Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...