Andrew Shortland

Andrew J. Shortland is an archaeologist at Cranfield University where he is director of the Cranfield Forensic Institute (CFI), a position he has held since 2016.

Shortland established the Centre for Archaeological and Forensic Analysis at Cranfield in 2005 after having worked in the Ministry of Defence for six years.

Education

Shortland earned a BA in Geology at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford with his dissertation: Vitreous materials at Amarna : the production of glass and faience in 18th Dynasty Egypt.

Thesis

• Shortland, Andrew J. (2000). Vitreous materials at Amarna: the production of glass and faience in 18th Dynasty Egypt. Vol. 827. British Archaeological Reports Limited. ISBN 9781841710389. OCLC 468225085.

Books

As author

• Shortland, Andrew J. (2008). Production Technology of Faience and Related Early Viteous. Monograph (University of Oxford. School of Archaeology). Oxford University School of Archaeology. ISBN 9781905905126.
• Shortland, Andrew J. (2012). Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln: Glass and Glassmaking in the Late Bronze Age. Studies in archaeological science: Leuven Univ. Press; Studies in archaeological sciences. Vol. 2. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789058676917.

As editor

• Andrew J. Shortland, ed. (2001). The Social Context of Technological Change: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC: Proceedings of a Conference Held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 12-14 September 2000. Oxbow. ISBN 9781842170502.
• C. Bronk Ramsey; Andrew J. Shortland, eds. (2013). Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782970576. OCLC 881317968.
• Sonia Zakrzewski; Andrew Shortland; Joanne Rowland, eds. (21 December 2015). Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315678696. ISBN 9781315678696.