Person

Researcher
- Archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail brendan.foleyark.luse
Room LUX:A221
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Prior to coming to Lund University in 2017 I was a Research Specialist in the Deep Submergence Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the USA, and a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My PhD from MIT is in the History and Archaeology of Technology, complementing a Masters degree in Maritime Archaeology from University of Southampton and another in Social and Economic History from Tufts University. I specialize in the application of advanced methods and technology to archaeology, particularly submerged sites. I have directed several underwater archaeological projects: surveys of ancient shipwrecks by Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in the Aegean; six years of excavation by technical diving on the Antikythera Shipwreck in Greece; and underwater recoveries of human remains from World War II aircraft for the U.S. Department of Defense. My current project is the excavation of the royal Danish flagship, Gribshunden, lost off Blekinge in 1495.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Return to the Antikythera Shipwreck (research leader)
- 3D Antiquity (research leader)
- Ancient DNA inside archaeological ceramics from Greek shipwrecks
- Gribshunden barrel dendrochronology
- GRIBSHUNDEN Shipwreck 2019 (research leader)
- The sturgeon barrel from the Gribshunden shipwreck (research leader)
- Remains Recovery from B-24J aircraft TULSAMERICAN (research leader)
Articles (18)
- Larsson, M. & Foley, B. (2023). The king's spice cabinet-Plant remains from Gribshunden, a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. PLoS ONE, 18. Public Library of Science (PLoS).
- Hansson, A., Linderson, H. & Foley, B. (2022). Casks from Gribshunden (1495) – Dendrochronology of Late Medieval Shipboard Victual Containers. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Taylor & Francis.
- Ingvardson, G., Müter, D. & Foley, B. (2022). Purse of medieval silver coins from royal shipwreck revealed by X-ray microscale Computed Tomography (µCT) scanning. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 43. Elsevier.
- Hansson, A., Linderson, H. & Foley, B. (2021). The Danish royal flagship gribshunden : Dendrochronology on a late medieval carvel sunk in the Baltic Sea. Dendrochronologia, 68. Elsevier.
- Macheridis, S., Hansson, M. C. & Foley, B. P. (2020). Fish in a barrel : Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) from the Baltic Sea wreck of the royal Danish flagship Gribshunden (1495). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33. Elsevier.
- Foley, B. (2019). Gribshunden excavation. Gränsløs. Tidskrift för studier av Öresundsregionens historia, kultur och samhällsliv., 28-38. Centrum för Öresundsstudier, Lunds universitet.
- Koutsouflakis, G., Theodoulou, T. & Foley, B. (2017). ΑΥΤΟΨΙΑ ΣΕ EΝΑ ΑΓΝΩΣΤΟ ΝΑΥAΓΙΟ — Στη νήσο Κυρα-Παναγιά. ΕΝΑΛΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ, 123, 49-57.
- Foley, B., Hansson, M., Kourkoumelis, D. P. & Theodoulou, T. A. (2012). Aspects of ancient Greek trade re-evaluated with amphora DNA evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, 389-398. Academic Press.
- Bingham, B., Foley, B., Singh, H., Camilli, R., Dellaporta, K., Eustice, R., Mallios, A., Mindell, D., Roman, C. & Sakellariou, D. (2010). Robotic Tools for Deep Water Archaeology : Surveying an Ancient Shipwreck with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Journal of Field Robotics, 27, 702-717. John Wiley & Sons Inc..
- Foley, B., Dellaporta, K., Sakellariou, D., Bingham, B., Camilli, R., Eustice, R., Evagelistis, D., Ferrini, V. L., Katsaros, K., Kourkoumelis, D., Mallios, A., Micha, P., Mindell, D., Roman, C., Singh, H., Switzer, D. & Theodoulou, T. (2009). The 2005 Chios Ancient Shipwreck Survey : New Methods for Underwater Archaeology. Hesperia The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 78, 269-305.
- Foley, B. (2008). Greek Deepwater Survey : (in newsletter: J. Delgado (ed), "Nautical and Maritime Archaeology, 2006-2007 Seasons", pp. 307–335). American Journal of Archaeology, 112, 331-333. Archaeological Institute of America.
- Hansson, M. & Foley, B. (2008). Ancient DNA fragments inside Classical Greek amphoras reveal cargo of 2400-year-old shipwreck. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 1169-1176. Academic Press.
- Foley, B. & Ballard, R. (2004). Amphora Alleys I and II. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 58.
- Foley, B. & Mindell, D. (2002). Precision Survey and Archaeological Methodology in Deep Water. ENALIA Annual Journal of the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology, VI, 49-56.
- Ballard, R., Hiebert, F., Coleman, D., Ward, C., Smith, J., Willis, K., Foley, B., Croff, K., Major, C. & Torre, F. (2001). Deepwater Archaeology of the Black Sea : The 2000 Season at Sinop, Turkey. American Journal of Archaeology, 105, 607-623. Archaeological Institute of America.
- Foley, B. (2001). Slaves in the American Maritime Economy, 1638-1865 : Economic and Cultural Roles. The Dolphin, Quarterly Publication of the Long Island Maritime Museum, 32.
- Ballard, R., McCann, A. M., Yoerger, D., Whitcomb, L. L., Mindell, D., Oleson, J., Singh, H., Foley, B., Adams, J., Piechota, D. & Giangrande, C. (2000). The Discovery of Ancient History in the Deep Sea Using Advanced Deep Submergence Technology. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 47, 1591-1620. Elsevier.
- Singh, H., Adams, J., Mindell, D. & Foley, B. (2000). Imaging for Underwater Archaeology. Journal of Field Archaeology, 27, 319-328. Maney Publishing.
Book chapters (2)
- Foley, B. & Theodoulou, T. (2015). Rückkehr nach Antikythera. Der versunkene Schatz : Das Schiffswrack von Antikythera, 234-243. Antikenmuseum Basel.
- Manley, J. & Foley, B. (2004). Deep Frontiers : Ocean Exploration in the 20th Century. In Finamore, D. (Ed.) New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology, Maritime History as World History : New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology. University Press of Florida.
Encyclopaedia entries (2)
- Foley, B. (2014). Shipwrecks. In Bescherer Metheny, K. & Beaudry, M. (Eds.) The Archaeology of Food : An Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Foley, B. (2013). Deep Water Archaeology. In Smith, C. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer.
Conference contributions (6)
- Larsson, M. & Foley, B. (2022). Unlocking the King's spice cabinet : Plant remains from a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
- Foley, B. & Theodoulou, T. (2018). Return to Antikythera. In ΣΙΜΩΣΙ, ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ. (Ed.) ΒΟΥΤΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΠΕΡΑΣΜΕΝΑ : Η Υποβρύχια Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα, 1976-2014 (pp. 185-190). ΕΚΔΟΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΑΜΕΙΟΥ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΡΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΕΩΝ.
- Theodoulou, T., Foley, B. & Tourtas, A. (2018). Western Crete Project, 2013: Preliminary Report : Underwater survey at Kissamos Bay and the promontories of Rhodopos and Gramvousa. In Simossi, A. (Ed.) ΒΟΥΤΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΠΕΡΑΣΜΕΝΑ : Η Υποβρύχια Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα, 1976-2014 (pp. 305-312). ΕΚΔΟΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΑΜΕΙΟΥ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΡΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΕΩΝ.
- Williams, S. B., Pizarro, O. & Foley, B. (2016). Return to Antikythera : Multi-Session SLAM based AUV mapping of a first century BC wreck site. In Wettergreen, D. S. & Barfoot, T. D. (Eds.) Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Field and Service Robotics : Results of the 10th International Conference (pp. 45-59), 113. Springer.
- Theodoulou, T., Foley, B., Kourkoumelis, D. & Preka-Alexandri, K. (2015). Roman amphorae cargoes at the sea of Chios – The 2008 mission. In Demesticha, S. (Ed.) Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, Per Terram per Mare : Seaborne trade and the distribution of Roman Amphorae in the Mediterranean (pp. 41-54), 180. Paul Åströms förlag.
- Camilli, R., Sakellariou, D., Foley, B., Anagnostou, C., Mallios, A., Bingham, B., Eustice, R., Katsaros, K. & Goodreau, J. (2007). Investigation of Hydrothermal Vents in the Aegean Sea Using an Integrated Mass Spectrometer and Acoustic Navigation System Onboard a Human Occupied Submersible. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., Rapport du 38e Congrès de la CIESM : 38th CIESM Congress Proceedings, 38, 79-79. CIESM.
Reviews (2)
- Foley, B. (2007). Review: George Bass (ed.), Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. American Journal of Archaeology, 111. Archaeological Institute of America.
- Foley, B. (2002). Review: Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine, by Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf and Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War by Jack D. Coombe. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 110, 112-114.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (2)
Teaching

Researcher
- Archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail brendan.foleyark.luse
Room LUX:A221
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30