Personal profile
Biography
Over the past fifteen years, I have primarily worked in two distinct areas of archaeological practice: as a geoarchaeologist deploying microscale methods to reconstruct the social implications of human uses of domestic space, and as a landscape archaeologist integrating remote sensing and aerial photographic datasets to interrogate human uses of ancient environments. I have researched and published in both fields, based mostly on extensive fieldwork carried out in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Cyprus.
Education/Academic qualification
Archaeology, PhD, Reconstructing the use and conception of pharaonic domestic space in Nubia: geoarchaeological investigations at Amara West (~1300–1070BC), University of Cambridge
Archaeology, MPhil, University of Cambridge
Visual Arts & Graphic Design, BCA, University of Wollongong
Fingerprint
- 1 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
-
Oases of the world: Urgent call to save key archives for cultural and biological diversity
Bretzke, K., Sanz, N., Falkenhahn, M., Alsaif, S. S. A., Cantonati, M., Dalton, M., Li, F., Fensham, R., Hernández-Agüero, J. A., Hohberg, K., Jeschke, J. M., Jeuthe, C., Kindermann, K., McCorriston, J., Purdue, L., Saber, A. A., Schmitt, T., Stevens, L. E., Wesche, K. & Zarfl, C. & 2 others, , Dec 2025, In: npj Heritage Science. 13, 1, 563.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Open Access -
The AAKSA Project: A multi-scalar methodology for documenting the archaeological landscapes of AlUla and Ḥarrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia
Kennedy, M., Repper, R., Thomas, H., Dalton, M., McMahon, J., Boyer, D. D. & Swift, L., 2025, Reframing the “Desert Frontier”: Studies in the ancient Near East and northern Arabia in honour of David Kennedy. Repper, R., Bewley, R. & Bishop, M. (eds.). Sydney University Press, p. 457-486 (Adapa Monographs).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
-
Results from the aerial archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, al-ʿUlā (AlUla) and Khaybar Projects: 2018–2021
Thomas, H., Kennedy, M., Dalton, M., McMahon, J., Repper, R., Boyer, D. D. & Gellard, A., 2023, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 51: Revealing Cultural Landscapes in North‐West Arabia. Foote, R., Guagnin, M., Périssé, I. & Karacic, S. (eds.). Oxford: Archaeopress, p. 27-50 24 p. (Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review
-
Three thousand years of river channel engineering in the Nile Valley
Dalton, M., Spencer, N., Macklin , M. G., Woodward, J. C. & Ryan, P., 1 Sept 2023, In: Geoarchaeology: an international journal. 38, 5, p. 565-587 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access9 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus) -
Beyond the "temple town": Changing lifeways and production at Amara West (1300-1000 BCE)
Spencer, N., Dalton, M. & Lehmann, M., 2 Sept 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review