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- PhD Archaeology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Julian Stewart Thomas is a British archaeologist, publishing on the Neolithic and Bronze Age prehistory of Britain and north-west Europe. Thomas has been vice president of the Royal Anthropological Institute since 2007. He has been Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester since 2000, and is former secretary of the World Archaeological Congress. Thomas is perhaps best known as the author of the academic publication Understanding the Neolithic in particular, and for his work with the Stonehenge Riverside Project.
Julian Thomas's Published Works
Published Works
- Understanding The Neolithic (1999) (325)
- Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretive Archaeology. (1997) (325)
- Rethinking the Neolithic (1991) (307)
- Archaeology and modernity (2004) (295)
- Archaeologies of Place and Landscape (2001) (251)
- Handbook of Landscape Archaeology (2008) (190)
- Destruction and conservation of cultural property (2001) (128)
- Emotion in Archaeology (2000) (120)
- The future of archaeological theory (2015) (90)
- Thoughts on the ‘Repacked’ Neolithic Revolution (2003) (90)
- Neolithic Explanations Revisited : The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Britain and South Scandinavia (1988) (77)
- How the west was lost: A reconsideration of agricultural origins in Britain, Ireland, and southern Scandinavia. Commentaries. Author's reply (2004) (74)
- Death, identity and the body in neolithic Britain (2000) (69)
- Archaeology’s Humanism and the Materiality of the Body (2002) (68)
- Landscape Archaeology: Introduction (2008) (65)
- The Birth of Neolithic Britain: An Interpretive Account (2014) (62)
- Materializing Stonehenge (2006) (60)
- Phenomenology and material culture (2006) (59)
- Interpretive archaeology: a reader (2000) (59)
- The age of Stonehenge (2007) (56)
- Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretive Archaeology (1998) (52)
- Monuments from the inside: The case of the Irish megalithic tombs (1990) (52)
- Current debates on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland (2004) (50)
- The Social Significance of Cotswold-Severn Burial Practices (1988) (49)
- Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. (1998) (47)
- The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain (2008) (47)
- Who was buried at Stonehenge? (2009) (46)
- In the Kinship of Cows: the Social Centrality of Cattle in the Earlier Neolithic of Southern Britain (2003) (43)
- Archaeology, Landscape, and Dwelling (2008) (42)
- Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and Beyond (1996) (42)
- ANATOMY OF A TOMB-WEST KENNET REVISITED (1986) (41)
- Mesolithic-Neolithic transitions in Britain: From essence to inhabitation (2007) (39)
- A précis of Time, Culture and Identity (1996) (38)
- The Return of the Rinyo-Clacton Folk? The Cultural Significance of the Grooved Ware Complex in Later Neolithic Britain (2010) (36)
- Understanding the Neolithic: A revised second edition ofRethinking the Neolithic (1999) (35)
- The dead of Stonehenge (2016) (33)
- Archaeology's Place in Modernity (2004) (31)
- The great dark book: archaeology, experience and interpretation (2004) (30)
- The trouble with material culture (2007) (28)
- On the Origins and Development of Cursus Monuments in Britain (2006) (26)
- The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus (2009) (24)
- Archaeology And The Politics Of Vision In A Post-Modern Context (2008) (24)
- Ambiguous symbols> why there were no figurines in Neolithic Britain (2005) (23)
- Some Problems with the Notion of External Symbolic Storage, and the case of Neolithic Material Culture in Britain (1998) (22)
- Neolithtc houses in mainland Britain and Ireland – A sceptical view (2002) (22)
- Reconfiguring the social, reconfiguring the material (2000) (22)
- On the ocularcentrism of archaeology. (2009) (21)
- Relations of Production and Social Change in the Neolithic of North-West Europe (1987) (21)
- The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences (2018) (21)
- Stonehenge's Avenue and ‘Bluestonehenge’ (2016) (20)
- Place and Memory: Excavations at the Pict's Knowe, Holywood and Holm Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994-8 (2007) (19)
- A Neolithic Ceremonial Complex in Galloway: Excavations at Dunragit and Droughduil, 1999–2002 (2015) (19)
- Neolithic Britain (2018) (19)
- The vagabond papers (19)
- TAG and ‘post-modernism’: a reply to John Bintliff (1992) (19)
- Review Articles : The Socio-Semiotics of Material Culture (1998) (19)
- Stonehenge: Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery (2016) (18)
- The Hollow Men? A Reply to Steven Mithen (1991) (17)
- The socio-semiotics of material culture (1998) (15)
- The internal features at Durrington Walls: investigations in the Southern Circle and Western Enclosures 2005-6. (2007) (15)
- Why ‘The Death of Archaeological Theory’? (2015) (15)
- Introduction: the destruction and conservation of cultural property (2003) (15)
- REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON NEOLITHIC PIT DEPOSITION: BEYOND THE MUNDANE, EDITED BY HUGO ANDERSON-WHYMARK (2012) (14)
- The axe and the torso (1993) (14)
- Some deposits are more structured than others (2012) (14)
- Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge: a major transformation of the Holocene landscape (2012) (14)
- Neolithic Britain: The Transformation of Social Worlds (2018) (13)
- Cane toads : an unnatural history (1991) (13)
- Lithic analysis and later British prehistory : some problems and approaches (1987) (13)
- Sigmund Freud's archaeological metaphor and archaeology's self-understanding. (2009) (13)
- The Stonehenge Riverside Project: exploring the Neolithic landscape of Stonehenge (2008) (12)
- 1938: Past and present in an elaborate anniversary∗ (1988) (11)
- Cattle, consumption and causewayed enclosures (response to Parmenter, Johnson and Outram) (2016) (11)
- The identity of place in Neolithic Britain: examples from south-west Scotland (2000) (11)
- 'Archaeology and modernity' - : Or archaeology and a modernist amnesia? Commentary and Authors' reply (2006) (10)
- Materiality and traditions of practice in Neolithic south-west Scotland (2004) (10)
- The 'proper study' of medieval archaeology: a case study (2013) (10)
- The later Neolithic architectural repertoire: the case of the Dunragit complex (2004) (10)
- In Dialogue: Tradition and Interaction in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition (2016) (9)
- What do we mean by 'Neolithic societies'? (2015) (9)
- Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Part 1: Landscape and Monuments (2020) (8)
- Google Under-the-Earth: seeing beneath Stonehenge using Google Earth - a tool for public engagement and the dissemination of archaeological data (2015) (8)
- Uncommon Ground : Landscape as Social Geography (2018) (8)
- The Childhood of Edward Thomas: A Fragment of Autobiography (1983) (8)
- Gene-flows and social processes> the potential of genetics and archaeology (2006) (8)
- Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic (2011) (8)
- The Hermeneutics of Megalithic Space (2020) (7)
- Introduction: beyond the mundane? (2012) (6)
- Stonehenge, its river and its landscape: Unravelling the mysteries of a prehistoric sacred place (2006) (6)
- From dwelling to building (2008) (6)
- Monumental architecture in sub-Saharan Africa: a European perspective (2013) (5)
- Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Palaeolandscape Reconstruction in Landscape Archaeology (2016) (5)
- Comments VIII: Between 'material qualities' and 'materiality' (2005) (5)
- Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, eds, A Companion to Social Archaeology (2013) (4)
- Concluding remarks: landscape, taskscape, life (2017) (4)
- Ceremonies of the horsemen? From megalithic tombs to Beaker burials in prehistoric Europe. (2005) (4)
- Anthropology and archaeology (2012) (4)
- Machinery and community: the Atherton Gardens community network experiment (2002) (4)
- Reading the Neolithic (1991) (4)
- Review Feature: A review of An Archaeology of Socialism, by Victor Buchli. (Materializing Culture.) Oxford & New York (NY): Berg Publishers, 2000; ISBN 1-85973-212-7 hardback £44.99; ISBN 1-85973-426-X paperback £14.99; 256 pp., 26 figs. (2002) (4)
- The Right to Food as a Fundamental Human Right: FAO’s Experience (2007) (3)
- Discourse, Totalization and 'The Neolithic' (2020) (3)
- The Community Support Approach (CSA): An ABC for Rural Development (1992) (3)
- Cannibals Convicts: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific (2008) (3)
- Vagabond country : Australian bush & town life in the Victorian Age (1981) (3)
- Amy Johnson's triumph, Australia 1930∗ (1988) (3)
- Bronze Age Britain. By Michael Parker Pearson. 144 pp., 126 figs, 16 plates. London: B. T. Batsford/English Heritage, 1993. £14.99. (1994) (3)
- Comment: Monuments, power and personhood in the British Neolithic (2001) (3)
- The Stonehenge landscape before Stonehenge. (2012) (3)
- Durrington Walls and Woodhenge. A place for the living (1970) (3)
- Comments on ?Past Practices: Rethinking Individuals and Agents in Archaeology? by A.B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen (2008) (3)
- ThermXL: a Thermal Modelling Tool Integrated Within Microsoft® Excel (2000) (3)
- In the house of the living (2012) (2)
- Neolithization and Population Replacement in Britain: An Alternative View (2022) (2)
- Maintaining the open space (1998) (2)
- A materialidade e o social (1999) (2)
- Gender, Politics and American Archaeology (1992) (2)
- Regional Perspectives on Pit Deposition: Beyond the Mundane (2012) (2)
- A History of Beginnings (1999) (2)
- The lives of monuments and monumentalising Life (2020) (2)
- Action, temporality and being. Commentary and Authors' reply (2006) (2)
- House societies and founding ancestors in Early Neolithic Britain (2015) (2)
- A reply to Christopher Witmore, Håkon Glørstad, Søren Kjørup and Ola W. Jensen (2006) (2)
- Remembered and imagined belongings: Stonehenge in the age of first metals (2017) (2)
- Between journals and archives: peer reviewing and other possible futures for academic publishing (2005) (1)
- Political theatre in 'The West Wing' (2007) (1)
- The Axe and the Torso: Symbolic Structures in the Neolithic of Brittany (2020) (1)
- Performances of the living (1994) (1)
- Commentary: walls and bridges. (2010) (1)
- Anthropocentrism without a centre? (1997) (1)
- Structural and sequential complexity in causewayed enclosures: (2022) (1)
- Archaeology and the politics of tradition (2012) (1)
- Spreadsheet Analysis for Early Phase Thermal Design (2001) (1)
- Youth radio, participation and social policy (2006) (1)
- AAA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 1993-Two (1994) (1)
- Houses foundational: Gathering histories at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire (2020) (1)
- History with and without Film (1989) (1)
- Assembling ornament and assembling identity (2021) (1)
- Insignificance: On the Unobtrusiveness of Material Things (2020) (1)
- An Investigation of Statistical Visualisation Techniques for Thermal Applications (2010) (1)
- Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain . By Richard Bradley and Mark Edmonds. 260mm. Pp. xiv + 236, 24 pls., 65 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-43446-7. £37.50. (1993) (1)
- Wiring Atherton Gardens (2004) (1)
- Burial chambers or house societies (2012) (1)
- Peter Topping (ed.). Neolithic landscapes: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers 2. (Oxbow monograph 86.) x+187 pages, 38 figures, 7 tables. 1997. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-900-188-41-4 paperback £20. (1998) (1)
- Archaeology, Anthropology, and Material Things (2020) (1)
- Radiative Analysis for a Comet Rendezvous Mission (1998) (1)
- Braver, Lee. Heidegger: thinking of being. 234 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2014. £16.99 (paper) (2015) (0)
- Aerospace Thermal Analysis Tools - The State of the Art (1999) (0)
- Bassey Wai Andah and archaeological thought (2019) (0)
- The Analysis of Space Debris and Micro-Meteoroid Impacts (2001) (0)
- Why are archaeologists discussing 'the death of theory'? (2015) (0)
- Overcoming the Modern Conception of Material Culture (2007) (0)
- North West Europe in Transition (2012) (0)
- Recent Advances in Shortening the Thermal Analysis Life-Cycle (2003) (0)
- Grand narratives of prehistoric Europe (1998) (0)
- From ‘Oomoo’ to ‘Oro’: nostalgia labels and cultural policy on the Australian trade marks register (2019) (0)
- Lego Brick (2019) (0)
- The Neolithic Transition in Britain (2013) (0)
- Response to Apel and Darmark: Evolution and Material Culture (2021) (0)
- Archaeology, modernity and society (2004) (0)
- The Neolithization of Northern Europe (2013) (0)
- Expanding a Neolithic landscape: Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire (2016) (0)
- Logic: Inductive and Deductive (2014) (0)
- Houses foundational: (2020) (0)
- Monumentality in Neolithic Britain: (2021) (0)
- Comments on Part I: Intersecting Landscapes (2020) (0)
- The Neolithization of Europe (2013) (0)
- Contact, Interaction, and Seafaring (2013) (0)
- The Vagabond papers : sketches of Melbourne life, in light & shade (0)
- Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thoughts (2013) (0)
- DUNRAGIT:: FEATURES REVEALED BY EXCAVATION (2015) (0)
- Thermal Analysis of a Comet Rendezvous (1998) (0)
- A Late Neolithic Pottery Deposit at Ash Hill Long Barrow, Swinhope, Lincs (1987) (0)
- The Holywood cursus complex, Dumfries:: an interim account 1997 (2017) (0)
- The Collapse of Complex Societies. By Joseph A. Tainter. 258 × 180mm. Pp. xiv + 250 + 30 figs. + 7 tables and b/w frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 0521-34092-6. £27·50. (1989) (0)
- Jürg Frey - Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014 (2016) (0)
- 4000 BCE: a cultural threshold (2018) (0)
- A response to my critics (1996) (0)
- Materiality, authenticity, and skilled engagement: a commentary (2004) (0)
- Conclusion: A lived Neolithic (2018) (0)
- Events, narrative and data: Why new chronologies or ethically Bayesian approaches should change how we write archaeology (2023) (0)
- Social Being and Time. By Christopher Gosden. 217 pp., 7 figs. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994. ISBN 0631185348 (Hb), 0631190236 (Pb). £40.00 (Hb), £12.99 (Pb). (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews : EXPLANATION IN SOCIAL HISTORY. Christopher Lloyd. Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1988. 375 pp. $29.95 (1990) (0)
- Cannibals and Convicts (2021) (0)
- Frightful neighbourhood (2015) (0)
- Squeezing blood from a turnip (2009) (0)
- Narratives for the fourth millennium (2018) (0)
- Hodder, Ian. Where are we heading? The evolution of humans and things. xvi, 179 pp., figs, bibliogr. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 2018. £20.00 (cloth) (2020) (0)
- Identity, power and material culture in Neolithic Britain (2004) (0)
- Biography hacking prompts Wikipedia review (2009) (0)
- Clive Ruggles (ed.). Records in stone: papers in memory of Alexander Thom. xviii + 518 pages, 139 illustrations, 31 tables. 1988. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-33381-4 hardback £50 & $100. (1989) (0)
- Archaeological Theory: An Introduction@@@Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretive Archaeology (2001) (0)
- The Protection of Monuments and Landscapes in Britain: A Historical View (0)
- Knowledge in your pocket! The impact of social media (2010) (0)
- Invasion, colonisation or imitation?: debating how and why Britain joined 'The Neolithic Club' (2014) (0)
- Not All That Glitters is Gold? Rock Crystal in the Early British Neolithic at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire, and the Wider British and Irish Context (2022) (0)
- The Protection of Monuments and Landscapes in Britain: A Historical View (Video) (2021) (0)
- Neolithic Enclosures of North-West Europe (2000) (0)
- YouthWorx: social inclusion through digital inclusion (2009) (0)
- Relations of power : the Neolithic of central south-west England (1986) (0)
- Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Part 2: Synthesis (2020) (0)
- House societies and the beginning of the British Neolithic (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, eds, A Companion to Social Archaeology. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 430 pp., hbk ISBN 0 631 22578 1) (2007) (0)
- The Battle of the Plans Part 3 : Let's not forget the Spotswood syndrome. by John Buchanan and Julian Thomas (1992) (0)
- Kinship, history, and descent (2018) (0)
- After Stonehenge. Later prehistory and the historical period in the Stonehenge landscape (1970) (0)
- Richard Bradley. Altering the earth: the origins of monuments in Britain and continental Europe (The 1991–1992 Rhind lectures). (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph 8.) xvi+150 pages, 64 figures. 1993. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; ISBN 0-903903-08-3 paperback £16. (1993) (0)
- Heroic history and public spectacle : Sydney 1938 (1991) (0)
- The Neolithic body (2018) (0)
- CONTEXT:: THE PREHISTORY OF LUCE BAY (2015) (0)
- An Environment for Post-Processing Thermal Analysis Results (2006) (0)
- Writing Neolithic Britain: an interpretive journey (2018) (0)
- Andrew Meirion Jones and Marta Díaz-Guardamino, with contributions by Antonia Thomas, Ian Dawson, and Louisa Minkin. Making a Mark: Image and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland (Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019, 288pp., 113 b/w illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-1-78925-188-3) (2020) (0)
- Introduction: Neolithic Britain—encounters and reflections (2018) (0)
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