Niall Finneran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 925833 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Niall Finneran |
| NOMBRES | Niall |
| APELLIDO | Finneran |
| FIRMA | FINNERAN N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Winchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7945-8839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Entangled roots. Heritage and identity in the African ‘mesa-diasporas’
Myths, Memory, Megaliths, and Modernity
Chatoyer’s Punch Ladle
This paper contextualizes the artifact “Punch Ladle, 1773” on display in the “London, Sugar & Slavery” exhibition at Museum of London Docklands (UK). A placard identifies the ladle as once belonging to “Chatoyer, Chief of the Caribs” and as on loan by the West India Committee. Through this artifact, the largely forgotten story of Chatoyer and the so-called Black Caribs (Garifuna) is highlighted, while complexities of the artifact’s provenance are…
Spectral Nation
Within the wider context of popular occult publishing in the United Kingdom, a distinctive subgenre can be defined. The ‘ghost gazetteer’ combines the function of a road guide with additional information on supernatural happenings, all tied to specific locales within Great Britain. Taking four popular and important examples of the genre dating from the 1970s, this article analyses the content and context of the books in terms of branding, selecti…
Interpreting the Indigenous and Imported Heritage of Medicinal and Culinary Plant Use in St. Vincent through the Gardens of John Nero and Alexander Anderson
Mourning Balliceaux
This contribution considers how a small Caribbean island (Balliceaux, St Vincent and the Grenadines) holds up a mirror to the wider experiences of the Garifuna (‘Black Carib’) peoples who live on the neighbouring island of St Vincent, and in diasporic communities through the Americas. In the late-18th Century Balliceaux was the scene of a genocide orchestrated by the British colonial authorities on the Garifuna, and as a consequence it has become…
Barbadian Gothic
The Chase family vault (Oistins, Barbados) is widely known as the setting of a macabre nineteenth-century story of moving coffins. On several occasions between 1812 and 1821, on opening the sealed vault to add a new burial, the neatly stacked coffins were found scattered. This legend has never been examined within its contemporary setting, including the Gothic literary and cultural movement. This article seeks to show that the episode reveals muc…
Out of the Shadow of Balliceaux
The Garifuna (“Black Carib”) peoples of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) define their ethnogenesis in the intermixing of escaped enslaved Africans with indigenous “Island Carib” or Kalinago peoples from the seventeenth century onward. Within the Caribbean context, they thus represent an unusual example of an African diaspora culture. Based upon recent fieldwork, this paper (authored by an archaeologist and a religious studies heritage speci…
Place, Space and Memory in the Old Jewish East End of London
The archaeology of the Jesuit missions in Ethiopia (1557-1632)
"The archaeology of the Jesuit missions in Ethiopia (1557-1632)." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 53(1), pp. 123–125
The Island of the Clouds”
Beside the Seaside. The Archaeology of the Twentieth-Century English Seaside Holiday Experience
Slaves to Sailors
The archaeology of the post-Emancipation Caribbean remains relatively understudied. The collapse of the industrial-scale sugar plantation systems of the islands in the early 19th century saw a radical re-organization of socio-economic life. A new corpus of consumers was created, eking out a living on the margins of island society, but never quite liberated. This period sees the emergence of an Afro-Caribbean maritime culture focused upon shipbuil…
Training and Teaching in the Historic Environment
Training and Teaching in the Historic Environment
On 19 June 2012, the University of Winchester’s Centre for Applied Archaeology and Heritage Management, in association with Dr Kenneth Aitchison under the aegis of Landward Research, hosted a one-d
This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’
Studies of creole material cultures in historical archaeological frameworks in the Americas and Caribbean from the sixteenth century onwards emphasise the diversity and dynamism of cultural traits that are rooted in a range of different backgrounds: indigenous, African and European. Using a case study based upon recent historical and multidisciplinary archaeological research in north-western Barbados, this paper seeks to chart the development of …
Lucy to Lalibela
Unusually for an African country, Ethiopia was only briefly colonised. As such, this multi-ethnic yet predominantly ancient Christian country, for hundreds of years ruled by an Imperial Dynasty, preserved a unique cultural identity underpinned by a powerful social memory. The 'story of Ethiopia' (which in the present article is given the label 'heritage meta-narrative') was carefully nurtured over hundreds of years in order to stress the ancient …
Infernal Traffic
2012). Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena. Edited by Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie Witkin and Helen MacQuarrie. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 169, No. 1, pp. 579-579
Lalibela in its landscape
Lalibela is one of the most important historical sites in Africa. Although described as an Ethiopian medieval capital, very little focused archaeological research has been undertaken on the site. This paper describes the results of the University of Winchester survey of 2009, which took place as part of the wider French Centre of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) Lalibela project, whose results are published elsewhere. The results of this survey enable us…
The accumulation of Stone Age lithic artifacts in rock fragment mulches in northern Ethiopia
Lithic artifacts buried in the soil profile may be transported to the surface during tillage‐induced kinetic sieving, differential erosion, or swell–shrink cycles of clays and become part of a rock fragment mulch. Archaeologically, these manifestations are recognized as surface scatters. Although artifacts at the soil surface are difficult to relate to the local stratigraphic context, surface assemblages may provide information on lithic industri…
Settlement archaeology and oral history in Lasta, Ethiopia
The Ethiopian town of Lalibela is known for its magnificient rock-hewn churches said to date from the time of the Zagwe King Lalibela (twelfth century AD), but beyond the churches little is known about the town's archaeological context. This paper sets out preliminary observations of the landscape history of the town and argues that future work, integrating archaeological survey and oral history research, will yield a fuller picture of long-term …
Ancient churches of Ethiopia
Ancient churches of Ethiopia, by David Phillipson, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2009, 230 pp., US$65, ISBN 978-0-300-141566 Our knowledge of the archaeology of post-Aksumite Ethiopi
Built by angels? Towards a buildings archaeology context for the rock-hewn medieval churches of Ethiopia
The medieval rock-cut churches of northern and central Ethiopia bear witness to an ancient Christian heritage. Hitherto, their study has been largely confined to art-historical and architectural-historical disciplines, but this contribution argues that an archaeological approach may reveal much about their development, chronology and symbolism. Methodologies used in the study of the fabric and form of traditional 'built' churches may not be wholl…
Safeguarding Africa’s Archaeological Past: Selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001
Eight selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2001.
Monastic Archaeology in Syria. Excavations at Dayr Mar Elian al-Sharqi, Qaryatayn
Since the summer of 2001 archaeological excavations have been underway at the Syrian Catholic monastery of St Julian of the East (Dayr Mar Elian al-Sharqi), Qaryatayn. This monastery dates, according to historical sources, from at least the twelfth century although there are indications that elements of the complex may date from a much earlier period. This contribution outlines the preliminary results of the first three seasons of small-scale exc…
A New Perspective on the Late Stone Age of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands
(2000). A New Perspective on the Late Stone Age of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands: Excavations at Anqqer Baahti, Aksum, Ethiopia 1996. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 21-51
This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’
Studies of creole material cultures in historical archaeological frameworks in the Americas and Caribbean from the sixteenth century onwards emphasise the diversity and dynamism of cultural traits that are rooted in a range of different backgrounds: indigenous, African and European. Using a case study based upon recent historical and multidisciplinary archaeological research in north-western Barbados, this paper seeks to chart the development of …
Excavations at the Late Stone Age Site of Baahti Nebait, Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, 1997
Ethiopian evil eye belief and the magical symbolism of iron working
Whilst undertaking an archaeological survey in the area around the northern Ethiopian town of Aksum in late 1995 I spotted what appeared to be an obvious short cut on our map. Suggesting to my Ethiopian colleague that we could take this route, he dismissed me with the statement: “we cannot go through that village. They are all Buda there.” What, I asked, was the Buda? The answer came back that these people were variously mad, dangerous, strange, …
Mourning Balliceaux
This contribution considers how a small Caribbean island (Balliceaux, St Vincent and the Grenadines) holds up a mirror to the wider experiences of the Garifuna (‘Black Carib’) peoples who live on the neighbouring island of St Vincent, and in diasporic communities through the Americas. In the late-18th Century Balliceaux was the scene of a genocide orchestrated by the British colonial authorities on the Garifuna, and as a consequence it has become…
Infernal Traffic
2012). Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena. Edited by Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie Witkin and Helen MacQuarrie. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 169, No. 1, pp. 579-579
Lalibela in its landscape
Lalibela is one of the most important historical sites in Africa. Although described as an Ethiopian medieval capital, very little focused archaeological research has been undertaken on the site. This paper describes the results of the University of Winchester survey of 2009, which took place as part of the wider French Centre of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) Lalibela project, whose results are published elsewhere. The results of this survey enable us…
The Persistence of Memory
The archaeological landscape of the Shire region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia
(2003). The archaeological landscape of the Shire region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia: A preliminary report on the 2001 field season. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 139-147
Settlement archaeology and oral history in Lasta, Ethiopia
The Ethiopian town of Lalibela is known for its magnificient rock-hewn churches said to date from the time of the Zagwe King Lalibela (twelfth century AD), but beyond the churches little is known about the town's archaeological context. This paper sets out preliminary observations of the landscape history of the town and argues that future work, integrating archaeological survey and oral history research, will yield a fuller picture of long-term …
Built by angels? Towards a buildings archaeology context for the rock-hewn medieval churches of Ethiopia
The medieval rock-cut churches of northern and central Ethiopia bear witness to an ancient Christian heritage. Hitherto, their study has been largely confined to art-historical and architectural-historical disciplines, but this contribution argues that an archaeological approach may reveal much about their development, chronology and symbolism. Methodologies used in the study of the fabric and form of traditional 'built' churches may not be wholl…
Spectral Nation
Within the wider context of popular occult publishing in the United Kingdom, a distinctive subgenre can be defined. The ‘ghost gazetteer’ combines the function of a road guide with additional information on supernatural happenings, all tied to specific locales within Great Britain. Taking four popular and important examples of the genre dating from the 1970s, this article analyses the content and context of the books in terms of branding, selecti…
Interpreting the Indigenous and Imported Heritage of Medicinal and Culinary Plant Use in St. Vincent through the Gardens of John Nero and Alexander Anderson
Topics, Notes and Comments
Lethbridge, 1957). Introduction The year 2001 marks the one-hundredth year since the birth of one of the most compelling, if not controversial, figures in the history of twentieth-century British Archaeology. Thomas Tom Lethbridge (1901-71) was at one time an honorary keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities at the University of Cambridge, author of a number of books on the British Dark Ages and maritime archaeology, a leading light in the Cambridge Ant…
Slaves to Sailors
The archaeology of the post-Emancipation Caribbean remains relatively understudied. The collapse of the industrial-scale sugar plantation systems of the islands in the early 19th century saw a radical re-organization of socio-economic life. A new corpus of consumers was created, eking out a living on the margins of island society, but never quite liberated. This period sees the emergence of an Afro-Caribbean maritime culture focused upon shipbuil…
The accumulation of Stone Age lithic artifacts in rock fragment mulches in northern Ethiopia
Lithic artifacts buried in the soil profile may be transported to the surface during tillage‐induced kinetic sieving, differential erosion, or swell–shrink cycles of clays and become part of a rock fragment mulch. Archaeologically, these manifestations are recognized as surface scatters. Although artifacts at the soil surface are difficult to relate to the local stratigraphic context, surface assemblages may provide information on lithic industri…
B.I.E.A. Excavations at Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, 1995
This paper describes the results of the first two seasons of fieldwork at Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, particularly the excavation of a middle rank settlement of the Aksumite period
Excavations at the Late Stone Age Site of Baahti Nebait, Aksum, Northern Ethiopia, 1997
A New Perspective on the Late Stone Age of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands
(2000). A New Perspective on the Late Stone Age of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands: Excavations at Anqqer Baahti, Aksum, Ethiopia 1996. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 21-51
Combating the destruction of Ethiopia's archaeological heritage
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The Persistence of Memory
Ethiopian evil eye belief and the magical symbolism of iron working
Whilst undertaking an archaeological survey in the area around the northern Ethiopian town of Aksum in late 1995 I spotted what appeared to be an obvious short cut on our map. Suggesting to my Ethiopian colleague that we could take this route, he dismissed me with the statement: “we cannot go through that village. They are all Buda there.” What, I asked, was the Buda? The answer came back that these people were variously mad, dangerous, strange, …
Topics, Notes and Comments
Lethbridge, 1957). Introduction The year 2001 marks the one-hundredth year since the birth of one of the most compelling, if not controversial, figures in the history of twentieth-century British Archaeology. Thomas Tom Lethbridge (1901-71) was at one time an honorary keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities at the University of Cambridge, author of a number of books on the British Dark Ages and maritime archaeology, a leading light in the Cambridge Ant…
The archaeological landscape of the Shire region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia
(2003). The archaeological landscape of the Shire region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia: A preliminary report on the 2001 field season. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 139-147
Monastic Archaeology in Syria. Excavations at Dayr Mar Elian al-Sharqi, Qaryatayn
Since the summer of 2001 archaeological excavations have been underway at the Syrian Catholic monastery of St Julian of the East (Dayr Mar Elian al-Sharqi), Qaryatayn. This monastery dates, according to historical sources, from at least the twelfth century although there are indications that elements of the complex may date from a much earlier period. This contribution outlines the preliminary results of the first three seasons of small-scale exc…
The Archeological Landscape of the Shire Region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia
Finneran Niall. The Archeological Landscape of the Shire Region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia. In: Annales d'Ethiopie. Volume 21, année 2005. pp. 7-29
Ancient Egypt in Africa
The archaeology of islam in sub-saharan africa Insoll, Timothy
(2005). The archaeology of islam in sub-saharan africa Insoll, Timothy. Material Religion: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 278-281
Safeguarding Africa’s Archaeological Past: Selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001
Eight selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2001.
The accumulation of Stone Age lithic artifacts in rock fragment mulches in northern Ethiopia
Lithic artifacts buried in the soil profile may be transported to the surface during tillage‐induced kinetic sieving, differential erosion, or swell–shrink cycles of clays and become part of a rock fragment mulch. Archaeologically, these manifestations are recognized as surface scatters. Although artifacts at the soil surface are difficult to relate to the local stratigraphic context, surface assemblages may provide information on lithic industri…
Settlement archaeology and oral history in Lasta, Ethiopia
The Ethiopian town of Lalibela is known for its magnificient rock-hewn churches said to date from the time of the Zagwe King Lalibela (twelfth century AD), but beyond the churches little is known about the town's archaeological context. This paper sets out preliminary observations of the landscape history of the town and argues that future work, integrating archaeological survey and oral history research, will yield a fuller picture of long-term …
Ancient churches of Ethiopia
Ancient churches of Ethiopia, by David Phillipson, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2009, 230 pp., US$65, ISBN 978-0-300-141566 Our knowledge of the archaeology of post-Aksumite Ethiopi
Built by angels? Towards a buildings archaeology context for the rock-hewn medieval churches of Ethiopia
The medieval rock-cut churches of northern and central Ethiopia bear witness to an ancient Christian heritage. Hitherto, their study has been largely confined to art-historical and architectural-historical disciplines, but this contribution argues that an archaeological approach may reveal much about their development, chronology and symbolism. Methodologies used in the study of the fabric and form of traditional 'built' churches may not be wholl…
Infernal Traffic
2012). Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena. Edited by Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie Witkin and Helen MacQuarrie. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 169, No. 1, pp. 579-579
Lalibela in its landscape
Lalibela is one of the most important historical sites in Africa. Although described as an Ethiopian medieval capital, very little focused archaeological research has been undertaken on the site. This paper describes the results of the University of Winchester survey of 2009, which took place as part of the wider French Centre of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) Lalibela project, whose results are published elsewhere. The results of this survey enable us…
This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’
Studies of creole material cultures in historical archaeological frameworks in the Americas and Caribbean from the sixteenth century onwards emphasise the diversity and dynamism of cultural traits that are rooted in a range of different backgrounds: indigenous, African and European. Using a case study based upon recent historical and multidisciplinary archaeological research in north-western Barbados, this paper seeks to chart the development of …
Lucy to Lalibela
Unusually for an African country, Ethiopia was only briefly colonised. As such, this multi-ethnic yet predominantly ancient Christian country, for hundreds of years ruled by an Imperial Dynasty, preserved a unique cultural identity underpinned by a powerful social memory. The 'story of Ethiopia' (which in the present article is given the label 'heritage meta-narrative') was carefully nurtured over hundreds of years in order to stress the ancient …
Training and Teaching in the Historic Environment
Training and Teaching in the Historic Environment
On 19 June 2012, the University of Winchester’s Centre for Applied Archaeology and Heritage Management, in association with Dr Kenneth Aitchison under the aegis of Landward Research, hosted a one-d
Beside the Seaside. The Archaeology of the Twentieth-Century English Seaside Holiday Experience
Slaves to Sailors
The archaeology of the post-Emancipation Caribbean remains relatively understudied. The collapse of the industrial-scale sugar plantation systems of the islands in the early 19th century saw a radical re-organization of socio-economic life. A new corpus of consumers was created, eking out a living on the margins of island society, but never quite liberated. This period sees the emergence of an Afro-Caribbean maritime culture focused upon shipbuil…
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