Julian Thomas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3619559 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julian Thomas |
| PRENOMES | Julian |
| SOBRENOME | Thomas |
| ASSINATURA | THOMAS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2907-4586 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 103 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 751 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Automotive sensing technologies and the automation of space
While a great deal of critical attention has been focused on the experimental use of automotive sensing technologies within electronic vehicle development, their integration into production cars continues apace. Despite a long history of incorporating vision and other automated sensing systems into production cars, we are yet to fully appreciate how these ‘smart objects’ function and interoperate, how ‘observable’ these systems are (Rieder and Ho…
When Maps Make Decisions
Contemporary maps are creatures of “mobile AI,” the linkage of machine learning with communication and mobility, which we now think of as a significant “next phase” of digital communication. In this article, we address this AI-driven “next phase” by examining the current AI-facilitated developments that are reshaping mobile maps and navigational apps. We consider how AI tools are changing the maps that we have (how maps are made), how we interact…
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities
5G is described as a step change in mobile delivery. While it has the potential to provide significant benefits to remote First Nations communities and homelands in Australia, the current market-driven model of 5G deployment building outward from urban and regional centres risks increasing existing digital inequalities. A new Closing the Gap target aimed at digital equity for First Nations people by 2026 provides a critical lens to assess the imp…
The Sage Handbook of the Digital Media Economy
Dorstone Hill
Studies of early fourth-millennium BC Britain have typically focused on the Early Neolithic sites of Wessex and Orkney; what can the investigation of sites located in areas beyond these core regions add? The authors report on excavations (2011-2019) at Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, which have revealed a remarkable complex of Early Neolithic monuments: three long barrows constructed on the footprints of three timber buildings that had been delib…
Events, narrative and data
In this paper, we discuss how the history of our discipline continues to shape how we think with material culture to produce narratives. We argue that recent developments in scientific dating-in combination with New Materialist and Big Data approaches-offer the potential to produce radical new interpretations. However, we can only achieve this if we adopt 'ethically Bayesian' approaches which recognise that some of the most fundamental aspects of…
Vertical geomediation
Photogrammetry is the science of using photographs to make measurements and derive three-dimensional (3D) data about objects or terrain from two-dimensional (2D) imaging. In this article we view photogrammetry through the lens of geomedia studies, arguing two things. First, we suggest the accumulation and concentration of photogrammetric capabilities, technologies and knowledge, from the First World War onwards can be understood as both part of t…
Reframing culture
This essay offers an appreciation of Stuart Cunningham's substantial and diverse contributions to 'reframing culture' in Australian research, policy and industry practice, from his early reformulations of Australian film history to his recent work on digital media disruption. The essay discusses the range of Cunningham's institutional and intellectual legacies, suggesting that his advocacy for cultural policy and the creative industries together …
Cannibals and Convicts
The media geographies of Tom O'Regan
This essay reflects on the many contributions of Tom O'Regan to media scholarship in Australia. While O'Regan may be best known as a scholar of Australian film and television, we suggest that O'Regan was also - and always - a scholar of the global. His work was premised on the idea that national and global industries are co-constitutive, shaped by flows of content, technology, ideas and attention. These are, fundamentally, matters of media geogra…
Comments on Part I
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts presents in the subsequent chapters. This part suggests that the Chinese and the Mongols have very different ideas about the landscapes of Inner Mongolia. It also suggests, the academic critique of foundationalist identity politics has been elaborated at precisely the same time as new discourses of rootedness; belonging and boundaries have emerged following the collapse of the Soviet…
Archaeology, Anthropology, and Material Things
According to Vere Gordon Childe, archaeology and anthropology represent “two complementary departments of the science of man”. Certainly, the two disciplines came of age in the nineteenth century, bound together by colonialism and universal evolutionism. In the United States the lodging of Americanist archaeology within university departments of archaeology, the hegemony of Boasian particularism, and the timely emergence of the neo-evolutionism o…
Discourse, Totalization and 'The Neolithic'
In a recent study of the significance of the work of Michel Foucault to the practice of archaeology, Christopher Tilley suggests that, hitherto, archaeological historiography has been written under the rubric of the 'History of Ideas'. In attempting to describe the emergence and descent of the concept of the Neolithic, the author intends to make use of several of the insights provided by Foucault in The Archaeology of Knowledge. The basic element…
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index
Although Australia's population is concentrated in major urban centres along its coastal fringe, its less populous rural communities are important to society and the economy—supporting sectors like agriculture, which occupies over half the continent's land mass and accounts for 2.2% of value added gross domestic product (GDP) (Jackson et al., 2020). The vast distances between urban and rural centres present challenges to the provision of essentia…
Privacy and app use in Australian primary schools
This article identifies the apps that are most frequently used in 148 Australian primary schools and categorises them by their stated treatment of identifiable information. Rather than providing a legal analysis, we use this as evidence of Internet governance insofar as it illuminates the influence of the education sector on the behaviour of technology companies. Teachers' decision-making in the selection of apps is far from uniform, making indiv…
Inside the Institutions
Not the institutions of the Academy itself, the universities, or the disciplines, but the invisible fictions, in John Hartleys words, the environment of mainly public rules and policy or administrative organisations, which was a major object of attention and controversy in the period.1 A longer discussion would follow some of the threads connecting todays historical institutionalism in communication studies (Bannerman and Haggart2), institutional…
Programming, filtering, adblocking
This article considers automation in relation to digital advertising. At the intersection of the advertising industries and everyday media experience, we now find two connected, contending technologies, embodying different visions of automation and the future of advertising and digital media. On the industry side, there is programmatic advertising – defined broadly as the automation of the sale and delivery of digital advertising, where the appea…
Internet-Distributed Television Research
From Netflix and Hulu to iPlayer and iQiyi, the rapid growth of internetdistributed television services worldwide presents both opportunities and challenges for media industry scholars. Which business models are succeeding in different countries, and why? What frameworks help us explain and talk about television amid such a variety of industrial practices? This article provides a critical overview of the emerging research landscape and suggests f…
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
The dead of Stonehenge
Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge
Informal Mobile Economies
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The Informal Media Economy
How are 'grey market' imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation? The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account of contemporary media, by showing how the interactions between formal and informal media systems are a feature of all nations - rich and poor, large and small. Shifting the focus a…
Google Under-the-Earth
This article focuses on the use of Google Earth as a tool to facilitate public engagement and dissemination of data. It examines a case study based around one of the largest archaeological investigations of the Stonehenge landscape, the Stonehenge Riverside Project. A bespoke layer for Google Earth was developed to communicate the discoveries of the research by creating an engaging, interactive and informative multimedia application that could be…
The future of archaeological theory
In this latest contribution to our 'Archaeological Futures' series, Julian Thomas reflects on the current state of Western archaeological theory and how it is probably going to develop over the next few years. Archaeological theory has not ossified in the period since the processual/post-processual exchanges. The closer integration of archaeological thought with philosophical debate in the human sciences has gradually given rise to a theoretical …
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Time, Culture and Identity
Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects.
The age of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the aut…
Death, identity and the body in neolithic Britain
Generations of prehistorians have offered a series of interpretations of a change in mortuary practice which took place during the Neolithic period in Britain (4000-2500 BC). The decline of communal tombs and the introduction of single grave burial has been understood in terms of population movement, increasing social hierarchy, ideological change, or a shift from ancestor rituals to funerals. This article considers the treatment of the human bod…
Materializing Stonehenge
This article reviews recent interpretations of Stonehenge in terms of contrasting uses of stone and timber in the mid-3rd millennium BC. It explores the relationship of this enigmatic monument with circles of wood at nearby Durrington Walls and Woodhenge, establishing how these various monuments might have been integrated into a single scheme in which these remarkable structures were linked by artificial avenues and the natural feature of the Riv…
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Monuments from the inside
Studies of prehistoric monuments often consider them from a detached viewpoint, as if they were being looked at from the air. But they also played a part in controlling human perceptions and in determining the pattern of movement in and around them. The argument is illustrated by the sequence of megalithic tombs in Ireland
Neolithic Explanations Revisited
The inception of the Neolithic has always been one of the more vexed questions of British prehistory. As an issue, it has been obscured by a number of conceptual difficulties. Not least amongst these is that the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic coincides with the point at which two different and opposed approaches to prehistory and its teaching meet. The first of these, which dominates the study of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic p…
The future of archaeological theory
In this latest contribution to our 'Archaeological Futures' series, Julian Thomas reflects on the current state of Western archaeological theory and how it is probably going to develop over the next few years. Archaeological theory has not ossified in the period since the processual/post-processual exchanges. The closer integration of archaeological thought with philosophical debate in the human sciences has gradually given rise to a theoretical …
Internet-Distributed Television Research
From Netflix and Hulu to iPlayer and iQiyi, the rapid growth of internetdistributed television services worldwide presents both opportunities and challenges for media industry scholars. Which business models are succeeding in different countries, and why? What frameworks help us explain and talk about television amid such a variety of industrial practices? This article provides a critical overview of the emerging research landscape and suggests f…
Who was buried at Stonehenge
Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a cremation cemetery within a circle of upright bluestones. Britain's most famous monument may therefore have been founded as the burial place of a leading family, possibly from Wales
Archaeology's Place in Modernity
It is widely acknowledged that the practice of archaeology emerged in the modern period. However, this article makes the more radical claim that modernity represents the ground of the possibility of archaeology. Archaeology is deeply connected with modes of thought, forms of organization, and social practices that are distinctively modern. So ironically, archaeology studies past worlds through an intellectual apparatus that is thoroughly embedded…
The Social Significance of Cotswold-Severn Burial Practices
Current debates on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland
In this contribution I address a series of recent publications which present revisionist accounts of the beginning of the Neolithic in the British Isles. New evidence suggests that we need to reconsider issues of population movement, diet, mobility and residence patterns. However, I conclude that a return to a model of colonisation by an agricultural population from the continent is premature, and seek to stress the distinct patterns of change th…
Thoughts on the 'Repacked' Neolithic Revolution
Was the British Neolithic a take-it-or-leave-it "package" which included building monuments and giving up fish? Julian Thomas thinks there was some room for creative packaging on the home front
Anatomy of a Tomb‐west Kennet Revisited
The primary and secondary uses of the West Kennet long barrow are reconsidered. In the first phase, dating perhaps to a late period of the Earlier Neolithic, the monument was used for a variety of burial rites, including bone circulation. The patterned deposits may have belonged to a small social group, and detailed knowledge of the tomb contents may have been restricted to such a group. The secondary phase is seen as covering a long span of time…
TAG and ‘post-modernism’
Two organizers of the TAG meeting at Lampeter, December 1991, take issue with Bintliff's view of their intellectual position, starting with the label ‘post-modern’
A précis of Time, Culture and Identity
Time, Culture and Identity is a book which attempts to write about prehistory while at the same time meditating on what that writing involves. It is composed of two sections, one of which addresses a number of philosophical issues, while the other presents a series of case studies. This structure might easily give the impression that I first formulated a theoretical position and then proceeded to impose it onto particular sets of evidence. In pra…
The Return of the Rinyo-Clacton Folk? The Cultural Significance of the Grooved Ware Complex in Later Neolithic Britain
The Grooved Ware complex in Later Neolithic Britain has proved a perplexing phenomenon for prehistorians. While originally identified by Stuart Piggott as one of a series of ‘Secondary Neolithic Cultures’, it was later recognized as a special-purpose assemblage, connected with inter-regional contacts between socially pre-eminent groups. Yet Grooved Ware appears to have been at once special and mundane, ceremonial and domestic. In this contributio…
The dead of Stonehenge
On the Origins and Development of Cursus Monuments in Britain
The problem of dating cursus monuments has troubled British archaeology for some decades. A series of recent radiocarbon determinations from sites in lowland Scotland suggests that cursus monuments defined by posts and pits are generally earlier than the more familiar bank and ditch structures, and may have been constructed very early within the British Neolithic sequence. The implications of such a sequence are discussed in relation to the affin…
The Hollow Men? A Reply to Steven Mithen
This article constitutes a reply to a piece by Steven Mithen, in which an earlier contribution in this journal (Thomas 1988) is criticized as misrepresenting the character of Mesolithic archaeology. Mithen contends that the ‘processual’ archaeology which dominates that period can be humanized by introducing a consideration of emotion into the adaptive process. In this contribution it is suggested that the emphasis on emotion and rationality betra…
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index
Although Australia's population is concentrated in major urban centres along its coastal fringe, its less populous rural communities are important to society and the economy—supporting sectors like agriculture, which occupies over half the continent's land mass and accounts for 2.2% of value added gross domestic product (GDP) (Jackson et al., 2020). The vast distances between urban and rural centres present challenges to the provision of essentia…
Events, narrative and data
In this paper, we discuss how the history of our discipline continues to shape how we think with material culture to produce narratives. We argue that recent developments in scientific dating-in combination with New Materialist and Big Data approaches-offer the potential to produce radical new interpretations. However, we can only achieve this if we adopt 'ethically Bayesian' approaches which recognise that some of the most fundamental aspects of…
The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus
The Greater Cursus - 3km long and just north of Stonehenge - had been dated by a red deer antler found in its ditch in the 1940s to 2890-2460 BC. New excavations by the authors found another antler in a much tighter context, and dating a millennium earlier. It appears that the colossal cursus had already marked out the landscape before Stonehenge was erected. At that time or soon after, its lines were re-emphasised, perhaps with a row of posts in…
Anatomy of a Tomb‐west Kennet Revisited
The primary and secondary uses of the West Kennet long barrow are reconsidered. In the first phase, dating perhaps to a late period of the Earlier Neolithic, the monument was used for a variety of burial rites, including bone circulation. The patterned deposits may have belonged to a small social group, and detailed knowledge of the tomb contents may have been restricted to such a group. The secondary phase is seen as covering a long span of time…
A Late Neolithic Pottery Deposit at Ash Hill Long Barrow, Swinhope, Lincs
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Relations of Production and Social Change in the Neolithic of North-West Europe
Past and present in an elaborate anniversary∗
Neolithic Explanations Revisited
The inception of the Neolithic has always been one of the more vexed questions of British prehistory. As an issue, it has been obscured by a number of conceptual difficulties. Not least amongst these is that the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic coincides with the point at which two different and opposed approaches to prehistory and its teaching meet. The first of these, which dominates the study of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic p…
The Social Significance of Cotswold-Severn Burial Practices
Monuments from the inside
Studies of prehistoric monuments often consider them from a detached viewpoint, as if they were being looked at from the air. But they also played a part in controlling human perceptions and in determining the pattern of movement in and around them. The argument is illustrated by the sequence of megalithic tombs in Ireland
Cane Toads
The Hollow Men? A Reply to Steven Mithen
This article constitutes a reply to a piece by Steven Mithen, in which an earlier contribution in this journal (Thomas 1988) is criticized as misrepresenting the character of Mesolithic archaeology. Mithen contends that the ‘processual’ archaeology which dominates that period can be humanized by introducing a consideration of emotion into the adaptive process. In this contribution it is suggested that the emphasis on emotion and rationality betra…
Reading the Neolithic
TAG and ‘post-modernism’
Two organizers of the TAG meeting at Lampeter, December 1991, take issue with Bintliff's view of their intellectual position, starting with the label ‘post-modern’
Gender, Politics and American Archaeology
Citizenship and historical sensibility∗
Rethinking the Neolithic
Theatre/Archaeology
Informal Economic Activity
Journal Article Informal Economic Activity Get access Informal Economic Activity. By (J.J.) Thomas- (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Pp. xii – 371. £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0 7450 1168 3, 07450 1169 1.) Iris Bohnet Iris Bohnet University of Zürich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 422, 1 January 1994, Pages 172–174, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234693 Published:…
Performances of the living
Eric Lohof's study of funerary practices in the later Neolithic and Bronze Age of the north-eastern Netherlands provides a welcome reassessment of this material. Its broad scope and its grounding in a theoretical consideration of mortuary ritual are to be applauded. Any criticisms which I have to raise here should therefore be seen as caveats to a more general agreement with its objectives and conclusions
The Ancient Mind
Foreword Part I. Introduction: 1. Towards a cognitive archaeology Part II. The Interdisciplinary Underpinning: 2. Interpretations and testability in theories about prehistoric thinking 3. Archaeology and cognitive science 4. From mental modularity to generalized intelligence: a cognitive interpretation of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition 5. Are images animated? The psychology of images in Ancient Greece Part III. Approaches to Cult Practic…
A response to my critics
It is a rare treat to have a distinguished group of colleagues give up their time to read and comment upon one's work. They deserve my thanks for their kindness, but also for their more trenchant criticisms. As Susanne Küchler notes, Time, culture and identity is a very personal project, and I view these commentaries as an unexpected addition to the learning process which the book represents. They have raised questions which will stimulate my wor…
A précis of Time, Culture and Identity
Time, Culture and Identity is a book which attempts to write about prehistory while at the same time meditating on what that writing involves. It is composed of two sections, one of which addresses a number of philosophical issues, while the other presents a series of case studies. This structure might easily give the impression that I first formulated a theoretical position and then proceeded to impose it onto particular sets of evidence. In pra…
Anthropocentrism without a centre
I am grateful to Håkan Karlsson for his thoughtful commentary on some of the issues concerning Heidegger and archaeology which were raised in a previous issue of this journal, and find myself fascinated by his project of a ‘contemplative archaeology’. However, one or two points of clarification could be made in relation to Karlsson's contribution. Firstly, as a number of authors have pointed out (e.g. Anderson 1966, 20; Olafson 1993), the gulf be…
Time, Culture and Identity
Grand Narratives of Prehistoric Europe
Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe consists of twenty papers written by Andrew Sherratt over the past quarter of a century. Taken together, these articles represent a uniquely coherent and consistent vision of Old World prehistory. They present the Neolithic and the Bronze Age periods in Eurasia
Museums and New Media
Towards Information Policy
Julian Thomas considers developments in national information policy since the change of government. He considers some long-standing problems such as the fragmentation of information policy across numerous agencies, paying particular attention to the objectives of the new National Office of the Information Economy. The article argues that information policy lacks focus, and has not yet moved beyond the boosterism of the mid-1990s
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