Iain Banks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 72147 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Iain Banks |
| NOMBRES | Iain |
| APELLIDO | Banks |
| FIRMA | BANKS I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6095-6707 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Footprints in the sands of time
A farewell to arms
The body of this editorial is a celebration of the contribution made by Tony Pollard as he takes his early retirement from academia in May 2026. I should point out that his retirement from academia
Who walks alone in the gas lamp shadows of the streets at night? Gaslighting, Plato and Paul
A cave of phantom dreams? The construction of reality in conflict
Hell before our very eyes
Walking through political minefields
The truth, the whole truth? Or anything but the truth
Where does the dust settle
Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
This article engages with certain peculiar finds and features that we have documented at former German WWII military camps in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on an excavated assemblage that has affinities to traditional ritual (sacrificial) practices. The relevant finds and features date from the post-war period, but they are meaningfully associated with WWII sites. We consider the possible connections of these finds and features to f…
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Nazis , we still hate those guys
Military supply, everyday demand, and reindeer
During the Second World War, in 1941–1944, Nazi German troops held the frontal responsibility of the Arctic front in Finnish Lapland. In this paper, we present the first zooarchaeological study of the wartime faunal remains from German military camps in Lapland. This illustrates the supply situation of both the German soldiers and their multinational prisoners. The official military supply was substantially supplemented with local food sources, n…
For you, the war is over? Not a chance!’ Captivity and escape at Cultybraggan prisoner of war camp, Comrie, Perthshire
A project to investigate stories of escape attempts at the Second World War Prisoner of War camp at Cultybraggan in Perthshire undertook geophysical survey and excavation to try to locate escape tunnels. While the limited fieldwork did not locate any traces of the tunnels themselves, the work provided insights into the psychology and practice of escape attempts amongst the German PoWs
Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village
In 2007, the residents of the village of Comrie, Scotland, collectively bought the site of Cultybraggan Camp and nearby hillside land through a ‘community buy-out’ scheme under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. A Development Trust, made up primarily of voluntary trustees from the village, manages the site. It has goals of promoting environmental awareness as well as the site’s unique cultural heritage. Cultybraggan’s history as a prisoner of w…
Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage
Research project Lapland’s Dark Heritage organized a one-week public excavation in Inari, Finnish Lapland, at a Second World War (WWII) German military hospital site in August 2016. #InariDig took place with the help of international experts and pre-registered volunteers. In this field report, two of the archaeologists leading the excavations and an ethnographer who took part in documenting this community archaeology experiment introduce the exca…
Digging in the Dark
Throughout the First World War, with the trenches largely static, the combatants tried to break the deadlock by tunnelling under one another’s trenches. The Tunnelling Companies of the British Royal Engineers were engaged in a bitter struggle against German Pioneers that left both sides with heavy casualties. A project to determine the location of one particular act of heroism in that underground war has resulted in the erection of a monument to …
Beyond Recall
This article discusses the development of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, a massive British flamethrower that was used against German trenches in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Built underground within tunnels below No Man’s Land, this secret weapon was an attempt to use technology to break through German defences and reduce British casualties. The flame projector was the most effective flamethrower developed in WWI, but proved to be …
Arms and Armour
Control or Repression
Protecting a Bloodstained History
Scotland's battlefields gained legislative protection in March 2011 with the publication of the Inventory of Scottish Battlefields. The background to the Inventory is explored, with a consideration of how similar issues have been approached in other countries. The paper then goes on to examine the approach taken in the creation of the Inventory, looking at the issues that arose and the solutions adopted
Now the Wars are Over
Bastions and Barbed Wire
Various papers on the archaeology of conflict, including battlefield archaeology. The main focus of the volume is confinement, as expressed by a wide variety of contexts. Most obviously these include Nazi concentration camps, which are in need of credible archaeological attention (the editorial points out the dangers of the misappropriation of archaeological and scientific techniques by Holocaust deniers). Other forms of confinement are examined …
Bastions and barbed wire
Nazis , We Hate Those Guys
Archaeological Investigation of Military Sites on Inchkeith Island
In August 2001, a programme of survey and trial excavation was carried out on the island of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The work was carried out as part of the first series of the BBC TV series Two Men in a Trench, and examined the WWII defences, together with some of the Victorian defences and a midden that probably dates to the 16th century
Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage
Research project Lapland’s Dark Heritage organized a one-week public excavation in Inari, Finnish Lapland, at a Second World War (WWII) German military hospital site in August 2016. #InariDig took place with the help of international experts and pre-registered volunteers. In this field report, two of the archaeologists leading the excavations and an ethnographer who took part in documenting this community archaeology experiment introduce the exca…
Protecting a Bloodstained History
Scotland's battlefields gained legislative protection in March 2011 with the publication of the Inventory of Scottish Battlefields. The background to the Inventory is explored, with a consideration of how similar issues have been approached in other countries. The paper then goes on to examine the approach taken in the creation of the Inventory, looking at the issues that arose and the solutions adopted
Not so Quiet on the Western Front
Editorial iii Tony Pollard and Iain Banks Articles Iain Banks, Ghosts in the Desert: the Archaeological Investigation of a Sub-Saharan Battlefield 1 James Bonsall, The Study of Small Finds at the 1644 Battle of Cheriton 29 Conor Brady, Emmet Byrnes, Gabriel Cooney & Aidan O’Sullivan, An Archaeological Study of the Battle of the Boyne at Oldbridge, Co Meath 53 Natasha N. Ferguson, Platforms of Reconciliation? Issues in the Management of Battlefiel…
Beyond Recall
This article discusses the development of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, a massive British flamethrower that was used against German trenches in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Built underground within tunnels below No Man’s Land, this secret weapon was an attempt to use technology to break through German defences and reduce British casualties. The flame projector was the most effective flamethrower developed in WWI, but proved to be …
Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village
In 2007, the residents of the village of Comrie, Scotland, collectively bought the site of Cultybraggan Camp and nearby hillside land through a ‘community buy-out’ scheme under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. A Development Trust, made up primarily of voluntary trustees from the village, manages the site. It has goals of promoting environmental awareness as well as the site’s unique cultural heritage. Cultybraggan’s history as a prisoner of w…
Survey and Excavation of the Anglo-Zulu War Fort at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A programme of topographic and geophysical survey was combined with metal detecting and trial trenching at the site of the British fort at KwaMondi, Eshowe, KwaZulu. Evidence was recovered of the buildings used by the British troops in 1879, together with artefacts from the siege. In addition, the results provided an insight into the history of the site after the end of the British occupation
Now the Wars are Over
Ghosts in the Desert
In November 1918, a battle was fought in the Kallaya saltpan as part of the conflicts relating to the Italian conquest of Libya from 1911 to 1936. Archaeological survey of the battlefield was able to record much of the detail of the fighting, but revealed the importance of the historical record in the interpretation of the results. The details of the fighting also indicate the considerable complexities involved in conflicts involving non-state gr…
Why a Journal of Conflict Archaeology and Why Now
(2005). Why a Journal of Conflict Archaeology and Why Now? Journal of Conflict Archaeology: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. iii-vii
A cave of phantom dreams? The construction of reality in conflict
Weird quantities
Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially disturbing’ aspects of extraction landscapes. We attempt to characterise and make sense of the Hannukainen mining landscape with regard to its deeply contradictory and dissonant - effectively monstrous - nature as an experienc…
Military supply, everyday demand, and reindeer
During the Second World War, in 1941–1944, Nazi German troops held the frontal responsibility of the Arctic front in Finnish Lapland. In this paper, we present the first zooarchaeological study of the wartime faunal remains from German military camps in Lapland. This illustrates the supply situation of both the German soldiers and their multinational prisoners. The official military supply was substantially supplemented with local food sources, n…
Excavation at Lintshie Gutter Unenclosed Platform Settlement, Crawford, Lanarkshire, 1991
Rescue excavation at this Bronze Age field monument near Crawford, Lanarkshire, organized by Historic Scotland ahead of the M74/M6 motorway
The excavation of three cairns at Stoneyburn Farm, Crawford, Lanarkshire, 1991
Excavation of three small cairns at Stoneyburn Farm, near Crawford, Lanarkshire, was carried out in advance of the construction work for the upgrading of the A74 to motorway.The two smaller cairns contained burials dating to the Early Bronze Age and produced five faience beads and a complete pygmy cup.The largest cairn covered an area of complex activity running from the early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.Sherds of both early Neolithic bowls…
Excavation at Lintshie Gutter Unenclosed Platform Settlement, Crawford, Lanarkshire, 1991
Rescue excavation at this Bronze Age field monument near Crawford, Lanarkshire, organized by Historic Scotland ahead of the M74/M6 motorway
The excavation of three cairns at Stoneyburn Farm, Crawford, Lanarkshire, 1991
Excavation of three small cairns at Stoneyburn Farm, near Crawford, Lanarkshire, was carried out in advance of the construction work for the upgrading of the A74 to motorway.The two smaller cairns contained burials dating to the Early Bronze Age and produced five faience beads and a complete pygmy cup.The largest cairn covered an area of complex activity running from the early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.Sherds of both early Neolithic bowls…
Excavations on the Leven, Loudoun Hill, Ayrshire, 1993
Rescue excavations at Loudoun Hill Quarry revealed the remains of timber structures, defined as pits and postholes in the subsoil. A primary phase of activity was represented by two pits which are tentatively dated to the early Neolithic period by association with artefactual and botanical evidence. The second phase of occupation at the site was represented by the construction of a double palisaded enclosure. A third phase of activity is postulat…
Excavation of an annular drystone structure at Wildshaw Burn, South Lanarkshire, 1990
The excavation took place in March 1990 at Wildshaw Burn, near Nether Abington, South Lanarkshire, in advance of the upgrading of the A74 to motorway standard. Despite structural similarities between the site and excavated examples of Bronze Age enclosed cremation cemeteries, it proved impossible to assign either a date or a function to the monument with any degree of confidence
The investigation of a Bronze Age cairnfield and later buildings at Fall Kneesend, Clydesdale
Excavation ahead of the M74 road development was undertaken at a cairnfield and other settlement remains at Fall Kneesend. The project was funded by the National Roads Directorate of the Scottish Office Development Department and managed on their behalf by Historic Scotland. The remains of a cremation pyre were found beneath one of the cairns, and an early Bronze Age radiocarbon date was obtained from this deposit. Later buildings placed among th…
Excavation of an Iron Age and Romano-British enclosure at Woodend Farm, Johnstonebridge, Annandalw, 1994 and 1997
Excavations were undertaken at a multi-vallate enclosure in advance of the construction of an extension of the M6 motorway. Geophysical survey and excavation revealed a third bank beyond two upstanding banks. Within the interior, seven separate blocks of superimposed buildings were observed, together with an eighth, single-phase structure interpreted as an animal pen. Artefacts were few, consisting of worked stones and querns, while the radiocarb…
Neal Ascherson Stone Voices
Survey and Excavation of the Anglo-Zulu War Fort at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A programme of topographic and geophysical survey was combined with metal detecting and trial trenching at the site of the British fort at KwaMondi, Eshowe, KwaZulu. Evidence was recovered of the buildings used by the British troops in 1879, together with artefacts from the siege. In addition, the results provided an insight into the history of the site after the end of the British occupation
Why a Journal of Conflict Archaeology and Why Now
(2005). Why a Journal of Conflict Archaeology and Why Now? Journal of Conflict Archaeology: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. iii-vii
Scorched Earth
This volume draws together a series of new studies into various aspects of the archaeology of conflict. Part of the volume focuses on conflict in the twentienth century, with several papers dealing with the growing field of First World War archaeology, which is also the main theme of the extended editorial. Further contributions focus on a variety of subjects, including the use of historic maps in locating the remains of 16th century sieges, the …
War and Sacrifice
Ghosts in the Desert
In November 1918, a battle was fought in the Kallaya saltpan as part of the conflicts relating to the Italian conquest of Libya from 1911 to 1936. Archaeological survey of the battlefield was able to record much of the detail of the fighting, but revealed the importance of the historical record in the interpretation of the results. The details of the fighting also indicate the considerable complexities involved in conflicts involving non-state gr…
Not so Quiet on the Western Front
Editorial iii Tony Pollard and Iain Banks Articles Iain Banks, Ghosts in the Desert: the Archaeological Investigation of a Sub-Saharan Battlefield 1 James Bonsall, The Study of Small Finds at the 1644 Battle of Cheriton 29 Conor Brady, Emmet Byrnes, Gabriel Cooney & Aidan O’Sullivan, An Archaeological Study of the Battle of the Boyne at Oldbridge, Co Meath 53 Natasha N. Ferguson, Platforms of Reconciliation? Issues in the Management of Battlefiel…
Bastions and barbed wire
Nazis , We Hate Those Guys
Archaeological Investigation of Military Sites on Inchkeith Island
In August 2001, a programme of survey and trial excavation was carried out on the island of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The work was carried out as part of the first series of the BBC TV series Two Men in a Trench, and examined the WWII defences, together with some of the Victorian defences and a midden that probably dates to the 16th century
Bastions and Barbed Wire
Various papers on the archaeology of conflict, including battlefield archaeology. The main focus of the volume is confinement, as expressed by a wide variety of contexts. Most obviously these include Nazi concentration camps, which are in need of credible archaeological attention (the editorial points out the dangers of the misappropriation of archaeological and scientific techniques by Holocaust deniers). Other forms of confinement are examined …
Now the Wars are Over
Control or Repression
Protecting a Bloodstained History
Scotland's battlefields gained legislative protection in March 2011 with the publication of the Inventory of Scottish Battlefields. The background to the Inventory is explored, with a consideration of how similar issues have been approached in other countries. The paper then goes on to examine the approach taken in the creation of the Inventory, looking at the issues that arose and the solutions adopted
Arms and Armour
Digging in the Dark
Throughout the First World War, with the trenches largely static, the combatants tried to break the deadlock by tunnelling under one another’s trenches. The Tunnelling Companies of the British Royal Engineers were engaged in a bitter struggle against German Pioneers that left both sides with heavy casualties. A project to determine the location of one particular act of heroism in that underground war has resulted in the erection of a monument to …
Beyond Recall
This article discusses the development of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector, a massive British flamethrower that was used against German trenches in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Built underground within tunnels below No Man’s Land, this secret weapon was an attempt to use technology to break through German defences and reduce British casualties. The flame projector was the most effective flamethrower developed in WWI, but proved to be …
Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage
Research project Lapland’s Dark Heritage organized a one-week public excavation in Inari, Finnish Lapland, at a Second World War (WWII) German military hospital site in August 2016. #InariDig took place with the help of international experts and pre-registered volunteers. In this field report, two of the archaeologists leading the excavations and an ethnographer who took part in documenting this community archaeology experiment introduce the exca…
Asset, burden, Cultybraggan. Community site ownership in a Scottish village
In 2007, the residents of the village of Comrie, Scotland, collectively bought the site of Cultybraggan Camp and nearby hillside land through a ‘community buy-out’ scheme under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. A Development Trust, made up primarily of voluntary trustees from the village, manages the site. It has goals of promoting environmental awareness as well as the site’s unique cultural heritage. Cultybraggan’s history as a prisoner of w…
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