Claire Nesbitt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 215245 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Claire Nesbitt |
| PRENOMES | Claire |
| SOBRENOME | Nesbitt |
| ASSINATURA | NESBITT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Durham University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
New Book Chronicle
Landscape archaeology has long been at the core of the discipline. Each year, Antiquity receives many review books on this theme and, to highlight just a few of these, this NBC explores a range of recent volumes featuring the archaeology of landscapes. Some consider the manipulation of landscape and topography to assert power and legitimise social status, while others examine the evidence for agricultural and economic exploitation. All, however, …
New Book Chronicle
This NBC considers a collection of volumes that spotlight textiles in the archaeological record. The specific conditions required to preserve fabrics mean that there are very few places or contexts in which they survive archaeologically, and when they do, they are often fragmentary and fragile. Consequently, our understanding of textiles comes as much from the evidence for their manufacture as from the fabrics themselves. Despite these challenges…
New Book Chronicle
The volumes in this NBC represent a diverse range of archaeological publications that offer new ways of approaching landscapes, fresh perspectives on understanding movement in the past, discourse on the ethics of the replica in heritage settings, and new theoretical approaches to underwater archaeology. Our first volume, however, takes on perhaps the biggest and most topical question facing our discipline: why does archaeology matter
New Book Chronicle
Archaeology is inherently evidence based: we find things, we interpret them, and we create narratives about the past. As mentioned in this issue's Editorial, the absence of evidence can also be meaningful. The more randomised locations of development-led archaeology can reveal genuine 'empty' spaces. Sometimes, however, perceived absences can be misleading, and we may miss a glimpse of something important. This NBC considers several volumes that …
New Book Chronicle
This NBC reviews several volumes that consider the archaeology of islands and maritime subsistence in prehistory. Islands have frequently been viewed as isolated, marginal places where survival is a challenge compared with the more accessible and well-resourced mainland. The volumes under review ask us to reconsider such concepts of marginality, and to reassess the nature of places, such as islands, that have been considered isolated and which ca…
New Book Chronicle
The study of contemporary 'peasantries' saw a decline around the turn of the millennium. An academic focus on capitalist farming models over peasant societies led to debates about the very validity of the term 'peasant', with some regarding it as anachronistic (Kearney 1996), while others argued for the emergence of a 'new peasantry' that would become increasingly important (Van Der Ploeg 2018). Most recently, archaeologists Quirs Castillo and Te…
New Book Chronicle
Having devoted August's NBC to North American archaeology, it seems a useful comparison to shift our gaze south to the world of Central America. Hence, this NBC reviews a selection of volumes that consider aspects of Mesoamerican archaeology, including settlement, subsistence, resilience and conflict, as well as the modern trafficking of pre-Columbian antiquities
New Book Chronicle
Questions of identity have been a focus for many areas of archaeology in the last 20 years, with an emphasis on recognising its fluid and continually changing nature. Despite challenges to approaches to identity in some areas of archaeology This NBC spotlights a range of volumes that investigate the articulation of social identity through both lived environments and material culture. The themes that emerge centre around the creation, negotiation …
New Book Chronicle
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of volumes Antiquity receives from publishers based in the USA, presenting archaeology in North and South America, as well as farther afield. The range of these publications is testament to the extent and diversity of archaeological research being undertaken in the Americas. This NBC features a selection of books from U.S. publishers as a window on the diversity of approaches in American archaeolog…
New Book Chronicle
The numerous review volumes that the Antiquity office receives encompass a diverse range of archaeological research and a broad chronological and geographic spread. NBC represents a small selection of the varied new volumes that pass across my desk. In this issue we are taken from the well-preserved Early Neolithic fabrics of the cave of Murcilagos, via the sugar plantations of Yucatn, to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, which stand shoulder to s…
New Book Chronicle
This NBC considers a selection of volumes that speak to one of humanity's most significant themes: how we express ourselves, in both life and death. In this issue, we learn how the dead were represented in Bronze Age Arabia (Kimberly D. Williams & Lesley A. Gregoricka) and Bronze Age Laconia (Chrysanthi Gallou), and how the dead-in the form of shades or ghosts-were depicted in ancient Rome (Patrick R. Crowley). Following that, we turn to how peop…
New Book Chronicle
The disproportionate scholarly attention directed towards the prehistory of southern Britain-and Wessex in particular-is long-standing. The recent arrival on the Antiquity review shelves of several substantial excavation monographs and edited volumes, however, illustrates how this southern-centric gaze is shifting, with the publication of both vibrant and highly productive research-and developer-led excavations in northern England and Scotland
New Book Chronicle
It is five years since the so-called Islamic State (IS) seized the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, destroying temples and burial monuments in targeted acts of iconoclastic demolition. The destruction of so much archaeology at the site has not diminished research interest in the city, however, and this NBC considers three new volumes focusing on the archaeology of Palmyra that have recently arrived on the Antiquity shelves. These volumes offer f…
New Book Chronicle
What can archaeology do for justice, peace, community and the
New Book Chronicle
Studies of landscape and architecture have long recognised the importance of how topography and buildings alike are etched with the evidence of their use and of the practices and ideologies that underpinned the communities that created them. This NBC looks at several volumes that focus on how infrastructure and architecture have shaped urban and rural environments, and how both public and private spaces can be constructed to reflect power and sta…
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The New Book Chronicle has covered a vast array of themes in recent years, from antiquarians to innovations, taking in connectivity, cities and empires along the way, but 'art' has seldom featured. The sometimes uneasy relationship between art and archaeology has been under the archaeological spotlight of late, from the recent focus on 'Celtic art' as a proxy for broader societal change With a recent influx of books relating to Classical art on t…
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A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles
This is the third of a series of four papers that present the excavations undertaken on the Uig peninsula, Isle of Lewis, as part of the Uig Landscape Project. We present the archaeological evidence from An Dunan, a causewayed tidal islet in the salt marsh of Uig sands, a liminal and potentially ritual site dating to the Iron Age and medieval period. The first main Middle Iron Age phase was characterised by activities centred on an ash mound, dem…
Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland
This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investigating human occupation on the Uig peninsula from prehistory to the post-medieval period (the Uig Landscape Project). The excavation aimed to collect dating evidence from the site to determine the date …
Glass, Byzantine
Byzantine glass‐making developed from existing Roman technology, which realized the decorative and architectural uses of glass and understood its physical properties.
Shaping the sacred
Byzantine churches have been extensively studied in terms of their architectural development and in their role as places to display religious art. However there has been less research into one of the most fundamental aspects of the Byzantine ritual experience, illumination. In practical terms, churches had to be illuminated sufficiently for worship to take place. In experiential terms, lighting can be seen as the medium by which the iconographic …
Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles
This is the first of four papers that present the results of survey and excavations undertaken in the late 1990s as part of the Uig Landscape Project on Lewis in the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan Siar). This paper introduces the project and presents the results of the survey and excavations on the promontory enclosure of Gob Eirer, one of the earliest of the Uig sites excavated. Gob Eirer is located on a stack just off the Uig shoreline in the Cam…
Hadrian's Wall
The aim of this article is to consider the value of an embodied account of Hadrian's Wall. This heritage site has often been understood in predominantly imperial and military terms. While this is a crucial aspect of the historical meanings of the monument, there has been little focus on factors such as changing social role, socialities produced through its presence, and perceptions of the Wall evident in historical accounts. Drawing on theoretica…
Shaping the sacred
Byzantine churches have been extensively studied in terms of their architectural development and in their role as places to display religious art. However there has been less research into one of the most fundamental aspects of the Byzantine ritual experience, illumination. In practical terms, churches had to be illuminated sufficiently for worship to take place. In experiential terms, lighting can be seen as the medium by which the iconographic …
Life of an ancient monument
The Romans are Britain's favourite invaders, and Hadrian's Wall is among the largest and finest of the relics they left behind on the island. However, as our authors urge, we should demand more intellectual depth from our monuments today. Not simply a cultural asset anchored in the Roman empire, Hadrian's Wall had a busy afterlife, a material history reflecting the uses, attitudes and emotions of later centuries. Its 'biography' not only captures…
A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles
This is the third of a series of four papers that present the excavations undertaken on the Uig peninsula, Isle of Lewis, as part of the Uig Landscape Project. We present the archaeological evidence from An Dunan, a causewayed tidal islet in the salt marsh of Uig sands, a liminal and potentially ritual site dating to the Iron Age and medieval period. The first main Middle Iron Age phase was characterised by activities centred on an ash mound, dem…
Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles
This is the first of four papers that present the results of survey and excavations undertaken in the late 1990s as part of the Uig Landscape Project on Lewis in the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan Siar). This paper introduces the project and presents the results of the survey and excavations on the promontory enclosure of Gob Eirer, one of the earliest of the Uig sites excavated. Gob Eirer is located on a stack just off the Uig shoreline in the Cam…
Hadrian's Wall
The aim of this article is to consider the value of an embodied account of Hadrian's Wall. This heritage site has often been understood in predominantly imperial and military terms. While this is a crucial aspect of the historical meanings of the monument, there has been little focus on factors such as changing social role, socialities produced through its presence, and perceptions of the Wall evident in historical accounts. Drawing on theoretica…
Glass, Byzantine
Byzantine glass‐making developed from existing Roman technology, which realized the decorative and architectural uses of glass and understood its physical properties.
Shaping the sacred
Byzantine churches have been extensively studied in terms of their architectural development and in their role as places to display religious art. However there has been less research into one of the most fundamental aspects of the Byzantine ritual experience, illumination. In practical terms, churches had to be illuminated sufficiently for worship to take place. In experiential terms, lighting can be seen as the medium by which the iconographic …
Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles
This is the first of four papers that present the results of survey and excavations undertaken in the late 1990s as part of the Uig Landscape Project on Lewis in the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan Siar). This paper introduces the project and presents the results of the survey and excavations on the promontory enclosure of Gob Eirer, one of the earliest of the Uig sites excavated. Gob Eirer is located on a stack just off the Uig shoreline in the Cam…
Life of an ancient monument
The Romans are Britain's favourite invaders, and Hadrian's Wall is among the largest and finest of the relics they left behind on the island. However, as our authors urge, we should demand more intellectual depth from our monuments today. Not simply a cultural asset anchored in the Roman empire, Hadrian's Wall had a busy afterlife, a material history reflecting the uses, attitudes and emotions of later centuries. Its 'biography' not only captures…
Small-Scale Evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland
This paper presents the results of the excavation of two dry-stone structures in the abandoned blackhouse village of Bereiro, near to the township of Crowlista, Isle of Lewis. The research was undertaken as part of a wider landscape project investigating human occupation on the Uig peninsula from prehistory to the post-medieval period (the Uig Landscape Project). The excavation aimed to collect dating evidence from the site to determine the date …
A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles
This is the third of a series of four papers that present the excavations undertaken on the Uig peninsula, Isle of Lewis, as part of the Uig Landscape Project. We present the archaeological evidence from An Dunan, a causewayed tidal islet in the salt marsh of Uig sands, a liminal and potentially ritual site dating to the Iron Age and medieval period. The first main Middle Iron Age phase was characterised by activities centred on an ash mound, dem…
New Book Chronicle
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New Book Chronicle
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New Book Chronicle
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New Book Chronicle
The New Book Chronicle has covered a vast array of themes in recent years, from antiquarians to innovations, taking in connectivity, cities and empires along the way, but 'art' has seldom featured. The sometimes uneasy relationship between art and archaeology has been under the archaeological spotlight of late, from the recent focus on 'Celtic art' as a proxy for broader societal change With a recent influx of books relating to Classical art on t…
New Book Chronicle
It is five years since the so-called Islamic State (IS) seized the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, destroying temples and burial monuments in targeted acts of iconoclastic demolition. The destruction of so much archaeology at the site has not diminished research interest in the city, however, and this NBC considers three new volumes focusing on the archaeology of Palmyra that have recently arrived on the Antiquity shelves. These volumes offer f…
New Book Chronicle
What can archaeology do for justice, peace, community and the
New Book Chronicle
Studies of landscape and architecture have long recognised the importance of how topography and buildings alike are etched with the evidence of their use and of the practices and ideologies that underpinned the communities that created them. This NBC looks at several volumes that focus on how infrastructure and architecture have shaped urban and rural environments, and how both public and private spaces can be constructed to reflect power and sta…
New Book Chronicle
Having devoted August's NBC to North American archaeology, it seems a useful comparison to shift our gaze south to the world of Central America. Hence, this NBC reviews a selection of volumes that consider aspects of Mesoamerican archaeology, including settlement, subsistence, resilience and conflict, as well as the modern trafficking of pre-Columbian antiquities
New Book Chronicle
Questions of identity have been a focus for many areas of archaeology in the last 20 years, with an emphasis on recognising its fluid and continually changing nature. Despite challenges to approaches to identity in some areas of archaeology This NBC spotlights a range of volumes that investigate the articulation of social identity through both lived environments and material culture. The themes that emerge centre around the creation, negotiation …
New Book Chronicle
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of volumes Antiquity receives from publishers based in the USA, presenting archaeology in North and South America, as well as farther afield. The range of these publications is testament to the extent and diversity of archaeological research being undertaken in the Americas. This NBC features a selection of books from U.S. publishers as a window on the diversity of approaches in American archaeolog…
New Book Chronicle
The numerous review volumes that the Antiquity office receives encompass a diverse range of archaeological research and a broad chronological and geographic spread. NBC represents a small selection of the varied new volumes that pass across my desk. In this issue we are taken from the well-preserved Early Neolithic fabrics of the cave of Murcilagos, via the sugar plantations of Yucatn, to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, which stand shoulder to s…
New Book Chronicle
This NBC considers a selection of volumes that speak to one of humanity's most significant themes: how we express ourselves, in both life and death. In this issue, we learn how the dead were represented in Bronze Age Arabia (Kimberly D. Williams & Lesley A. Gregoricka) and Bronze Age Laconia (Chrysanthi Gallou), and how the dead-in the form of shades or ghosts-were depicted in ancient Rome (Patrick R. Crowley). Following that, we turn to how peop…
New Book Chronicle
The disproportionate scholarly attention directed towards the prehistory of southern Britain-and Wessex in particular-is long-standing. The recent arrival on the Antiquity review shelves of several substantial excavation monographs and edited volumes, however, illustrates how this southern-centric gaze is shifting, with the publication of both vibrant and highly productive research-and developer-led excavations in northern England and Scotland
New Book Chronicle
Landscape archaeology has long been at the core of the discipline. Each year, Antiquity receives many review books on this theme and, to highlight just a few of these, this NBC explores a range of recent volumes featuring the archaeology of landscapes. Some consider the manipulation of landscape and topography to assert power and legitimise social status, while others examine the evidence for agricultural and economic exploitation. All, however, …
New Book Chronicle
This NBC considers a collection of volumes that spotlight textiles in the archaeological record. The specific conditions required to preserve fabrics mean that there are very few places or contexts in which they survive archaeologically, and when they do, they are often fragmentary and fragile. Consequently, our understanding of textiles comes as much from the evidence for their manufacture as from the fabrics themselves. Despite these challenges…
New Book Chronicle
The volumes in this NBC represent a diverse range of archaeological publications that offer new ways of approaching landscapes, fresh perspectives on understanding movement in the past, discourse on the ethics of the replica in heritage settings, and new theoretical approaches to underwater archaeology. Our first volume, however, takes on perhaps the biggest and most topical question facing our discipline: why does archaeology matter
New Book Chronicle
Archaeology is inherently evidence based: we find things, we interpret them, and we create narratives about the past. As mentioned in this issue's Editorial, the absence of evidence can also be meaningful. The more randomised locations of development-led archaeology can reveal genuine 'empty' spaces. Sometimes, however, perceived absences can be misleading, and we may miss a glimpse of something important. This NBC considers several volumes that …
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