I am currently a PhD student in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester University. My work seems to concentrate on the cross-over between science and humanities, in particular with work on Archaeoastronomy.
My current PhD in soundbite form is seeing whether there is an astronomical fingerprint for Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean which can help show the difference between Hellenised and non-Hellenised sites. It works from two perspectives. One is the Ancient Historical problem of whether or not the natives of Sicily and Italy did become Hellenised and how did it happen? The archaeoastronomical side is testing the assumption that cultures do exhibit shared orientations for superstructure or infrastructure.
I have a paper on the calibration of ancient Greek calendars in Antiquity.
There are publicly accessible highlights available in English,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish. There’s also an article in French in the December 2005 issue of National Geographic France.
In development is a paper on Alcman’s Parthenia. I think is less astronomical than classicists would say, but also reasonably accurate in being able to give a date to the festival. I need to sit down with a dictionary before I can give a certain answer because classicists are very through with their data.
Another paper in development is on classical reception via ghosts, which reading back sounds like a seance to contact the spirit of Augustus. It’s actually about folklore. I’ve also been known to work on Leicester’s Integrated Sciences site.
I can be contacted via mail:
Alun Salt
School of Archaeology and Ancient History
University of Leicester
LE1 7RH
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