Lily Green

Research project

Curating Armageddon: Revealing the Heritage Significance of Dover Castle’s Cold War Collections

Supervisors: John Schofield, Harald Fredheim, Kathryn Bedford (English Heritage) 

Funding: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship

Summary of research project:

The Cold War was a period of rapid technological development and change set against the backdrop of potential nuclear annihilation. During this period, the UK government adapted to the potential threat of destruction and preparation for war, including the development of Regional Seats of Government. Dover Castle (English Heritage) was designated as one of these Regional Seats of Government and has a collection of 8,000 objects relating to the Cold War. This project seeks to analyse and understand the collection and how it can reflect on the impact of this period.

Profile

I completed my BA (history, anthropology) from Purdue University in 2006. I participated in the 2007 excavation season at Ted Dor, Israel. In 2008-2011, I participated in the excavations at Tel Atçana, Turkey and the 2009-2011 Amuq Valley Regional Project Survey. In 2012, I assisted with the mapping and documenting of Rakhigari, a large bronze age Indus Valley site in northwest India. 

In 2012, I pursued a Master’s degree at Georgia State University in anthropology. I served as a graduate teaching and research assistant throughout the course of my degree, providing support for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Anthropological Theory modules. I completed a student internship at Edwards-Pitman Environmental Inc. in 2013. Under the supervision of Dr Jeffrey Glover, I completed a master’s thesis research project entitled Mossy Oak Revisited: A Case Study in Mississippian Ceramics in which I analysed a collection of ceramics excavated in the 1930s to understand changes in site use as well as changes in social complexity as the beginning of the Mississippian period in central Georgia, USA. 

After my MA, I worked for Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc as a project archaeologist assessing proposed areas for roadworks for sites of archaeological and/or historical significance. In 2016, I relocated with my family to Cambridge, UK where I became a research assistant at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research as part of the PROCON, TwoRains and later MAHSA projects. I have also worked in research support for the Cambridge Department of Psychology, British Antarctic Survey and Centre for Health Economics at the University of York.

Publications and Academic Awards

Publications:

2025 Petrie, Cameron A., Junaid Abdul Jabbar, Abhayan, G. S., Aftab Alam, Iban Berganzo-Besga, Rosie Campbell, et al. 2025. “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Unrecognized Contribution of the Survey of India in the Documentation of Ancient Settlements in Pakistan and India.” Journal of Field Archaeology, October, 1–22. doi:10.1080/00934690.2025.2572881.

2019 Green, Adam S., Hector A. Orengo, Aftab Alam, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Lillian M. Green, Francesc Conesa, Amit Ranjan, Ravindra N. Singh, and Cameron A. Petrie. "Re-discovering ancient landscapes: Archaeological survey of mound features from historical maps in northwest India and implications for investigating the large-scale distribution of cultural heritage sites in South Asia." Remote Sensing 11, no. 18 (2019): 2089.

2018 Singh, Ravindra Nath, Adam Stuart Green, Lillian M. Green, Amit Ranjan, Aftab Alam, and Cameron A. Petrie. "Between the hinterlands: preliminary results from the TwoRains survey in northwest India 2017." Man and Environment 43, no. 2 (2018): 84-102.

2014 Mossy Oak Revisited Conference presentation presented to the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, South Carolina USA