Michael J Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 240134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cyprus Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4370-1160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ochre and hide-working during the early bronze age at Dhaskalio, central Cyclades: First insights from use-wear analysis
Dhaskalio is a small and steep-sided islet at the western end of the island of Keros in the central Cyclades. Excavations carried out between 2006–2008 and 2016–2018 brought to light the remains of extensive architecture on Dhaskalio and a ritual area of significant importance in the Kavos area of Keros, both dated to the mid-third millennium BCE. Among the findings is a substantial macro-lithic assemblage, comprising stone artefacts made from di…
Micro-XRF analysis of Early Bronze Age gold artefacts from Dhaskalio, Keros
Herding the flocks, harvesting the coast? The life of islanders at the Early Cycladic site of Dhaskalio (2,750–2,250 BCE)
Mice in the sanctuary? House mice from Early Bronze Age Dhaskalio
Copper smelting on Dhaskalio, Keros: Redefining Early Cycladic metallurgy and metalworking
New evidence for long distance interaction at Keros: Carnelian bead analysis using scanning electron microscopy
Building blocks between past and present: Perspectives from a holistic 3D GIS-based intra-site excavation archive
Single source archive for all data domains of past and present excavation data. • Large scale retrospective photogrammetry from separate excavation campaigns. • Incorporation of architectural reconstruction suggestions within a 3D GIS framework. • Comprehensive, real-time access to all available data for reflexive decision making. This paper summarises the development and showcases the uses of a 3D GIS-based tool used by the Keros Project in our …
Use-wear analyses of macro-lithic artefacts from the Early Bronze Age site of Dhaskalio, central Aegean, unveil their use as tools for metalworking
A holistic solution for the analysis of excavation and specialist data in a 3D GIS framework
This paper seeks to summarise the development and showcase the uses of a 3D GIS-based tool used by the Keros Project in our work at the Early Bronze Age site of Dhaskalio, Keros. While reflexivity and born-digital tools were built into the design of the 2016-2018 excavations, the issue of how appropriately to use, analyse and make accessible the vast quantities of digital data, especially the over one thousand 3D SFM photogrammetric models, came …
The sanctuary at Keros in the Aegean Early Bronze Age: From centre of congregation to centre of power
This article aims to summarise the results of three periods of fieldwork carried out since 2006. These are the Cambridge Keros Project of 2006–2008, the Keros Island Survey of 2012–2013, and the Keros-Naxos Seaways Project of 2015–2018. Taken together, these form a coherent, large-scale project that aimed to study a maritime landscape in some depth, putting the Kavos and Dhaskalio sites in a broader context, while through excavation understanding…
Tracing the missing fragments of Cycladic architecture: A geo-ethnoarchaeological study on the degradable architectural elements of the Cyclades
Far from Equilibrium: An archaeology of energy, life and humanity
(Re)placing humanity: Responses to the crisis in archaeology
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice
This article presents a holistic and reflexive process for archaeological fieldwork from inception to publication. The opportunities afforded by maturing digital techniques allowed fundamental rethinking of field and laboratory practice paradigms. A number of normally unquestioned aspects of archaeological praxis were examined with the goal of reorganizing information dynamics. Instead of a series of disparate processes in the field and field lab…
Keros
Keros, in the heart of the Cyclades, was the seafaring center of a regional network in the Early Bronze Age. It drew in participants from far and wide in rituals of deposition at its “Special Deposits,” and boasted the largest planned and monumental architecture of the period, where early metallurgy was practiced.
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from beyond the Cyclades: From mainland Greece, the north and east Aegean
Early Cycladic Sculpture Beyond the Cyclades: The Aegean Context
Interdisciplinary approaches to the prehistory of Keros
First investigated archaeologically in 1963, it is only with the recent publication of the 2006–2008 excavations that the nature of the Early Bronze Age sanctuary and settlement on Keros is becoming clear. Further investigations – a survey in 2012–2013 and excavations in 2016–2018 – have expanded our knowledge of the sanctuary. This paper sets out the interdisciplinary nature of the research on Keros, highlighting the contribution of a panoply of…
Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies
Paper exploring the role of animals and food in the development of feasting ritual in Neolithic Malta "Few social occasions demand greater effort in terms of playacting and ritual behaviour than feasts. These may require clothes to demonstrate status and affil- iation, and the participants must play a role that is almost theatrical, employing special manners and rituals in the public consumption of food. The food served is also different, special…
Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean
Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
The materiality of performance in Mycenaean funerary practices
The performance of funerary ritual is one of the hallmarks of the Mycenaean period. The materiality and performative aspects have often been lost in typologies and classificatory approaches concerned with the identity and status of the dead. This paper focuses on the roles of material culture in the spectacle of performance of funerary rites. Strategies for engagement with mortuary processes through material culture are highlighted in the prepara…
The Urban Scheme of Plataiai in Boiotia: Report on the Geophysical Survey, 2005–2009
The oldest maritime sanctuary? Dating the sanctuary at Keros and the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
The sanctuary on the island of Keros takes the form of deposits of broken marble vessels and figurines, probably brought severally for deposition from elsewhere in the Cyclades. These acts of devotion have now been accurately dated, thanks to Bayesian analyses of the contemporary stratigraphic sequence on the neighbouring islet of Dhaskalio. The period of use-from 2750 to 2300 cal BC-precedes any identified worship of gods in the Aegean and the s…
The oldest maritime sanctuary? Dating the sanctuary at Keros and the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
The sanctuary on the island of Keros takes the form of deposits of broken marble vessels and figurines, probably brought severally for deposition from elsewhere in the Cyclades. These acts of devotion have now been accurately dated, thanks to Bayesian analyses of the contemporary stratigraphic sequence on the neighbouring islet of Dhaskalio. The period of use-from 2750 to 2300 cal BC-precedes any identified worship of gods in the Aegean and the s…
The materiality of performance in Mycenaean funerary practices
The performance of funerary ritual is one of the hallmarks of the Mycenaean period. The materiality and performative aspects have often been lost in typologies and classificatory approaches concerned with the identity and status of the dead. This paper focuses on the roles of material culture in the spectacle of performance of funerary rites. Strategies for engagement with mortuary processes through material culture are highlighted in the prepara…
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice
This article presents a holistic and reflexive process for archaeological fieldwork from inception to publication. The opportunities afforded by maturing digital techniques allowed fundamental rethinking of field and laboratory practice paradigms. A number of normally unquestioned aspects of archaeological praxis were examined with the goal of reorganizing information dynamics. Instead of a series of disparate processes in the field and field lab…
Tracing the missing fragments of Cycladic architecture: A geo-ethnoarchaeological study on the degradable architectural elements of the Cyclades
Interdisciplinary approaches to the prehistory of Keros
First investigated archaeologically in 1963, it is only with the recent publication of the 2006–2008 excavations that the nature of the Early Bronze Age sanctuary and settlement on Keros is becoming clear. Further investigations – a survey in 2012–2013 and excavations in 2016–2018 – have expanded our knowledge of the sanctuary. This paper sets out the interdisciplinary nature of the research on Keros, highlighting the contribution of a panoply of…
Micro-XRF analysis of Early Bronze Age gold artefacts from Dhaskalio, Keros
Use-wear analyses of macro-lithic artefacts from the Early Bronze Age site of Dhaskalio, central Aegean, unveil their use as tools for metalworking
The Urban Scheme of Plataiai in Boiotia: Report on the Geophysical Survey, 2005–2009
Plataiai in Boiotia: A Preliminary Report on Geophysical and Field Surveys Conducted in 2002–2005
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 1, January-March 2008
Geophysical Investigations at Palaikastro
Since 1902 archaeological investigations at Palaikastro in eastern Crete have sought evidence for two architectural structures: a palace located amongst the substantial remains of Minoan settlement and the temple and sanctuary of Zeus Diktaios referred to by Strabo. In 2001 a geophysical survey was conducted in the Roussolakkos valley to the south-east of the excavated Minoan remains. Previous studies had recorded this as an archaeological ‘nil’ …
Geophysical Investigations at Palaikastro
Since 1902 archaeological investigations at Palaikastro in eastern Crete have sought evidence for two architectural structures: a palace located amongst the substantial remains of Minoan settlement and the temple and sanctuary of Zeus Diktaios referred to by Strabo. In 2001 a geophysical survey was conducted in the Roussolakkos valley to the south-east of the excavated Minoan remains. Previous studies had recorded this as an archaeological ‘nil’ …
Plataiai in Boiotia: A Preliminary Report on Geophysical and Field Surveys Conducted in 2002–2005
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 1, January-March 2008
The Urban Scheme of Plataiai in Boiotia: Report on the Geophysical Survey, 2005–2009
The oldest maritime sanctuary? Dating the sanctuary at Keros and the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
The sanctuary on the island of Keros takes the form of deposits of broken marble vessels and figurines, probably brought severally for deposition from elsewhere in the Cyclades. These acts of devotion have now been accurately dated, thanks to Bayesian analyses of the contemporary stratigraphic sequence on the neighbouring islet of Dhaskalio. The period of use-from 2750 to 2300 cal BC-precedes any identified worship of gods in the Aegean and the s…
The materiality of performance in Mycenaean funerary practices
The performance of funerary ritual is one of the hallmarks of the Mycenaean period. The materiality and performative aspects have often been lost in typologies and classificatory approaches concerned with the identity and status of the dead. This paper focuses on the roles of material culture in the spectacle of performance of funerary rites. Strategies for engagement with mortuary processes through material culture are highlighted in the prepara…
Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean
Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies
Paper exploring the role of animals and food in the development of feasting ritual in Neolithic Malta "Few social occasions demand greater effort in terms of playacting and ritual behaviour than feasts. These may require clothes to demonstrate status and affil- iation, and the participants must play a role that is almost theatrical, employing special manners and rituals in the public consumption of food. The food served is also different, special…
Interdisciplinary approaches to the prehistory of Keros
First investigated archaeologically in 1963, it is only with the recent publication of the 2006–2008 excavations that the nature of the Early Bronze Age sanctuary and settlement on Keros is becoming clear. Further investigations – a survey in 2012–2013 and excavations in 2016–2018 – have expanded our knowledge of the sanctuary. This paper sets out the interdisciplinary nature of the research on Keros, highlighting the contribution of a panoply of…
Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from beyond the Cyclades: From mainland Greece, the north and east Aegean
Early Cycladic Sculpture Beyond the Cyclades: The Aegean Context
Keros
Keros, in the heart of the Cyclades, was the seafaring center of a regional network in the Early Bronze Age. It drew in participants from far and wide in rituals of deposition at its “Special Deposits,” and boasted the largest planned and monumental architecture of the period, where early metallurgy was practiced.
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Far from Equilibrium: An archaeology of energy, life and humanity
(Re)placing humanity: Responses to the crisis in archaeology
Open Area, Open Data: Advances in Reflexive Archaeological Practice
This article presents a holistic and reflexive process for archaeological fieldwork from inception to publication. The opportunities afforded by maturing digital techniques allowed fundamental rethinking of field and laboratory practice paradigms. A number of normally unquestioned aspects of archaeological praxis were examined with the goal of reorganizing information dynamics. Instead of a series of disparate processes in the field and field lab…
The sanctuary at Keros in the Aegean Early Bronze Age: From centre of congregation to centre of power
This article aims to summarise the results of three periods of fieldwork carried out since 2006. These are the Cambridge Keros Project of 2006–2008, the Keros Island Survey of 2012–2013, and the Keros-Naxos Seaways Project of 2015–2018. Taken together, these form a coherent, large-scale project that aimed to study a maritime landscape in some depth, putting the Kavos and Dhaskalio sites in a broader context, while through excavation understanding…
Tracing the missing fragments of Cycladic architecture: A geo-ethnoarchaeological study on the degradable architectural elements of the Cyclades
A holistic solution for the analysis of excavation and specialist data in a 3D GIS framework
This paper seeks to summarise the development and showcase the uses of a 3D GIS-based tool used by the Keros Project in our work at the Early Bronze Age site of Dhaskalio, Keros. While reflexivity and born-digital tools were built into the design of the 2016-2018 excavations, the issue of how appropriately to use, analyse and make accessible the vast quantities of digital data, especially the over one thousand 3D SFM photogrammetric models, came …
Micro-XRF analysis of Early Bronze Age gold artefacts from Dhaskalio, Keros
Herding the flocks, harvesting the coast? The life of islanders at the Early Cycladic site of Dhaskalio (2,750–2,250 BCE)
Mice in the sanctuary? House mice from Early Bronze Age Dhaskalio
Copper smelting on Dhaskalio, Keros: Redefining Early Cycladic metallurgy and metalworking
New evidence for long distance interaction at Keros: Carnelian bead analysis using scanning electron microscopy
Building blocks between past and present: Perspectives from a holistic 3D GIS-based intra-site excavation archive
Single source archive for all data domains of past and present excavation data. • Large scale retrospective photogrammetry from separate excavation campaigns. • Incorporation of architectural reconstruction suggestions within a 3D GIS framework. • Comprehensive, real-time access to all available data for reflexive decision making. This paper summarises the development and showcases the uses of a 3D GIS-based tool used by the Keros Project in our …
Archaeology (17 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Geology (10 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Bronze Age (6 works)