D Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 38886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | LYONS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9956-8656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic made the liveness of the social world readily apparent. Everyday rhythms and routines were, for many, upended and new and uncertain ones were rapidly and repeatedly re-made. A plethora of intense and flattened feelings - from anxiety to depression to pleasure - were generated. This article considers our collaborative research project on everyday experiences of time during the early stages of the pandemic in the UK through a …
Nicholas Christopher David: Master Ethnoarchaeologist (1937-2023)
I am deeply honored to write the Classics Review for my mentor and friend Nicholas David, who died on 11 January 2023. When Nic asked me to write this review I thought we would have more time, but
Nicholas David (1937–2023)
Nicholas David (1937–2023)
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dear friend, colleague and mentor, Dr Nicholas David, on Wednesday, 11 January 2023. Nic died peacefully in his home with his wife, Judy
Teaching the sociology of time in a time of disruption (a strike and a pandemic)
This short article shares the innovative pedagogic practices I explored and developed to nurture temporal reflexivity in the classroom to engage students in the study of the sociology of time in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and a local strike. It takes the reader through the module as it was structured and delivered in two parts: from calendars to calibration and from memory to procrastination. This is interspersed with details of the lea…
Tej Consumption and Production in the Commensal Politics and Political Economy of States in Northern Highland Ethiopia
On the surface: An ethnoarchaeological study of marginalised pottery production and the social context of pottery surface treatments in Tigray Regional State, northern highland Ethiopia
Pottery surface treatments are considered essential to waterproofing and strengthening low-fired porous pots, and they add characteristic elements of colour and texture to pottery assemblages. However, surface treatments do not receive the same attention as other stages of pottery chaînes opératoires in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in terms of the social context of production, how technological treatments vary across an assemblage, contribute…
To Hell with Ethnoarchaeology … and Back
In 2016 Olivier Gosselain published a paper in Archaeological Dialogues suggesting that ethnoarchaeology should “go to hell”. His provocation misrepresents the ethnoarchaeology of the past quarter century, as is evident in a literature of which he appears largely unaware. Here we refute his charges, showing, for example, that ethnoarchaeologists neither regard the societies with which we work as living fossils, nor do we entertain naïve stereotyp…
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
Marginalized Potters and Ceramic Compositional Groups: Neutron Activation Analysis of Contemporary Pottery from Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia
Introduction: Streetlife - the shifting sociologies of the street
The street has long been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of urban sociology in the ethnographies of the Chicago School to the diverse range of contemporary studies which consider the performative, affective and non-representational nature of street etiquette and encounter. For all this, the street remains only loosely defined in many studies, and sometimes disappears from view entirely, with social action often privile…
An Intangible Knowledge of Landscape: Creating People and Politically Charged Places in Northern Ethiopia
It’s a material world: The Critical and on-Going Value of Ethnoarchaeology in Understanding Variation, Change and Materiality
Contemporary ethnoarchaeology has come a long way from material correlates and 'fleshing out the past'. This paper re-introduces ethnoarchaeology and opens a debate on its role in archaeology today. We summarize the role ethnoarchaeology has in developing, testing and building archaeological interpretation, and argue for its continuing importance in the wider discipline. This critical role further produces rich ethnographic and material informati…
Ethnoarchaeological Study of Brewing Technology in Wallaga Region of Western Oromia, Ethiopia
In Wallaga, local beer (farso) is one of the most common alcoholic beverages. The beverage is prepared from cereals such as sorghum, millet, maize and barley and an additive plant known as gesho (Rhamnus prinoides). The beer is fermented in a ceramic jar known as huuroo. The brewing process causes pitting in the interior walls. Because most fermentation processes cause pitting of ceramic vessels, use alteration analysis cannot specifically identi…
Perceptions of Consumption: Constituting Potters, Farmers and Blacksmiths in the Culinary Continuum in Eastern Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia
An archaeology of resistance: Materiality and time in an African borderland
Studies of resistance often examine borderlands: liminal areas formed by the presence of often displaced indigenous or dissident social groups along the frontier of hierarchical and hegemonic polit
The Challenges and Opportunities of Re-Studying Community on Sheppey: Young People's Imagined Futures
The 'Living and Working on Sheppey: Past, Present and Future' project took its starting point from the research undertaken by Ray Pahl and his team three decades ago on the Isle of Sheppey. In 2009-11, we revisited some of Pahl's archived material, collected new (including some replicated) data and produced new materials, working collaboratively with community members of the Blue Town Heritage Centre on Sheppey. In this article, we examine the me…
Ethnozooarchaeology of butchering practices in the Mahas Region, Sudan
I'm not evil: Materialising identities of marginalised potters in Tigray Region, Ethiopia
This paper presents the first ethnoarchaeological study of stigmatised market pottery production in Tigray Region in northern highland Ethiopia. In Tigray the rural farm economy is based on ox-plough cereal farming, which frequently fails to produce a household's subsistence. Rural women are particularly vulnerable to extreme poverty and some turn to pottery making in order to survive. Their choice has consequences: social stigma, domestic confli…
Building Power in Rural Hinterlands: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Vernacular Architecture in Tigray, Ethiopia
Integrating African cuisines: Rural cuisine and identity in Tigray, highland Ethiopia
The strong relationship between cuisine and the construction of identity is an important topic of social science research, but archaeologists have only recently examined African foodways in these terms. Presented here is an ethnoarchaeological study of culinary practices in the Tigray Region, highland Ethiopia. The article suggests that cuisine and its associated heat treatment technologies provide important material practices that track construc…
Griddles, Ovens, and Agricultural Origins: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Bread Baking in Highland Ethiopia
An ethnoarchaeological study of highland Ethiopian griddle technology is compared to bread-baking technologies in Africa and the Near East. There is a functional relationship between the use of ovens and griddles and the presence or absence of gluten in bread ingredients. Ovens are most appropriate for cereals containing gluten and may be implicated in the selection of higher quality gluten in domesticated wheats. We conclude, based on evidence f…
Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in Mura compounds in Déla, northern Cameroon
African witchcraft is a personal act of one individual using supernatural powers to harm another. This action is not random but is a strategy used within particular sets of social relations and contexts of interaction. Presented here is an ethnoarchaeological study of witchcraft in husband‐wife relationships amongst the Mura of Déla in northern Cameroon. In Mura society a set of social practices, including witchcraft, presents women as mobile and…
The politics of house shape: Round vs rectilinear domestic structures in Déla compounds, northern Cameroon
Building floor plans are frequently recovered by archaologists. A common first sorting of the shapes of small domestic buildings is between round houses and rectangular houses. What do these differences mean? Why do social groups change their building form from one to the other? An ethnoarchaeological study from northern Cameroon illustrates how four ethnic groups in a single community use building shape to blur or define group boundaries for pol…
The odd debt of gratitude
Journal Article The odd debt of gratitude Get access Daniel Lyons Daniel Lyons Colorodo State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 29, Issue 3, January 1969, Pages 92–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/29.3.92 Published: 01 January 1969
Griddles, Ovens, and Agricultural Origins: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Bread Baking in Highland Ethiopia
An ethnoarchaeological study of highland Ethiopian griddle technology is compared to bread-baking technologies in Africa and the Near East. There is a functional relationship between the use of ovens and griddles and the presence or absence of gluten in bread ingredients. Ovens are most appropriate for cereals containing gluten and may be implicated in the selection of higher quality gluten in domesticated wheats. We conclude, based on evidence f…
Integrating African cuisines: Rural cuisine and identity in Tigray, highland Ethiopia
The strong relationship between cuisine and the construction of identity is an important topic of social science research, but archaeologists have only recently examined African foodways in these terms. Presented here is an ethnoarchaeological study of culinary practices in the Tigray Region, highland Ethiopia. The article suggests that cuisine and its associated heat treatment technologies provide important material practices that track construc…
I'm not evil: Materialising identities of marginalised potters in Tigray Region, Ethiopia
This paper presents the first ethnoarchaeological study of stigmatised market pottery production in Tigray Region in northern highland Ethiopia. In Tigray the rural farm economy is based on ox-plough cereal farming, which frequently fails to produce a household's subsistence. Rural women are particularly vulnerable to extreme poverty and some turn to pottery making in order to survive. Their choice has consequences: social stigma, domestic confli…
Building Power in Rural Hinterlands: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Vernacular Architecture in Tigray, Ethiopia
Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in Mura compounds in Déla, northern Cameroon
African witchcraft is a personal act of one individual using supernatural powers to harm another. This action is not random but is a strategy used within particular sets of social relations and contexts of interaction. Presented here is an ethnoarchaeological study of witchcraft in husband‐wife relationships amongst the Mura of Déla in northern Cameroon. In Mura society a set of social practices, including witchcraft, presents women as mobile and…
The politics of house shape: Round vs rectilinear domestic structures in Déla compounds, northern Cameroon
Building floor plans are frequently recovered by archaologists. A common first sorting of the shapes of small domestic buildings is between round houses and rectangular houses. What do these differences mean? Why do social groups change their building form from one to the other? An ethnoarchaeological study from northern Cameroon illustrates how four ethnic groups in a single community use building shape to blur or define group boundaries for pol…
It’s a material world: The Critical and on-Going Value of Ethnoarchaeology in Understanding Variation, Change and Materiality
Contemporary ethnoarchaeology has come a long way from material correlates and 'fleshing out the past'. This paper re-introduces ethnoarchaeology and opens a debate on its role in archaeology today. We summarize the role ethnoarchaeology has in developing, testing and building archaeological interpretation, and argue for its continuing importance in the wider discipline. This critical role further produces rich ethnographic and material informati…
Perceptions of Consumption: Constituting Potters, Farmers and Blacksmiths in the Culinary Continuum in Eastern Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia
The Challenges and Opportunities of Re-Studying Community on Sheppey: Young People's Imagined Futures
The 'Living and Working on Sheppey: Past, Present and Future' project took its starting point from the research undertaken by Ray Pahl and his team three decades ago on the Isle of Sheppey. In 2009-11, we revisited some of Pahl's archived material, collected new (including some replicated) data and produced new materials, working collaboratively with community members of the Blue Town Heritage Centre on Sheppey. In this article, we examine the me…
Ethnoarchaeological Study of Brewing Technology in Wallaga Region of Western Oromia, Ethiopia
In Wallaga, local beer (farso) is one of the most common alcoholic beverages. The beverage is prepared from cereals such as sorghum, millet, maize and barley and an additive plant known as gesho (Rhamnus prinoides). The beer is fermented in a ceramic jar known as huuroo. The brewing process causes pitting in the interior walls. Because most fermentation processes cause pitting of ceramic vessels, use alteration analysis cannot specifically identi…
Introduction: Streetlife - the shifting sociologies of the street
The street has long been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of urban sociology in the ethnographies of the Chicago School to the diverse range of contemporary studies which consider the performative, affective and non-representational nature of street etiquette and encounter. For all this, the street remains only loosely defined in many studies, and sometimes disappears from view entirely, with social action often privile…
Marginalized Potters and Ceramic Compositional Groups: Neutron Activation Analysis of Contemporary Pottery from Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia
Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic made the liveness of the social world readily apparent. Everyday rhythms and routines were, for many, upended and new and uncertain ones were rapidly and repeatedly re-made. A plethora of intense and flattened feelings - from anxiety to depression to pleasure - were generated. This article considers our collaborative research project on everyday experiences of time during the early stages of the pandemic in the UK through a …
Teaching the sociology of time in a time of disruption (a strike and a pandemic)
This short article shares the innovative pedagogic practices I explored and developed to nurture temporal reflexivity in the classroom to engage students in the study of the sociology of time in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and a local strike. It takes the reader through the module as it was structured and delivered in two parts: from calendars to calibration and from memory to procrastination. This is interspersed with details of the lea…
On the surface: An ethnoarchaeological study of marginalised pottery production and the social context of pottery surface treatments in Tigray Regional State, northern highland Ethiopia
Pottery surface treatments are considered essential to waterproofing and strengthening low-fired porous pots, and they add characteristic elements of colour and texture to pottery assemblages. However, surface treatments do not receive the same attention as other stages of pottery chaînes opératoires in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in terms of the social context of production, how technological treatments vary across an assemblage, contribute…
Developing a program for pregnant teenagers through the cooperation of school, Health Department, and Federal Agencies
Developing a program for pregnant teenagers through the cooperation of school, Health Department, and Federal Agencies. D J LyonsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.58.12.2225 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The odd debt of gratitude
Journal Article The odd debt of gratitude Get access Daniel Lyons Daniel Lyons Colorodo State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 29, Issue 3, January 1969, Pages 92–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/29.3.92 Published: 01 January 1969
The politics of house shape: Round vs rectilinear domestic structures in Déla compounds, northern Cameroon
Building floor plans are frequently recovered by archaologists. A common first sorting of the shapes of small domestic buildings is between round houses and rectangular houses. What do these differences mean? Why do social groups change their building form from one to the other? An ethnoarchaeological study from northern Cameroon illustrates how four ethnic groups in a single community use building shape to blur or define group boundaries for pol…
Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in Mura compounds in Déla, northern Cameroon
African witchcraft is a personal act of one individual using supernatural powers to harm another. This action is not random but is a strategy used within particular sets of social relations and contexts of interaction. Presented here is an ethnoarchaeological study of witchcraft in husband‐wife relationships amongst the Mura of Déla in northern Cameroon. In Mura society a set of social practices, including witchcraft, presents women as mobile and…
Griddles, Ovens, and Agricultural Origins: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Bread Baking in Highland Ethiopia
An ethnoarchaeological study of highland Ethiopian griddle technology is compared to bread-baking technologies in Africa and the Near East. There is a functional relationship between the use of ovens and griddles and the presence or absence of gluten in bread ingredients. Ovens are most appropriate for cereals containing gluten and may be implicated in the selection of higher quality gluten in domesticated wheats. We conclude, based on evidence f…
Building Power in Rural Hinterlands: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Vernacular Architecture in Tigray, Ethiopia
Integrating African cuisines: Rural cuisine and identity in Tigray, highland Ethiopia
The strong relationship between cuisine and the construction of identity is an important topic of social science research, but archaeologists have only recently examined African foodways in these terms. Presented here is an ethnoarchaeological study of culinary practices in the Tigray Region, highland Ethiopia. The article suggests that cuisine and its associated heat treatment technologies provide important material practices that track construc…
I'm not evil: Materialising identities of marginalised potters in Tigray Region, Ethiopia
This paper presents the first ethnoarchaeological study of stigmatised market pottery production in Tigray Region in northern highland Ethiopia. In Tigray the rural farm economy is based on ox-plough cereal farming, which frequently fails to produce a household's subsistence. Rural women are particularly vulnerable to extreme poverty and some turn to pottery making in order to survive. Their choice has consequences: social stigma, domestic confli…
Ethnozooarchaeology of butchering practices in the Mahas Region, Sudan
The Challenges and Opportunities of Re-Studying Community on Sheppey: Young People's Imagined Futures
The 'Living and Working on Sheppey: Past, Present and Future' project took its starting point from the research undertaken by Ray Pahl and his team three decades ago on the Isle of Sheppey. In 2009-11, we revisited some of Pahl's archived material, collected new (including some replicated) data and produced new materials, working collaboratively with community members of the Blue Town Heritage Centre on Sheppey. In this article, we examine the me…
Perceptions of Consumption: Constituting Potters, Farmers and Blacksmiths in the Culinary Continuum in Eastern Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia
An archaeology of resistance: Materiality and time in an African borderland
Studies of resistance often examine borderlands: liminal areas formed by the presence of often displaced indigenous or dissident social groups along the frontier of hierarchical and hegemonic polit
Ethnoarchaeological Study of Brewing Technology in Wallaga Region of Western Oromia, Ethiopia
In Wallaga, local beer (farso) is one of the most common alcoholic beverages. The beverage is prepared from cereals such as sorghum, millet, maize and barley and an additive plant known as gesho (Rhamnus prinoides). The beer is fermented in a ceramic jar known as huuroo. The brewing process causes pitting in the interior walls. Because most fermentation processes cause pitting of ceramic vessels, use alteration analysis cannot specifically identi…
An Intangible Knowledge of Landscape: Creating People and Politically Charged Places in Northern Ethiopia
It’s a material world: The Critical and on-Going Value of Ethnoarchaeology in Understanding Variation, Change and Materiality
Contemporary ethnoarchaeology has come a long way from material correlates and 'fleshing out the past'. This paper re-introduces ethnoarchaeology and opens a debate on its role in archaeology today. We summarize the role ethnoarchaeology has in developing, testing and building archaeological interpretation, and argue for its continuing importance in the wider discipline. This critical role further produces rich ethnographic and material informati…
Marginalized Potters and Ceramic Compositional Groups: Neutron Activation Analysis of Contemporary Pottery from Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia
Introduction: Streetlife - the shifting sociologies of the street
The street has long been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of urban sociology in the ethnographies of the Chicago School to the diverse range of contemporary studies which consider the performative, affective and non-representational nature of street etiquette and encounter. For all this, the street remains only loosely defined in many studies, and sometimes disappears from view entirely, with social action often privile…
To Hell with Ethnoarchaeology … and Back
In 2016 Olivier Gosselain published a paper in Archaeological Dialogues suggesting that ethnoarchaeology should “go to hell”. His provocation misrepresents the ethnoarchaeology of the past quarter century, as is evident in a literature of which he appears largely unaware. Here we refute his charges, showing, for example, that ethnoarchaeologists neither regard the societies with which we work as living fossils, nor do we entertain naïve stereotyp…
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
On the surface: An ethnoarchaeological study of marginalised pottery production and the social context of pottery surface treatments in Tigray Regional State, northern highland Ethiopia
Pottery surface treatments are considered essential to waterproofing and strengthening low-fired porous pots, and they add characteristic elements of colour and texture to pottery assemblages. However, surface treatments do not receive the same attention as other stages of pottery chaînes opératoires in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in terms of the social context of production, how technological treatments vary across an assemblage, contribute…
Tej Consumption and Production in the Commensal Politics and Political Economy of States in Northern Highland Ethiopia
Nicholas David (1937–2023)
Nicholas David (1937–2023)
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dear friend, colleague and mentor, Dr Nicholas David, on Wednesday, 11 January 2023. Nic died peacefully in his home with his wife, Judy
Teaching the sociology of time in a time of disruption (a strike and a pandemic)
This short article shares the innovative pedagogic practices I explored and developed to nurture temporal reflexivity in the classroom to engage students in the study of the sociology of time in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and a local strike. It takes the reader through the module as it was structured and delivered in two parts: from calendars to calibration and from memory to procrastination. This is interspersed with details of the lea…
Nicholas Christopher David: Master Ethnoarchaeologist (1937-2023)
I am deeply honored to write the Classics Review for my mentor and friend Nicholas David, who died on 11 January 2023. When Nic asked me to write this review I thought we would have more time, but
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