Andrew Shapland

Dr Andrew Shapland is the Sir Arthur Evans Curator of Bronze Age and Classical Greece at the Ashmolean Museum and Supernumerary Fellow in Archaeology at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He holds MA (Cantab) and PhD (UCL) degrees. His research focuses on Minoan material culture, human-animal relations in Bronze Age Crete, and the history of Aegean archaeology. He has directed excavations at Palaikastro since 2020 and co-directed the Knossos Urban Landscape Project. Notable exhibitions include 'Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality' (2023) and 'Troy: Myth and Reality' (2019). His 2022 monograph on human-animal relations explores Cretan cultural practices through material evidence.

Education:

• BA Archaeology & Anthropology, Peterhouse College, Cambridge
• MA and PhD in Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology

Research Interests: Bronze Age Crete, Minoan art and architecture, history of archaeology, and First World War discoveries in Macedonia. Current projects include digitizing the Sir Arthur Evans Archive and fieldwork at Palaikastro.

Teaching: Undergraduate courses on Homeric Archaeology and handling sessions at the Ashmolean. Graduate modules on Aegean Bronze Age archaeology.

Fieldwork & Exhibitions: Co-curator of major exhibitions at the British Museum and Ashmolean. Active in Knossos research and post-war archaeological legacy studies in the Balkans.