Sue Hamilton (archaeologist) explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Sue Hamilton
Workplaces:UCL Institute of Archaeology
Honorific Suffix:FSA
Known For:Sensory archaeologyThe Leskernick Project, The Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project, The Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction ProjectSpecialist studies in British prehistoric pottery
Birth Place:Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation:Professor of Prehistory
Alma Mater:UCL Institute of Archaeology
Thesis Title:First Millennium BC Pottery Traditions in Southern Britain
Thesis Year:1993
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324616
Notable Works:Hillforts, monumentality and place (2001), Archaeology and Women (2006), Stone Worlds (2007), Theory in the Field (2013), Neolithic Spaces (2020)
Doctoral Advisor:Roy Hodson

Sue Hamilton [1] is a British archaeologist and Professor of Prehistory at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.[2] A material culture specialist and landscape archaeologist, she was the UCL Institute of Archaeology's first permanent female director (2014–22).

Education

Sue Hamilton studied archaeology at school[3] and at the University of Edinburgh before transferring to the (then) Institute of Archaeology, UCL, where she gained a BA in Archaeology. She was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1993 for her thesis on First Millennium BC Pottery Traditions in Southern Britain.[4]

Career

Prior to joining the Institute of Archaeology in 1990, Sue Hamilton taught archaeology at Birkbeck College and the Polytechnic of North London.[4] Her early research focused on later British prehistory and pottery and she was a contributor to the UK Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group's, The Study of Later Prehistoric Pottery: Guidelines for Analysis and Publication (1991),https://www.pcrg.org.uk/News_pages/PCRG%20Gudielines%203rd%20Edition%20(2010).pdf which has been widely used by prehistoric pottery specialists ever since.[5] Working alongside Christopher Tilley and Barbara Bender, from 1995 to 2000, she was co-director of the Bodmin Moor Landscapes Project (better known as the Leskernick Project),[6] a seminal study in archaeological phenomenology, focusing on the moor's Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes, and published in the book, Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (2007).[7] This work was followed, from 2002 to 2013, by the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project, which she co-directed with Ruth Whitehouse, and in which the principals of sensory archaeology, developed out of the Leskernick Project, were worked through in the context of the Neolithic villaggi trincerati (ditched villages) of southeast Italy. Her work on this project was published in a much referred to European Journal of Archaeology article, Phenomenology in Practice (2006),[8] and in the book Neolithic Spaces (2020).[9] [10] Overlapping with the Tavoliere Project, from 2006 to 2015, she was co-director with Colin Richards, of the AHRC-funded Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project,[11] [12] researching the archaeological and landscape contexts of Rapa Nui/ Easter Island's celebrated moai. In doing so, she and Professor Richards became "the first British archaeologists to work on the island since 1914."[13] The Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project is ongoing under her leadership.

After a distinguished career in research, teaching and university administration, Sue Hamilton became the first permanent female director of the UCL Institute of Archaeology on 1 September 2014.[14]

Bibliography (selected)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries. 2019-04-26. www.sal.org.uk.
  2. Web site: Sue Hamilton. UCL Institute of Archaeology. 2011-01-28.
  3. Web site: Flipsnack . 2022-12-13 . cdn.flipsnack.com.
  4. Web site: Sue Hamilton - Director of the UCL Institute of Archaeology. UCL. 2019-01-22. Institute of Archaeology. en. 2019-04-26.
  5. e.g. Seager Thomas. Mike. 2002. Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age Transition from the West Sussex Coastal Plain. The Roundstone Lane, Angmering, assemblage (with an appendix on the Bronze Age and Saxon pottery from the nearby Bypass excavations). Artefact Services Technical Reports. 5. 1. Researchgate.
  6. Web site: Leskernick Homepage. 2021-03-24. www.ucl.ac.uk.
  7. Book: Bender. Barbara. Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology. Hamilton. Sue. Tilley. Christopher. Left Coast Press. 2007. 978-1-59874-219-0. Walnut Creek, CA.
  8. Hamilton. Sue. Whitehouse. Ruth. 2006. Phenomenology in practice: towards a methodology for a 'subjective' approach. European Journal of Archaeology. en. 9. 1. 31–71. 10.1177/1461957107077704. 146497935 . 1461-9571.
  9. Book: Hamilton. Sue. Neolithic Spaces, Volume 1: the Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy. Whitehouse. Ruth. Accordia Research Institute. 2020. London.
  10. Book: Seager Thomas, Mike. Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: the Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs. Accordia Research Institute. 2020. 978-1873415429. London.
  11. Web site: UCL. 2019-01-22. Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction. 2021-03-24. Institute of Archaeology. en.
  12. News: Secrets of Easter Island unearthed. The Times. en. 2021-03-24. 0140-0460.
  13. News: Giant statues give up hat secret . BBC News Online . 6 September 2009 . 28 January 2011.
  14. Web site: Sue Hamilton becomes Director of the Institute of Archaeology. UCL Institute of Archaeology. 2014-09-01.

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