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english heritage
shape 2008
1 D
Sub-Programme Name
Sub-Programme Number 14171.310
Corporate Objective
Activity Type and Programme
Sub-Programme Description
Reason for EH Support
Fresh toolkits: Methodological and theoretical research and innovation
1D: Develop new approaches which improve understanding and management of the
historic environment
RESEARCH G1: Sharpening the tools: Developing new techniques of analysis and understanding
Projects developing new theoretical and methodological techniques to understanding the historic
environment. Examples might include:
• New methods of characterisation
• New approaches to recording historic assets
• New sampling regimes and approaches
• New methods of predictive modelling
• New approaches to taphonomy
Development of approaches to increase EH and sector efficiency and to enhance methods
of data capture and analysis
Research categories NABS SETI Primary purpose Frascati Definition Research Areas
Similar Sub-Programmes
1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 C Strategic-Applied Arts and Humanities
Allied to 14171.210 – may feed off results or projects in that Sub-Programme
Methodological and theoretical innovation
delivers new ways of looking at our
past, and with them, new benefits in
understanding. The predictive modelling
of archaeology in raised mires provides a
basis for developing integrated natural and
historic environment management tools
to inform peat extraction, re-watering
and other key issues © Henry Chapman,
University of Birmingham
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