University of Groningen

Graduate Student, Groningen Institute of Archaeology

Doctoral Researcher (Drs.)

Thesis Title: The Atlantic Bronze Age in southern England, and Beyond: The evidence for combat from rapiers and swords, c. 1400-950 BC.

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, in particular Middle and Late Bronze Age weapons. This research is concerned with studying the chronological and typological significance of different types of edge damage on Bronze Age rapiers and swords as products of culturally contingent techniques. 


Research interests:

- Atlantic Bronze Age complex

- 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

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