Sentient Archaeologies

Courtney Nimura is Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Curator of Later European Prehistory at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Lecturer at Magdalen College, and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research ranges from later prehistoric art to maritime archaeology in Europe. Rebecca O’Sullivan is a Research Fellow at the University of Bonn. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2018. Her research explores the rock art and archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age eastern Eurasia, with a focus on interactions between China, Korea, and Japan. Richard Bradley is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Reading University and an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Archaeology at Oxford. Recent publications include: Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land (2022), Temporary Palaces (2021), A Comparative Study of Rock Art in Later Prehistoric Europe (2020), The Prehistory of Britain and Europe (revised edition 2019), and A Geography of Offerings (2016).

Contributors

List of figures and tables

 

1. Living Archaeology

Rebecca O’Sullivan, Courtney Nimura & Richard Bradley

2. Reflections on Populating the Western Pacific

Glenn Summerhayes

3. Diversity and Difference in New Britain, Papua New Guinea: Seeking Indigenous Communities in the Archaeological Record

Jim Specht & Robin Torrence

4. Why the Concept of Near and Remote Oceania Fails Island Melanesian Prehistory

Christopher Sand & Jim Allen

5. Storied Landscapes in the Palaeolithic? The View from the Cave

Graeme Barker & Chris O. Hunt

6. A Circular Tomb with ‘Stones’ of Clay: The Tomb of Lord Bai of Zhongli, Anhui Province, Central China, Early 6th Century BC

Jessica Rawson

7. Agricultural Places as Processes

Amy Bogaard

8. A viereckschanze in Oxfordshire, England? Enclosure and Memory at Marcham

Gary Lock & Sheila Raven

9. A Landscape’s Memory: The Long-term Impact of Proto-industrial Salt Extraction in the Seille Valley in France

Laurent Olivier

10. Taking, Using, and Giving Back Again: The Deposition of Living Matter in Ancient Europe

Richard Bradley

11. Rock Art: A Marker of Concepts and Practices

Courtney Nimura, Rebecca O’Sullivan & Peter Hommel

12. Celtic Art Beyond Metal: Material Matters in Iron Age and Early Roman Southern England

Sarah Downum & Duncan Garrow

13. Jet and Gender in Late Roman Britain

Cameron Moffett

14. Using Coinage and Die-Studies to Obtain Evidence about Society in the Late Iron Age

John Talbot

15. ‘Keep on Truckin’ – Thoughts from the Back of a Bus

A. M. Pollard

16. Biography and Technology: A Bronze Ding Vessel of the Early Iron Age in China

Xiuzhen Li

17. Rewriting Global Histories of Human–Material Relations in Different Cultural Contexts

Shadreck Chirikure

18. Collections of Aboriginal Ground Stone Tools from the Murray Darling Basin: Function, Temporality, and Social Context

Richard Fullagar, Elspeth Hayes & Colin Pardoe

19. Cultural and Landscape Change in Australia’s World Heritage Wet Tropics Bioregion, Northeast Queensland

Richard Cosgrove

20. What’s Involved in Technological Change? Aboriginal Marine Hunting in Tropical North Australia

Harry Allen

21. The Yolŋu System as a Regional Polity

Howard Morphy with Frances Morphy

22. Anthropology and Archaeology: A Necessary Unity

Lambros Malafouris

23. On Ontological Impurity: Conceptualising Time in Archaeology

John Robb

24. Archaeology, Heritage, and the Heritage of Archaeology

Ian Lilley

25. Selling Photographs: Collecting Archaeology

Elizabeth Edwards

26. On the Origins of Khami: Evidence from the Henry Balfour Collection, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Innocent Pikirayi

27. In Dreams the Heart: Impermanence at the Museum

Chantal Knowles

28. A Civil Servant Walks onto a Neolithic barrow…: Sir Lindsay Scott and the Whiteleaf Oval Barrow

Gill Hey

29. Redirecting the Field – Total Archaeologies, Flagships, and Sample Design

Christopher Evans

30. Oxford Intelligence

Lynn Meskell