Publications
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Values and Revaluations
(2023)
Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appraisal of certain things in different temporal horizons and in different ...
The Earliest Europeans
(2020)
The Earliest Europeans explores the early origins of man in Europe through the perspective of ‘a year in the life’: how hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic coped with the year-round practical challenges of mid-latitude ...
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire - A Parish Church and its Community
(2007)
The excavations at St Peter's church, Barton-upon-Humber, between 1978 and 1984 have yielded the largest collection of human remains in the UK, dating from the late tenth century to the mid-nineteenth. The twin aims of the ...
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
(2020)
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within ...
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
(2020)
The conference Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets took place in
March 2017 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. This was the first of a programme
of collaborative events organised as part of ...
Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000
(2009)
Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on ...
Grave Goods
(2022)
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. ...
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing
(2021)
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece ...
The Medieval Kirk, Cemetery and Hospice at Kirk Ness, North Berwick
(2013)
Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness, North Berwick, during the building, landscaping and extension of the Scottish Seabird Centre. This ...
Bristol
(2018)
Bristol is a major city and port in the south-west of England. In medieval times, it became the third largest city in the kingdom, behind London and York. Bristol was founded in the late Saxon period and grew rapidly in ...
Rome and the Colonial City
(2022)
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in ...
Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North
(2013)
Newcastle upon Tyne is one of England’s great cities. Many think of it mainly as a product of the Industrial Revolution when abundant resources of coal, iron ore and water came together to create a Victorian industrial ...
Place and Memory
(2007)
This volume is concerned with the investigation of three complexes of prehistoric ceremonial monuments in the immediate environs of Dumfries in the south-west of Scotland, conducted between 1994 and 1998. These were the ...
From Machair to Mountains
(2012)
South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each ...
A Late Iron Age farmstead in the Outer Hebrides
(2012)
The settlement at Bornais consists of a complex of mounds which protrude from the relatively flat machair plain in the township of Bornais on the island of South Uist. This sandy plain has proved an attractive settlement ...
When poetry comes to its senses
(2022)
Chapter 7 of Dynamic Epigraphy: New Approaches to Inscriptions
This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to ...
Bath
(2016)
For centuries, the remains of the great Roman-British bathing and temple complex in the center of Bath have attracted the interest and imagination of countless visitors to the city. But there is more to the archaeology of ...
Colchester, Fortress of the War God
(2013)
This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since ...
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City
(2022)
The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming ...
The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems
(2021)
Much focus in writing systems research has been on the correspondences on the level of the grapheme/phoneme. Seeking to complement these, this monograph considers the targets of graphic word-level units in natural language, ...
Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands
(2021)
This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter ...
Cities as Palimpsests?
(2021)
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable ...
Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography
(2021)
This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase ...
A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns
(2009)
The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features; an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that the timber structure was ...
A Norse Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides
(2005)
This volume examines South Uist, a small island in the soutern half of the Outer Hebrides. In the middle of the island lies the township of Bornais. This covers a particularly flat area of land which means that the three ...
The Mote of Mark
(2006)
The Mote of Mark is a low boss of granite rising from forty-five metres above the eastern shore of Rough Firth, where the Urr Water enters the Solway, between the villages of Kippford and Rockcliffe. The summit comprises ...
Script and Society
(2021)
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a ...
The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
(2021)
Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected ...
Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter
(2021)
This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 ...
Winchester
(2017)
This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource ...
Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland
(2012)
Eventful, influential and absorbing, the early history of Northumberland is a fascinating story that has rarely been brought together under one cover. In this authoritative historical account, the authors bring to bear a ...
Somerset's Peatland Archaeology
(2013)
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged ...
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
(2019)
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), ...
A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln (Volume 6)
(2014)
This is the first major analysis of the Roman pottery from excavations in Lincoln (comprising more than 150,000 sherds). The pottery is presented in seven major ware groups. Fine wares include a modest range of imports and ...
Archaeology in the PPG16 Era
(2019)
The Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), funded by English Heritage, systematically collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 80,000 archaeological projects undertaken between 1990 and 2010. ...
Fiskerton
(2003)
Fiskerton, located in the Witham valley of Lincoln, is one of only a handful of excavated sites in Europe to reveal the Iron Age practice of ritually destroying special and elite objects by placing them in a body of water. ...
Sacred Mound, Holy Rings
(1997)
The excavations at Silbury Hill in the late 1960s were broadcast to the world on television and generated a huge amount of excitement, but until now have not been published. This report gives a full account of the excavation ...
Westward on the High-Hilled Plains
(2017)
The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, ...
Jomon Reflections
(2003)
A fully illustrated introduction to the archaeology of the Jomon period in Japan, this book explores the complex relationships between Jomon people and their rich natural environment. From the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 ...
Iron Age Ritual
(2012)
The excavation of an area within the grounds of the Prebendal, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, adjacent to the parish church of St Mary's, showed that the town, which lies on a slight spur, is sited within a univallate Iron ...
Segedunum
(2016)
Between 1975 and 1984 almost the entire area of the Roman fort of Segedunum in Wallsend was excavated under the direction of Charles Daniels, senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Newcastle University. It is ...
The Harmony of Symbols
(1999)
Three circuits of ditches comprise the Windmill Hill enclosure, which was re-examined in 1988 as part of wider research into the area's Neolithic sequence and environment, and the context in which monuments were built, ...
Medieval Adaptation, Settlement and Economy of a Coastal Wetland
(2008)
Romney Marsh is the largest coastal lowland on the south coast of England. Since 1991 excavations in advance of gravel extraction around Lydd on Romney Marsh, have uncovered large areas of medieval landscape, one of the ...
Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – ...
Clachtoll
(2022)
Clachtoll broch is one of the most spectacular Iron Age settlements on the northern mainland of Scotland. When it became clear that the structure was threatened by coastal erosion, community heritage group Historic Assynt ...
Chapter 8 Continuity or rupture? Investigating domestic structures during the Final Neolithic and the Bell Beaker culture in central-eastern France and western Switzerland
(2019)
European studies of the Bell Beaker phenomenon have concentrated on burial and artefacts that constitute its the most visible aspects. This volume concentrates on the domestic sphere assemblage composition, domestic ...
Roman Urbanism in Italy
(2024)
The study of Roman urbanism – especially its early (Republican) phases – is extensively rooted in the evidence provided by a series of key sites, several of them located in Italy. Some of these Italian towns (e.g. Fregellae, ...
Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean
(2023)
Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that ...
Textiles in Motion
(2024)
An innovative series of case studies looking at the significance, meaning and social context of costume and textiles used in dance among a variety of ancient cultures and civilisations.Dress is at the core of dance. It ...
The Norse Sorceress
(2024)
This study offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and contextualized investigation of the figure of the völva, situating her in the wider context of pre-Christian Nordic religion, culture, and ritual practices.Old Norse ...
The Cities of the Plain
(2024)
First English language assessment and discussion of the ebb and flow in development and decline of pre-industrial urban sites in western Thessaly from the 4th century BCE to the middle Ages.This book explores urbanism in ...
Fabric of the Frontier
(2024)
What is Hadrian's Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian's ...
Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland
(2025)
Analyzes the cultural and environmental landscapes of north-east Scotland through collaborative research, blending archaeology, geology, and community engagement.The authors explore multi-faceted aspects of the competing ...
High Pasture Cave
(2025)
High Pasture Cave served as a significant site for ritual activities and communal events from the Neolithic thought the Scottish Iron Age. High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal ...
Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory
(2025)
Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe. This book is the first in the multi-author series ...
Islands and Communities
(2024)
Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods.Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the ...