Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
What we need to do. Doctoral research involving artefact corpora appears to be unfashionable. However the compilation of such works for Food Vessels, accessory vessels and the Late Bronze Age styles is desperately needed; and the studies of Biconical Urns and MBA pottery (see above) need to be published.
Dedications in clay: terracotta figurines in early Iron Age Greece (c. 1100-700 BCE)
This dissertation explores early Greek religion and society through a contextual analysis of the ritual use of terracotta votive figurines in the Early Iron Age, c. 1100-700 BCE.
Metals, salt, and slaves: Economic links between Gaul and Italy from the eight to the late sixth centuries BC
This paper discusses the role of metals, salt, textiles, and slaves in the development of networks of reciprocal exchange that interlinked the élites of Etruscan Italy and Early Iron Age Gaul between the eighth and sixth centuries BC.
Arkadian Landscapes
In terms of landscape, it was not until New Archaeology or ‘processualism’ became the predominant doctrine that sites in their settings could begin to be understood. An essential part of the New Archaeology was the use of intensive, systematic and diachronic archaeological field survey, the use of which was readily taken up by archaeologists working in Greece. In Arkadia, the late 1960s witnessed the first regional survey undertaken by Roger Howell in the eastern plains.
Aspects of ancient Near Eastern chronology (c. 1600-700 BC)
The aim of my thesis has been to investigate the chronology of the Near East during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods (c. 1600–700 BC) to see whether or not the current ‘conventional’ chronology is as reliable as its adherents maintain…