Graduate Student, Groningen Institute of Archaeology
Doctoral Researcher (Drs.)
Thesis Title: Techniques and Society: the Middle and Late Bronze Age weapons of northwest Europe
About
Academic history:
I completed my undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Southampton, with a dissertation on the role of human remains, bodily practice and burial rites in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain. A Masters degree was undertaken at the University of Manchester, with a thesis exploring the bodily gestures, technical practices, and material culture of late Mesolithic societies in southern Scandinavia. I joined the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, as a doctoral researcher in 2007 studying social and technical aspects of Bronze Age metalwork in northwest Europe. I am also affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Research interests:
- Northwest and Central European Bronze Age
- Bronze Age metalwork: techniques, typology and chronology
- Material Culture studies
- The social history and theory of Culture History in archaeology
- Use-wear analysis and prehistoric technical practices
- The theories and methods of an Archaeology of Gesture
Contact Information
http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/gia/CurrentResearch/projectMatthews?lang=en
Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA)
Poststraat 6
9712 ER Groningen
The Netherlands





