Richard Bates

Biographic Data

ID3642189
NAMERichard Bates
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMEBates
SIGNATUREBATES R
AFFILIATIONSDeakin University
ORCID0000-0001-8119-3921
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS191
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • Geophysical Surveys at Petra World Heritage Site

    Open AccessRichard Bates, C Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEArchéoSciences2025

    A GPR was used to search for buried features at Petra, Jordan. GPR results indicated a buried chamber. Subsequent excavations confirmed the presence of a buried tomb. It contained the remains of at least 11 human skeletons

  • The Perils of Pits

    Open AccessVincent Gaffney, Eamonn Baldwin et al.ARTICLEInternet Archaeology2025References: 10

    In 2020, a series of large features were identified, set within two arc-like structures, to the north and south of Durrington Walls henge (Gaffney et al. 2020). Based on geophysical survey and borehole investigation, combined with the results of previous, commercial fieldwork, 15 features were interpreted as either large pits or probable pits. Five additional features were identified from aerial photography or topographic modelling as being of po…

  • Digital Twins at the City and Town Scale

    Open AccessChris Gaffney, Karina Croucher et al.ARTICLEInternet Archaeology2025

    The last ten years have seen great strides in digital archaeological and heritage outputs, particularly with the use of three-dimensional (3D) digital documentation becoming increasingly commonplace. Methods that widen participation and increase access have led to valuable community-scale documentation, from artefacts to landscapes. As part of this workflow, the Visualising Heritage team at the University of Bradford, UK, and international collab…

  • Climate Change, Coastal Heritage Digitization, and Local Community Engagement at the Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani World Heritage Site, Tanzania

    E Pollard, Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2025Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men

    Open AccessRichard Bates, R L Bates et al.ARTICLESocial History of Medicine2023

    Journal Article Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men: Working Together for Health Care Reform Get access Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men: Working Together for Health Care Reform, Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, pp. 320, £25, ISBN 978-0-2280-1203-0 Richard Bates Richard Bates Department of History University of Nottingham [email protected] Search for other works by this auth…

  • Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France

    David Hopkin, Richard B Bates et al.BOOKPsychoanalysis and the Family in…2022

  • Figures

    Richard Bates, C Richard BatesCHAPTERPsychoanalysis and the Family in…2022

    A collection of essays about the Colonial Medical Service of Africa in which a group of distinguished colonial historians illustrate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies in a series of essays covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zanzibar. These studies reveal m…

  • Environmental reconstruction and formation processes in a large Mesolithic lithic scatter at Nethermills of Crathes, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

    Open AccessRichard Tipping, Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022References: 18

  • Caroline Rosa Wickham-Jones, MA MSocSci FSA HonFSAScot MCIfA

    Jill Harden, Martin Bates et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2022

    Caroline was a prolific, dedicated and accomplished academic of Scotland’s prehistory with an exemplary publication record

  • Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 1854

    Open AccessRichard Bates, Richard D Bates et al.ARTICLEWomen s History Review2022Cited by: 1

    Since she exploded into the public sphere in 1854 with her mission to the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) has been a revered historical heroine, with a presence in British commemorative culture that exceeds that of any other non-royal woman. This article, for the first time, delineates and analyses the contours and contents of the commemorative culture around Nightingale, examining how these have changed since the 1850s. It is, we a…

  • Mediating Trauma and Anxiety

    Open AccessRichard Bates, Richard D Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2021

    Françoise Dolto (1908-88) was a prominent French cultural figure thanks to her practice of dispensing psychoanalytically-informed child-rearing advice via the radio. From 1976 to 1978, on her show Lorsque l’enfant paraît , she responded to thousands of letters sent in by listeners requesting help with parenting problems and personal questions of a psychological nature. The article explores Dolto’s cultural position as a child psychoanalyst – unde…

  • Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Pit Circuit at Durrington Walls, UK

    Open AccessChris Gaffney, Vincent Gaffney et al.ARTICLEArchéoSciences2021References: 4

    Comprehensive geophysical assessment of huge pits; ERT, GPR, mag and EM.– Novel approach to testing and interpreting pits via coring.– Largest pit circuit confirmed in both the Stonehenge landscape and the UK

  • The Norse Waterways of West Mainland Orkney, Scotland

    Open AccessRichard Bates, C Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Wetland Archaeology2020Cited by: 1References: 5

    Norse place-names for farms, individual landscape features and general landscape areas are ubiquitous throughout the Orkney Islands. These have an origin during the mediaeval period AD790–1350 when Orkney was ruled by Scandinavian earls. The oldest referenced maps for the parish of Harray (West Mainland, Orkney) suggests that in the past significant waterways crossed wetlands extending between the Loch of Harray and Houseby in an area associated …

  • A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge

    Open AccessVincent Gaffney, Eamonn Baldwin et al.ARTICLEInternet Archaeology2020Cited by: 4References: 17

    A series of massive geophysical anomalies, located south of the Durrington Walls henge monument, were identified during fluxgate gradiometer survey undertaken by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project (SHLP). Initially interpreted as dewponds, these data have been re-evaluated, along with information on similar features revealed by archaeological contractors undertaking survey and excavation to the north of the Durrington Walls henge. Analysis …

  • A great wave

    Open AccessJames Walker, Vincent Gaffney et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2020Cited by: 5References: 45

    Around 8150 BP, the Storegga tsunami struck North-west Europe. The size of this wave has led many to assume that it had a devastating impact upon contemporaneous Mesolithic communities, including the final inundation of Doggerland, the now submerged Mesolithic North Sea landscape. Here, the authors present the first evidence of the tsunami from the southern North Sea, and suggest that traditional notions of a catastrophically destructive event ma…

  • Democratic babies? Françoise Dolto, Benjamin Spock and the ideology of post-war parenting advice

    Richard Bates, C Richard BatesARTICLEJournal of Political Ideologies2019Cited by: 1

    This article looks at the political implications of a subject not always thought of as directly political, but which has an important ideological component: child-rearing advice. The period after 1945 offers an important example of how this topic can interact with developments in political ideology. This article takes the example of France, with substantial comparative reference to the US and Britain. It argues that the mid-twentieth century was …

  • Durrington walls and the Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project 2010–2016

    Open AccessVincent Gaffney, Wolfgang Neubauer et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Prospection2018Cited by: 12References: 5

    Since 2010 the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project (SHLP) has undertaken extensive archaeological prospection across much of the landscape surrounding Stonehenge. These remote sensing and geophysical surveys have revealed a significant number of new sites and landscape features whilst providing new information on many previously known monuments. The project goal to integrate multimethod mapping over large areas of the landscape has also provided…

  • The environmental context of the Neolithic monuments on the Brodgar Isthmus, Mainland, Orkney

    Open AccessRichard Bates, C Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016References: 9

    The World Heritage Sites of Orkney, Scotland contain iconic examples of Neolithic monumentality that have provided significant information about this period of British prehistory. However, currently, a complete understanding of the sites remains to be achieved. This is, in part, because the monuments lack an adequate context within the broader palaeolandscape. Recent investigations (seismic geophysical survey, microfossil analysis and 14C dating)…

  • Palaeogeographic Reconstruction in the Transition Zone

    Open AccessRichard Bates, C Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Prospection2016Cited by: 3References: 5

    Geophysical survey techniques are commonly used as part of studies to reconstruct past geographies in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental landscape investigations onshore and offshore. However, their use across the intertidal zone for constructing contiguous models is far more challenging. In order to enhance the interpretation of the recovered data forward modelling is used here to demonstrate the effective use of a staged approach to site in…

  • Rethinking Human Responses to Sea-level Rise

    Open AccessChantal Conneller, Martin Bates et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2016Cited by: 1References: 32

    This work provides new insights into human responses to and perceptions of sea-level rise at a time when the landscapes of north-west Europe were radically changing. These issues are investigated through a case study focused on the Channel Islands. We report on the excavation of two sites, Canal du Squez in Jersey and Lihou (GU582) in Guernsey, and the study of museum collections across the Channel Islands. We argue that people were drawn to this…

  • Shipwreck Evidence from Kilwa, Tanzania

    Open AccessEdward Pollard, Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2016Cited by: 7References: 10

    This article reports on the artefacts and environment of marine ballast and pottery sites identified through inter-tidal and underwater survey around Kilwa, Tanzania, one of the most important medieval sultanates along the east African coast. An inter-tidal site on the limestone fringing reef on the approaches to Kilwa Kisiwani Harbour and an underwater site within the harbour have been dated from associated pottery to c.8th–10th century and the …

  • Discoveries from La Manche

    Open AccessMatt Pope, Beccy Scott et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2015

    Since 2010 a new field project drawn from major UK institutions including the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has focused research on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic record of the Channel Island of Jersey. In this retrospective of five years of research the history of the project to date, its focus on the Middle Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade and its growth into an international research team is charted. The formation of the La Manche …

  • Climatic variability, plasticity, and dispersal

    Open AccessM La Grove, Henry Lamb et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2015Cited by: 22References: 141

  • A new view from La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey

    Open AccessBeccy Scott, Martin Bates et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 27References: 19

    Did Neanderthal hunters drive mammoth herds over cliffs in mass kills? Excavations at La Cotte de St Brelade in the 1960s and 1970s uncovered heaps of mammoth bones, interpreted as evidence of intentional hunting drives. New study of this Middle Palaeolithic coastal site, however, indicates a very different landscape to the featureless coastal plain that was previously envisaged. Reconsideration of the bone heaps themselves further undermines the…

  • Time and a Place

    Open AccessVincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch et al.ARTICLEInternet Archaeology2013Cited by: 7References: 11

    The capacity to conceptualise and measure time is amongst the most important achievements of human societies, and the issue of when time was “created” by humankind is critical in understanding how society has developed. A pit structure, discovered in Aberdeenshire (Scotland), and dated to the 8th millennium BC, has been re-analysed and appears to demonstrate a basic calendrical function and provides an intriguing contribution to this debate. The …