Professor David Wheatley

Professor and Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Humanities

David Wheatley is a Professor of Archaeology and Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton.

I completed my BSc in Archaeology from University College Cardiff 1988, my MSc in Archaeology Computing at Southampton 1988/9, and my PhD in Archaeological Applications of GIS with Case Studies in Neolithic Wessex at Southampton in 1994.

I was co-director of Negotiating Avebury Project (1999-2004) with Josh Pollard and Mark Gillings. I am a member of the AHRC peer-review college, peer review panel of CAA, Advisory board of MENGA, the Journal of Andalucian Prehistory and SPAL, and the Archaeological Journal of the University of Seville.

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Research interests

My research interests lie in the later Prehistory of western Europe from the beginnings of farming to the emergence of ‘state like' polities in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages, and in the application of spatial methods and technologies to Archaeology.

Research group

Archaeological Computing

Affiliate research group

Archaeological Prospection Service of Southampton (APSS)

Research project(s)

Late Bronze Age Warrior stelae project

This project, conducted by Dr David Wheatley (Southampton), Dr Leo Garcia Sanjuan (University of Seville) and Dr Marta Diaz Guardamino-Uribe (CSIC) is studying the spatial patterning and archaeological contexts of the ‘South western' group of late bronze age carved stelae from Iberia.

Promoting digital solutions to rock and cave art research

This 18 month project (2014-2015), funded by a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, aims to advance rock art research through the application of state-of-the-art imaging technologies.

IBERENCLOGIS

IBERENCLOGIS will investigate southern Iberian Ditched Enclosures sites of the fourth millennium BC. The project aims to establish whether different walled and ditched sites may have similar or different functions or meanings, and how Iberian enclosures relate to other traditions of monumental enclosure construction in other parts of Europe. It is conducted by Dr David Wheatley and Dr Victor Jiminez Jaimez.

Ancestral Images in Iberian Landscapes

This two-year (2011-2013) research project, which is being conducted by Dr. Marta Díaz-Guardamino and Dr. David Wheatley, is aimed at exploring the role of visual representations of people and/or things in monumental free-standing stones (‘stelae and statue-menhirs') and the ‘places' where they were located in the crafting of collective memories, identities and territories during the Bronze Age (ca. 2200-900/850 AC) in the Iberian Peninsula applying computer techniques, i.e. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D Laser Scanning and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI).

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Articles

García Sanjuán, L., Vargas Jiménez, J. M., Cáceres Puro, L., Costa Caramé, M. E., Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, M., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., ... Whittle, A. (2018). Assembling the dead, gathering the living: radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling for Copper Age Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla, Spain). Journal of World Prehistory, 31(2), 179-313. DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-9114-2
García Sanjuán, L., Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, M., Wheatley, D., Vita Barra, J-P., Lozano Rodríguez, J. A., Rogerio-Candelera, M. Á., ... Casado Arize, M. (2017). The epigraphic stela of Montoro (Córdoba, Spain): earliest monumental script in Iberia? Antiquity, 91(358), 916-932. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.86
García Sanjuán, L., Scarre, C., & Wheatley, D. W. (2017). The Mega-Site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain):: Debating settlement form, monumentality and aggregation in Southern Iberian Copper Age societies. Journal of World Prehistory, 30(3), 239-257. DOI: 10.1007/s10963-017-9107-6
García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Mora Molina, C., Sánchez Liranzo, O., & Strutt, K. (2015). Evidence of Neolithic activity at La Peña de los Enamorados (Antequera, Málaga): intensive surface survey, geophysics and geoarchaeology at the site of Piedras Blancas I. MENGA. Journal of Andalusian Prehistory, 6, 211-251.
Diaz-Guardamino, M., Garcia Sanjuan, L., Wheatley, D., & Rodríguez Zamora, V. (2015). RTI and the study of engraved rock art: a re-examination of the Iberian Late Bronze Age stelae of Setefilla and Almadén de la Plata 2. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 1-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.daach.2015.07.002
Rogerio-Candelera, M. Á., Herrera, L. K., Miller, A. Z., García Sanjuan, L., Mora Molina, C., Wheatley, D. W., ... Saiz-Jimenez, C. (2013). Allochthonous red pigments used in burial practices at the Copper Age site of Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla, Spain): characterisation and social dimension. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40(1). DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.004
Garcia Sanjuan, L., Luciañez Triviño, M., Schuhmacher, T., Wheatley, D., & Banerjee, A. (2013). Ivory craftsmanship, trade and social significance in the southern Iberian Copper Age: the evidence from the PP4? Montelirio sector of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain). European Journal of Archaeology. DOI: 10.1179/1461957113Y.0000000037
Diaz-Guardamino, M., & Wheatley, D. (2013). Rock art and digital technologies: the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and 3D laser scanning to the study of Late Bronze Age Iberian stelae. MENGA. Journal of Andalusian Prehistory, 4, 187-203.
Wheatley, D., Strutt, K., García Sanjuán, L., Peinado Cucarella, J., & Mora Molina, C. (2012). New evidence on the spatial organisation of the Valencina de la Concepción Copper Age settlement: the geophysics between La Pastora and Montelirio. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 69(1), 65-79.
Murrieta Flores, P., Wheatley, D., Strutt, K. D., Mas Florit, C., & Cau Ontiveros, M. A. (2012). Prospección geofísica en la basílica de Cap des Port, Fornells (Mercadal, Menorca): resultados preliminares. Revista de Menorca: L'Institut Menorquí d'Estudis, 91, 59-82.
Wheatley, D. (2011). High dynamic range imaging for archaeological recording. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 18(3), 256-271. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-010-9100-1
Paliou, E., Wheatley, D., & Earl, G. (2011). Three-dimensional visibility analysis of architectural spaces: iconography and visibility of the wall paintings of Xeste 3 (Late Bronze Age Akrotiri). Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(2), 375-386. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.016
Wheatley, D., García Sanjuán, L., Murrieta Flores, P., & Márquez Pérez, J. (2010). Approaching the landscape dimension of the megalithic phenomenon in Southern Spain. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 29(4), 387-405. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2010.00354.x
Costa Caramé, M. E., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., García Sanjuán, L., & Wheatley, D. W. (2010). The copper age settlement of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain): demography, metallurgy and spatial organization. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 67(1), 85-117. DOI: 10.3989/tp.2010.10032
Forteza González, M., García Sanjuán, L., Hernández Arnedo, M. J., Salguero Palma, J., & Wheatley, D. W. (2008). El cuarzo como material votivo y arquitectónico en el complejo funerario megalítico de Palacio III (Almadén de la Plata, Sevilla): Análisis contextual y mineralógico. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 65(2), 137-150. DOI: 10.3989/tp.2008.08008
Cripps, P., Earl, G., & Wheatley, D. (2006). A dwelling place in bits. Journal of Iberian Archaeology, 8, 25-39.
García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Fábrega Álvarez, P., Hernández Arnedo, M. J., & Polvorinos del Río, Á. (2006). Las estelas de guerrero de Almadén de la Plata (Sevilla). Morfología, tecnología y contexto. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 63(2), 135-152.
Barker, D. S., Strutt, K. D., & Wheatley, D. W. (2006). Summary of the archaeological survey and excavation at Tidgrove Warren Farm, Hampshire, 7th August – 27th September 2005. British Archaeology, April 2006, 16-18.
Wheatley, D. (2004). Making space for an archaeology of place. Internet Archaeology, 15.
García Sanjuán, L., Rivera Jiménez, T., & Wheatley, D. (2003). Prospección de superficie y documentación gráfica en el Dolmen del Llano de la Belleza (Aroche, Huelva). Anuario Arqueológico De Andalucía, 2003, 181-192.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., Peterson, R., & Wheatley, D. (2002). An avenue, a cove and an enclosure: further fieldwork at Beckhampton, near Avebury. PAST, 41, 6-8.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., & Wheatley, D. (2002). Excavations at the Beckhampton Enclosure, Avenue and Cove, Avebury: an interim report on the 2000 season. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 95, 249-258.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., & Wheatley, D. W. (2002). Excavations at the Beckhampton Enclosure, Avenue and Cove, Avebury: an interim report on the 2000 season. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 95, 249-258.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., & Wheatley, D. (2000). Avebury and the Beckhampton Avenue. Current Archaeology, 167, 428-433.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., & Wheatley, D. (2000). The Beckhampton Avenue and a ‘new’ Neolithic enclosure near Avebury: an interim report on the 1999 excavations. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 93, 1-8.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., & Wheatley, D. (2000). The Rev. William Stukeley’s lost megalithic avenue. PAST, 34, 8-9.
Pollard, J., Gillings, M., & Wheatley, D. (1999). Pulling back the covers on sleeping stones: recent excavations on the Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury. Lithics, 20, 31-32.

Books

Diaz-Guardamino, M., Garcia Sanjuan, L., & Wheatley, D. (Eds.) (2015). The lives of prehistoric monuments in Iron Age, Roman and medieval Europe. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Gillings, M., Pollard, J., Wheatley, D., & Peterson, R. (2008). Landscape of the Megaliths: excavation and fieldwork on the Avebury monuments, 1997-2003. Oxford, GB: Oxbow books.
Wheatley, D., Earl, G., & Poppy, S. (Eds.) (2002). Contemporary themes in archaeological computing. (University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph; No. 3). Oxford, UK: Oxbow books.
García Sanjuán, L., & Wheatley, D. W. (Eds.) (2002). Mapping the future of the past : managing the spatial dimension of the European archaeological resource. (Historia y Geografía; Vol. 78). Sevilla, Spain: Universidad de Sevilla.
Wheatley, D., & Gillings, M. (2002). Spatial technology and archaeology: the archaeological applications of GIS. London, UK: Taylor & Francis.

Book Chapters

Wheatley, D., Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, M., & Williams, E. (2016). Los textiles elaborados con cuentas perforadas de Montelirio. In A. Fernandez Flores, L. Garcia Sanjuan, & M. Diaz-Zorita Bonilla (Eds.), Montelirio: Un gran monument megalítico de la Edad del Cobre (pp. 345-364). Arqueología Monografías.
Diaz-Guardamino, M., Garcia Sanjuan, L., & Wheatley, D. (2015). La estela de Almargen (Almargen, Málaga): una nueva valoración en el contexto de las estelas del suroeste de Andalucía". In Actas del III Congreso de Prehistoria de Andalucía (Antequera, 22-24 de octubre de 2014). Conjunto Arqueológico Dólmenes de Antequera.
Wheatley, D. (2015). Myth, Memento, and Memory: Avebury (Wiltshire, England). In M. Díaz-Guardamino, L. García Sanjuán, & D. Wheatley (Eds.), The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe (pp. 99-118). Oxfordshire, County of, GB: Oxford University Press.
Diaz-Guardamino, M., Garcia Sanjuan, L., & Wheatley, D. (2015). The lives of prehistoric monuments in Europe: an introduction. In M. Diaz-Guardamino, L. Garcia Sanjuan, & D. Wheatley (Eds.), The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Wheatley, D. (2012). Connecting landscapes with built environments: visibility analysis, scale and the senses. In E. Paliou, U. Lieberwirth, & S. Polla (Eds.), Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Interpretation of Historic and Prehistoric Built Environments (Topoi Berlin Studies of the Ancient World / Berliner Studien der Alten Welt). Berlin, DE: De Gruyter.
García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., & Scarre, C. (2012). Exploring time and matter in prehistoric monuments: absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths. In Menga [Journal of Andalusian Prehistory] (pp. 11-24). (Menga Monograph Series; No. 1). Andalucía, ES: Consejeria de Cultura.
García Sanjuán, L., & Wheatley, D. (2010). Natural substances, landscape forms, symbols and funerary monuments: elements of cultural memory among the Neolithic and Copper Age societies of Southern Spain. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe Oxford, GB: Oxbow books.
Wheatley, D. W., & García Sanjuán, L. (2009). El marco territorial de los dólmenes de antequera: valoración preliminar de las primeras investigaciones. In Dólmenes de Antequera. Tutela y valorización hoy. (PH Cuadernos; No. 23). Sevilla, ES: Junta de Andalucía Consejería de Cultura.
García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D. W., Murrieta Flores, P., & Márquez Pérez, J. (2009). Los sig y el análisis espacial en arqueología. Aplicaciones en la prehistoria reciente del sur de España. In X. Nieto, & M. Angel Cau (Eds.), Arqueologia Nàutica Mediterrània (pp. 163-178). (Monografies del CASC; No. 8). Barcelona, ES: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya.
Murrieta Flores, P. A., Wheatley, D. W., & García Sanjuán, L. (2009). Movilidad y vías de paso en los paisajes prehistóricos: megalitos y vías pecuarias en Almadén de la Plata (Sevilla, España). In Actas del V Simposio Internacional de Arqueología de Mérida. Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Análisis Arqueológico del Territorio,
Murrieta Flores, P. A., & Wheatley, D. W. (2008). Grandes piedras en un mundo cambiante: los monumentos megalíticos en sus paisajes. In Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (pp. 24-33). (PH Boletín del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico; No. 67). Seville, Spain: Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico.
García Sanjuan, L., Metcalfe-Wood, S., Rivera Jiménez, T., & Wheatley, D. W. (2006). Análisis de pautas de visibilidad en la distribución de monumentos megalítos de Sierra Morena occidental. In I. Grau Mira (Ed.), La aplicación de los SIG en la arqueología del paisaje Alicante, Spain: Universidad de Alicante.
Gillings, M., & Wheatley, D. (2005). Geographic Information Systems. In H. D. G. Maschner, & C. Chippindale (Eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Methods Lanham, USA: AltaMira Press.
García-Sanjuán, L., & Wheatley, D. W. (2002). Managing the spatial dimension of the European Archaelogical Resource. Trends and perspectives. In L. García-Sanjuán, & D. W. Wheatley (Eds.), Mapping the future of the past : managing the spatial dimension of the European archaeological resource (pp. 151-166). (Series Historia y Geografía; No. 78). Sevilla, Spain: Universidad de Sevilla.
Earl, G., & Wheatley, D. (2002). Virtual reconstruction and the interpretative process: a case-study from Avebury. In D. Wheatley, G. Earl, & S. Poppy (Eds.), Contemporary Themes in Archaeological Computing (pp. 5-15). Oxford, UK: Oxbow books.
Keay, S., & Wheatley, D. W. (2001). Fortifications in the lower Guadalquivir during the Turdetanian and Roman periods. In F. Amores (Ed.), Fortificaciones Entorno del Bajo Guadalquivir (pp. 81-107). (Congreso Internacional. Alcalà de Guadaira). Sevilla, ES: Universidad de Sevilla/Ayuntamiento de Alcalà de Guadaira.
Gillings, M., & Wheatley, D. (2001). Seeing is not believing: unresolved issues in archaeological visibility analysis. In B. Slapšak (Ed.), On the good use of geographical information systems in archaeological landscape studies (pp. 25-36). Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
Keay, S., Wheatley, D. W., & Poppy, S. (2001). The territory of Carmona during the Turdetanian and Roman periods: some preliminary notes about visibility and urban location. In A. Caballos (Ed.), Carmona Romana (pp. 397-412). (II Congreso de Historia de Carmona). Sevilla, ES: Universidad de Sevilla.
Wheatley, D. W., & Gillings, M. (2000). Visual perception and GIS: developing enriched approaches to the study of archaeological visibility. In G. Lock (Ed.), Beyond the map: Archaeology and Spatial Technologies (pp. 29pp). (NATO Science Series: Life Sciences; Vol. 321). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.

Conferences

Wheatley, D. (2014). Connecting landscapes with built environments:visibility analysis, scale and the senses. In E. Paliou, U. Lieberwirth, & S. Polla (Eds.), Spatial analysis and social spaces: interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historic built environments (pp. 115-134). (TOPOI Berlin Studies of the Ancient World; No. 18). De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110266436
Odriozola, C. P., García Sanjuán, L., Dias, M. I., & Wheatley, D. W. (2009). A preliminary approach from material science to copper age funerary pottery in southern Iberia: the Palacio III (Sevilla, Spain) Tholos tomb. In Vessels: Inside and Outside. Proceedings of the Conference EMAC '07 9th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (pp. 111-117). Budapest, HU: Hungarian National Museum.
Garcia Sanjuan, L., & Wheatley, D. (2006). Recent investigations of the megalithic landscapes of Seville province, Andalusia: Dolmen de Palacio III. In R. Joussaume, L. Laporte, & C. Scarre (Eds.), Origine et Développement du Mégalithisme de L’ouest de L’Europe. Actes du Colloque International, 26-30 Octobre 2002, Bougon, France (pp. 473-484). Niort, France: Conseil Général des Deux-Sèvres.
Llobera, M., Wheatley, D. W., Steele, T. J. M., Cox, S., & Parchment, O. (2004). Calculating the inherent visual structure of a landscape ('total viewshed') using high-throughput computing. Paper presented at XXXII International Conference - Computer Applications in Archaeology 2004 - Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Beyond the Artifact: Digital Interpretation of the Past, .

ARCH1009: Remains of the past: introduction to archaeological materials (co-ordinator)
ARCH2013: Approaching the past: trends in archaeological theory (instructor)
ARCH2029: Digging into data: quantitative analysis for archaeology (instructor)
ARCH6083: Archaeological mapping with GIS (instructor)
ARCH6116: Advanced GIS and Spatial Technologies for Archaeological Landscapes (instructor)

PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the application of computational or spatial approaches to any area of prehistory, but particularly to the later prehistory of western Europe.

I currently supervise PhD students in exploring:

Perceptual Analysis of Visuospatial Approaches to Landscape Archaeology
Exploring the development of ‘southern Jê' settlement systems in the Interior Atlantic Forest (Misiones, Argentina)
A GIS study of trade routes in the Roman Empire

Professor David Wheatley
Faculty of Art and Humanities, University of Southampton
Avenue Campus, Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom

Room Number: 65A/3023/A3

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