Archaeologists and the Dead
Edited by Howard Williams and Melanie Giles
Author Information
Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester. His research interests focus on medieval, post-medieval, and contemporary mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory, and the history of archaeology. His fieldwork includes Project Eliseg, investigating the context of the Pillar of Eliseg (Denbighshire, Wales). Howard has published over 70 book chapters and journal articles as well as edited books, most recently Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape and he is Honorary Editor of the Archaeological Journal (2013-2017). His monograph is titled Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain.
Melanie Giles in an expert in the British and northern European Iron Age, specializing in funerary archaeology as well as Celtic art and artifacts. She is the author of A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age and the forthcoming Bog Bodies: Face-to-Face with the Past.
Contributors:
Sian Anthony, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Lund, Sweden
Martin Brown, WYG Environment Planning Transport Ltd, Leeds, UK
Jessica I. Cerézo-Roman, College Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Karen Exell, UCL Qatar (Doha), University College London
Melanie Giles, Archaeology, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK
Lynne Goldstein, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA
Ben Jeffs, CEO, Blackfreighter Archaeology and Conservation, UK and USA
Tiffany Jenkins, Independent Scholar, Edinburgh, UK
Trevor Kirk, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Chester, Chester, UK
John McClelland, Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, USA
Liv Nilsson Stutz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Nina Nordström, Senior Researcher, Institute of Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
Andrew Pearson, Pearson Archaeology Ltd and Research Associate, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bristol University, UK
Ulla Rajala, Postdoctoral Researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
William Rathouse, Doctoral Candidate, University of Wales Trinity St Davids, Lampeter, Wales, UK
Duncan Sayer, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Forensic and Investigative Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Faye Sayer, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Hedley Swain, Area Director South East, Arts Council England
Sarah Tatham, Interpretation Officer, English Heritage, UK
Tony Walter, Professor of Death Studies, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath,
UK
Estella Weiss-Krejci, University Dozent, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Howard Williams, Professor of Archaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Chester, Chester, UK
