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Jon Henderson

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts

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I am an underwater archaeologist with specific research interests in submerged prehistoric settlements. I have extensive experience of underwater operations involving monitoring, survey and excavation and have a particular expertise in the study of freshwater lake dwellings.I have supervised and directed underwater projects in the UK, Poland, Greece and Malaysia. My research on the investigation and excavation of lake dwellings in Scotland, funded by Historic Scotland, led to the formation of the Underwater Archaeology Research Centre at the University in 2004. I am currently the British Director of the Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project which is investigating the oldest submerged city in the world through detailed digital underwater archaeological survey (2009-2010) and targeted underwater excavations (2011-2013).

The coastal settlement archaeology of Atlantic Europe during the Iron Age forms a further research interest and I have directed terrestrial excavations in Scotland as part of the Caithness Broch Landscapes Project.

I am also interested in the application of computers, acoustics and laser scanning in survey on land and underwater and I recently supervised a major Knowledge Transfer Project working closely with a commercial archaeological unit to develop operating standards for digital archaeological survey.

I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.

Find out more via my blog at http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/underwaterarchaeology/ or follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/@DrJonCHenderson.

Recent Publications

  • HENDERSON, J. C., GALLOU, C., FLEMMING, N. AND SPONDYLIS, E., 2011. The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project; Investigating an ancient submerged town. In: J. BENJAMIN, C. BONSALL, C. PICKARD AND A. FISCHER, ed., Underwater Archaeology and the Submerged Prehistory of Europe Oxbow Books. 207-218
  • MAHON, I., PIZARRO, O., JOHNSON-ROBERSON, M., FRIEDMAN, A., WILLIAMS, S. AND J. C. HENDERSON, J.C., 2011. Reconstructing Pavlopetri – Mapping the World’s Oldest Submerged Town Using Stereo Vision In: Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) IEEE International Conference, Shanghai 2011. 2315-2321
  • PYDYN, A and HENDERSON, J. C., 2010. Application of a Total Station in the interpretation of underwater archaeological sites based on the example of the settlement at Polanowo, Gniezno Lake District, Poland.. In: PYDYN, A., ed., Archeologia Jeziora Powidzkiego Nicolaus Copernicus University Scientific Publishing House. 259-270
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2009. Taking the Waters: Scottish crannogs and the Atlantic Iron Age.. In: COONEY, G, BECKER, K and COLES, J, RYAN, M. AND SIEVERS, S., eds., Relics of Old Decency: Archaeological Studies in Later Prehistory Wordwell. 39-49
  • HENDERSON, J. C., GALLOU, C., FLEMMING, N. AND SPONDYLIS, E., 2011. The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project; Investigating an ancient submerged town. In: J. BENJAMIN, C. BONSALL, C. PICKARD AND A. FISCHER, ed., Underwater Archaeology and the Submerged Prehistory of Europe Oxbow Books. 207-218
  • MAHON, I., PIZARRO, O., JOHNSON-ROBERSON, M., FRIEDMAN, A., WILLIAMS, S. AND J. C. HENDERSON, J.C., 2011. Reconstructing Pavlopetri – Mapping the World’s Oldest Submerged Town Using Stereo Vision In: Robotics and Automation, (ICRA) IEEE International Conference, Shanghai 2011. 2315-2321
  • PYDYN, A and HENDERSON, J. C., 2010. Application of a Total Station in the interpretation of underwater archaeological sites based on the example of the settlement at Polanowo, Gniezno Lake District, Poland.. In: PYDYN, A., ed., Archeologia Jeziora Powidzkiego Nicolaus Copernicus University Scientific Publishing House. 259-270
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2009. Taking the Waters: Scottish crannogs and the Atlantic Iron Age.. In: COONEY, G, BECKER, K and COLES, J, RYAN, M. AND SIEVERS, S., eds., Relics of Old Decency: Archaeological Studies in Later Prehistory Wordwell. 39-49
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. The Atlantic Iron Age: settlement and identity in the first millennium BC London: Routledge.
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. The Atlantic West in the Early Iron Age. In: HASELGROVE, C. and POPE, R., eds., The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent Oxford: Oxbow Books. 306-327
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Recognising complexity and realizing the potential of Scottish Crannogs In: Archaeology From The Wetlands. 231-241
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2007. Resisting decay, wind and waves: new research on the lake dwellings of South West Scotland In: Archaeology From The Wetlands. 289-302
  • HENDERSON, J.C. AND SANDS, R., 2007. Lacustrine Settlement In: Archaeology From The Wetlands. 221
  • HENDERSON, J.C, CAVERS, M. G and AND CRONE, B. A., 2006. The South West Crannog Survey: Recent work on the lake dwellings of Dumfries and Galloway Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 80, 29-52
  • CAVERS, M. G. and HENDERSON, J. C., 2005. Underwater excavation at Ederline Crannog, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 34(2), 282-298
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2005. An underwater survey of Loch Glashan, Argyll.. In: A crannog of the 1st millennium AD; excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Glashan, Argyll, 1960. 20-25
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2004. The Scottish Wetland Archaeology Programme: Assessing and Monitoring the Resource. Journal of Wetland Archaeology. 4, 169-182
  • PYDYN, A and AND HENDERSON, J.C., 2004. Wykorzystanie tachimetru elektronicznego w archeologicznych badaniach podwodnych na przykladzie stanowiska 1 w Polanowie (województwo wielkopolskie) Wielkopolski Biuletyn Konserwatorski. 71-78
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2003. Review of C. Fredengren, Crannogs: a study of peoples interaction with lakes Antiquity. 77, 861-862
  • HENDERSON, J.C, CRONE, B.A and AND CAVERS, M.G., 2003. A condition survey of selected crannogs in south west Scotland Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 77, 79-102
  • HENDERSON, J.C., CRONE, A. and SANDS, R., 2002. Scottish crannogs: construction, collapse and conflation - problems of interpretation. In: Recent Developments in Wetland Research 2. 55-68
  • HENDERSON, J.C. and CAVERS, M.G., 2002. South West Scotland Crannog Survey Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 3, 25-27
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2001. The continuity of coastal lives Times Higher Education Supplement. 24 Aug, 26
  • HENDERSON, J.C., ed., 2000. The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe, Proceedings of the 4th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23rd-27th September 1998 Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 2000. Shared Traditions? The Drystone Settlement Records of Atlantic Scotland and Ireland 700 BC-AD200 In: The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe, Proceedings of the 4th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting,. 117-154
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 1999. A survey of crannogs in the Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire, Scotland Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. 128, 273-292
  • HENDERSON, J.C. and SANDS, R., 1999. Scottish crannogs: construction, collapse and conflation Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Proceedings. 128, 1132-1133
  • HENDERSON, J. C., 1998. Islets through time: the definition, dating and distribution of Scottish crannogs Oxford Journal of Archaeology. VOL 17(NUMBER 2), 227-242
  • HENDERSON, J.C. and GILMOUR, S., 1997. Excavations at Cleigh, Argyll Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 1996, 22-23
  • BURGESS, C. and HENDERSON, J.C., 1996. Close contour survey of submerged sites using data-logging software with particular reference to Scottish crannogs International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 25, 250-256
  • HENDERSON, J.C., HARDING, D. and GILMOUR, S., 1996. Loch na Berie, Lewis Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 1995, 111
  • GILMOUR, S., BURGESS, C. and HENDERSON, J. C., 1996. Recording Archaeological Sites using GIS Archaeological Computing Newsletter. ISSUE 46, 2-8
  • HENDERSON, J.C., HARDING, D. and GILMOUR, S., 1995. Loch na Berie, Lewis Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 1994, 98-99
  • HENDERSON, J.C., 1995. The Lake of Menteith Survey Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 1994, 9-10

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