Nicholas J Saunders
Biographic Data
| ID | 209786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas J Saunders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunders |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNDERS N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Conflict Landscapes at the Edge of Empire
Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp
Most recent archaeological studies of prisoners of war have concentrated on resistance to confinement and identity creation within the camps. In contrast, the findings at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey, occupied by German military prisoners during the First World War, are here viewed through the lens of the varied placemaking strategies applied by both prisoners and camp staff. The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confi…
Remembering Neil Faulkner
Neil Faulkner was the ideal colleague, friend and collaborator during the nine years we spent together as co-directors of the Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP), in the deserts and wadis of southern ...
Curating the Great War
Conflict Landscapes
Since it was liberated on the 15th April 1945 and images broadcast around the world, Bergen-Belsen has been synonymous with the cruelty of the Nazi concentration camp system. Although the history of the camp is well documented, less attention has been paid to what happened to the bodies of almost half of the 53,000 victims who died there and to the materiality of the camp landscape. This paper outlines the results of historical and non-invasive a…
Matter and Memory in the Landscapes of Conflict
The destruction of land and life created new landscapes infused with new meanings – a reordering of existence whose memories and associations came into conflict with other realities after 1918, and continue to do so. Despite the largely static nature of trench warfare, Western Front battlefields were metaphysically unstable places. Landscapes exist as cultural images as well as physical places. Between 1914 and 1939 on the Western Front, images a…
Forged in Conflict
Francis Buckley was extraordinary; an officer responsible for arming grenades, excavating trenches, surveying, sketch-mapping, and military intelligence, his actions were a roll-call of the First World War’s bloodiest battles. The psychological toll was significant. War remade the man and created the archaeologist. Under fire, Buckley recorded prehistoric lithics on the Somme, a rich archaeological landscape, and a deadly battlefield. After the w…
Zeitgeist archaeology
Modern Conflict and the Senses
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Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology from Above
Bodies in Conflict
Desert labyrinth
The shapes drawn out by the famous Nazca lines in the Peruvian desert are at their most evident from the air-giving rise to some famously fantastic theories about their origin. The new understanding offered here is the result of a piece of straightforward brilliance on the part of our authors: get down on the ground, where the original users were, and see where your feet lead you. Using stratigraphic and taphonomic reasoning to decide which lines…
Fire and Water
The construction of the Hijāz Railway from Damascus to Medina between 1900 and 1908 transformed the physical and cultural landscapes of a traditional desert routeway. The contesting of the routeway and its landscape during the Great Arab Revolt of 1916–18 necessitated heavy investment in the defence of the railway and its supply of wood and water. Adopting the interdisciplinary perspective of modern conflict archaeology, this paper explores inter…
Fire on the desert
Archaeologists specialising in twentieth-century conflict here turn their attention from the trenches of Europe to the desert landscape of the Arabian theatre. The thrust and parry between the Ottoman Army and Lawrence's Arabian forces are reflected in defence-works and the outgoing and incoming bullets found there. The Ottoman generals changed their defences from long lines to redoubts, implying that the less visible guerrillas were having a pal…
A god forsaken
Bears are all but invisible in Andean iconography, and consequently are considered unimportant in pre-Columbian cosmology. This assumption is re-examined in the context of present-day Andean culture in which bears are highly salient characters in stories, ritual and performance. Indeed, Qoyllur Rit'i, the largest native pilgrimage in the Americas, has a bear as its main protagonist. Refuting a presumed colonial Spanish origin for bear imagery in …
People in Objects
Alexander's Tomb
Combining cinematic drama and a sprawling historical narrative, this gripping history is the first book to document the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history - his military genius and flamboyant personality have perhaps never been surpassed. But despite our long-held fascination with him, we have no idea where he is buried. The search for Alexander's tomb began soon after his untimely…
The peoples of the Caribbean
In The Peoples of the Caribbean, archaeologist Nicholas J. Saunders assembles for the first time a comprehensive sourcebook on the archaeology, folklore, and mythology of the entire region, charting a story 7,000 years in the making. Drawing on decades of study in the Caribbean and South America, Saunders explores landmark archaeological sites, such as Caguana in Puerto Rico, with its ceremonial architecture and ballcourts, and plantation sites, …
The Peoples of the Caribbean
The fascinating, often violent cross-fertilization of cultures in the Caribbean has given rise to such world-renowned traditions as Vodoun, Shango, Rastafarianism, Santería, reggae, and calypso. But the cultural mix in these islands is so rich and varied, its roots so tangled and deep, that scholars have until now covered it piecemeal—island by island, people by people
Matters of Conflict
Tezcatlipoca
Feline symbolism, displayed in a wealth of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic contexts, is widespread in Central and South America. From prehistoric times to the present day, felines in general and the jaguar in particular occupied an important place in visual and verbal representations of belief and ritual. The prevalence and continuity of jaguar imagery must have been due in part at least to its potency as a metaphor signifying agg…
Crucifix, calvary, and cross
First World War landscapes are a complex layering of commemorative materialities and spirituality, in which the past is recycled and memory perpetuated in the present. Linking the prehistoric and medieval pasts with the First World War and the present are images of calvaries, crucifixes, and crosses, which appear as landscape monuments and miniature talismanic items of bodily adornment. As poignant icons of sacrifice and remembrance, cruciform im…
Excavating memories
The First World War is beginning to receive archaeological attention. This paper highlights the technical, ethical and political challenges, including recovery and re-burial of the multi-faith dead, excavation of battlefield features and volatile ordnance, and incorporating the sensitive management of multi-vocal landscapes as cultural heritage and tourist destinations
A dark light
Throughout Mesoamerica, from c. 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest and beyond, obsidian was centrally located in the physical and symbolic worlds of indigenous societies. The aesthetic engagement with obsidian, based on its unique physical properties in a world without metal tools, bestowed distinctive kinds of agency on artefacts made from this dark volcanic glass—especially as blades used for bloodletting and human sacrifice. Linked to landscape, …
Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory
Trench Art' is the evocative but misleading term used to describe a wide variety of objects in various media made by soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians during the First World War (1914-18) and the succeeding inter-war period (1919-39). The production of such objects appears as a widespread human response to the conditions of modern warfare, with examples coming from the Boer War and many if not most 20th century conflicts. This essay focus…
Biographies of brilliance
Indigenous peoples of the Americas regarded the positive spiritual and creative power of light to be manifested in many brilliant objects - from iridescent feathers to shiny minerals and metals. By contrast, Europeans valued only a few glittering objects - pearls, emeralds, gold and silver - from a commercial standpoint. By adopting a biographical approach to one of these items - pearls - it is possible to explore the ways in which these earliest…
Excavating memories
The First World War is beginning to receive archaeological attention. This paper highlights the technical, ethical and political challenges, including recovery and re-burial of the multi-faith dead, excavation of battlefield features and volatile ordnance, and incorporating the sensitive management of multi-vocal landscapes as cultural heritage and tourist destinations
A dark light
Throughout Mesoamerica, from c. 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest and beyond, obsidian was centrally located in the physical and symbolic worlds of indigenous societies. The aesthetic engagement with obsidian, based on its unique physical properties in a world without metal tools, bestowed distinctive kinds of agency on artefacts made from this dark volcanic glass—especially as blades used for bloodletting and human sacrifice. Linked to landscape, …
Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory
Trench Art' is the evocative but misleading term used to describe a wide variety of objects in various media made by soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians during the First World War (1914-18) and the succeeding inter-war period (1919-39). The production of such objects appears as a widespread human response to the conditions of modern warfare, with examples coming from the Boer War and many if not most 20th century conflicts. This essay focus…
Predators of culture
Jaguar imagery is one of the most frequently encountered features of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican symbolism. However, despite its appearance in art and iconography over a period of some three thousand years, most previous interpretations have tended to assert rather than prove its significance. In this paper an attempt is made to locate such imagery meaningfully in several categories of indigenous thought. Thus, this approach seeks to show how such…
Stealers of Light, Traders in Brilliance
Crucifix, calvary, and cross
First World War landscapes are a complex layering of commemorative materialities and spirituality, in which the past is recycled and memory perpetuated in the present. Linking the prehistoric and medieval pasts with the First World War and the present are images of calvaries, crucifixes, and crosses, which appear as landscape monuments and miniature talismanic items of bodily adornment. As poignant icons of sacrifice and remembrance, cruciform im…
Fire on the desert
Archaeologists specialising in twentieth-century conflict here turn their attention from the trenches of Europe to the desert landscape of the Arabian theatre. The thrust and parry between the Ottoman Army and Lawrence's Arabian forces are reflected in defence-works and the outgoing and incoming bullets found there. The Ottoman generals changed their defences from long lines to redoubts, implying that the less visible guerrillas were having a pal…
Zemís, trees, and symbolic landscapes
Three carved wooden images have come to light in Jamaica, the most important find of Taíno carvings for two centuries from that island. Their discovery prompts a reconsideration of Taíno zemís, and their placing into the known context of the Caribbean region, with its South American links
A god forsaken
Bears are all but invisible in Andean iconography, and consequently are considered unimportant in pre-Columbian cosmology. This assumption is re-examined in the context of present-day Andean culture in which bears are highly salient characters in stories, ritual and performance. Indeed, Qoyllur Rit'i, the largest native pilgrimage in the Americas, has a bear as its main protagonist. Refuting a presumed colonial Spanish origin for bear imagery in …
Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances; Listening Once Again
This monograph is a review of the present state of knowledge of the relationships and consequences of over 25 centuries of interactions between the Amerindian and Asean Circum-Pacific regions. A fascinating, special case of previous work by two Asianists on similar themes of the Euro-Asian Continental land mass, providing the theoretical framework within which the complexities of cultural cross-pattern are studied.The subjects dicussed individual…
Desert labyrinth
The shapes drawn out by the famous Nazca lines in the Peruvian desert are at their most evident from the air-giving rise to some famously fantastic theories about their origin. The new understanding offered here is the result of a piece of straightforward brilliance on the part of our authors: get down on the ground, where the original users were, and see where your feet lead you. Using stratigraphic and taphonomic reasoning to decide which lines…
Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp
Most recent archaeological studies of prisoners of war have concentrated on resistance to confinement and identity creation within the camps. In contrast, the findings at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey, occupied by German military prisoners during the First World War, are here viewed through the lens of the varied placemaking strategies applied by both prisoners and camp staff. The prisoners created places of meaning within the regimented and confi…
Zeitgeist archaeology
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art
Tales From the Codices
"TALES FROM THE CODICES: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIVE AMERINDIAN SCRIPTS." Journal of Area Studies, 6(12), pp. 39–40
Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances; Listening Once Again
This monograph is a review of the present state of knowledge of the relationships and consequences of over 25 centuries of interactions between the Amerindian and Asean Circum-Pacific regions. A fascinating, special case of previous work by two Asianists on similar themes of the Euro-Asian Continental land mass, providing the theoretical framework within which the complexities of cultural cross-pattern are studied.The subjects dicussed individual…
Recent Studies in Pre-Columbian Archaeology, Parts i and ii
Predators of culture
Jaguar imagery is one of the most frequently encountered features of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican symbolism. However, despite its appearance in art and iconography over a period of some three thousand years, most previous interpretations have tended to assert rather than prove its significance. In this paper an attempt is made to locate such imagery meaningfully in several categories of indigenous thought. Thus, this approach seeks to show how such…
Zemís, trees, and symbolic landscapes
Three carved wooden images have come to light in Jamaica, the most important find of Taíno carvings for two centuries from that island. Their discovery prompts a reconsideration of Taíno zemís, and their placing into the known context of the Caribbean region, with its South American links
Stealers of Light, Traders in Brilliance
Biographies of brilliance
Indigenous peoples of the Americas regarded the positive spiritual and creative power of light to be manifested in many brilliant objects - from iridescent feathers to shiny minerals and metals. By contrast, Europeans valued only a few glittering objects - pearls, emeralds, gold and silver - from a commercial standpoint. By adopting a biographical approach to one of these items - pearls - it is possible to explore the ways in which these earliest…
Bodies of Metal, Shells of Memory
Trench Art' is the evocative but misleading term used to describe a wide variety of objects in various media made by soldiers, prisoners of war, and civilians during the First World War (1914-18) and the succeeding inter-war period (1919-39). The production of such objects appears as a widespread human response to the conditions of modern warfare, with examples coming from the Boer War and many if not most 20th century conflicts. This essay focus…
A dark light
Throughout Mesoamerica, from c. 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest and beyond, obsidian was centrally located in the physical and symbolic worlds of indigenous societies. The aesthetic engagement with obsidian, based on its unique physical properties in a world without metal tools, bestowed distinctive kinds of agency on artefacts made from this dark volcanic glass—especially as blades used for bloodletting and human sacrifice. Linked to landscape, …
Excavating memories
The First World War is beginning to receive archaeological attention. This paper highlights the technical, ethical and political challenges, including recovery and re-burial of the multi-faith dead, excavation of battlefield features and volatile ordnance, and incorporating the sensitive management of multi-vocal landscapes as cultural heritage and tourist destinations
Tezcatlipoca
Feline symbolism, displayed in a wealth of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic contexts, is widespread in Central and South America. From prehistoric times to the present day, felines in general and the jaguar in particular occupied an important place in visual and verbal representations of belief and ritual. The prevalence and continuity of jaguar imagery must have been due in part at least to its potency as a metaphor signifying agg…
Crucifix, calvary, and cross
First World War landscapes are a complex layering of commemorative materialities and spirituality, in which the past is recycled and memory perpetuated in the present. Linking the prehistoric and medieval pasts with the First World War and the present are images of calvaries, crucifixes, and crosses, which appear as landscape monuments and miniature talismanic items of bodily adornment. As poignant icons of sacrifice and remembrance, cruciform im…
Matters of Conflict
The peoples of the Caribbean
In The Peoples of the Caribbean, archaeologist Nicholas J. Saunders assembles for the first time a comprehensive sourcebook on the archaeology, folklore, and mythology of the entire region, charting a story 7,000 years in the making. Drawing on decades of study in the Caribbean and South America, Saunders explores landmark archaeological sites, such as Caguana in Puerto Rico, with its ceremonial architecture and ballcourts, and plantation sites, …
The Peoples of the Caribbean
The fascinating, often violent cross-fertilization of cultures in the Caribbean has given rise to such world-renowned traditions as Vodoun, Shango, Rastafarianism, Santería, reggae, and calypso. But the cultural mix in these islands is so rich and varied, its roots so tangled and deep, that scholars have until now covered it piecemeal—island by island, people by people
Alexander's Tomb
Combining cinematic drama and a sprawling historical narrative, this gripping history is the first book to document the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history - his military genius and flamboyant personality have perhaps never been surpassed. But despite our long-held fascination with him, we have no idea where he is buried. The search for Alexander's tomb began soon after his untimely…
People in Objects
Fire on the desert
Archaeologists specialising in twentieth-century conflict here turn their attention from the trenches of Europe to the desert landscape of the Arabian theatre. The thrust and parry between the Ottoman Army and Lawrence's Arabian forces are reflected in defence-works and the outgoing and incoming bullets found there. The Ottoman generals changed their defences from long lines to redoubts, implying that the less visible guerrillas were having a pal…
A god forsaken
Bears are all but invisible in Andean iconography, and consequently are considered unimportant in pre-Columbian cosmology. This assumption is re-examined in the context of present-day Andean culture in which bears are highly salient characters in stories, ritual and performance. Indeed, Qoyllur Rit'i, the largest native pilgrimage in the Americas, has a bear as its main protagonist. Refuting a presumed colonial Spanish origin for bear imagery in …
Fire and Water
The construction of the Hijāz Railway from Damascus to Medina between 1900 and 1908 transformed the physical and cultural landscapes of a traditional desert routeway. The contesting of the routeway and its landscape during the Great Arab Revolt of 1916–18 necessitated heavy investment in the defence of the railway and its supply of wood and water. Adopting the interdisciplinary perspective of modern conflict archaeology, this paper explores inter…
Desert labyrinth
The shapes drawn out by the famous Nazca lines in the Peruvian desert are at their most evident from the air-giving rise to some famously fantastic theories about their origin. The new understanding offered here is the result of a piece of straightforward brilliance on the part of our authors: get down on the ground, where the original users were, and see where your feet lead you. Using stratigraphic and taphonomic reasoning to decide which lines…
Bodies in Conflict
Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology from Above
Modern Conflict and the Senses
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