Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages
Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages (AEMA) Questions of Shared Language
Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages
An AHRC grant of £689,167 funded this three-year project at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Led by Principal Investigator (Project Leader) Professor John T. Koch at CAWCS, with Co-Investigators Professor Barry Cunliffe (University of Oxford), Professor Raimund Karl (Bangor University), and Paul Vetch (King’s College London), this project brought together, and made available archaeological and linguistic evidence from Wales, the UK, and the other countries of Europe’s Atlantic facade. The team included Dr Catriona Gibson, an expert in the Iberian Bronze Age, Dr Fernando Fernandez, a philologist from Spain, and Dr Kerri Cleary, an archaeologist from Ireland.
As well as an interactive website displaying the archaeological and linguistic information on scalable maps, the project produced new overviews of the Copper and Bronze Age in Iberia and Ireland and a series of multi-authored multidisciplinary books. A Welsh overview, Hen Fyd Iwerydd, was launched at the National Eisteddfod.
The Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, led by Co-Investigator Paul Vetch, was responsible for creating the digital platform for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) database and project website.