Nick Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5732-0369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing an integrated framework for Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) and Marine Protected Areas (MPA) across Africa and the Middle East
The Economy of Roman Religion
This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 bc to ad 350. The connection between Roman religion and the economy has largely been ignored in work on the Roman economy, but this volume explores the many complex ways in which economic and religious thinking and activities were interwoven, fr…
Maritime Cultural Heritage and Urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa
Urbanisation, comprising development, land reclamation and population growth along coastal margins, continues to place significant pressure on the maritime cultural heritage (MCH), particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Thus, there is a growing need for ascertaining the extent of the affected MCH resource and its condition. One such assessment is being undertaken by the Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) project, whi…
Documenting, Protecting and Managing Endangered Maritime Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Region
For millennia, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been a culturally dynamic zone, bounded by maritime societies dependent on the sea for communication, trade and livelihoods. The archaeological evidence of these past societies represents an extraordinary physical legacy of human endeavour and presence across this region, contributing to senses of place, identity and belonging amongst contemporary coastal communities. However, the …
Changing Urban Environments and the Impact on Coastal Cultural Heritage at Marsa Matruh, Egypt
This paper examines the impact of urban expansion on coastal heritage in and around the port-city of Marsa Matruh on the northwest coast of Egypt. The city is located along a series of lagoons that have offered safe harbor for ships since antiquity. Over the last 80 years Marsa Matruh has developed from a small settlement of a few houses into a large port city that sprawls along the lagoons and further inland. The continuous growth has damaged or…
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Assessing past impacts and future threats
Climate change threatens coastal archaeology through storm flooding (extreme sea-level: ESL), long-term sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal erosion. Many regions, like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), lack key baseline evidence. We present initial results from a climate change threat assessment of MENA's coastal heritage using the Maritime Endangered Archaeology inventory: a geospatial database of MENA maritime archaeological sites incorpora…
Enabling Ecotourism Development in Cambodia
Cambodia’s tourism industry is a key \n contributor to its economic growth. However, a recent \n slowdown in the growth of tourism points to a need to \n diversify Cambodia’s tourism sector. Cambodia’s spectacular \n and pristine natural assets are exactly what ecotourists \n look for and the opportunities for supporting the expansion \n of this industry are great. Developing the ecotourism \n industry can create jobs and provide stimulus for rur…
Dying to Be Garamantian: Burial, Migration and Identity in Fazzan
The previous chapter introduced the Garamantes, an ancient Saharan people, whose story can be traced archaeologically through the first millennium BC and first millennium AD (see also Figs 1.1and 1.2 for location maps). This chapter presents evidence on the funerary practices of the Garamantian heartlands in the Wadi al-Ajal in the Libyan Fazzan (Central Sahara). The Wadi al-Ajal is a long and thin oasis depression running for c. 150 km from al-A…
Burials, Migration and Identity: The View from the Sahara
This book is the second volume of four proposed thematic books on aspects of the archaeology and history of what we term the Trans-Saharan zone – broadly conceived of as the vast spaces of Maghrib, Sahara and Sub-Saharan Sahel between the Atlantic in the west, the Mediterranean in the north, the Nile in the east and the equatorial African forests in the south. The territorial expanse of this zone is huge and, given the hostile climate and environ…
Concluding Discussion
At the start of this volume, we outlined three main themes: burial archaeology, migration and identity. In this concluding chapter, we revisit these themes in light of the varied case studies and examples explored in this book. We believe this volume illustrates that there is irrefutable evidence of links and connections that serve to define a Trans-Saharan zone at an early date. Migration and mobility created networks of connectivity and element…
Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
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Buried in the archives: Cemeteries and mausolea in Tripolitania
Much extant research on monumental burial structures considers mausolea in isolation from one another, both spatially and temporally, separating them from the more extensive cemeteries that either pre-existed or were built up around them. This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing archive-based project studying Tripolitanian Roman-period funerary landscapes, specifically investigating the relations between mausolea and their adjace…
H.E.M. Cool . The small finds and vessel glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: Excavations 1995–2006 (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 17). 2016. xii+304 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: …
H.E.M. Cool . The small finds and vessel glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: excavations 1995–2006 (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 17). 2016. xii+304 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-452-3 paperback £50. - Volume 91 Issue 358
Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone: The Middle Draa Project 2015
This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…
De Africa Romaque: Merging cultures across North Africa
Consumer Behaviour in Pompeii
This chapter explores the possibilities of applying consumer theory to the Pompeian archaeological record. The chapter starts with a discussion of ways in which consumption can be theorized, introducing concepts like ‘taste’, ‘reference groups’, and ‘consumerism’. Ray then goes on to use a set of statistical tools to analyse assemblages of everyday domestic artefacts found in a selected number of Pompeian houses, particularly focusing on metal, g…
Luxury
Luxury is a socio‐cultural construct that is variable depending on the agents involved.
DMP Xii: Excavations and Survey of the so-called Garamantian Royal Cemetery (GSC030–031)
Survey and excavation by the Burials and Identity team of the Desert Migrations Project (DMP) focused in 2011 on the so-called Royal Cemetery of the Garamantes close to the Jarma escarpment, a few km south of Old Jarma. This Late Garamantian cemetery contains two distinct zones (GSC030 and GSC031) of monumental rectangular stepped tombs, which were plaster-coated and fronted by massive offering tables and stelae. Previous dating evidence has sugg…
DMP Ix: Summary Report on the Fourth Season of Excavations of the Burials and Identity team
The fourth season of the Burials and Identity component of the Desert Migrations Project in 2010 focused on completion of excavation work at two main cemeteries (TAG001 and TAG012) and smaller-scale sampling work at a number of nearby cemeteries. The investigation of a number of burials in a semi-nucleated escarpment cemetery TAG063 produced interesting new information on Proto-Urban Garamantian funerary rites, dating to the latter centuries BC. …
Preface and Editors’ Preface
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Consumption and Roman Archaeology: Beyond Pompeii
Preface and Editors’ Preface
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Assessing past impacts and future threats
Climate change threatens coastal archaeology through storm flooding (extreme sea-level: ESL), long-term sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal erosion. Many regions, like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), lack key baseline evidence. We present initial results from a climate change threat assessment of MENA's coastal heritage using the Maritime Endangered Archaeology inventory: a geospatial database of MENA maritime archaeological sites incorpora…
DMP Ix: Summary Report on the Fourth Season of Excavations of the Burials and Identity team
The fourth season of the Burials and Identity component of the Desert Migrations Project in 2010 focused on completion of excavation work at two main cemeteries (TAG001 and TAG012) and smaller-scale sampling work at a number of nearby cemeteries. The investigation of a number of burials in a semi-nucleated escarpment cemetery TAG063 produced interesting new information on Proto-Urban Garamantian funerary rites, dating to the latter centuries BC. …
DMP Xii: Excavations and Survey of the so-called Garamantian Royal Cemetery (GSC030–031)
Survey and excavation by the Burials and Identity team of the Desert Migrations Project (DMP) focused in 2011 on the so-called Royal Cemetery of the Garamantes close to the Jarma escarpment, a few km south of Old Jarma. This Late Garamantian cemetery contains two distinct zones (GSC030 and GSC031) of monumental rectangular stepped tombs, which were plaster-coated and fronted by massive offering tables and stelae. Previous dating evidence has sugg…
Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone: The Middle Draa Project 2015
This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…
Changing Urban Environments and the Impact on Coastal Cultural Heritage at Marsa Matruh, Egypt
This paper examines the impact of urban expansion on coastal heritage in and around the port-city of Marsa Matruh on the northwest coast of Egypt. The city is located along a series of lagoons that have offered safe harbor for ships since antiquity. Over the last 80 years Marsa Matruh has developed from a small settlement of a few houses into a large port city that sprawls along the lagoons and further inland. The continuous growth has damaged or…
Developing an integrated framework for Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) and Marine Protected Areas (MPA) across Africa and the Middle East
The Economy of Roman Religion
This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 bc to ad 350. The connection between Roman religion and the economy has largely been ignored in work on the Roman economy, but this volume explores the many complex ways in which economic and religious thinking and activities were interwoven, fr…
Documenting, Protecting and Managing Endangered Maritime Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Region
For millennia, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been a culturally dynamic zone, bounded by maritime societies dependent on the sea for communication, trade and livelihoods. The archaeological evidence of these past societies represents an extraordinary physical legacy of human endeavour and presence across this region, contributing to senses of place, identity and belonging amongst contemporary coastal communities. However, the …
Buried in the archives: Cemeteries and mausolea in Tripolitania
Much extant research on monumental burial structures considers mausolea in isolation from one another, both spatially and temporally, separating them from the more extensive cemeteries that either pre-existed or were built up around them. This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing archive-based project studying Tripolitanian Roman-period funerary landscapes, specifically investigating the relations between mausolea and their adjace…
Consumption and Roman Archaeology: Beyond Pompeii
Preface and Editors’ Preface
Preface and Editors’ Preface
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
DMP Ix: Summary Report on the Fourth Season of Excavations of the Burials and Identity team
The fourth season of the Burials and Identity component of the Desert Migrations Project in 2010 focused on completion of excavation work at two main cemeteries (TAG001 and TAG012) and smaller-scale sampling work at a number of nearby cemeteries. The investigation of a number of burials in a semi-nucleated escarpment cemetery TAG063 produced interesting new information on Proto-Urban Garamantian funerary rites, dating to the latter centuries BC. …
DMP Xii: Excavations and Survey of the so-called Garamantian Royal Cemetery (GSC030–031)
Survey and excavation by the Burials and Identity team of the Desert Migrations Project (DMP) focused in 2011 on the so-called Royal Cemetery of the Garamantes close to the Jarma escarpment, a few km south of Old Jarma. This Late Garamantian cemetery contains two distinct zones (GSC030 and GSC031) of monumental rectangular stepped tombs, which were plaster-coated and fronted by massive offering tables and stelae. Previous dating evidence has sugg…
Luxury
Luxury is a socio‐cultural construct that is variable depending on the agents involved.
De Africa Romaque: Merging cultures across North Africa
Consumer Behaviour in Pompeii
This chapter explores the possibilities of applying consumer theory to the Pompeian archaeological record. The chapter starts with a discussion of ways in which consumption can be theorized, introducing concepts like ‘taste’, ‘reference groups’, and ‘consumerism’. Ray then goes on to use a set of statistical tools to analyse assemblages of everyday domestic artefacts found in a selected number of Pompeian houses, particularly focusing on metal, g…
H.E.M. Cool . The small finds and vessel glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: Excavations 1995–2006 (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 17). 2016. xii+304 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: …
H.E.M. Cool . The small finds and vessel glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: excavations 1995–2006 (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 17). 2016. xii+304 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78491-452-3 paperback £50. - Volume 91 Issue 358
Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone: The Middle Draa Project 2015
This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…
Dying to Be Garamantian: Burial, Migration and Identity in Fazzan
The previous chapter introduced the Garamantes, an ancient Saharan people, whose story can be traced archaeologically through the first millennium BC and first millennium AD (see also Figs 1.1and 1.2 for location maps). This chapter presents evidence on the funerary practices of the Garamantian heartlands in the Wadi al-Ajal in the Libyan Fazzan (Central Sahara). The Wadi al-Ajal is a long and thin oasis depression running for c. 150 km from al-A…
Burials, Migration and Identity: The View from the Sahara
This book is the second volume of four proposed thematic books on aspects of the archaeology and history of what we term the Trans-Saharan zone – broadly conceived of as the vast spaces of Maghrib, Sahara and Sub-Saharan Sahel between the Atlantic in the west, the Mediterranean in the north, the Nile in the east and the equatorial African forests in the south. The territorial expanse of this zone is huge and, given the hostile climate and environ…
Concluding Discussion
At the start of this volume, we outlined three main themes: burial archaeology, migration and identity. In this concluding chapter, we revisit these themes in light of the varied case studies and examples explored in this book. We believe this volume illustrates that there is irrefutable evidence of links and connections that serve to define a Trans-Saharan zone at an early date. Migration and mobility created networks of connectivity and element…
Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics
Buried in the archives: Cemeteries and mausolea in Tripolitania
Much extant research on monumental burial structures considers mausolea in isolation from one another, both spatially and temporally, separating them from the more extensive cemeteries that either pre-existed or were built up around them. This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing archive-based project studying Tripolitanian Roman-period funerary landscapes, specifically investigating the relations between mausolea and their adjace…
Enabling Ecotourism Development in Cambodia
Cambodia’s tourism industry is a key \n contributor to its economic growth. However, a recent \n slowdown in the growth of tourism points to a need to \n diversify Cambodia’s tourism sector. Cambodia’s spectacular \n and pristine natural assets are exactly what ecotourists \n look for and the opportunities for supporting the expansion \n of this industry are great. Developing the ecotourism \n industry can create jobs and provide stimulus for rur…
Climate change and coastal archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Assessing past impacts and future threats
Climate change threatens coastal archaeology through storm flooding (extreme sea-level: ESL), long-term sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal erosion. Many regions, like the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), lack key baseline evidence. We present initial results from a climate change threat assessment of MENA's coastal heritage using the Maritime Endangered Archaeology inventory: a geospatial database of MENA maritime archaeological sites incorpora…
Maritime Cultural Heritage and Urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa
Urbanisation, comprising development, land reclamation and population growth along coastal margins, continues to place significant pressure on the maritime cultural heritage (MCH), particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Thus, there is a growing need for ascertaining the extent of the affected MCH resource and its condition. One such assessment is being undertaken by the Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) project, whi…
Documenting, Protecting and Managing Endangered Maritime Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Region
For millennia, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been a culturally dynamic zone, bounded by maritime societies dependent on the sea for communication, trade and livelihoods. The archaeological evidence of these past societies represents an extraordinary physical legacy of human endeavour and presence across this region, contributing to senses of place, identity and belonging amongst contemporary coastal communities. However, the …
Changing Urban Environments and the Impact on Coastal Cultural Heritage at Marsa Matruh, Egypt
This paper examines the impact of urban expansion on coastal heritage in and around the port-city of Marsa Matruh on the northwest coast of Egypt. The city is located along a series of lagoons that have offered safe harbor for ships since antiquity. Over the last 80 years Marsa Matruh has developed from a small settlement of a few houses into a large port city that sprawls along the lagoons and further inland. The continuous growth has damaged or…
The Economy of Roman Religion
This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 bc to ad 350. The connection between Roman religion and the economy has largely been ignored in work on the Roman economy, but this volume explores the many complex ways in which economic and religious thinking and activities were interwoven, fr…
Developing an integrated framework for Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) and Marine Protected Areas (MPA) across Africa and the Middle East
Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · History (11 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works)