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Gavin Murray Lucas - Professor
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Hugvísindasvið
Gavin Murray Lucas
Íslenska
Professor
Location
Árnagarður / Á-411
Phone
525 - 4194
Email
gavin [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology
Website
https://uni.hi.is/gavin/
Published Work
Gavin Murray Lucas - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Gavin Murray Lucas - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1619-7955
Research portal – Gavin Murray Lucas
Courses 2024 - 2025
FOR702M - Postmedieval archaeology
FOR408G - Theoretical Archaeology
FOR303G - Artefact Studies
FOR701M - Thirteen Things. Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Everyday Objects
FOR709F - Theories in Humanities
Education
1995
,
Ph.D.
,
University of Cambridge
,
Archaeology
1988
,
BA
,
Institute of Archaeology, University College London
,
Archaeology
Professional Experience
2012 -
,
Professor of Archaeology,
University of Iceland
2010 -
2012,
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology,
University of Iceland
2006 -
2010,
Lecturer in Archaeology,
University of Iceland
2002 -
2006,
Assistant Director,
Institute of Archaeology, Iceland
Published works
2024
ADVENTURES IN TIMELAND
History and Theory
The Future of Periodization. Dissecting the Legacy of Culture History
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
2023
Survivals and the persistence of the past
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2022
Skálholt: Excavations of a Bishop’s residence and school c. 1650-1790
Theory Above? Theory Alongside?
Norwegian Archaeological Review
A Solid Fluids Lexicon
Theory, Culture and Society
Archaeological Situations
The Case Study in Archaeological Theory
American Antiquity
Archaeological Investigations at Sandártunga, Þjórsádalur 2017
Archaeologia Islandica
Frá sjálfsþurft til neyslusamfélags
2021
Archaeological Stratigraphy and the Bifurcation of Time
Theory, Culture and Society
Paradigm Lost
Norwegian Archaeological Review
Pots for socks. Commodity itineraries in the North Atlantic during the 17th and 18th centuries
Post-Medieval Archaeology
Wild fowl egg consumption in postmedieval Iceland. SEM analysis of archaeological eggshells from the Bishop's seat at Skálholt, southwest Iceland
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
The terrain of thingworlds
Journal of Material Culture
The Archaeology of Z
Historical Archaeology
Making time
Conversations about time
A very curious larder – Insects from post-medieval Skálholt, Iceland, and their implications for interpreting activity areas
Journal of Archaeological Science
2020
Jarðfundin leirkir á Íslandi
Árbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Episcopal Economics. Property and power in post-reformation Iceland
Scandinavian Journal of History
EPISCOPAL ECONOMICS
Scandinavian Journal of History
Skál! Drykkjuskapur í Skálholti á 17. og 18. öld
Hinterlands and Inlands: The Archaeology of West Cambridge and Roman Cambridge Revisited
Archaeology without antiquity
Antiquity
2019
Will there be a next Nordic TAG? Reflections on theoretical archaeology in the Nordic countries today
Arkæologisk Forum
From fisherman’s cottage to summerhouse. Towards an archaeology of poverty and affluence in twentieth century Iceland
Archaeologia Islandica
Men in Black
Journal of Social Archaeology
2018
Periodization in archaeology
Symbiotic architectures
The Archaeological Record
The map as assemblage
Writing the past
The unburied. On archaeological objects and objectives
Archaeological Dialogues
2017
Response to commentaries
Archaeological Dialogues
The paradigm concept in archaeology
World Archaeology
The symmetries and asymmetries of human-thing relations. A dialogue
Archaeological Dialogues
Variations on a theme
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Later Historical Archaeologies of the North Atlantic
2016
Class identity and postcolonialism
Afterword
Building lives
Archaeology after interpretation
2015
Chronology and the Contemporary
ÓlafÍa
What is theory? what is archaeology? reply to comments
Current Swedish Archaeology
Debating archaeological empiricism
Archaeology and contemporaneity
Archaeological Dialogues
Capitalism and Mobility in the North Atlantic
An Interview with Gordon Childe: Iceland, 1956
Archaeologia Islandica
Historical archaeology and time
Archaeologies of Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past: An Interview with Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
The mobility of theory
Current Swedish Archaeology
Contemporizing the contemporary
Archaeological Dialogues
2014
Þorpið í Viðey
Árbók Hins íslenska fornleifafélags
Moving On: A Conversation with Chris Witmore
Interpretation in Archaeological Theory
Evidence of What? On the possibilities of archaeological interpretation
Conduits of dispersal
2013
A common biological basis of obesity and nicotine addiction
Translational Psychiatry
Ruins
2012
Fieldwork and Collecting
Raw, Cooked and Fluid Matter
Norwegian Archaeological Review
Understanding the archaeological record
The Archaeology of Capitalism in Iceland
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Later Historical Archaeology in Iceland
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
2011
Fornleifar í fersku ljósi. Nýar rannsóknir á fjórum landnámsbýlum
Fornleifastofnun Íslands og hlutverk fornleifafræðinnar í samtímanum
Constructivism and the Mechanocene
Norwegian Archaeological Review
Excavations at the Viking Age Settlement of Hofstaðir in North-Eastern Iceland
Að grafa upp nútímann. Fornleifar siðari tíma á Íslandi
Kræklingamynstur
2010
Time and the archaeological archive
Rethinking History
Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids
Nature
The Tensions of Modernity: Skálholt in the 17th and 18th centuries
Journal of North Atlantic Archaeology
Events, temporalities, and landscapes in Iceland
Triangulating absence: exploring the fault-lines between archaeology and anthropology
2009
Materiality and the Paradox of Material Culture
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Introduction
Geochemical Identification of the source for obsidian artefacts from the Viking Settlement at Hofstaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northeastern Iceland
Archaeologia Islandica
The Tower Works Investigations – Fengate West
Chapter 3. The Structural Sequence
Hofstaðir in the Setlement Period
2008
Palstoftir
Norwegian Archaeological Review
Time and the archaeological event
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
2007
The widespread adoption of pottery in Iceland 1850-1950
The Unbearable Lightness of Prehistory
Journal of Iberian Archaeology
Visions of archaeology. An interview with Tim Murray
Archaeological Dialogues
Bloody slaughter
European Journal of Archaeology
Landscapes of settlement in Northern Iceland
American Anthropologist
The Viking settlement at Hofstaðir in Mývatnssveit
2006
Íslensk fornleifafræði í norður-evrópsku samhengi
Ritið
Archaeology at the edge. An archaeological dialogue with Martin Hall
Archaeological Dialogues
Fornleifar og rannsóknir í Skálholti
The Roman Pottery' and other contributions to Marshland Communities and Cultural Landscapes from the Bronze Age to the Present Day
Archaeologies of modernity in the land of the sagas
Medeltidsarkeologisk Tidskrift
2005
Excavations at Hólskirkja, Bolungarvík
Archaeologia Islandica
Children, gender and the material culture of domestic abandonment in the late twentieth century
Kúvíkur: an abondoned trading site
Archaeologia Islandica
Eyri in Skutulsfjörður
Archaeologia Islandica
2004
The Archaeology of time
An Archaeology of Colonial Identity: Power and material culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa, 1688-1910
The Visual Archive in Icelandic Archaeology
Archaeologia Islandica
Modern disturbances
Modernism - Modernity
2003
The changing vernacular
Post-Medieval Archaeology
Reading pottery
International Journal of Historical Archeology
2002
Pre-Flavian kilns at Greenhouse Farm and the social context of early Roman pottery production in Cambridgeshire
Britannia
Disposability and dispossession in the twentieth century
Journal of Material Culture
2001
Between Remembering and Forgetting
Excavation of a Medieval Saltern at Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire
Presencing Absence
Critical Approaches to Fieldwork. Historical and Contemporary Archaeological Practice
Destruction and the Rhetoric of Excavation
Norwegian Archaeological Review
Bodies of Evidence
The archaeology of alienation: a late 20th century British council house
The Absent Present. Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
Models of Production and Consumption
1999
The Archaeology of the Workhouse
1998
Prehistory at Hofstaðir: An introduction to the 1996-7 excavations
Archaeologia Islandica
A Medieval Fishery on Whittlesea Mere
Medieval Archaeology
1997
Forgetting the Past
Anthropology Today
Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Pottery
1996
Of Death and Debt. A History of the Body in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Yorkshire
European Journal of Archaeology
1995
Interpretation in Contemporary Archaeology: Some Philosophical Issues
The Changing Face of Time. A Study of English Domestic Clocks from the Seventeeth to Nineteenth Centuries
Journal of Design History
1994
Excavation of a Roman Site near Wimpole, Cambs
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