Adrian Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 4010129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6891-8465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 329 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Place, Identity and Wellbeing: Bradford and Beyond
This paper presents ongoing collaborative, place-based research between the University of Bradford and partner organisations, exploring the importance of identity, and the role of heritage and culture, for wellbeing, cohesion and resilience. It discusses three 'parent' projects: Fragmented Heritage; Virtual Bradford; and Continuing Bonds, and seven interlinked subsidiary projects: Curious Travellers; Building Resilience through Heritage (BReaTHe)…
Community perceptions and governance of tree planting schemes in Ethiopia: Insights for sustainable ecological and socioeconomic outcomes
Historically, tree planting was primarily implemented to achieve economic functions; more recently, environmental and social goals have also been emphasised. This is due to the realisation that schemes operate in a socioecological system; hence, understanding and fulfilling local social (community) interests are imperative. We conducted 13 focus group discussions and 40 interviews with communities at 13 Ethiopian tree‐planting scheme sites to eva…
Digital Twins at the City and Town Scale: Europe and Beyond
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…
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet
Our comparative study uses practice-based understandings of behaviour to expose the hidden ‘inequalities of ease’ which underlie healthy eating behaviours in different socioeconomic circumstances. This adds depth to the well-established direct impacts of socioeconomic factors through illuminating the more subtle contextual factors which enhance these effects and reduce the ease of healthy eating in contexts of deprivation. Drawing on in-depth mul…
Situating halal: Religiosity, identity and lifestyle in halal consumption in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates
In this paper we draw on a study of Muslim consumer perceptions and concerns about halal labels and certification practices in two affluent countries: the United Kingdom (UK) (where Muslims are a minority of the population) and United Arab Emirates (UAE) (where Muslims are the majority). The study looked at a stratified sample of 330 Muslim consumers in each country. Our analysis points to a growing demand for variety alongside increasing concern…
Digital Refit Analysis of Anthropogenically Fragmented Equine Bone from the Schöningen 13 II-4 Deposits, Germany
How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of Sustainable Development Goals? A theory of change
Mental health is a leading cause of ill-health worldwide, disproportionately affects low-and-middle-income countries and, increasingly, is considered relevant across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hence, we ask: How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of SDGs? We use the UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) as a case study. In a previous scoping review, we purposefully sampled non…
A new combined approach using confocal and scanning electron microscopy to image surface modifications on quartzite
Confocal microscopy has been increasingly employed in the field of traceology to acquire metrological data of surface changes on a micro-scale. However, its advantages for a traditional visual inspection of use-wear are rarely highlighted. As traditional optical microscopy (OM) has proven unable to entirely fulfil the prerequisites for an ideal observation of highly reflective and irregular materials, alternative ways for providing better observa…
Cooking without thinking: How understanding cooking as a practice can shed new light on inequalities in healthy eating
Enacting public understandings: The case of farm animal welfare
Replicating surface texture: Preliminary testing of molding compound accuracy for surface measurements
The use of surface metrology microscopes to quantify surface texture is a powerful tool for the analysis of archaeological materials. Data collected from these microscopes allows for reliable and reproducible measurements of surface characteristics. However, archaeological materials provide some unique challenges for microscopic analysis, including archaeological objects that cannot leave museums or are too large to observe under a microscope. Be…
Exploring the microscale: Advances and novel applications of microscopy for archaeological materials
Food labelling as a response to political consumption
Food labels have become an important medium through which many consumers come to understand and appreciate foods. This chapter focuses attention on ethical food labels, such as organic, fair-trade and animal-welfare friendly, and examines both the context in which these labels emerge and the effects that these labels exert in the marketplace and beyond. It provides an overview of some of the current academic literatures on ethical food labeling a…
Making and Breaking Microliths: A Middle Mesolithic Site at Asfordby, Leicestershire
Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooli…
Surface analysis of stone and bone tools
Microwear (use-wear) analysis is a powerful method for identifying tool use that archaeologists and anthropologists employ to determine the activities undertaken by both humans and their hominin ancestors. Knowledge of tool use allows for more accurate and detailed reconstructions of past behavior, particularly in relation to subsistence practices, economic activities, conflict and ritual. It can also be used to document changes in these activiti…
A Post-Roman Sequence at Carlisle Cathedral
Major new research on this important Post-Roman site. Contributions from several specialists on significant archaeological assemblages
Standardization, calibration and innovation: A special issue on lithic microwear method
On the importance of blind testing in archaeological science: The example from lithic functional studies
Blind-testing is an important tool that should be used by all analytical fields as an approach for validating method.Several fields do this well outside of archaeological science.It is unfortunate that many applied methods do not have a strong underpinning built on, what should be considered necessary, blind-testing.Historically lithic microwear analysis has been subjected to such testing, the results of which stirred considerable debate.However,…
Between Food and Flesh: How Animals are Made to Matter (and Not Matter) within Food Consumption Practices
Contemporary European consumers find themselves at an interesting point in history with regards to their relationships with animals. In this paper we contend that these ambiguities are played out within everyday embodied practices of preparing, eating, and shopping for food. We begin our account by outlining a novel performative approach to food consumption practices, which we have termed 'foodsensing', and we contend that every act of sensing fo…
Using metrology in early prehistoric stone tool research: Further work and a brief instrument comparison
Early prehistoric research aims to discover the activities of our ancestors and piece together the process of evolution and sociocultural development. A key element in this process is the study of stone tools, particularly how these tools functioned in prehistory. Currently, there are no established quantitative methods that address stone tool function. This article provides a summary of previous studies using metrological methods in stone tool r…
A Good Kill: Socio-Technical Organizations of Farm Animal Slaughter
The practices of raising and killing animals for food have long been, and continue to be, the ‘most significant social formation of human-animal relations’ (Calvo 2008: 32). Globally, humans kill well over a billion cattle, sheep and pigs and over 16 billion chickens for food every year. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050 (FAO 2006). The sheer scale of these n…
Reaping the rewards: The potential of well designed methodology, a comment on Vardi et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1716–1724) and Goodale et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science…
Lithic raw material sourcing and the assessment of Mesolithic landscape organization and mobility strategies in northern England
Analysis of the early evolution of cultural landscapes, particularly the regional organization of space by mobile hunter-gatherers, is often hampered by a lack of overt landscape marking and modification and/or a lack of sufficient biological material with which to assess regional affinity. This situation places a premium on the accurate sourcing of durable materials, such as stone for tool manufacture (commonly employed as proxy measures of spac…
When foods become animals: Ruminations on Ethics and Responsibility in Care-fullpractices of consumption
Providing information to consumers in the form of food labels about modern systems of animal farming is believed to be crucial for increasing their awareness of animal suffering and for promoting technological change towards more welfare-friendly forms of husbandry (CIWF, 2007). In this paper we want to explore whether and how food labels carrying information about the lives of animals are used by consumers while shopping for meat and other anima…
Gristhorpe Man: An Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
Laser scanning confocal microscopy: A potential technique for the study of lithic microwear
Between Food and Flesh: How Animals are Made to Matter (and Not Matter) within Food Consumption Practices
Contemporary European consumers find themselves at an interesting point in history with regards to their relationships with animals. In this paper we contend that these ambiguities are played out within everyday embodied practices of preparing, eating, and shopping for food. We begin our account by outlining a novel performative approach to food consumption practices, which we have termed 'foodsensing', and we contend that every act of sensing fo…
When foods become animals: Ruminations on Ethics and Responsibility in Care-fullpractices of consumption
Providing information to consumers in the form of food labels about modern systems of animal farming is believed to be crucial for increasing their awareness of animal suffering and for promoting technological change towards more welfare-friendly forms of husbandry (CIWF, 2007). In this paper we want to explore whether and how food labels carrying information about the lives of animals are used by consumers while shopping for meat and other anima…
Standardization, calibration and innovation: A special issue on lithic microwear method
On the importance of blind testing in archaeological science: The example from lithic functional studies
Blind-testing is an important tool that should be used by all analytical fields as an approach for validating method.Several fields do this well outside of archaeological science.It is unfortunate that many applied methods do not have a strong underpinning built on, what should be considered necessary, blind-testing.Historically lithic microwear analysis has been subjected to such testing, the results of which stirred considerable debate.However,…
The elemental chemistry of lithic microwear: An experiment
Replicating surface texture: Preliminary testing of molding compound accuracy for surface measurements
The use of surface metrology microscopes to quantify surface texture is a powerful tool for the analysis of archaeological materials. Data collected from these microscopes allows for reliable and reproducible measurements of surface characteristics. However, archaeological materials provide some unique challenges for microscopic analysis, including archaeological objects that cannot leave museums or are too large to observe under a microscope. Be…
A pilot study of “black chert” sourcing and implications for assessing hunter-gatherer mobility strategies in Northern England
Cooking without thinking: How understanding cooking as a practice can shed new light on inequalities in healthy eating
Gristhorpe Man: An Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
Reaping the rewards: The potential of well designed methodology, a comment on Vardi et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1716–1724) and Goodale et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science…
A new combined approach using confocal and scanning electron microscopy to image surface modifications on quartzite
Confocal microscopy has been increasingly employed in the field of traceology to acquire metrological data of surface changes on a micro-scale. However, its advantages for a traditional visual inspection of use-wear are rarely highlighted. As traditional optical microscopy (OM) has proven unable to entirely fulfil the prerequisites for an ideal observation of highly reflective and irregular materials, alternative ways for providing better observa…
Lithic raw material sourcing and the assessment of Mesolithic landscape organization and mobility strategies in northern England
Analysis of the early evolution of cultural landscapes, particularly the regional organization of space by mobile hunter-gatherers, is often hampered by a lack of overt landscape marking and modification and/or a lack of sufficient biological material with which to assess regional affinity. This situation places a premium on the accurate sourcing of durable materials, such as stone for tool manufacture (commonly employed as proxy measures of spac…
Enacting public understandings: The case of farm animal welfare
Making and Breaking Microliths: A Middle Mesolithic Site at Asfordby, Leicestershire
Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooli…
A Post-Roman Sequence at Carlisle Cathedral
Major new research on this important Post-Roman site. Contributions from several specialists on significant archaeological assemblages
A Saunterer in Sussex
The elemental chemistry of lithic microwear: An experiment
A pilot study of “black chert” sourcing and implications for assessing hunter-gatherer mobility strategies in Northern England
Almost There: Empirical Insights into Clinical Method and Ethics Courses in Climbing the Hill Towards Lawyers’ Professionalism
Lawyers’ professional (ethical) behaviour is under challenge as a result of major public disclosures in recent years. In an effort to deal with such challenges, a focus on ethical fundamentals is called for. It is not unreasonable to assume that lawyers’ moral reasoning might play some role in the decisions that are made in everyday legal practice, especially those that lead to subsequent criticism. However, until now there has been a dearth of r…
Independent Evaluations of Clinical Legal Education Programs: Appropriate Objectives and Processes in an Australian Setting
While some major Australian law schools remain in what can only be described as clinical oblivion, 20 of our 29 law schools describe themselves as having clinical programs of one variety or another. This number signifies that the majority of Australian law deans now believe that some sort of clinical program is important to the educational and even social objectives of their schools. At its heart, it is argued, clinical legal education is simply …
Laser scanning confocal microscopy: A potential technique for the study of lithic microwear
Lithic raw material sourcing and the assessment of Mesolithic landscape organization and mobility strategies in northern England
Analysis of the early evolution of cultural landscapes, particularly the regional organization of space by mobile hunter-gatherers, is often hampered by a lack of overt landscape marking and modification and/or a lack of sufficient biological material with which to assess regional affinity. This situation places a premium on the accurate sourcing of durable materials, such as stone for tool manufacture (commonly employed as proxy measures of spac…
When foods become animals: Ruminations on Ethics and Responsibility in Care-fullpractices of consumption
Providing information to consumers in the form of food labels about modern systems of animal farming is believed to be crucial for increasing their awareness of animal suffering and for promoting technological change towards more welfare-friendly forms of husbandry (CIWF, 2007). In this paper we want to explore whether and how food labels carrying information about the lives of animals are used by consumers while shopping for meat and other anima…
Gristhorpe Man: An Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely a…
Using metrology in early prehistoric stone tool research: Further work and a brief instrument comparison
Early prehistoric research aims to discover the activities of our ancestors and piece together the process of evolution and sociocultural development. A key element in this process is the study of stone tools, particularly how these tools functioned in prehistory. Currently, there are no established quantitative methods that address stone tool function. This article provides a summary of previous studies using metrological methods in stone tool r…
A Good Kill: Socio-Technical Organizations of Farm Animal Slaughter
The practices of raising and killing animals for food have long been, and continue to be, the ‘most significant social formation of human-animal relations’ (Calvo 2008: 32). Globally, humans kill well over a billion cattle, sheep and pigs and over 16 billion chickens for food every year. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050 (FAO 2006). The sheer scale of these n…
Reaping the rewards: The potential of well designed methodology, a comment on Vardi et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1716–1724) and Goodale et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science…
Between Food and Flesh: How Animals are Made to Matter (and Not Matter) within Food Consumption Practices
Contemporary European consumers find themselves at an interesting point in history with regards to their relationships with animals. In this paper we contend that these ambiguities are played out within everyday embodied practices of preparing, eating, and shopping for food. We begin our account by outlining a novel performative approach to food consumption practices, which we have termed 'foodsensing', and we contend that every act of sensing fo…
On the importance of blind testing in archaeological science: The example from lithic functional studies
Blind-testing is an important tool that should be used by all analytical fields as an approach for validating method.Several fields do this well outside of archaeological science.It is unfortunate that many applied methods do not have a strong underpinning built on, what should be considered necessary, blind-testing.Historically lithic microwear analysis has been subjected to such testing, the results of which stirred considerable debate.However,…
A Post-Roman Sequence at Carlisle Cathedral
Major new research on this important Post-Roman site. Contributions from several specialists on significant archaeological assemblages
Standardization, calibration and innovation: A special issue on lithic microwear method
Surface analysis of stone and bone tools
Microwear (use-wear) analysis is a powerful method for identifying tool use that archaeologists and anthropologists employ to determine the activities undertaken by both humans and their hominin ancestors. Knowledge of tool use allows for more accurate and detailed reconstructions of past behavior, particularly in relation to subsistence practices, economic activities, conflict and ritual. It can also be used to document changes in these activiti…
Food labelling as a response to political consumption
Food labels have become an important medium through which many consumers come to understand and appreciate foods. This chapter focuses attention on ethical food labels, such as organic, fair-trade and animal-welfare friendly, and examines both the context in which these labels emerge and the effects that these labels exert in the marketplace and beyond. It provides an overview of some of the current academic literatures on ethical food labeling a…
Making and Breaking Microliths: A Middle Mesolithic Site at Asfordby, Leicestershire
Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooli…
Replicating surface texture: Preliminary testing of molding compound accuracy for surface measurements
The use of surface metrology microscopes to quantify surface texture is a powerful tool for the analysis of archaeological materials. Data collected from these microscopes allows for reliable and reproducible measurements of surface characteristics. However, archaeological materials provide some unique challenges for microscopic analysis, including archaeological objects that cannot leave museums or are too large to observe under a microscope. Be…
Exploring the microscale: Advances and novel applications of microscopy for archaeological materials
Enacting public understandings: The case of farm animal welfare
A new combined approach using confocal and scanning electron microscopy to image surface modifications on quartzite
Confocal microscopy has been increasingly employed in the field of traceology to acquire metrological data of surface changes on a micro-scale. However, its advantages for a traditional visual inspection of use-wear are rarely highlighted. As traditional optical microscopy (OM) has proven unable to entirely fulfil the prerequisites for an ideal observation of highly reflective and irregular materials, alternative ways for providing better observa…
Cooking without thinking: How understanding cooking as a practice can shed new light on inequalities in healthy eating
Digital Refit Analysis of Anthropogenically Fragmented Equine Bone from the Schöningen 13 II-4 Deposits, Germany
Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 works) · Geology (6 works) · History (6 works)