Melanie Giles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 227397 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melanie Giles |
| NOMBRES | Melanie |
| APELLIDO | Giles |
| FIRMA | GILES M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1815-3489 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
‘To read a life, to clothe the bones, to tell a story’
While death is universal, experiences of dealing with the dead and dying differ vastly, and yet despite the universality of our mortality, death can remain, for many, a difficult and challenging topic of conversation. This paper presents the methods and results of a creative approach to normalising talk of the dead, which draws on examples from archaeology (materials from the past) and ethnography (experiences from across the world) to demonstrat…
Regional and Temporal Differences in Disease, Trauma, and Mortality in Iron Age Britain
The British Iron Age (eighth to first centuries B.C.) is characterized by agrarian communities who were regionally diverse and highly distinctive. In this study, we explored three new research questions about these communities using data derived from the primary inhumations of Middle Iron Age (400–100 B.C.) Yorkshire and Early to Late Iron Age Dorset (eighth century B.C. to early–mid first century A.D.) and a range of statistical approaches: did …
Materializing mortality
Grave goods are among the most common, but at the same time most powerful, objects on display in many museums. They possess the rare—often latent—ability to convey both particular and universal themes and to collapse chronological and cultural differences by connecting the shared embodiment of museum visitors and past people. To explore these values, this study draws on the results of two phases of in‐depth, mixed‐methods audience research before…
Potential and limitations of adhesive identification on museum curated metal objects
Potential to identify ancient adhesives on museum-curated metal objects. • Chemical identifications demonstrate exploitation of various adhesive materials. • Wax related conservation treatments may cause limitations in adhesive interpretation. • Iron age objects highlight combined material technologies or réseaux opératoires . In Europe, adhesives were produced and employed from the Middle Palaeolithic onwards. In the earlier periods, adhesives w…
Making finds matter
From enigmatic carved stone balls to the patched breeches of an 18th-century bog body, many archaeological finds from Scotland are, without doubt, fabulous. Through these objects and the practices they embody, we can imagine alternative ways of living and thinking, wonder at past people’s ingenuity and skill, and revisit significant moments in our own lives. Archaeological finds are also often fragile, scattered across diverse locations, and ofte…
Sarah Tarlow. 2023. The archaeology of loss
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Fraser Hunter, The Carnyx in Iron Age Europe
Employing the theory of planned behaviour to design an e-cigarette education resource for use in secondary schools
This paper is the first to bridge the theoretical-practice gap in an area of significant public health importance through the development of a framework for a novel theory driven school-based educational resource aimed at reducing experimentation and uptake of e-cigarette use in young people
Grave Goods
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they also speak of the care shown to the dead by the livin…
Comparison of barriers and facilitators of Mind diet uptake among adults from Northern Ireland and Italy
Cross-cultural differences in relation to psychosocial barriers and facilitators were found in both samples. More barriers than facilitators towards uptake of the MIND diet were found. There is a need for interventions that increase capability, opportunity, and motivation to aid behaviour change. The findings from this study will be used to design a behaviour change intervention using the subsequent steps from the Behaviour Change Wheel
Crossing the bog
This chapter discusses the phenomenon of bogs in the wider context of later prehistoric wetlands. What makes these places unique? How were they perceived and used by those communities? Rejecting the notion of them as mere marginal zones, it conjures their pivotal role as landscapes rich in craft and building materials, ore, fuel, fodder and fowl. Through the use of archival material it examines the disputes fought over rights to use them, the dif…
Violent ends
This chapter will review the lives and deaths of individuals who end up in the bogs: evaluating the competing arguments for their fate, from accidental death to suicide, burial, murder, execution and sacrifice. It will explore the lives they lived, from unique insights into diet, disease and personal appearance, to mobility, origin and status, which can be gleaned from their remains. Who were they? What life had they lived up until this point? Th…
Bog bodies
The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imagination of poets as much as archaeologists, confronting us with human remains where time has stopped – allowing us to come ‘face to face’ with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation allows us to examine unprecedented details of both their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly upon our own mortality. Yet this book argues that they must be resituated within a…
Journal of Wetland Archaeology Bog Bodies Special Edition
An introduction outlining the background to this special edition of the Journal of Wetland Archaeology, co-edited by Julia Farley and Benjamin Gearey, and the aims of the papers. This volume is the result of an international workshop on bog bodies held at the British Museum in March 2019, the most recent meeting of the Bog Bodies Network that formed following a workshop at Stockholm University in 2009. The volume is divided into three parts. The …
JWA Bog Bodies Special Edition
This afterword presents a personal reflection both on the papers in the Journal of Wetland Archaeology’s Special Edition on Bog Bodies, as well as the wider scientific and cultural value of these remains. It points to new avenues of research and collaboration, emphasises the need for international standards and guides for future discoveries, and promotes the value of more sustainable research using existing museum and archival material. Finally, …
Covering the Dead in Later Prehistoric Britain
This paper examines the containment and covering of people and objects in burials throughout later prehistory in Britain. Recent analyses of grave assemblages with exceptionally well-preserved organic remains have revealed some of the particular roles played by covers in funerary contexts. Beyond these spectacular examples, however, the objects involved in covering and containing have largely been overlooked. Many of the ‘motley crew’ of pots and…
A Quaker Burial Ground in North Shields
The two monographs here form a complementary pair of texts. One is an indispensable volume not just for osteologists but scholars of all disciplines interested in the long-term history of disease
Aging Well
Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology (formerly the Journal of European Archaeology ) has been in print, we have published a number of excellent and high profile articles. Among these, Paul Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive. Speaking informally with friends and colleagues …
Archaeologists and the Dead
This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical consid…
Afterword
This review of papers submitted for a collection of archaeological studies of hair offers a critical evaluation of the importance of this under-studied subject whilst presenting some unique insights into hair in the northern European Iron Age
Archaeologists and the Dead
"This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical consi…
Service user involvement in mental health care
Afterword
Death, burial and ritual in Iron Age Britain and the Netherlands
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A Forged Glamour
Making Metal and Forging Relations
This article explores the social significance of metalworking in the British Iron Age, drawing ethnographic analogies with small‐scale, pre‐industrial communities. It focuses on iron, from the collection of ore to smelting and smithing, challenging the assumption that specialized ironworking was necessarily associated with hierarchical chiefdoms, supported by full‐time craft specialists. Instead, it explores more complex ways in which social and …
Bog bodies
The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imagination of poets as much as archaeologists, confronting us with human remains where time has stopped – allowing us to come ‘face to face’ with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation allows us to examine unprecedented details of both their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly upon our own mortality. Yet this book argues that they must be resituated within a…
Intergroup contact, friendship quality and political attitudes in integrated and segregated schools in Northern Ireland
BackgroundThis study examines the effects of integrated and segregated schooling on Northern Irish children's self-reported contact and friendship with members of the other denominational group in school and community settings.AimTo assess the effects of cross group friendships and cross group contacts in school and outside school on children's political attitudes.SampleA cross-sectional design was employed with 1732 children being assessed at th…
Iron Age bog bodies of north-western Europe. Representing the dead
This paper explores the phenomenon of Iron Age bog bodies which are currently the subject of competing claims over the respectful treatment of the ancient dead. It reviews the problems associated with their discovery, identifies why they attract such attention, and critiques both traditional interpretations of bog bodies and methods of display. The paper defends their archaeological analysis, arguing that this process can radically transform our …
Aging Well
Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology (formerly the Journal of European Archaeology ) has been in print, we have published a number of excellent and high profile articles. Among these, Paul Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive. Speaking informally with friends and colleagues …
Parental and school effects on children's political attitudes in Northern Ireland
BackgroundRecent research has suggested that intergroup contacts with out-group members can both reduce prejudice and is associated with attitude change.AimThis study extends prior work in Northern Ireland to examine parental and schooling effects on children's attitudes in a post-conflict environment.SampleA large-scale cross-sectional survey of secondary schoolchildren (N = 1,732) and their parents (N = 800) in Northern Ireland assessed the eff…
Performing Pain, Performing Beauty
Traumatic death rends the fabric of personal and social relations in a manner that is qualitatively different to other kinds of mortality. Mourners must deal with the personal affects, familial consequences and political aftermath of such events. This paper examines the way in which performances around such difficult deaths were used to express and negotiate trauma, through the lens of Iron Age burials in Britain and Ireland. It draws on performa…
Covering the Dead in Later Prehistoric Britain
This paper examines the containment and covering of people and objects in burials throughout later prehistory in Britain. Recent analyses of grave assemblages with exceptionally well-preserved organic remains have revealed some of the particular roles played by covers in funerary contexts. Beyond these spectacular examples, however, the objects involved in covering and containing have largely been overlooked. Many of the ‘motley crew’ of pots and…
Collecting the Past, Constructing Identity
2005 marked the centenary of the publication of Forty Years Researches in the British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire by John Mortimer. This review explores the key concepts underpinning his work – those of progress and racial identity – and how they were developed both in the monograph and in the fieldwork and museum arrangements upon which the monograph was based. It argues that although Mortimer is best known for his work on the Neol…
Preserving the Body
"The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, …
Death, burial and ritual in Iron Age Britain and the Netherlands
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The Writing on the Wall
Church Attendance in Northern Ireland
While it is widely acknowledged that Northern Ireland is a religious society, Protestants still do not attend church as often as do Catholics. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to employ the Ajzen and Fishbein framework to investigate what factors help to explain why Catholics attend church more regularly than do Protestants. To this end, 333 undergraduate students in the faculty of Social and Health Science at the University of Ulster…
The Celts
(2004). The Celts: Origins, Myths and Inventions. By John Collis. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 161, No. 1, pp. 242-243
The Celts
(2004). The Celts: A Very Short Introduction. By Barry Cunliffe. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 161, No. 1, pp. 242-243
Condom use in African adolescents
This study set out to assess the ability of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict and explain condom use in a traditional African context and in particular to assess the relative contributions of individual and normative constructs. A questionnaire survey was administered to 152 young adults (48% male, 52% female) at two points in time. Key constructs contained within the TPB were measured at Time 1. A short follow-up set of items was …
Collecting the Past, Constructing Identity
2005 marked the centenary of the publication of Forty Years Researches in the British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire by John Mortimer. This review explores the key concepts underpinning his work – those of progress and racial identity – and how they were developed both in the monograph and in the fieldwork and museum arrangements upon which the monograph was based. It argues that although Mortimer is best known for his work on the Neol…
The Writing on the Wall
Making Metal and Forging Relations
This article explores the social significance of metalworking in the British Iron Age, drawing ethnographic analogies with small‐scale, pre‐industrial communities. It focuses on iron, from the collection of ore to smelting and smithing, challenging the assumption that specialized ironworking was necessarily associated with hierarchical chiefdoms, supported by full‐time craft specialists. Instead, it explores more complex ways in which social and …
The Culture of Condoms
OBJECTIVE: To examine attitudes toward condoms and their association with culturally grounded beliefs among young South African adults. METHODS: A questionnaire survey undertaken in three different locations (urban, rural, and mixed), including 1100 participants, and implementing both a cross-validational and a bootstrap multivariate design. Outcome measures were intention to use a condom at next sex and condom salience (i.e., confidence in the p…
Iron Age bog bodies of north-western Europe. Representing the dead
This paper explores the phenomenon of Iron Age bog bodies which are currently the subject of competing claims over the respectful treatment of the ancient dead. It reviews the problems associated with their discovery, identifies why they attract such attention, and critiques both traditional interpretations of bog bodies and methods of display. The paper defends their archaeological analysis, arguing that this process can radically transform our …
Intergroup contact, friendship quality and political attitudes in integrated and segregated schools in Northern Ireland
BackgroundThis study examines the effects of integrated and segregated schooling on Northern Irish children's self-reported contact and friendship with members of the other denominational group in school and community settings.AimTo assess the effects of cross group friendships and cross group contacts in school and outside school on children's political attitudes.SampleA cross-sectional design was employed with 1732 children being assessed at th…
John Strickland Dent. The Iron Age in East Yorkshire
John Strickland Dent. The Iron Age in East Yorkshire: an analysis of the later prehistoric monuments of the Yorkshire Wolds and the culture which marked their final phase (British Archaeological Reports British Series 508). xiv+138 pages, 113 illustrations, 10 tables. 2010. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges; 978-1-4073-0475-5 paperback £40. - Volume 84 Issue 325
Parental and school effects on children's political attitudes in Northern Ireland
BackgroundRecent research has suggested that intergroup contacts with out-group members can both reduce prejudice and is associated with attitude change.AimThis study extends prior work in Northern Ireland to examine parental and schooling effects on children's attitudes in a post-conflict environment.SampleA large-scale cross-sectional survey of secondary schoolchildren (N = 1,732) and their parents (N = 800) in Northern Ireland assessed the eff…
Promoting positive attitudes to breastfeeding
The objective of this study was to design, implement and evaluate an intervention based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to enhance young peoples' motivations to breastfeed/support a partner to breastfeed. Six semi-structured focus groups were first conducted with 48 13-14-year-olds from two schools in Northern Ireland. The salient beliefs elicited were subsequently used to design a TPB-based questionnaire that was then administered to 20…
Preserving the Body
"The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, …
Performing Pain, Performing Beauty
Traumatic death rends the fabric of personal and social relations in a manner that is qualitatively different to other kinds of mortality. Mourners must deal with the personal affects, familial consequences and political aftermath of such events. This paper examines the way in which performances around such difficult deaths were used to express and negotiate trauma, through the lens of Iron Age burials in Britain and Ireland. It draws on performa…
Archaeologists and the Dead
This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical consid…
Afterword
This review of papers submitted for a collection of archaeological studies of hair offers a critical evaluation of the importance of this under-studied subject whilst presenting some unique insights into hair in the northern European Iron Age
Archaeologists and the Dead
"This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical consi…
Service user involvement in mental health care
Afterword
Death, burial and ritual in Iron Age Britain and the Netherlands
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A Quaker Burial Ground in North Shields
The two monographs here form a complementary pair of texts. One is an indispensable volume not just for osteologists but scholars of all disciplines interested in the long-term history of disease
Aging Well
Over the (slightly more than) two decades that the European Journal of Archaeology (formerly the Journal of European Archaeology ) has been in print, we have published a number of excellent and high profile articles. Among these, Paul Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive. Speaking informally with friends and colleagues …
Journal of Wetland Archaeology Bog Bodies Special Edition
An introduction outlining the background to this special edition of the Journal of Wetland Archaeology, co-edited by Julia Farley and Benjamin Gearey, and the aims of the papers. This volume is the result of an international workshop on bog bodies held at the British Museum in March 2019, the most recent meeting of the Bog Bodies Network that formed following a workshop at Stockholm University in 2009. The volume is divided into three parts. The …
JWA Bog Bodies Special Edition
This afterword presents a personal reflection both on the papers in the Journal of Wetland Archaeology’s Special Edition on Bog Bodies, as well as the wider scientific and cultural value of these remains. It points to new avenues of research and collaboration, emphasises the need for international standards and guides for future discoveries, and promotes the value of more sustainable research using existing museum and archival material. Finally, …
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