Timothy Insoll

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Timothy Insoll is affiliated with the following schools: University of Exeter, University of Sheffield, Manchester University , University of Manchester, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Timothy Insoll is a British archaeologist and Africanist and Islamic Studies scholar. Since 2016 he has been Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology at the University of Exeter. He is also founder and director of the Centre for Islamic Archaeology. Previously he was at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Manchester .

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (2012) (249)
Archaeology, Ritual, Religion (2004) (216)
The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003) (151)
The Archaeology of Islam (1999) (112)
The archaeology of identities : a reader (2007) (92)
Islam, archaeology and history : Gao region (Mali) ca. AD 900-1250 (1996) (70)
Gao and Igbo-Ukwu: Beads, interregional trade, and beyond (1997) (61)
A cache of hippopotamus ivory at Gao, Mali; and a hypothesis of its use (1995) (57)
Urbanism, Archaeology and Trade. Further Observations on the Gao Region (Mali). The 1996 Fieldseason Results (2000) (46)
Archaeology and World Religion (2001) (44)
The Oxford handbook of prehistoric figurines (2017) (44)
Towards an understanding of the carnelian bead trade from Western India to sub-Saharan Africa: the application of UV-LA-ICP-MS to carnelian from Gujarat, India, and West Africa (2004) (39)
IRON AGE GAO: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION (1997) (36)
Introduction - Configuring Identities in Archaeology (2007) (35)
‘Natural’ or ‘Human’ Spaces? Tallensi Sacred Groves and Shrines and their Potential Implications for Aspects of Northern European Prehistory and Phenomenological Interpretation (2007) (30)
Monitoring Islamic Archaeological Landscapes in Ethiopia Using Open Source Satellite Imagery (2019) (27)
Indigenous cosmology, art forms and past medicinal practices: towards an interpretation of ancient Koma Land sites in northern Ghana (2011) (26)
Material Explorations in African Archaeology (2015) (26)
Shrine Franchising and the Neolithic in the British Isles: Some Observations based upon the Tallensi, Northern Ghana (2006) (24)
Archaeology, luxury and the exotic: the examples of Islamic Gao (Mali) and Bahrain (2003) (24)
Materializing performance and ritual: decoding the archaeology of movement in tallensi shrines in northern ghana (2009) (24)
Talensi animal sacrifice and its archaeological implications (2010) (22)
The Archaeology of Shrines among the Tallensi of Northern Ghana: Materiality and Interpretive Relevance (2009) (21)
Substance and materiality? The archaeology of Talensi medicine shrines and medicinal practices (2011) (20)
Archaeology: The Conceptual Challenge (2007) (18)
The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa: A review (1996) (18)
Archaeology of Cult and Religion (2005) (18)
Insights into Past Ritual Practice at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana (2013) (18)
The Tension between Communities, Development, and Archaeological Heritage Preservation (2009) (17)
Are Archaeologists Afraid of Gods? Some Thoughts on Archaeology and Religion (2004) (17)
Materiality, belief, ritual—archaeology and material religion: an introduction (2009) (17)
Fragmentary Ancestors? Medicine, Bodies, and Personhood in a Koma Mound, Northern Ghana (2012) (17)
First Footsteps in the Archaeology of Harar, Ethiopia (2017) (16)
Changing Identities in the Arabian Gulf: Archaeology, Religion, and Ethnicity in Context (2005) (16)
Introduction. Shrines, substances and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: archaeological, anthropological, and historical perspectives (2011) (15)
Introduction. The Archaeology of World Religion (2001) (15)
Organic geochemical analysis of archaeological medicine pots from Northern Ghana. The multi-functionality of pottery (2012) (14)
Looting the antiquities of Mali: the story continues at Gao (1993) (14)
Negotiating the archaeology of destiny (2008) (13)
Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective (2011) (13)
Animal Economies and Islamic Conversion in Eastern Ethiopia: Zooarchaeological Analyses from Harlaa, Harar and Ganda Harla (2020) (12)
The Archaeology of Post Medieval Timbuktu (2002) (11)
Archaeological research in Timbuktu, Mali (1998) (11)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICA. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa. Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures and Environments. Edited by JOSEPH O. VOGEL. London: Sage, 1997. Pp. 605. £95 (ISBN 0-7619-8902-1). (1999) (11)
Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern Ethiopia (2021) (10)
Glass Beads from Medieval Gao (Mali): New Analytical Data on Chronology, Sources, and Trade (2020) (10)
Animism and Totemism (2011) (10)
Mursi ox modification in the Lower Omo Valley and the interpretation of cattle rock art in Ethiopia (2015) (10)
The archaeology of complexity and cosmopolitanism in medieval Ethiopia: an introduction (2021) (9)
Early Islamic North Africa (2020) (8)
Belief in the Past. The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion (2004) (8)
Laser ablation strontium isotope analysis of human remains from Harlaa and Sofi, eastern Ethiopia, and the implications for Islamisation and mobility (2020) (8)
The Mosques of Harar: An Archaeological and Historical Study (2019) (8)
An Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Tong Hills and Garu Area, Upper East Region, and Nakpanduri, Northern Region, Ghana (2004) (8)
Islamic Glass from Gao, Mali (1998) (7)
Excavations and surveys in the Tongo Hills, Upper East Region, Ghana. July 2005. Fieldwork Report (2005) (7)
The origins of Timbuktu (2000) (7)
Becoming Muslim (2021) (7)
A preliminary reconnaissance and survey at Gao (1993) (7)
Syncretism, Time, and Identity: Islamic Archaeology in West Africa (2004) (6)
An Archaeological Guide to Bahrain (2011) (6)
Current Archaeological Research in Ghana (2008) (6)
The composition and origin of Ghana medicine clays (2011) (6)
The archaeology of disease: molluscs as potential disease indicators in Bahrain (2005) (6)
The Land Of Enki In The Islamic Era: Pearls, Palms and Religious Identity in Bahrain (2016) (6)
Carnelian mines in Gujarat (2001) (6)
Reconstructing the archaeology of movement in northern Ghana: Insights into past ritual posture and performance (2014) (6)
The Iron Age Ceramics from the Tong Hills, Northern Ghana. Sequence and Comparative Perspective (2011) (6)
Marine Shell Working at Harlaa, Ethiopia, and the Implications for Red Sea Trade (2021) (5)
Internal Meanings: Computed Tomography Scanning of Koma Figurines from Ghana (2016) (5)
Preliminary results of excavations at Gao, september and october 1993 (1994) (5)
Fragmentary Ancestors. Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana. (Exhibition Catalogue) (2013) (5)
Archaeology in the University of Ghana, Legon. A Survey of Emic Perspectives on its Profile and Future, with an Etic Commentary. (2008) (5)
Shrines, Rituals, and Archaeology in Northern Ghana (2007) (5)
Archaeological survey and excavations, Harlaa, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia January-February 2017. A Preliminary fieldwork report (2018) (5)
The External Creation of the Western Sahel's Past: The Use and Abuse of the Arabic Sources (1994) (5)
A True Picture? Colonial and Other Historical Archaeologies (2004) (5)
'Totems', 'Ancestors', and 'Animism'. The Archaeology of Ritual, Shrines and Sacrifice amongst the Tallensi of Northern Ghana (2007) (5)
Ritual complexity in a past community revealed by ancient DNA analysis of pre-colonial terracotta items from Northern Ghana (2017) (4)
Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion: The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference (2010) (4)
Constructing Ancestors in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016) (4)
Islamic Identities and Heritage Presentation in Bahrain (2014) (4)
Meyer Fortes and material culture: the published image and the unpublished resource: MeyerFortes and material culture (2010) (4)
Temporalising Anthropology: Archaeology in the Talensi Tong Hills, Northern Ghana (2013) (4)
Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Center of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts (2021) (3)
An Archaeological Reconnaissance made to Dahlak Kebir, the Dahlak Islands, Eritrea: Preliminary Observations (1997) (3)
Excavations and Surveys in the Tongo Hills, Upper East Region, Ghana, July 2006. A Preliminary Fieldwork Report (2007) (3)
Mosque architecture in Buganda, Uganda (1997) (3)
Insights into Past Ritual Practice at Yikpabongo, Northern Region, Ghana (2013) (3)
Water and the Construction of Social and Religious Identities in West Africa. An Archaeological Perspective (2009) (2)
Timbuktu and Europe: Trade, Cities and Islam in ‘Medieval’ West Africa (2001) (2)
A note on a sewn canoe in use at Gao, the Republic of Mali (1993) (2)
Placing the Tongo Hills, Northern Ghana, in Archaeological Time and Space: Reflexivity and the Research Process (2008) (2)
The Hajj from West Africa (2012) (2)
Focus on Islam III: Archaeology and Islamic identities in Bahrain (2005) (2)
A Dilmun temple in Bilad al‐Qadim, Bahrain: A preliminary indication? (2005) (2)
Archaeology and the reconstruction of religious identity in Africa (and beyond) (2004) (2)
Three Gold Dinars from Bahrain (2003) (2)
The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study (2017) (2)
Early Islamic Bahrain (2002) (2)
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries (2023) (1)
The Archaeology of Ritual and Religions in Africa (2013) (1)
Sada Mire: Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa (2020) (1)
The archaeology of rituals and religions in Northern Ghana (2014) (1)
P. Breunig (ed.). Nok: African sculpture in archaeological context. 2014. 303 pages, numerous colour and bw 978-3-937248-46-2 paperback €49.80 (2015) (1)
Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations , Harlaa , Dire Dawa , and Sofi , Harari Regional State , Ethiopia , August 2015 . A Preliminary Fieldwork Report (2016) (1)
A 16th-17th Century AD Sherd of Chinese Stoneware found at Gao, the Republic of Mali (1995) (1)
The Archaeology of Ritual , edited by Evangelos Kyriakidis, 2007. Los Angeles (CA): Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; ISBN-13 978-1-931745-47-5 paperback £30 & US$40; ISBN-13 978-1-931745-48-2 £55 & US$70, xii+319 pp., 55 figs. (2009) (1)
Debating Religion A Prehistory of Religion: Shamans, Sorcerers and Saints , by Brian Hayden, 2004. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Books; ISBN 1-58834-168-2 hardback, £31.50 & US$60, xi+468 pp., many ills. (2005) (1)
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: Crisis or Renaissance? Edited by Kenji Yoshida and John Mack (2009) (1)
Preliminary Results of excavations and surveys at Gao and Timbuktu, October and November 1996 (1997) (1)
Bilad al-Qadim revisited: recent archaeological research at the Al-Khamis Mosque, Ain Abu Zaydan and Abu Anbra, Bahrain (2016) (1)
Oursi hu-beero. A Medieval House Complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa. By L.P. Petit, M. von Czerniewicz, and C. Pelzer (eds.). Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2011, 288 pp. ISBN 978-90-8890-067-9. € 34.95 (Paperback). (2012) (1)
Archaeology in Komaland and the Koma Figurines (2010) (1)
Archaeological Research in Gao and Timbuktu. October and November 1996 (1997) (1)
Islamic Medieval Empires of West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai (2011) (1)
Identities and Archaeological Heritage Preservation at the Crossroads: Understanding the Challenges of Economic Development at Tengzug, Upper East Region, Ghana. (2010) (1)
Ethnoarchaeology in the Zinder Region, Republic of Niger. By ANNE HAOUR. (BAR S1133.) Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003. Pp. vii+149. £30 (ISBN 1-84171-506-9). (2004) (1)
African Complexity Revealed Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa, edited by Susan Keech McIntosh, 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-63074-6 hb, £40.00/US$64.95. x+176 pp., ills. (2000) (1)
The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD (2018) (1)
Pots and Earth Cults. The Context and Materiality of Archaeological Ceramics amongst the Talensi of Northern Ghana (2010) (1)
Dariali: The “Caspian Gates” in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages, The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys, 2013–2016, edited by E. W. Sauer. (2022) (1)
Islamic Archaeology and the Sahara (2006) (1)
"Ritual Failure: Archaeological Perspectives". Introductory Thoughts on the Theme (2013) (0)
Introduction. Research Foci in Archaeology and World Religions. (1999) (0)
MARK HORTON. Shanga: the archaeology of a Muslim trading community on the coast of East Africa . xvi+458 pages, 131 plates, 307 figures, 30 tables. 1996. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa; 1-872566-09-X hardback £75. (1997) (0)
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West Africa (2020) (0)
Ngandu and Ngambezi, Two Sites in North-Western Tanzania associated with the Expedition of John Hanning Speke 1861-1863 (1997) (0)
David Lewis-Williams. Conceiving God: the cognitive origin and evolution of religion. 320 pages, 50 illustrations. 2010. London: Thames & Hudson; 978-0-500-051641 hardback £18.95. (2011) (0)
Taíno Indian Myth and Practice ‐ by W.F. Keegan (2008) (0)
Book Review: Recherches Archéologiques sur la Capitale de l'Empire de Ghana (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 41, BAR S680).By Sophie Berthier. Archaeopress, Oxford, 1997, 143 pp. (1999) (0)
JENNÉ-JENO Excavations at Jenné-jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana (Inland Niger Delta, Mali), the 1981 Season. Edited by Susan Keech McIntosh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xxvi+605. No price given (ISBN 0-520-09785-8). (1997) (0)
'Archaeology out of Africa'. Current Theoretical Perspectives in African Archaeology: Special Edition of the "Archaeological Review from Cambridge" (1994) (0)
Five Section Introductions - General Perspectives, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Gender and Age; Sexuality; The Body; Class, Caste, Ideology, and Religion (2007) (0)
AQY volume 84 issue 325 Cover and Front matter (2010) (0)
Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (2020) (0)
inspire considerable debate in future discussions of processes of change in Mesolithic Europe. Society, Culture and Technology in Africa. S. TERRY (2016) (0)
Opening Doors: The King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (2019) (0)
Trans-Saharan Trade and Islam: Great States and Urban Centres in the Medieval West African Sahel (2018) (0)
The Archaeology of Ritual and Religions in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013) (0)
Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (0)
Hill, Erica & Jon B. Hageman (eds). The archaeology of ancestors: death, memory, and veneration. x, 261 pp., maps, figs, illus., bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2016. £87.95 (cloth) (2018) (0)
Early Asante. By Peter and Ama Shinnie. Calgary: Department of Archaeology, 1995. Pp. 20. $5 (No ISBN). (1996) (0)
Prehistoric figurines in Italy. (2017) (0)
Asia (1993) (0)
Preliminary Work for the LA-ICP-MS of Carnelian Archaeological Artefacts (2005) (0)
Dueppen, Stephen A. Egalitarian revolution in the Savanna: the origins of a West African political system. xiv, 344 pp., maps, tables, figs, bibliogr. London, Oakville, Ont.: Equinox, 2012. £75.00 (cloth) (2014) (0)
Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology (2015) (0)
Huitzilopochtli’s conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL (2007) (0)
The archaeology of collective action – By Dean J. Saitta (2008) (0)
Islam and the New States of Africa (2003) (0)
The new hakodate jomon culture center, minamikayabe, japan (2012) (0)
Archaeology and the invisible man: The role of slavery in the production of wealth and social class in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, 1820 to 1870 (2007) (0)
Book Review: The Coral Buildings of Suakin. Islamic Architecture, Planning, Design and Domestic Arrangements in a Red Sea Port,By Jean-Pierre Greenlaw. Kegan Paul International, London and New York, 1995, 132 pp. (1998) (0)
Reconstructing Early Islamic Bahrain (2003) (0)
India and Africa: A Survey of Cornelian Mines in Gujarat (2001) (0)
lipid biomarkers characterisation, x-Ray Fluorescence and X-Ray diffraction Analysis of Medicine Clay Samples (2013) (0)
Preliminary results of excavations in Timbuktu, September 1998 (1999) (0)
Mundane objects materiality and non-verbal communication Lemonnier, Pierre (2013) (0)
Broadening the Archaeological Perspective: Some Lessons from the Sub-Saharan African Landscape? (2015) (0)
John Amyas Alexander (1922–2010): an appreciation (2010) (0)
The Archaeology of Medicine Shrines and Substances in Northern Ghana (2010) (0)
Chapter 66: Divine Kings (2011) (0)
Land of Enki in the Islamic (2005) (0)
REVIEW (2006) (0)
Ngandu and Ngambezi sites on the nineteenth-century trade route around Lake Victoria, and Speke's expedition of 1861-63 (1997) (0)
Tallensi Shrines and the Tongo Hills, Northern Ghana (2006) (0)
Timothy R. Pauketat. An archaeology of the cosmos: rethinking agency and religion in ancient America . xv+230 pages, 85 bw 978-0-415-52128-4 hardback; 978-0-415-52129-1 paperback £ 24.99. (2013) (0)
Recherches archéologiques à Adoulis (Érythrée), by F. Anfray and C. Zazzaro. Presses Universitaires du Midi 2016. 116pp., Illustrations and maps. Pb. €23. ISBN-13: 9782810704668. (2017) (0)
African materiality (2017) (0)
Broadening the archaeological perspective (2015) (0)
Miniature Possibilities? An Introduction to the Varied Dimensions of Figurine Research (2016) (0)
A Note of a Late Eleventh - Early Twelfth Century Sherd of Southern Chinese Celadon Found at Timbuktu (1998) (0)
Fabio Silva and Nicholas Campion, editors, Skyscapes: The Role and Importance of the Sky in Archaeology (2016) (0)
Organic Geochemical Analysis of Archaeologogical and Contemporary Medicine Pots (2013) (0)
13. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (0)
WERE THERE ‘CULTURE TRAITS’ OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN SOCIETIES IN PRECOLONIAL WEST AFRICA? Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa: Africa-Centred and Canaanite–Israelite Perspectives. By DIERK LANGE. Dettelbach: J. H. Roll, 2004. Pp. xiii+586. No price given (ISBN 3-89754-115-7). (2006) (0)
Sada Mire: Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa (2020) (0)
Book Review: African Archaeological Review (1998) (0)
Islam Arkeolojisi. Turkish Translation of The Archaeology of Islam (2007) (0)
Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain (2021) (0)
Social anthropology and human origins – By Alan Barnard (2012) (0)
REALISTICALLY REPRESENTING THE RENAISSANCE HOUSEHOLD edited by Marta Ajmar‐Wollheim and Flora Dennis (2008) (0)
The Cambridge Mosque and Muslim Community (2001) (0)
Review of N. David. Performance and Agency: The DGB Sites of Northern Cameroon (2009) (0)

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