Strutt, K. (2005), Portus. An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 15. London.

Keay, S. and Terrenato, N. (2001) Italy and the West. Comparative Issues in Romanization. Oxford: Oxbow

Creighton, J., Keay, S. and Remesal Rodriguez, J. (2000) Celti (Peñaflor): The Archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica. Survey and Excavations 1987-1992 Oxford: Oxbow Books, University of Southampton, Dept. of Archaeology Monograph 2.

Creighton, J., Jordan, D., Keay, S. & Rodriguez Hidalgo, J.M. 1999; La Italica de Adriano. Resultados de las Prospecciones Arquelogicas de 1991 y 1993. Archivo Espanol de Arqueologia, pp73-97.

Recent publications

Ceccarelli, L. and Kay, S.J. (2006), Nuove metodologie d’indagine per lo studio del territorio falisco, in Francocci S. (ed.), Archeologia e Storia a Nepi, vol. I, Quaderni del Museo Civico di Nepi, p.16-27.

Kay S.J. and Witcher, R. (2005) The Tiber Valley Project. The role of GIS and databases in field survey data integration and analysis, in Archeologia e Calcolatori 16, Edizioni All’Insegna del Giglio, Florence, p.113 – 137.

Kay, S.J. and Witcher, R. (forthcoming), The Tiber Valley Project. An application of predictive modelling : a Mediterranean perspective, in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, CAA 2004 “Beyond the Artifact” 14th -16th April, 2004, Prato, Italy.

Kay, S.J. 2003, An integrated approach to the application of geophysical survey to the Cecina Valley Survey Project, in Archeologia e Calcolatori 14, 199-215, Edizioni All’Insegna del Giglio, Florence.

Research interests: Graduated in Archaeology, with specialisation in Etruscology and Italic Archaeology; graduation thesis: “South Etruria Survey at Veii: southern area” supervised by Prof. Bartoloni (Università 'La Sapienza di Roma). Post-graduate Specialization Degree in Archaeology; thesis entitled ‘Ricerche storico-epigrafiche su Veio romana’, supervised by Prof. Gianluca Gregori (Antichità Romane - Università 'La Sapienza di Roma). Research interests include Italic civilisation and the production of ceramics in antiquity.

Cascino, R. (c.s.) Le ceramiche depurate e il bucchero, in H. Patterson (ed.) Veii, the Topography of the Ancient City: the J. B. Ward Perkins Survey Revisited”, Papers of the British School at Rome.

Cascino, R. (c.s) Attività produttive ceramiche a Veio, Séminaire sur Les céramiques fines à décor non figuré du VI a.C. Étruria Méridionale et Campanie, 14-15 février 2003, École française de Rome, in MEFRA.

Cascino, R e Di Sarcina,M.T (c.s)L’Internal Slip Ware nella media valle del Tevere, Mercator Placidissimus-The Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New research in the upper and middle river valley, 27-28 February 2004, British School at Rome.

Cascino, R. contributo in The re-evaluation of the South Etruria Survey: the first results from Veii, in H. Patterson (ed) Bridging the Tiber, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, London 2004.

Gregory Tucker (BA, MA) is a Geophysical Research Assistant at the British School at Rome. He received his BA in Classical Studies from the University of Florida and his MA in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton. Field work, both excavating and surveying, has taken him throughout Europe and as far as California, including Ostia, Pompeii, Porolissum, Portus, and Tarragona. Gregory's research interests include Roman ideology and statements of power through public construction, the development of ports in the Imperial period, the influence of foreigners in Roman society and culture, and the use of technology in survey and site recording.