Ruth D Whitehouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 246228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth D Whitehouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitehouse |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEHOUSE R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender & Italian Archaeology
The original research papers in this volume represent the first attempt to address issues of gender in the archaeology of Italy. Ranging from prehistoric to early classic periods, the authors address theoretical and methodological issues, as well as present a series of cases using both traditional and feminist research methods.
Archaeology and Women
IntroductionSue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, Katherine I. Wright* THE STUDY OF GENDER AND WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY* 1) Gender Archaeology and Archaeology of Women: Do We Need Both?Ruth D. Whitehouse* 2) On Gender Negotiation and its MaterialityMarie Louise Stig Sorensen* WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY3) Winifred Lamb: Her First Year as a Student at the British School at Athens David W.J. Gill* 4) Pioneers in Palestine: the Women Excavators of El-Wad Cave, 192…
Margaret Murray (1863–1963)
Margaret Murray, who was born 150 years ago, was one of the first archaeologists to be employed at UCL and one of the most distinguished, although her role in the history of archaeology is often underestimated. This article provides a brief outline of the career and contribution of a highly productive and innovative, if sometimes controversial, scholar, who also participated in the wider social movements of her time, particularly the campaign for…
Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory
This chapter contains section titles: The Study of Gender in the Central Mediterranean The Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Ages The Iron Age Conclusion References
Sa Cova d'es Carritx
In 1995 a previously unknown cave was discovered on the island of Menorca in the western Mediterranean. It was found to contain h uman skeletal remains and an extraordinary collection of artefacts made of wood and horn, some of which contained human hair. The cave appears to have been used during the first millennium BC for ritual purposes
Investigating surface archaeology on the Po floodplain, northern Italy
Investigating surface archaeology on the
Say it with stone
By considering the stones of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) on a landscape scale, their sources, properties and elemental use in architecture during the statue production period and beyond – from modest ovens to immense statues, a case is made that stone and stones were an essential connective substance of Rapa Nui society. It is posited that stone connected understandings of the land and sea both directly and inversely, that it expressed through colou…
The Institute’s primary research groups
Registered research students 2008/2009
The archaeobotany of Khao Sam Kaeo: assessing the agriculture resource base and human occupation of a late prehsitoric site on the Thai-Malay Peninsula Dimitra Christidou Does "pointing at" in museum exhibitions make a point? Research of visitors' embodied responses and their use in measuring participation and meaning-making Philip Connolly Compositional analysis as a means of studying ancient industry:the glass-making industries of the Iron Age/…
PhDs awarded, 2008
The twelfth issue of Archaeology International
Staff and honorary members of the Institute
Ben Samphire
Institute of Archaeology. He was tragically killed during fieldwork on a primate conservation project inEcuador.Here friends and colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology record their memories of Ben
Nicolas Coldstream (1927–2008)
was one of the leading scholars of Greek Archaeology of his generation, and most certainly made the field of the early Iron Age in Hellenic lands, c
Registered research students 2007/2008
The evolution of subsistence-settlement pattern in the north Pacific: cross-cultural analysis and simulation modelling of complex hunter-gatherer behaviour in prehistoric Japan and northwest America Susheela Crease An investigation of the practice of deposition in watery contexts in the British pre-Roman Iron Age-Roman transition
PhDs awarded, 2007
The Institute’s primary research groups
Palestinian archaeologists.It is also relevant to record here the Institute's continuing involvement in Widening Participation activities, thanks in particular to the work of Sarah Dhanjal, working with a number of London schools and hosting the Camden Young Archaeologists' Club.The number and remarkably wide distribution of Institute fieldwork projects is apparent from the project map and reports elsewhere in this issue of AI.Fieldwork obviously…
The Peter Ucko Archaeological Trust
The eleventh issue of Archaeology International
of staff, including both new and on-going projects
Staff and honorary members of the Institute
Staff and honorary members of the Institute
The Institute’s primary research groups
The tenth issue of Archaeology International
Registered research students 2006/2007
production in Porco-Potosi, Bolivia Trudie Cole Archaeological education and the benefits for learners at Key Stage 1 and 2 Philip Connolly The glass-making industries of the Iron Age/Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean and early Islamic Central Asia: compositional analysis as a means of understanding the structure of ancient industries
PhDs awarded, 2006
Phenomenology in practice
The article deals with the practice of phenomenological archaeological fieldwork, which is concerned with sensory experience of landscapes and locales. Phenomenological approaches in archaeology have cast light on aspects of past human experience not addressed by traditional archaeological methods. So far, however, they have neither developed explicit methodologies nor a discussion of methodological practice and have laid themselves open to accus…
Sheep in the Iron Age
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Say it with stone
By considering the stones of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) on a landscape scale, their sources, properties and elemental use in architecture during the statue production period and beyond – from modest ovens to immense statues, a case is made that stone and stones were an essential connective substance of Rapa Nui society. It is posited that stone connected understandings of the land and sea both directly and inversely, that it expressed through colou…
The rock-cut tombs of the central Mediterranean
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Settlement and Economy in Southern Italy in the Neothermal Period
The post-Pleistocene archaeology of southern Italy is a rapidly developing study and for this reason, while many facets of it are still little known, others are undergoing fundamental changes as new discoveries are made. Particularly notable contributions have been made in the last 20 years by, among others, L. Cardini, P. Graziosi, A. Palma di Cesnola, E. Borzatti von Löwenstern, O. Cornaggia Castiglioni and F. Zorzi in the palaeolithic and meso…
Social Archaeology and the Irrational [and Comments and Reply]
The Early Neolithic of Southern Italy
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Archaeology and Women
IntroductionSue Hamilton, Ruth D. Whitehouse, Katherine I. Wright* THE STUDY OF GENDER AND WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY* 1) Gender Archaeology and Archaeology of Women: Do We Need Both?Ruth D. Whitehouse* 2) On Gender Negotiation and its MaterialityMarie Louise Stig Sorensen* WOMEN IN ARCHAEOLOGY3) Winifred Lamb: Her First Year as a Student at the British School at Athens David W.J. Gill* 4) Pioneers in Palestine: the Women Excavators of El-Wad Cave, 192…
The last hunter-gatherers in southern Italy
The paper discusses the impact made by the introduction of farming on the indigenous hunter‐gatherers of southern Italy. The indigenous communities were forced to adapt their traditional economy to the changing environment created by the farmers. The author studies the development of these communities after the arrival of the neolithic settlers and divides it into four phases. The first phase is characterized by specialized food‐collection; in th…
The Copper Age of Peninsular Italy and the Aegean
Italy, like several other areas of prehistoric Europe, enjoyed a flourishing ‘Copper Age’— a period when objects of copper but not of bronze were in use, although not plentifully, and when various other changes in custom and material culture occurred, including transformations in the conventions of burial. These changes, like many in European prehistory, are often explained in terms of the ‘diffusion’ of ‘cultural influences’ from more advanced a…
The Neolithic Pottery Sequence in Southern Italy
The currently accepted divisions of the south Italian Neolithic are based on typological studies of ceramic styles, interpreted with the aid of stratigraphical information derived from a few key excavations. On the basis of this material a number of authorities have divided the Neolithic into a series of chronological phases. It is my belief that the evidence for constructing this neat relative chronological framework does not in fact exist and t…
Exploring gender in prehistoric Italy
INDAGINI SULL'IDENTITá DI GENERE NELL'ITALIA PREISTORICA Gli studi sull'identitá di genere in archeologia, sviluppatisi in maniera significativa solo negli anni '90, non hanno ancora avuto un grande impatto sull'archeologia italiana. Questo articolo propone un'apertura a piu largo raggio sul tema. L'autore non si propone di dare alcuna interpretazione definitiva, ma fornisce invece un apparato critico sugli studi in materia esistenti e discute il…
Siticulosa Apulia revisited
In recognition of the significance of these sites, and those of the classical and medieval periods also revealed by aerial photography, the Apulia Committee was set up under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries to organize a systematic programme of research. Unhappily this enterprise, begun with great intentions, became an early victim of tragic illness and accident of the chief protagonists and latterly has fallen into the malaise characte…
Archaeological Atlas of the World
Excavations at Anglona
Anglona is the site of a prehistoric, Hellenistic and medieval settlement overlooking the Ionian Sea, 60 km. south-west of Taranto (Fig. 1). In 1965 we carried out a short trial excavation at Anglona on behalf of the Soprintendenza alle Antichità for Lucania. The excavation was of an exploratory nature. The site has since been excavated on a larger scale by the German Archaeological Institute, but the results obtained by ourselves were sufficient…
Sheep in the Iron Age
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The Megalithic Monuments of South-East Italy
The Early Neolithic of Southern Italy
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Settlement and Economy in Southern Italy in the Neothermal Period
The post-Pleistocene archaeology of southern Italy is a rapidly developing study and for this reason, while many facets of it are still little known, others are undergoing fundamental changes as new discoveries are made. Particularly notable contributions have been made in the last 20 years by, among others, L. Cardini, P. Graziosi, A. Palma di Cesnola, E. Borzatti von Löwenstern, O. Cornaggia Castiglioni and F. Zorzi in the palaeolithic and meso…
Excavations at Anglona
Anglona is the site of a prehistoric, Hellenistic and medieval settlement overlooking the Ionian Sea, 60 km. south-west of Taranto (Fig. 1). In 1965 we carried out a short trial excavation at Anglona on behalf of the Soprintendenza alle Antichità for Lucania. The excavation was of an exploratory nature. The site has since been excavated on a larger scale by the German Archaeological Institute, but the results obtained by ourselves were sufficient…
The Neolithic Pottery Sequence in Southern Italy
The currently accepted divisions of the south Italian Neolithic are based on typological studies of ceramic styles, interpreted with the aid of stratigraphical information derived from a few key excavations. On the basis of this material a number of authorities have divided the Neolithic into a series of chronological phases. It is my belief that the evidence for constructing this neat relative chronological framework does not in fact exist and t…
Bread and Milk
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The last hunter-gatherers in southern Italy
The paper discusses the impact made by the introduction of farming on the indigenous hunter‐gatherers of southern Italy. The indigenous communities were forced to adapt their traditional economy to the changing environment created by the farmers. The author studies the development of these communities after the arrival of the neolithic settlers and divides it into four phases. The first phase is characterized by specialized food‐collection; in th…
The rock-cut tombs of the central Mediterranean
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Prehistoric Settlement on the Tavoliere, Italy
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The Copper Age of Peninsular Italy and the Aegean
Italy, like several other areas of prehistoric Europe, enjoyed a flourishing ‘Copper Age’— a period when objects of copper but not of bronze were in use, although not plentifully, and when various other changes in custom and material culture occurred, including transformations in the conventions of burial. These changes, like many in European prehistory, are often explained in terms of the ‘diffusion’ of ‘cultural influences’ from more advanced a…
The Origins of Europe
Archaeological Atlas of the World
The First Cities
Trulli in south-east Italy
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Archaeology at Lancaster
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Siticulosa Apulia revisited
In recognition of the significance of these sites, and those of the classical and medieval periods also revealed by aerial photography, the Apulia Committee was set up under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries to organize a systematic programme of research. Unhappily this enterprise, begun with great intentions, became an early victim of tragic illness and accident of the chief protagonists and latterly has fallen into the malaise characte…
Social Archaeology and the Irrational [and Comments and Reply]
Sa Cova d'es Carritx
Balsdon Fellowship
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Investigating surface archaeology on the Po floodplain, northern Italy
Exploring gender in prehistoric Italy
INDAGINI SULL'IDENTITá DI GENERE NELL'ITALIA PREISTORICA Gli studi sull'identitá di genere in archeologia, sviluppatisi in maniera significativa solo negli anni '90, non hanno ancora avuto un grande impatto sull'archeologia italiana. Questo articolo propone un'apertura a piu largo raggio sul tema. L'autore non si propone di dare alcuna interpretazione definitiva, ma fornisce invece un apparato critico sugli studi in materia esistenti e discute il…
Staff and honorary members of the Institute
The Institute’s primary research groups
The tenth issue of Archaeology International
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