Dr Andrew Jones

Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF

Position: Reader
Primary research group: Social Prehistory
Affiliated research group: Theory, Representation and Cultural Politics

Research interests

I joined the department in 2001. Prior to this I was a post-doctoral fellow at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge (1999-2001), and a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin (1998-1999). I researched for my PhD entitled ‘The biography of ceramics: food and culture in Late Neolithic Orkney’ at the University of Glasgow (1993-97).

Andy Jones wishes it to be known that he neither studies Viking age fish bone in York (Dr. Andre Jones), nor does he work for the Cornwall Archaeological Unit (Dr. Andy Michael Jones).

My research interest focus upon the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Europe. I am interested in the development of archaeological theory as a means of investigating these periods of prehistory. I have recently investigated ‘collective memory’ as an important framework of analysis. I am currently examining the sensual and visual aspects of material culture, and I am especially interested in how this links with the mnemonic character of artefacts. My research is characterised by its combination of empirical detail and theoretical rigour, and to this end I am also interested in the role played by archaeological science in a theoretically aware archaeology.

Current research projects: I am currently engaged in four research projects, in various stages of completion.

Prehistoric Aesthetics: This project is concerned with the analysis of Early Bronze Age artefacts from southern England (especially Wiltshire), and Scotland (especially Aberdeenshire) from a visual culture perspective. It aims to re-invigorate the relatively dry typological analysis by considering the visual and material components of Bronze Age artefacts. This project will be published in book form by Oxford University Press, projected completion date 2010/2011.

East Devon Pebble Beds: in collaboration with Professor Chris Tilley (UCL) this project investigates a remarkable Bronze Age landscape associated with the Bunter beds of East Devon. The project comprises excavation, field survey and archive analysis. Project initiated in 2008.

Rock art in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland: this project ran from 2001-2007. It investigated the important rock art landscape of Kilmartin, Argyll. A critical feature of this project was excavation around the rock art sites of Torbhlaren and Ormaig. Torbhlaren in particular revealed the first evidence for the construction of monuments (a stone and clay platform) in close association with rock art sites. The project is now in the final stages of post-excavation analysis, and publication.

Cuween-Wideford landscape project, Orkney: in collaboration with Dr. Richard Jones (Glasgow), Dr. Colin Richards (Manchester) and Jane Downes (Orkney college) I am involved in the investigation of this important Neolithic landscape in Orkney. My role in the project is the analysis and publication of the ceramic assemblages from Crossiecrown and Wideford Meadow. Excavation of sites occurred in the mid-1990s, post-excavation analysis is near completion.

Email: amj@soton.ac.uk

Principal Publications:

Books

2002 Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

2002 Colouring the past: the significance of colour in archaeological research (edited with G. MacGregor). Berg. Oxford.

2007. Memory and Material Culture. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

In Press. Ed. Prehistoric Europe: theory and practice. Blackwell Global Archaeologies. Blackwell. Oxford. To be published April 2008.

Papers

2006

Animated Images: images, agency and landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, Journal of Material Culture 11 (No 1/2), 211-225.

2005

Natural Histories and Social Identities in Neolithic Orkney, in Casella, E.C. and Fowler, C. (eds.) Beyond Identification: The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities. Kluwer/Plenum. New York, 233-259.

Between a rock and a hard place: rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland, in Cummings, V. and Pannett, A. (eds.) Set in Stone: New Approaches to Neolithic Monuments in Scotland. Oxbow. Oxford, 107-117.

Matter and memory: colour, remembrance and the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition, in DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C. and Renfrew, C. (eds.) Rethinking materiality: the engagement of mind with the material world. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge.

2004

By way of Illustration: art, memory and materiality in the Irish Sea region and beyond, in Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. (eds.) The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice. Oxbow. Oxford, 174-185.

Archaeometry and Materiality: materials based analysis in theory and practice, Archaeometry 46 (3), 327-338.

2003

Sailing through stone: carved ships and the rock face at Revheim, south-west Norway, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 12-26. (With R. Bradley, L. Nordenborg-Myhre and H. Sackett.)

Technologies of Remembrance: memory, materiality and identity in Early Bronze Age Scotland, in Williams, H (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance: death and memory in past societies. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New York, 65-88.

Animals into Ancestors: domestication, food and identity in Late Neolithic Orkney (with C. Richards) in Parker-Pearson, M. (ed.) Food and identity in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Sheffield University Press. Sheffield.

2001

Drawn from memory: the aesthetics of archaeology and the archaeology of aesthetics in the Earlier Bronze Age and the present. World Archaeology 33, 334-356.

Enduring Images? : Image production and memory in Earlier Bronze Age Scotland, in Brück, J (ed.) Bronze Age landscapes: tradition and transformation. Oxbow. Oxford, 217-228.

2000

Life after Death: Monuments, material culture and social change in Neolithic Orkney, in Ritchie, A (ed.) Neolithic Orkney in its European Context. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge.

1999

The World on a Plate: ceramics, food technology and cosmology in Neolithic Orkney, World Archaeology Vol. 31 (1), June 1999, 55-77.

Local Colour: megalithic architecture and colour symbolism in Neolithic Arran, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 18, no. 4, November 1999, 339-350.

1998

Where Eagles Dare: Landscape, Animals and the Neolithic of Orkney, Journal of Material Culture 3 (3) November 1998, 301-325.

Teaching responsibilities for Dr Andrew Jones

Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
Archaeological Theory	ARCH2013	Archaeology	Course leader
Interpreting Archaeological Art	ARCH6032	Archaeology	Course leader
Neolithic Britain	ARCH3008	Archaeology	Course leader
Intellectual Methodologies	ARCH6090	Archaeology	Tutor
Intoduction to European Prehistory	ARCH2004	Archaeology	Tutor
Social Archaeology	ARCH6091	Archaeology	Tutor

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Jones, Andrew M. (2010) Layers of meaning: concealment, containment, memory and secrecy in the British Early Bronze Age. In, Boric, Dusan (ed.) Archaeology and Memory. Oxford, GB, Oxbow, 105-120.
	Jones, Andy. (2009) Into the future. In, Cunliffe, Barry., Gosden, Chris. and Joyce, Rosemary A. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press.
	Jones, Andrew M. (ed.) (2008) Prehistoric Europe: theory and practice, Oxford, GB, Wiley-Blackwell, 400pp.
	Jones, Andrew M. (2008) How the dead live: mortuary practices, memory and the ancestors in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. In, Pollard, Joshua (ed.) Prehistoric Britain. Oxford, GB, Blackwell. (Blackwell studies in global archaeology 11).
	Jones, Andrew (2007) Memory and Material Culture, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 276pp. (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology)
	Jones, Andy (2006) Animated images: images, agency and landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland. Journal of Material Culture, Vol. 11, (No. 1/2), 211-225. (doi:10.1177/1359183506063023)
	Jones, A.M. (2005) Between a rock and a hard place: rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland. In, Cummings, Victoria and Pannett, Amelia (eds.) Set in Stone: New approaches to neolithic monuments in Scotland. Oxford, UK, Oxbow, 107-117.
	Jones, Andrew M. (2005) The Grooved Ware from Barnhouse. In, Richards, Colin (ed.) Dwelling among the Monuments: an examination of the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney. Cambridge, UK, McDonald Institute, 261-281.(McDonald Institute Monograph Series).
	Jones, Andrew M. and Richards, Colin (2005) Living in Barnhouse. In, Richards, Colin (ed.) Dwelling among the monuments: an examination of the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney. Cambridge, UK, McDonald Institute, 23-52.(McDonald Institute Monograph Series).
	Jones, Andrew M., Jones, Richard and Cole, W.J. (2005) Organic residue analysis of Grooved Ware from Banhouse. In, Richards, Colin (ed.) Dwelling among the monuments: an examination of the neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monumnets at Stenness, Orkney. Cambridge, UK, McDonald Institute, 283-289.(McDonald Institute Monograph Series).
	Jones, Andrew M. (2005) By way of illustration: art, memory and materiality in the Irish Sea region and beyond. In, Cummings, Victoria and Fowler, Chris (eds.) The neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice. Neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice Oxford, UK, Oxbow, 174-185.(Cardiff Studies in Archaeology).
	Jones, A.M. (2005) Lives in Fragments? Personhood and the European Neolithic. Journal of Social Archaeology, 5, (2), 193-224. (doi:10.1177/1469605305053367)
	Jones, Andrew (2005) Natural Histories and Social Identities in Neolithic Orkney. In, Casella, Eleanor Conlin and Fowler, Chris (eds.) The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities. Beyond Identification. London, UK, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 233-259.
	Zakrzewski, S., Bernal, J. and Jones, A. (2004) Diversity within Orkney Islands Neolithic human skeletal material: what does it mean? In, Zakrzewski, S. and Clegg, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Oxford, Uk, Archaeopress. (BAR International Series BAR S1383 2005).
	Jones, A. (2004) Archaeometry and materiality: materials based analysis in theory and practice. Archaeometry, 46, (3), 327-338. (doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2004.00161.x)
	Jones, Andrew (2004) Matter and memory: colour, remembrance and the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition. In, DeMarrais, Elizabeth, Gosden, Chris and Renfrew, Colin (eds.) Rethinking materiality: the engagement of mind with the material world. Cambridge, UK, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 167-178.
	Jones, Andrew M. (2003) Technologies of remembrance: memory, materiality and identity in Early Bronze Age Scotland. In, Williams, Howard (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance: Death and Memory in Past Societies. Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference New York, USA, Kluwer/Plenum Press, 65-88.
	Jones, Andrew M. and Richards, Colin (2003) Animals into Ancestors: domestication, food and identity in Late neolithic Orkney. In, Parker-Pearson, M. (ed.) Food, Culture and Identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Oxford, UK, Archaeopress, 45-52.(British Archaeologia Reports International Series 117).
	Jones, Andrew M. (2003) From the perception of archaeology to the anthropology of perception: an interview with Tim Ingold. Journal of Social Archaeology, 3, (1), 5-22.
	Bradley, Richard, Jones, Andrew M., Nordenborg-Myhre, Lise and Sackett, Hannah (2003) Sailing through Stone: Carved Ships and the Rock Face at Revheim, Southwest Norway. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 35, (2), 109-118. (doi:10.1080/002936502762389738)
	Jones, Andrew and MacGregor, Gavin (2002) Introduction. Wonderful things: colour studies in archaeology from Munsell to materiality. In, Jones, Andrew and MacGregor, Gavin (eds.) Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research. Oxford, UK, Berg, 1-21.
	Jones, Andrew (2002) Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 222pp. (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology, 1)
	Jones, Andrew (2002) A Biography of colour: colour, material histories and personhood in the Early Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland. In, Jones, Andrew and MacGregor, Gavin (eds.) Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research. Oxford, UK, Berg, 159-174.
	Jones, Andrew and MacGregor, Gavin (eds.) (2002) Colouring the past: the significance of colour in archaeological research, Oxford, UK, Berg, 224pp.
	Cummings, Victoria, Jones, Andrew M. and Watson, Aaron (2002) In-between places: axial symmetry and divided space in the monuments of the Black Mountains, south-west Wales. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 12, (1), 57-70. (doi:10.1017/S0959774302000033)