Ruth Tringham

Biographic Data

ID191012
NAMERuth Tringham
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMETringham
SIGNATURETRINGHAM R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-1324-3306
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS725
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX8

  • Archaeological Houses, Households, Housework and the Home

    Ruth TringhamCHAPTERThe Home2024

    Archaeologists do not frequently write about homes or the home. We write a lot about architecture, spatial patterns, buildings, dwellings, shelter, and we make inferences about houses. Only recently have we even begun to make explicit inferences about households. But the home is a wildly cultural concept, evoking emotional nostalgia, whose apparent ambiguity leads it forever beyond the reach of the traditional archaeological record. And so it is …

  • Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past

    Open AccessRuth TringhamARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2023References: 46

    In this Perspective article, I am able to draw the various strands of my intellectual thinking and practice in archaeology and European prehistory into a complex narrative of changing themes. In this narrative, I draw attention to the inspirational triggers of these transformations to be found in works and words of colleagues and events within and outside my immediate discipline. A group of events between 1988 and 1993 disrupted (in a good way) t…

  • Closely Observed Layers: Storytelling and the Heart

    Open AccessRuth TringhamCHAPTERArchaeologies of the Heart2020

  • Giving Voices (Without Words) to Prehistoric People: Glimpses into an Archaeologist's Imagination

    Open AccessRuth TringhamARTICLEEuropean Journal of Archaeology2019Cited by: 8References: 6

    This article describes a path to addressing the discomfort that I and many of my braver colleagues have had, when putting words into the mouths and heads of prehistoric actors, knowing that these words say more about us than they do about prehistory. Yet without such speech, how are we archaeologists and the broader public to imagine the intangibles of the deep past (emotions, affect, gender, senses)? Moreover, such words create a misleading cert…

  • A Plea for a Richer, Fuller and More Complex Future Archaeology

    Ruth TringhamARTICLENorwegian Archaeological Review2018Cited by: 6References: 9

    In this paper there are some thoughts addressing issues of the future of archaeology that are especially dear to my heart, including questions of who sets research agendas, dissemination of archaeological knowledge, multiscalar interpretation of archaeological data, celebrating the ambiguity of the archaeological record, and putting the dialogic nature of archaeological research into practice as the dominant form of its dissemination. These would…

  • Animal domestication in the Neolithic cultures of the south-west part of European U.S.S.R.

    Ruth TringhamCHAPTERDomestication and Exploitation of…2017

    This chapter aims to present analyses the animal bone material from a number of early prehistoric sites in the south-western part of the U.S.S.R., since these are only rarely available to research workers in this country. In the Soviet Union, the distinction is made especially on a basis of size, the larger animals being identified as wild, and the smaller animals as domesticated. Moreover, it has been noted that the wild pigs excavated in the up…

  • Household Archaeology

    Open AccessRuth TringhamCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Becoming Archaeological

    Ruth Tringham, M C B AshleyARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Archaeology2015Cited by: 2References: 31

    This contribution to the forum on the relationship of "media archaeology" to the practice of "archaeology" reiterates the idea that an uncritical acceptance by "media archaeologists" of what archaeologists actually do has led to unnecessary limitations on the potential value of 'media archaeology'. The authors suggest that the concept of use lives and life histories of people, places and things that has been a recognized part of archaeological pr…

  • Hunters, Fishers and Farmers of Eastern Europe, 6000-3000 B.C

    Ruth TringhamBOOKHunters, Fishers and Farmers of…2014Cited by: 13

    Eastern Europe, in this book, embraces the area formally referred to as the ‘Marchlands of Europe’, sometimes as Eastern Central Europe, and which included, when this book was originally published in 1971, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland. This book presented for the first time the archaeological material related to the prehistory of Central and West Europe, describing the evidence for the earlier pr…

  • Last House on the Hill: Bach Area Reports from Catalhoyuk, Turkey

    Ruth Tringham, Mirjana StevanovićBOOKLast House on the Hill2012

  • Parallel Lives – An Interview with Ruth Tringham

    Ruth Tringham, Brit Solli et al.ARTICLENorwegian Archaeological Review2008References: 8

    Ruth Tringham is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is one of the founders and a director of the UC Berkeley Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology (MACTiA). Her research has focused on the transformation of early agricultural (Neolithic) societies. Tringham has directed and published archaeological excavations in South‐east Europe and Turkey, at the site of Çatalhöyük. Current research …

  • Feminist Adventures in Hypertext

    Open AccessR A Joyce, Ruth E Tringham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2007Cited by: 19References: 7

  • Household Archaeology

    Open AccessRuth TringhamCHAPTERInternational encyclopedia of the…2001

  • Southeastern Europe in the transition to agriculture in Europe: Bridge, buffer, or mosaic

    Open AccessRuth TringhamCHAPTEREurope's First Farmers2000

    Southeast Europe as bridge and buffer between the Near East and temperate Europe The transition to agriculture – the so-called “Neolithization process” – in southeast Europe has been a crucial topic of research at an international scale since the 1960s. In the 1920s, V. Gordon Childe referred to the Balkan peninsula as a “bridge” between Europe and the Near East (Childe 1958). He meant that the area acted as a vital route for the diffusion of pla…

  • Europe's First Farmers

    Open AccessRuth Tringham, Marek Zvelebil et al.BOOKEurope's First Farmers2000

    Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7000 and 4000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming? These central questions in the prehistory of Europe are discussed here by leading specialists, drawing on s…

  • Expanding the Dimensions of Early Agricultural Tells: The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project, Bulgaria

    Douglass W Bailey, Doug Bailey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1998Cited by: 4References: 6

    A single season of field work was carried out in 1995 at the Podgoritsa Tell, an Eneolithic (5th millennium B.C.) settlement mound located between the villages of Dralfa and Podgoritsa in the Turgovishte region of NE Bulgaria. Results provide significant new data about the physical and social dimensions of early agricultural settlement tells in SE Europe. Most important is the first discovery of architectural structures and activity areas located…

  • Engendered places in prehistory

    Ruth TringhamARTICLEGender Place & Culture1994Cited by: 59References: 26

    1994). Engendered places in prehistory. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 169-203

  • Archeology: The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe . Marija Gimbutas (Joan Marler , ed.)

    Open AccessRuth TringhamARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1993Cited by: 3

  • Selevac, a Neolithic Village in Yugoslavia

    P Bogucki, Ruth Tringham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1992

  • Excavations at Opovo, 1985–1987: Socioeconomic Change in the Balkan Neolithic

    Ruth Tringham, Bogdan Brukner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1992Cited by: 3References: 6

    This is the second preliminary report of excavations and analyses of Opovo-Ugar Bajbuk, a Neolithic settlement of the Vinča-Pločnik culture located in the lower Tamiš river valley, NE Yugoslavia. The Opovo Archaeological Project began in the summer of 1983; this report coversthe 1985–1987 field seasons. Work at Opovo has continued to reveal more about the unusual reliance placed by the site’s inhabitants on wild food resources, the apparent lack …

  • Excavations at Opovo, 1985-1987: Socioeconomic Change in the Balkan Neolithic

    Ruth Tringham, Bogdan Brukner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1992Cited by: 8

    Ruth Tringham, Bogdan Brukner, Timothy Kaiser, , , , Nerissa Russell, , Barbara Voytek, Excavations at Opovo, 1985-1987: Socioeconomic Change in the Balkan Neolithic, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 351-386

  • Man, Settlement and Urbanism

    Peter Ucko, Ruth Tringham et al.BOOKMan, Settlement and Urbanism1991Cited by: 267

  • The Opovo Project: A Study of Socioeconomic Change in the Balkan Neolithic

    Ruth Tringham, Bogdan Brukner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1985

    This report provides the preliminary results of an archaeological project currently underway in the Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. The project focuses on the site of Opovo-Ugar Bajbuk, which lies in the lower valley of the Tamiš River, north of the Danube. Excavation of the site began in the summer of 1983. Materials so far uncovered indicate that the site represents a late neolithic/early eneolithic settlement, belonging to the Vinča-Pločnik culture. Th…

  • V. Gordon Childe 25 Years After: His Relevance for the Archaeology of the Eighties

    Ruth TringhamARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1983Cited by: 7References: 1

    This is a review article of three monographs published recently about v. Gordon Childe, who was Europe's most eminent prehistorian from 1925–1957. The article draws attention to the fact that there seems, especially in Great Britain, to be a re-emergence of Childe's popularity after a relative inattention in the last 20 years. There is a possible explanation of this phenomenon as part of the reactionary trend of European, and especially British, …

  • Perspectives

    Beno Rothenberg, R F Tylecote et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1976

    Beno Rothenberg, R. F. Tylecote, Strathmore R. B. Cooke, Stanley E. Aschenbrenner, George Odell, Ruth Tringham, Michael Roberts, Barbara Voytek, Anne Whitman, Robert M. Schacht, Perspectives, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1976), pp. 236-240