Written and produced by Chris Witcombe - Sweet Briar College - witcombe@sbc.edu William Stukeley Like John Aubrey, Dr. William Stukeley (1687-1765) was an antiquarian and a scholar of sacred history and cabalistic science. He visited many ancient sites which, since John Aubrey's discoveries in the previous century, had provoked increasing interest in England. Stukeley was particularly curious ...

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Written and produced by Chris Witcombe - Sweet Briar College - witcombe@sbc.edu John Aubrey John Aubrey (1626-1697) was an English antiquary and miscellaneous writer. He was born in the hamlet of Easton Piercy in the parish of Kington St Michael near Chippenham in Wiltshire, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. His most famous work is Lives of Eminent Men, which was not published, however, ...

The Third Culture Home | Third Culture | Digerati | Reality Club Biography Threads Bibliography The Three Dimensions of Human History A Talk With Colin Renfrew Introduction by John Brockman Much of Colin Renfrew's early work was in the field of European prehistory, looking at processes of culture change, and he came to realize that many of the diffusionist ideas current in the fifties and ...

Issue 59 June 2001 Contents news Quarries threat to archaeological landscapes Digging down through rubbish to reach the 'best-preserved Victorian ironworks in Wales' Prestige feasting 'dates back to hunter-gatherer era' Unique Roman town indentified in hinterland of Hadrian's Wall Bronze Age village found with buried megalith In Brief features The edible dead Cannibalsim as a universal human ...

General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers April 14, 1827 - May 4, 1900 His Influence on Modern Archaeology Jennifer E. Stephens During the nineteenth century the study of Archaeology took enormous developmental steps. Archaeologists were faced with new ideas which would guide them in making decisions on which modern Archaeology would be based. The European world felt a need for knowledge of ...

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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison Issue no 5, June 1995 INTERVIEW Simon Denison talks to David Thackray Meeting the man from the Trust The National Trust is not an organisation one immediately associates with archaeology, but its 580, 000 acres of land in fact contain tens of thousands of sites and monuments - including such famous names as Stonehenge, Avebury and Hadrian's Wall - not to ...

British Archaeology, no 14, May 1996: Obituary Jacquetta Hawkes by Paul Bahn Jacquetta Hawkes, who has died aged 85, was one of the foremost popularisers of archaeology, who produced a whole series of syntheses, atlases and guidebooks which combined accuracy of fact with clarity of thought and great elegance of expression. Her book on Sir Mortimer Wheeler is also one of the best archaeological ...

British Archaeology, no 20, December 1996: Interview Man of status, who wants it not Simon Denison talks to Richard Bradley Few figures in archaeology command such respect as Richard Bradley, Professor of Archaeology at Reading. In a close-knit but sometimes catty discipline, he tends to be praised in superlatives. Colleagues have described him to me as `a real live wire', `a genius', and `the ...

British Archaeology, no 21, February 1997: Obituary Martyn Jope by Thomas McNeill Martyn Jope had three overlapping careers in archaeology, as a medievalist, in the Iron Age, and as a campaigner for the deployment of laboratory disciplines in the subject. In all three he achieved great distinction, recognised by professorships at two universities and fellowships of the British and Royal Irish ...

British Archaeology, no 26, July 1997: Interview Taking an aesthetic view of buildings Simon Denison talks to Warwick Rodwell The genesis of this interview was a letter that Warwick Rodwell, distinguished church archaeologist and historic buildings adviser, sent me in December last year. He wrote, apropos of something or other: Some people tend to accumulate more junk than others. Although we ...

ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison Issue no 4, May 1995 OBITUARY Leslie Grinsell by Paul Ashbee Leslie Grinsell, though an amateur archaeologist most of his life, to a great extent determined the direction of field archaeology in the second half of this century. He came to prehistory via the classification of flint implements, but soon turned to barrows, long and round. With rucksack, maps, ...

British Archaeology, no 7, September 1995: Interview Simon Denison talks to Peter Addyman So farewell then, Mr President If the presidency of the CBA had a formal `job description', it might read something like this: massively time-consuming work, much of it at weekends, endless travelling to represent the CBA as advocate, conciliator, enthusiast and guide; payment, nil; thanks, occasional; ...

Professor John J. WILKES BA, PhD, FBA, FSA Position(s) Currently held: Yates Professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology Research Interests: History and Archaeology of th Graeco-Roman world in general with specializations in Britain and Southeast Europe. Roman inscriptions and topography, settlements and site archaeology. Recent Publications: Wilkes, J J, 1992. The Illyrians. Oxford: Blackwell ...

Professor Mick Aston BA (Birmingham), FSA, MIFA Professor of Landscape Archaeology, member of the Centre for the Historic Environment, specialises in landscape archaeology. Examples of current research interests: Post-Roman landscapes, especially towns and monastic archaeology Director of the long-term research project of Shapwick in Somerset which is analysing landscape and settlement evolution.

British Archaeology, no 19, November 1996: Obituary Stuart Piggott by Richard Bradley British archaeology has lost the last of its `three wise men'. The death of Stuart Piggott, so soon after Christopher Hawkes and Grahame Clark, means that an entire generation of prehistorians who began their careers in the late 1920s has now passed. More than anyone else, they laid the foundations for the ...

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ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison Issue no 51, February 2000 FAVOURITE FINDS I blame the champagne Mick Aston recalls the day he stumbled on a deserted medieval village My favourite discovery took place in the summer of about 1976, when I was county archaeologist in Somerset. I was on my way back from Richard Bradley's wedding , and there were four of us in the car, the archaeologists Pete ...

ISSN 1357-4442 Editor: Simon Denison Issue no 4, May 1995 INTERVIEW Simon Denison talks to Tom Hassall The suit shall not contain him No doubt about it, the new National Monuments Record Centre, which opened in Swindon last year, is an intriguing idea. Photos, surveys and building records, produced by the English Royal Commission over the past century, are now on one site for the first time and ...

British Archaeology, no 9, November 1995: Interview Simon Denison talks to David Miles Keep the stories rolling in It is not uncommon to hear field archaeologists say that `there's not much going on in archaeology' any more. They tell you that in the era of developer-funded archaeology, historical inquiry has more or less died. It is a response you rarely get from the Oxford Archaeological Unit.

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British Archaeology, no 10, December 1995: Interview Simon Denison talks to Francis Pryor This shepherd won't follow the flock He said he was the world's worst photographic subject, because he couldn't keep his face still for a moment. `Oh, and Christ, Maisie will kill me, 'cause I haven't combed my hair . . .' So far, so good. The man who can't feign an unctious smile, and who maintains a ...

William Stukeley (1687-1765) British antiquarian, best known for his competent archaeological fieldwork at Avebury and Stonehenge. Between 1710 and 1725 Stukeley made numerous summer expeditions on horseback across the English countryside accurately observing and describing, carefully sketching and drawing, and always looking for antiquities. He published several Itineraria, one of which was ...

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