Research interests
My research has specialised on the later prehistory of western Europe, especially southern Britain and Iberia, the use of computational analysis (particularly spatial analysis and GIS) in Archaeology and on novel Image Processing methods for Archaeological recording and analysis. I have a track record of lecturing, curriculum design and a wide range of educational management projects.
I was co-director of Negotiating Avebury Project (1999-2004) with Josh Pollard and Mark Gillings. I have been a member of the AHRC peer-review college, peer review panel of CAA, Advisory board of MENGA (the Journal of Andalucian Prehistory) and SPAL (the Archaeological Journal of the University of Seville).
Affiliate research groups
Representation, Visualisation and Politics of Archaeology, Monuments and Materialities, Representation, Visualisation and Politics of Archaeology, ATLAS Territorios y Paisajes en la Prehistoria Reciente de Andalucia (HUM-694) , Prehistoric Landscapes, Monuments and Materialities
Research project(s)
This project, conducted by Dr David Wheatley (Southampton), Dr Leo Garcia Sanjuan (University of Seville) and Dr Marta Diaz Guardamino-Uribe (CSIC) is studying the spatial patterning and archaeological contexts of the ‘South western' group of late bronze age carved stelae from Iberia.
Promoting digital solutions to rock and cave art research
This 18 month project (2014-2015), funded by a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, aims to advance rock art research through the application of state-of-the-art imaging technologies.
IBERENCLOGIS
IBERENCLOGIS will investigate southern Iberian Ditched Enclosures sites of the fourth millennium BC. The project aims to establish whether different walled and ditched sites may have similar or different functions or meanings, and how Iberian enclosures relate to other traditions of monumental enclosure construction in other parts of Europe. It is conducted by Dr David Wheatley and Dr Victor Jiminez Jaimez.
Ancestral Images in Iberian Landscapes
This two-year (2011-2013) research project, which is being conducted by Dr. Marta Díaz-Guardamino and Dr. David Wheatley, is aimed at exploring the role of visual representations of people and/or things in monumental free-standing stones (‘stelae and statue-menhirs') and the ‘places' where they were located in the crafting of collective memories, identities and territories during the Bronze Age (ca. 2200-900/850 AC) in the Iberian Peninsula applying computer techniques, i.e. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D Laser Scanning and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI).
Professor David WheatleyFaculty of Art and Humanities, University of Southampton
Avenue Campus, Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
Room Number : 65A/3023/A3