Nicholas J. Saunders

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas J. Saunders is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield , Cambridge , and Southampton . He has held teaching and research positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the West Indies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., and at University College London, where he was Reader in Material Culture, and undertook a major British Academy sponsored investigation into the material culture anthropology of the First World War . Saunders was Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, where he was responsible for the MA programmes in historical archaeology and conflict archaeology. As of 2018, he is Emeritus Professor of Material Culture in that department. He is a prominent contributor to the nascent field of conflict archaeology, and has authored and edited numerous academic publications in the field. In addition to his research specialising in the anthropology of 20th-century conflicts and the archaeology of World War I theatres in Belgium, France and the Middle East, Saunders has also conducted extensive fieldwork and research in pre-Columbian and historical archaeology of the Americas. He has been involved with major museum exhibitions in London, Ypres , Tübingen , and at the Centre Pompidou-Metz . Saunders has investigated and published on material cultures and landscapes of Mesoamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. His most recent research has been on the aesthetics of brilliance and colour in indigenous Amerindian symbolism, an extensive survey investigation of the Nazca Lines in Peru, the anthropological archaeology of twentieth-century conflict and its legacies along the Soca Front on the Slovenian-Italian border, and the conflict artworks of the Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front during and after the First World War.

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Biographies of brilliance : pearls, transformations of matter and being, c. AD 1492 (1999) (105)
Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War (2003) (92)
Excavating memories: archaeology and the Great War, 1914–2001 (2002) (79)
Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War (2004) (69)
Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War (2007) (61)
A dark light: Reflections on obsidian in Mesoamerica (2001) (59)
Matter and Memory in the Landscapes of Conflict: The Western Front 1914–1999 (2001) (55)
Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory (2000) (51)
Icons of power : feline symbolism in the Americas (2013) (46)
Recent studies in Pre-Columbian archaeology (1988) (31)
Crucifix, calvary, and cross: Materiality and spirituality in Great War landscapes (2003) (31)
The peoples of the Caribbean : an encyclopedia of archaeology and traditional culture (2005) (30)
Predators of culture: Jaguar symbolism and Mesoamerican elites (1994) (30)
Stealers of Light, Traders in Brilliance: Amerindian Metaphysics in the Mirror of Conquest (1998) (30)
Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Columbia (2003) (27)
Catching the light: Technologies of power and enchantment in Pre-Columbian goldworking (2003) (25)
Time to destroy. An archaeology of supermodernity (2010) (20)
Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in Modern Conflict Archaeology (2012) (20)
Site reading (1998) (19)
Material culture and conﬂict: the Great War, 1914–2003 (2004) (16)
Contested Objects : Material Memories of the Great War (2009) (16)
Fire on the desert: conflict archaeology and the Great Arab Revolt in Jordan, 1916–18 (2010) (15)
Beyond the Dead Horizon (2012) (14)
Images of Conflict: Military Aerial Photography and Archaeology (2009) (13)
Zemís, trees, and symbolic landscapes: three Taíno carvings from Jamaica (1996) (13)
Tezcatlipoca: jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature (1994) (12)
People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War (2009) (12)
Bodies in conflict: Corporeality, Materiality and transformation (2014) (11)
The Ironic "Culture of Shells" in the Great War and Beyond (2002) (11)
Alexander's Tomb: The Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conqueror (2006) (11)
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art (1982) (9)
A god forsaken: the sacred bear in Andean iconography and cosmology (2010) (9)
Desert labyrinth: lines, landscape and meaning at Nazca, Peru (2012) (8)
Paragon or peril? The jaguar in Amazonian Indian society (2013) (8)
Apprehending Memory: Material Culture and War, 1919-1939 (2001) (8)
Fire on the Desert: Conflict Archaeology and the Great Arab Revolt in Southern Jordan (2010) (8)
Conflict Landscapes of the Soča/Isonzo Front, 1915-2013: Archaeological -Anthropological Evaluation of the Soča Valley, Slovenia (2013) (8)
Archaeological correlates of ideological activity: Food Taboos and spirit animals in an Amazonian rainforest hunter-gatherer society (2002) (7)
Ancient America : contributions to New World archaeology (1992) (6)
The cult of the cat (1991) (6)
Trench Art : A Brief History and Guide, 1914-1939 (2001) (5)
Fire and Water: Tradition and Modernity in the Archaeology of Steam Locomotion in a Desert War (2011) (5)
Memory and Conflict (2020) (5)
The Interpretation of the Pecked Cross Symbols at Teotihuacan: A Methodological Note (1984) (4)
Introduction:: Engaging the Materialities of Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Conflict (2012) (4)
Conflict Landscapes (2021) (4)
People of the Jaguar: The Living Spirit of Ancient America (1989) (4)
Bodies in Trees: a matter of being in Great War landscapes (2014) (3)
Introduction: Symbolizing Tezcatlipoca (2015) (3)
Anthropology and archaeology of the first world war (2013) (3)
Prolactinoma during pregnancy causing compression symptoms responding to bromocriptine therapy. (1985) (3)
Introduction: Icons of Power (1998) (3)
Modern Conflict and the Senses (2017) (3)
Peoples of the Caribbean: An Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology and Traditional Culture (2005) (2)
Zeitgeist archaeology: conflict, identity and ideology at Prague Castle, 1918–2018 (2019) (2)
Desert Insurgency (2020) (2)
Peoples of the Caribbean (2005) (2)
Archaeological Correlates of Ideological Activity (2002) (2)
Book-Review - the Nasca Lines - a New Perspective on Their Origin and Meaning (1988) (2)
First World War Archaeology: Between Theory and Practice (2011) (2)
Trench art lost worlds of the Great War : the trench art collection of the In Flanders Fields Museum (2004) (2)
Soil, Stones and Symbols (2004) (2)
Craft and Conflict: Masonic Trench Art and Military Memorabilia (2003) (1)
The dead and their spaces (2021) (1)
Trench Art: The Recyclia of War (2000) (1)
What is Trench Art? (2020) (1)
Revealing ancient language (1992) (1)
Your roots are showing (2004) (1)
Cherry Orchard, The (2001) (1)
Old views of the past (1997) (1)
The Poppy: A Cultural History from Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan (2013) (1)
Materiality, Conflict and the Great War (2020) (0)
Objects and Landscape in Conflict, 1914-1918 (2020) (0)
The Italian Front on the Soča (Isonzo) (2019) (0)
Classifying First World War Trench Art (2020) (0)
The Cave Mouth and the Giant Voice: sound and voice in Okinawan war memory (2016) (0)
The Materiality of Individuality (2009) (0)
Holy prehistory (1998) (0)
Vestiges of the Home Front: An archaeological approach to recording the Great War landscape in Britain (2016) (0)
Brian M. Fagan: The Aztecs (New York: Freeman, 1984, cloth $2.6.95, paper $13.95). Pp. xii + 322. (1986) (0)
22 War without Frontiers: The Archaeology of the Arab Revolt, 1916-18 (2009) (0)
Beyond the Railway (2020) (0)
A World of Metals (2020) (0)
Forged in Conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory (2020) (0)
Wood, Textiles, Stone and Bone (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Killing Time: The Study of Trench Art, 1914-2002 (2002) (0)
Trench Art (2020) (0)
Trench Art: Memorabilia and the Market in Memories (2001) (0)
A Global History of Art in Modern Warfare (2016) (0)
Review: Solving Stonehenge (2008) (0)
Curating The Great War (2022) (0)
In pursuit of Lewis Binford (1985) (0)
‘Belly of the Beast’ (2020) (0)
Materiality, Space and Distance in the First World War (2016) (0)
Trench Art: Symbols and Memories of the Great War and Beyond (2001) (0)
Review: Discovery! edited by Brian Fagan (2007) (0)
Archaeology, Material Worlds, and the Arab Revolt (2020) (0)
Is SDA really tenable (2002) (0)
Objects and Landscape in Memory, 1919—2002 (2020) (0)
Trench Art before Trenches (2020) (0)
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, 1916-1918 (2017) (0)
Conflict Art and Material Culture (2016) (0)
Review: Fortune and Glory (2008) (0)
Art, Museums and Recyclia (2020) (0)
The Britain and the Widening War, 1915-1916: From Gallipoli to the Somme (2016) (0)
John Hyslop: Inkawasi the New Cuzco (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series 234, 1985, £14.00). Pp. xii + 147. (1986) (0)
Modern Conflict and the Senses: Killer Instincts? (2016) (0)
Pre-Columbian Shamanism (2001) (0)
Trading Futures (2020) (0)
Ironic Shells (2020) (0)
The Hejaz Railway (2020) (0)
Forts, Stations, and Ancestors (2020) (0)
Memories of Metal: Trench Art, a lost resource of the Great War (2000) (0)
An introduction to dizziness (2006) (0)
Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary Art and the Art of the Trenches (2016) (0)
Ancient Mexican Art in Dumbarton Oaks (2010) (0)
TALES FROM THE CODICES: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIVE AMERINDIAN SCRIPTS (1985) (0)
Into the Ghost-land (2020) (0)
Concealment, Raiding, and Ambush (2020) (0)
Forged in Conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory (2020) (0)
Remembering Neil Faulkner (2022) (0)
Conflict on Jebel Sherra (2020) (0)
Guerrillas and the ‘Sultan’s Mule’ (2020) (0)
Of tombs and temples (1998) (0)
Determinism and SDA (2002) (0)
Traces of Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on First World War Conflict Landscapes (2018) (0)
Where worlds met (2004) (0)
Elizabeth Hill Boone (ed.). The Aztec Templo Mayor: a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th and 9th October 1983 . vi + 513 pages, 219 illustrations. 1987. Washington [DC): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection;] ISBN 0-88402-149-1 hardback. (1988) (0)
Between tourism and oblivion (2019) (0)

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