John F Cherry
Biographic Data
| ID | 268835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Cherry |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherry |
| SIGNATURE | CHERRY J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
An Archaeological Survey of Polyaigos: Landscape, Lidar, and Long-Term History on the Largest “Uninhabited” Island in the Aegean
This article presents an archaeological survey of the island of Polyaigos, undertaken in 2022 by the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP). Since 2019, SCIP has surveyed 87 uninhabited islands in the southern Aegean, most of which are well under 1 km2 in size. The larger island of Polyaigos (18 km2) was included in the project in order to investigate the importance of island size (among other things) in long-term population and land-use dynamics.…
Did Indigenous long-distance voyaging occur below 50°S
Evaluating the Mediterranean Evidence for Over-Water Dispersal in Premodern Homo
The extent, antiquity, and causation of possible over-water dispersal in premodern species of hominin in the Mediterranean remain contentious. The scholarship ranges from maximalist positions, positing early and ubiquitous over-water behaviors amongst Mediterranean hominins, to minimalist positions, stressing the poor quality of evidence for over-water behavior prior to the Upper Paleolithic. Here, we comprehensively review the evidence for such …
Andrew Colin Renfrew (1937-2024)
The Silver Seal Matrix of John de Wike Found in Bratton Seymour Parish, Somerset
This note examines a silver seal matrix set with a very remarkable Roman gem showing the youthful Octavian wearing the petasus (a sunhat with broad brim) of Mercury. From the inscription it belonged to John de Wike. The gem was probably set in the matrix in the late 13th or early 14th century. This note discusses the name of the owner and the design of the gem
The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell
In a recent paper published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , John Terrell (2020) objected to the proposition that islands can offer model systems to study human behavior and ecodynamics (see Cherry and Leppard 2018; DiNapoli and Leppard 2018; DiNapoli et al. 2018; Fitzpatrick and Erlandson 2018; Kirch 2007; McLaughlin, Stoddart, and Malone 2018; Pilaar Birch 2018). He argues that a review of insular model systems in the study of…
Costly Signaling and Windmill-Building: Inter-Island Technological Variability on Eighteenth-Century Sugar Estates in the Lesser Antilles
The enamelled baldric of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (c 1280–1332): Scottish or French enamelling
The baldric of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (died 1332), a companion in arms of King Robert I, was made in the first half of the 14th century and taken to England before 1604, since which time it has been attached to the Savernake horn, now in the British Museum. It is elaborately decorated with champlevé and translucent enamel, and bears the arms of argent three cushions gules within a royal tressure, which were adopted by Thomas Randolph …
The Soldier Ghaut Petroglyphs on Montserrat, Lesser Antilles
Only five years ago, Montserrat was a blank spot on the distribution map of islands in the Lesser Antilles where petroglyphs were known. In January 2016, hikers in Soldier Ghaut, a deeply incised watercourse in the northwest of the island, came upon a panel of nine petroglyphs engraved on a nearly vertical wall of volcanoclastic tuff. Soon afterward the petroglyphs were documented by the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat project (SLA…
Pastoralism and the Role of Animals in the Pre- And Protohistoric Economies of the Aegean
An island archaeology of uninhabited landscapes: Offshore islets near Paros, Greece (the Small Cycladic Islands Project)
The Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP) is a diachronic archaeological survey of numerous small, uninhabited islands in the Cycladic archipelago. There is a rich history of archaeological survey and comparative island archaeology in the Aegean. SCIP narrows the size of an individual island survey, and at the same time expands the conceptual and comparative scope by surveying multiple islands with the same set of methods and in the context of th…
The State of Decay into which the Island Has Fallen”: Education and Social Welfare on Montserrat after emancipation
The social life of the newly created ‘laboring classes’ in the post-emancipation Caribbean has been relatively unexamined across a number of disciplinary perspectives. This paper argues for the need to bring together a variety of sources to enable researchers to gain a better understanding of this important, transitional time in Montserrat’s history. Using evidence gathered from archives in the Caribbean, North America and the British Isles, mate…
Patterning and Its Causation in the Pre-Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands (Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene)
In 1981 one of us (Cherry) first attempted to identify spatial and temporal patterning in the human colonization of the Mediterranean islands. Since the 1980s, slowly accumulating evidence has suggested that the Mediterranean islands were sporadically inhabited by hunter-gatherers during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Here we seek to establish whether or not these data exhibit regularity. We suggest that evidence for Upper Palaeolithic …
Surveying a Long-Term Settlement on Potato Hill, Montserrat
This chapter demonstrates the advantages of a survey-centered approach for examining cultural landscapes on Montserrat. Our case study focuses on the multi-method survey of the Potato Hill landscape employed during the 2013 field season of the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat project. Potato Hill’s artifact assemblage is the largest and among the earliest historic-period collections of artifacts to be recovered on Montserrat from th…
Archaeology for the People: Joukowsky Institute Perspectives
Archaeology for the People: Joukowsky Institute Perspectives
Using Airborne LiDAR Survey to explore Historic-era archaeological landscapes of Montserrat in the Eastern Caribbean
This article describes what appears to be the first archaeological application of airborne LiDAR survey to historic-era landscapes in the Caribbean archipelago, on the island of Montserrat. LiDAR is proving invaluable in extending the reach of traditional pedestrian survey into less favorable areas, such as those covered by dense neotropical forest and by ashfall from the past two decades of active eruptions by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and to…
Struggles of a Sugar Society: Surveying Plantation-Era Montserrat, 1650–1850
The Hunt Dekadrachm
This paper describes a Syracusan silver dekadrachm (ten-drachma) coin of c 400 bc , now in the Hunt Museum, Limerick, that is set in a gold ring with a text in elaborate Lombardic letters of early fourteenth-century date identifying it as one of the thirty pieces of silver for which Christ was betrayed by Judas. It is an unusual and early example of this type of relic
Experimental archaeology and the earliest seagoing: The Limitations of Inference
Experimental voyaging, of the type made famous by the Kon-Tiki and the Hōkūleʻa, is often considered to provide a means of modelling the performance of ancient seacraft, a relevant variable if we are to understand patterning in prehistoric island colonization and maritime interaction. Recently, in order to bolster claims otherwise dependent on contentious data, some proponents who argue for maritime colonisation as an evolutionarily ancient behav…
A Post-Roman Sequence at Carlisle Cathedral
Major new research on this important Post-Roman site. Contributions from several specialists on significant archaeological assemblages
Multi-Period Landscape Survey and Site Risk Assessment on Montserrat, West Indies
Following a series of devastating and ongoing volcanic eruptions, the archaeological record of Montserrat (West Indies) has been exposed to the dual threats of destructive pyroclastic volcanism, and the construction of new infrastructure and settlements to accommodate those displaced as a result. Yet, with the exception of contributions from a handful of site-based research projects, the scope of prehistoric and historical archaeology of Montserr…
Communities and archaeology under the Soufrière Hills Volcano on Montserrat, West Indies
The volcanically devastated landscape of Montserrat and its social fabric comprise what Maria calls a “traumascape”—a site of tragedy and catastrophe that is also a place of coping and resilience. How Montserratians engage with trauma is evident in how they remember their recent and historical pasts, and in how they are reinventing aspects of their heritage in order to sustain a distinctly Montserratian identity for the future. Such a process of …
Still not digging, much
The impulse to keep excavating, set against widespread failures to publish in a timely manner, has created a crisis of confidence for archaeology. This is especially so in Europe and North America, where contract archaeology has witnessed dramatic growth in recent decades, but it is not universally the case. Far from being the defining practice of the discipline, excavation is not the only technique for generating data relevant to archaeological …
Field Survey and Geochemical Characterization of the Southern Armenian Obsidian Sources
In comparison with those of the west Mediterranean, the Aegean, and Anatolia, the numerous obsidian sources in the southern Caucasus have begun to receive archaeological attention only recently. The least research has been directed to the southernmost of these sources, in the province of Syunik in southern Armenia. These sources lie close to the border with Azerbaijan, in remote mountainous uplands reaching elevations above 3200 m and under snow …
The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report
James C. Wright, John F. Cherry, Jack L. Davis, Eleni Mantzourani, Susan B. Sutton, Robert F. Sutton Jr., The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1990), pp. 579-659
Pattern and Process in the Earliest Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands
When and how were the Mediterranean islands first settled? Has insularity itself—the special characteristics of islands everywhere—acted as a constraint on the manner and rate of their colonization by man? If so, is it possible for archaeologists to make use of ecological and biogeographical models which have been developed to account for the abundance and diversity of animals and plants on islands of varying size and remoteness? This paper offer…
First Colonization of the Meditterranean Islands: A Review of Recent Research
This paper attempts to synthesize the significant developments that have taken place during the 1980s in the study of the earliest occupation of the Mediterranean islands. It has become clear that there do exist a few instances of Paleolithic occupation of true islands, but many similar claims have been refuted, remain contentious, or are irrelevant to the issue of insular colonization. A ninth millennium BP human presence can now be demonstrated…
The emergence of the state in the prehistoric Aegean
It is widely accepted that distinctive polities of an institutional complexity sufficient to consider as ‘states’ first appeared in the Aegean area shortly after c. 2000 B.C. Most scholars would also agree that the origins of these palace-centred societies of Minoan Crete cannot be understood without extensive reference to developments taking place within and beyond the Aegean during a long formative period spanning the late fourth and the whole …
Experimental archaeology and the earliest seagoing: The Limitations of Inference
Experimental voyaging, of the type made famous by the Kon-Tiki and the Hōkūleʻa, is often considered to provide a means of modelling the performance of ancient seacraft, a relevant variable if we are to understand patterning in prehistoric island colonization and maritime interaction. Recently, in order to bolster claims otherwise dependent on contentious data, some proponents who argue for maritime colonisation as an evolutionarily ancient behav…
Patterning and Its Causation in the Pre-Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands (Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene)
In 1981 one of us (Cherry) first attempted to identify spatial and temporal patterning in the human colonization of the Mediterranean islands. Since the 1980s, slowly accumulating evidence has suggested that the Mediterranean islands were sporadically inhabited by hunter-gatherers during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Here we seek to establish whether or not these data exhibit regularity. We suggest that evidence for Upper Palaeolithic …
Archaeological Survey in an Artifact-Rich Landscape: A Middle Neolithic Example from Nemea, Greece
Surface studies of a Middle Neolithic site near Nemea have produced pottery, chipped stone, and other finds which can be used to investigate economic and social links with contemporary settlements in the northeast Peloponnesos. Discovery of the site by survey and its subsequent archaeological and geological exploration exemplify the methods developed by the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project to examine terrain in which large quantities of artifa…
An island archaeology of uninhabited landscapes: Offshore islets near Paros, Greece (the Small Cycladic Islands Project)
The Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP) is a diachronic archaeological survey of numerous small, uninhabited islands in the Cycladic archipelago. There is a rich history of archaeological survey and comparative island archaeology in the Aegean. SCIP narrows the size of an individual island survey, and at the same time expands the conceptual and comparative scope by surveying multiple islands with the same set of methods and in the context of th…
Using Airborne LiDAR Survey to explore Historic-era archaeological landscapes of Montserrat in the Eastern Caribbean
This article describes what appears to be the first archaeological application of airborne LiDAR survey to historic-era landscapes in the Caribbean archipelago, on the island of Montserrat. LiDAR is proving invaluable in extending the reach of traditional pedestrian survey into less favorable areas, such as those covered by dense neotropical forest and by ashfall from the past two decades of active eruptions by the Soufrière Hills volcano, and to…
Still not digging, much
The impulse to keep excavating, set against widespread failures to publish in a timely manner, has created a crisis of confidence for archaeology. This is especially so in Europe and North America, where contract archaeology has witnessed dramatic growth in recent decades, but it is not universally the case. Far from being the defining practice of the discipline, excavation is not the only technique for generating data relevant to archaeological …
Struggles of a Sugar Society: Surveying Plantation-Era Montserrat, 1650–1850
The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in LC I: The Evidence of the Pottery
The distribution of mainland pottery in the Cyclades during LC I, together with information about the relative abundance and degree of variety in which it occurs at different Cycladic sites, suggests a distinct pattern of attenuation with distance as one progresses from N to S down the "Western String" of islands. Despite the limited evidence so far available, it is possible to narrow considerably the range of exchange mechanisms likely to have p…
The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell
In a recent paper published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , John Terrell (2020) objected to the proposition that islands can offer model systems to study human behavior and ecodynamics (see Cherry and Leppard 2018; DiNapoli and Leppard 2018; DiNapoli et al. 2018; Fitzpatrick and Erlandson 2018; Kirch 2007; McLaughlin, Stoddart, and Malone 2018; Pilaar Birch 2018). He argues that a review of insular model systems in the study of…
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VIII: Lithics and Landscapes: A Messenian Perspective
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 1, January-March 2010
Symbolism and Survival: Medieval Horns of Tenure
Horns were often preserved not for their aesthetic qualities but for their significance as symbols of either office or tenure. This article discusses horns associated with forests and shows how their symbolic interest led to their preservation and study by antiquaries
Field Survey and Geochemical Characterization of the Southern Armenian Obsidian Sources
In comparison with those of the west Mediterranean, the Aegean, and Anatolia, the numerous obsidian sources in the southern Caucasus have begun to receive archaeological attention only recently. The least research has been directed to the southernmost of these sources, in the province of Syunik in southern Armenia. These sources lie close to the border with Azerbaijan, in remote mountainous uplands reaching elevations above 3200 m and under snow …
Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands
The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars and West Crete
The four authors of this paper have worked in close consultation throughout the project, and present a joint result rather than so many separately initialled sections. Catling has most responsibility for the archaeological matter, Jones for the analytical work, Cherry and Jones for the interpretation of the results of the analyses and Killen for the epigraphic comment. It must be noted that a single series of numbers, 1–108, is used throughout th…
Excavations at Longton Hall Porcelain Factory. Part 1
(1978). Excavations at Longton Hall Porcelain Factory. Part 1. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-29
The State of Decay into which the Island Has Fallen”: Education and Social Welfare on Montserrat after emancipation
The social life of the newly created ‘laboring classes’ in the post-emancipation Caribbean has been relatively unexamined across a number of disciplinary perspectives. This paper argues for the need to bring together a variety of sources to enable researchers to gain a better understanding of this important, transitional time in Montserrat’s history. Using evidence gathered from archives in the Caribbean, North America and the British Isles, mate…
Multi-Period Landscape Survey and Site Risk Assessment on Montserrat, West Indies
Following a series of devastating and ongoing volcanic eruptions, the archaeological record of Montserrat (West Indies) has been exposed to the dual threats of destructive pyroclastic volcanism, and the construction of new infrastructure and settlements to accommodate those displaced as a result. Yet, with the exception of contributions from a handful of site-based research projects, the scope of prehistoric and historical archaeology of Montserr…
A Scientific Study of N. Midlands Medieval Tile Production
This paper describes a study of neutron activation analyses of some medieval tiles from the North Midlands. Having established the feasibility of the method of analysis, we applied a number of multivariate statistical techniques to derive eleven reference groups, each consisting of tiles with similar compositions which could plausibly have originated from the same source of clay. While known kiln sites could be readily distinguished, less confide…
Post-Medieval Britain in 1979
1. ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS HERTFORDSHIRE: HITCHIN, (TL/181112895). Following a detailed survey in 1978 of those grave memorials -to be destroyed in Tileho,Use St. Baptist Churchyard a watching brief was maintained by G. R. Burleigh for North Hertfordshire District Council Museums Service. Dated graves covered the period from 1702 to 1939, the majority being pre-1850, and several types of burial were noted, ranging from simple wooden coffins in u…
The Dating of Hamwih: Saxon Southampton Reconsidered
This paper briefly reviews the historical and artefactual evidence for the dating of the Middle Saxon settlement of Hamwih, Saxon Southampton. This is followed by a seriation of twenty selected pit-groups, each with varying quantities of the five classes of Middle Saxon pottery. The analysis suggests three clusters of pits, some of which can be dated using coins or ceramics found in them. The span of dates, however, is substantially shorter than …
Medieval Britain in 1973
The Dunstable Swan Jewel
(1969). The Dunstable Swan Jewel. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 38-53
A Trial Excavation at Monte d'Irsi, Basilicata
Monte d'Irsi is located approximately 6·5 km. east-southeast of the town of Irsina and 4 km. due west of the village of Santa Maria d'Irsi in the region of Basilicata. The archaeological site sits on the crown of an irregularly shaped plateau at around 480 m. above sea level; the land drops away steeply in all directions and the hill-sides are heavily eroded by stream beds which feed into the two major rivers in the area, the Bradano and the Base…
Post-Medieval Britain in 1971
(1972). Post-Medieval Britain in 1971. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 208-223
Medieval Britain in 1971
VII.—The Medieval Jewellery from the Fishpool, Nottinghamshire, Hoard
Hoards of coins that include jewellery are uncommon in the middle ages. In England up to 1966 there were only three such hoards known. These are the twelfth-century hoard from Lark Hill, Worcester, which contained six rings; the hoard from Coventry of c. 1290–8 containing two silver ring brooches; and the Thame hoard deposited after 1457 and containing five rings. In 1966 the discovery of a hoard of gold coins and jewellery at Fishpool, Nottingha…
Post-Medieval Britain in 1972
BERKSHIRE: WALLINGFORD (SU/608896). Excavation by R. D. Carr for D.o.E. and the Architects Benevolent Society in the outer ward of Wallingford Castle showed that a I m.-wide stone wall, backed by a 2 m.-high earth scarp, was added to the medieval defences probably in 1642. The castle defences were thoroughly slighted in 1652 leaving no medieval or Civil War structures standing, and all the debris was pushed into the inner bailey ditch
Medieval Britain in 1972
Post-Medieval Britain in 1973
ST. MILDRED, BREAD STREET (TQ/333806). Excavation by M. Guterres for the Dept. of Urban Archaeology of the Guildhall Museum revealed the foundations of this Wren church which was destroyed by bombing. Wren had constructed his church on the S. and E. walls of the medieval church, refacing them in part to make the crypt walls. Otherwise he used loosely mortared layers of brick and re-used masonry. These foundations were not constructed on any firm …
Medieval Britain in 1973
Post-Medieval Britain in 1974
THE GAZETTEER for post-medieval Britain for England and Wales is arranged under the new counties as established on I April 1974. If a new county replaces an old county, the old county name will follow the place name in brackets before the grid reference. The arrangement is alphabetical under the first letter of the name. Names preceded by adjectives such as North, Greater, or Mid etc. will be found under the principal name, i.e. North Yorkshire w…
Medieval Britain in 1974
Post-Medieval Britain in 1975
KINNAGOE BAY, co. DONEGAL: La Trinidad Valencera. Sea bed movement in 1975 uncovered a 14..pounder bronze gun in extremely fine condition. Its style suggests an Italian origin though the crest of crossed palm and olive branches with the motto SENPER (sic) and the foooder's initials N D C have·not yet been identified. No further work was carried out though excavation will be resumed in 1976 by the City of Derry Sub-Aqua Club in conjunction with th…
Medieval Britain in 1975
Post-Medieval Britain in 1976
LINCOLNSHIRE: LINCOLN (SK/974708). The medieval church of St. Mark stood until 1784, although the W. end had to be completely rebuilt after a gale blew down the tower in 1720. The site of the tower was then used as a graveyard. In 1786 a new church was built, a single-celled building with a polygonal E. end, the nave basically a rebuild of its medieval predecessor. This survived until its replacement in 1871 by a large Victorian church in Early E…
Medieval Britain in 1976
Post-Medieval Britain in 1977
KENT: BEKESBOURNE (TR 193555). Excavations supervised by T. Tatton Brown were conducted on a small area of the Old Palace, a 16th-century Archiepiscopal Palace which had been cut through by a modern drainage trench. Massive brick wall foundations and a great brick drain (with associated garde robes) were found. The Palace, which was built on a large scale between 1540 and c. 1600 by Archbishops Cranmer, Parker and Whitgift, had a short life as it…
Excavations at Longton Hall Porcelain Factory. Part 1
(1978). Excavations at Longton Hall Porcelain Factory. Part 1. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-29
Medieval Britain in 1977
Provenance Studies of the LMIB/LHIIA Marine style
The provenance of vessels of the Marine Style of LMIB from Crete and LHIIA from the Mainland remains an important unsolved problem. This article describes an attempt to discriminate between selected Mainland and Cretan specimens by multivariate analysis of the compositions of their fabrics determined by optical emission spectroscopy with the aim of determining whether the Mainland Marine Style pieces were indeed made on the Mainland, perhaps loca…
The Dating of Hamwih: Saxon Southampton Reconsidered
This paper briefly reviews the historical and artefactual evidence for the dating of the Middle Saxon settlement of Hamwih, Saxon Southampton. This is followed by a seriation of twenty selected pit-groups, each with varying quantities of the five classes of Middle Saxon pottery. The analysis suggests three clusters of pits, some of which can be dated using coins or ceramics found in them. The span of dates, however, is substantially shorter than …
Post-Medieval Britain in 1978
KINNAGOE BAY, CO. DONEGAL: La Trinidad Valencera. Colin Martin of the Institute of Maritime Archaeology, University of St. Andrews, reports that two more organic deposits were excavated in 1978 (c£ Post-Medieval Archaeol., 10 (1976), 161). The fmds included a wooden lantern, pike staves, musket and arquebus stocks, wooden powder flasks, a tambourine, various turned wooden vessels and utensils, barrel staves and ends, and roughly cut handspikes. A…
Medieval Britain in 1978
Excavations at the Longton Hall Porcelain Factory
Part II comprises a description of the kiln furniture found during the excavations which culminated in the discovery of the remains of the floors of four kilns and adjacent buildings, part of the Longton Hall porcelain factory complex in operation from 1751-60. The functions of the kiln furniture, both in protecting the porcelain wares in the kilns and in supporting them during the firing processes are also discussed
Post-Medieval Britain in 1979
1. ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS HERTFORDSHIRE: HITCHIN, (TL/181112895). Following a detailed survey in 1978 of those grave memorials -to be destroyed in Tileho,Use St. Baptist Churchyard a watching brief was maintained by G. R. Burleigh for North Hertfordshire District Council Museums Service. Dated graves covered the period from 1702 to 1939, the majority being pre-1850, and several types of burial were noted, ranging from simple wooden coffins in u…
Medieval Britain in 1979
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