This is the abstract of a paper delivered at the 2018 European Association of Archaeologists conference (Barcelona). It was part of a session called ‘Archaeological uncertainty; a journey through the ruins of a discipline’. This session highlighted ways that the disciplinary landscape of archaeology has changed over the past 30 years, and both the…[Read more]

This is a abstract for a paper presented at the 2018 European Association of Archaeologists conference (Barcelona). The session title was ‘Archaeology of rock-hewn sites and quarries: people, stones and landscapes’, and aimed to investigate theoretical and methodological issues of rock-cut sites, and quarries. The paper was a chance for me to make…[Read more]

An archaeological comic introducing ‘Sarsen Country’, the area of central-southern and eastern England where sarsen stones can be found and have been used by people since the Neolithic period. The poster is drawn and laid out in the style of a railway poster from the inter-war years. It takes the viewer on a journey around the country, calling in…[Read more]

This is the abstract of a paper that I presented at the Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress, held in Bristol 23-25 March 2018. It was part of the ‘Industry’ session which included an eclectic range of papers looking at specific industries across continents, and also the cultural heritage management of industrial archaeological sites. My…[Read more]

This is the abstract of a paper that I presented at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, held in Cardiff 18-20 December 2017. It opened the session “Failure is not Fatal”, organised by Lorna Richardson (University of Umea) and Alison Atkin (University of Sheffield). The session invited papers on all aspects of failure in archaeology and…[Read more]

This is the abstract of a paper that I gave at the Neolithic Studies Group annual meeting, held on 6 November 2017 at the British Museum. The meeting title was “Extracting more than rock? Insights into the acquisition of stone and flint in the Neolithic.” The organisers (Anne Teather, Pete Topping, and Jon Baczkowski) invited papers on the…[Read more]

This is the abstract of a paper that I presented at the European Association of Archaeologists’ 2017 conference, held in Maastricht. The paper was part of a session I co-organised with Penny Foreman (University of Bournemouth) and Claudia Sciuto (University of Umea). The session was titled “Stone is the Storyteller – The materiality of stone…[Read more]

This is the abstract of a paper that I presented at the 2016 Neolithic and Bronze Age Research Students’ Symposium. NEBARSS 2016 was held at University College London on 18-19 November. The theme was “Anarchy in the UK?” Contributors were challenged to construct alternative pasts that either diverge from, disrupt, or invert linear narratives of…[Read more]