Annual Report 2007-8 - The British School at Rome

A R C H A E O L O G YThe team also undertook a three-week magnetometrysurvey at the site of Amara West in Sudan, for a project runby Dr Neal Spencer of the Department of Ancient Egyptand Sudan at the British Museum, with the assistance of theNational Corporation of Antiquities and Museums ofSudan, producing some outstanding images of a Pharaonicfortress.CONFERENCESIn May 2008 Simon Keay gave a keynote paper at theinternational colloquium Changing landscapes. The impact ofRoman towns in the western Mediterranean organised by theUniversidade de Evora, in which he made comparisonsbetween Tiber valley towns studied by means of geophysicsand those similarly studied in the Guadalquivir valley. Healso gave a paper at the conference‘Quell’ansia di voler tuttodire’ di Andrea Carandini per i suoisettanta anni at the Università diRoma, ‘La Sapienza’ in June2008, in which he argued for theimportance of geophysicalsurvey in the analysis of urbanand rural landscapes. In JanuaryHelen Patterson and StephenKay participated in the workshopArcheologia dei paesaggi, organisedby the Reale Istituto Neerlandesea Roma, and discussed comparativeissues in landscapearchaeology based upon theresults of the British School’sTiber Valley Project. In late 2007the BSR hosted the first day ofthe annual Lazio e Sabinaconference, organised by the24