Contact Dr Thomas Delbey
Background
Thomas completed a
PhD in Archaeology in 2018 at Paris-Nanterre University (France). His doctoral
research focused on the analysis of archaeological materials to highlight the
transformation of the ceramic production and distribution during the late Antiquity in
Northwestern Europe. Between 2018 and 2020, he held a postdoc position at the Department
of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark (DK),
working in the archaeometry group CHART. Thomas joined Cranfield University as
a research fellow in October 2020.
Current activities
Thomas's research interests are focused on the investigation of archaeological and cultural heritage materials using mineralogical and chemical analytical techniques. Recent activities involved projects related to the characterisation and the dating (thermoluminescence) of fired clay materials, the measurements of trace elements in archaeological human skeletons, pigment identification, and glass analysis. Thomas is mainly working with techniques such as petrography, XRF, XRD, vibrational spectroscopy, and LA-ICP-MS.
His work was initially focused on the late Roman period in Europe, but he broadened the scopes of his activities to medieval and post-medieval periods on a wide geographic scale.
Thomas is currently part of two international projects in collaboration with French, Danish and Italian institutions.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Goemaere E, Challe S, de Longueville S, Delbey T & Demaiffe D (2022) Tracking the source of lead of medieval glazed pottery of the Meuse valley (Belgium) through lead isotope analyses, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 42 (April) Article No. 103366.
- Giosa A, Delbey T, Menbrivès C, Rasmussen KL, Elliott M & Petit G (2022) Indurated soil nodules: a vestige of ancient agricultural practices?, Geoarchaeology, 37 (6) 870-886.
- Bourdin V, Delbey T, Lund Rasmussen K & Charlier P (2022) Do you dig your grave with your teeth? Potential interest of the elementary analysis of ancient ceramics regarding public health (Pre-Columbian era, Ecuador), Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 23 (August) Article No. 100794.
- Rasmussen KL, Milner GR, Delbey T, Jensen LKI, Witte F, Rehren T, Kjaer U & Grinder-Hansen P (2022) Release of lead from Renaissance lead-glazed ceramics from southern Denmark and northern Germany: Implications from acetic acid etching, Heritage Science, 10 (1) Article No. 63.
- Rasmussen KL, Delbey T, Jørgensen B, Høegh Jensen K, Poulsen B & Pedersen P (2022) Materials and technology of mosaics from the House of Charidemos at Halikarnassos (Bodrum, Turkey), Heritage Science, 10 (1) Article No. 62.
- Rasmussen KL, van der Plicht J, Degano I, Modugno F, Colombini MP, de la Fuente G, Delbey T, Frumkin A, Davidovich U, Porat R, Shamir O, Sukenik N, Doudna G, Taylor J & Popović M (2022) Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the ‘Christmas Cave’ of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, west of the Dead Sea, Heritage Science, 10 (1) Article No. 18.
- Rasmussen KL, van der Plicht J, La Nasa J, Ribercini E, Colombini MP, Delbey T, Skytte L, Schiavone S, Kjær U, Grinder-Hansen P & Lanzillotta LR. (2021) Investigations of the relics and altar materials relating to the apostles St James and St Philip at the Basilica dei Santi XII Apostoli in Rome, Heritage Science, 9 (1) Article No. 14.
- Rasmussen KL, Milner GR, Delbey T, Skytte L, Lynnerup N, Thomsen JL, Schiavone S, Torino M, Larsen LA & Boldsen JL. (2020) Trace element distribution in human cortical bone microstructure: the potential for unravelling diet and social status in archaeological bones, Heritage Science, 8 (1) Article No. 111.
- Rasmussen KL, Delbey T, d'Imporzano P, Skytte L, Schiavone S, Torino M, Tarp P & Thomsen PO (2020) Comparison of trace element chemistry in human bones interred in two private chapels attached to Franciscan friaries in Italy and Denmark: an investigation of social stratification in two medieval and post-medieval societies, Heritage Science, 8 (1) Article No. 65.
- Rasmussen KL, Milner GR, Delbey T, Skytte L, Søvsø M, Callesen F & Boldsen JL (2020) Copper exposure in medieval and post-medieval Denmark and northern Germany: its relationship to residence location and social position, Heritage Science, 8 (1) Article No. 18.
- Rasmussen KL, Delbey T, Skytte L, La Nasa J, Colombini MP, Ravnsbaek DB, Jorgensen B, Kjeldsen F, Gronnow B & Larsen S (2020) In the darkest hour: analyses of a black spot on the last page of the diary of polar explorer Jorgen Bronlund (d. 1907), Archaeometry, Available online 16th November 2020 (4).
- Delbey T, Holck JP, Jørgensen B, Alvis A, Smith VH, Kavich GM, Harmon KA, Dorch BF & Rasmussen KL (2019) Poisonous books: analyses of four sixteenth and seventeenth century book bindings covered with arsenic rich green paint, Heritage Science, 7 (1) Article No. 91.
- Hedegaard SB, Delbey T, Br{ø}ns C & Rasmussen KL (2019) Painting the Palace of Apries II: ancient pigments of the reliefs from the Palace of Apries, Lower Egypt, Heritage Science, 7 (1).
- Delbey T, Quevedo A & Laubenheimer F (2015) Wine amphore Gauloise 4 from Narbonnensis (France) exported to Cartagena (Spain)? multidimensional statistical analysis of geochemical data, ArcheoSciences-Revue d'Archéométrie, 39 (39) 185-199.
- Goemaere E, Henrotay D, Collette O, Golitko M, Delbey T & Leduc T (2014) Characterisation of the medieval ceramics from Autelbas (Arlon, Belgium) and identification of their raw material source, ArcheoSciences-Revue d'Archéométrie, 38 (38) 31-47.
Conference Papers
- Delbey T, Guillon R, Van Ossel P, Petit C & Garcia J (2013) Caractérisations pétrographique et granulométrique d’imitations de sigillées d’Argonne dans le Diocèse des gaules. In: SFECAG, Actes du congrès d'Amiens, Amiens, 9-12 May 2013.