Christopher John Scarre

CURRICULUM VITAE
Christopher John Scarre
Contact address:
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
Email:
[email protected]
Employment history
2006-
Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
1994-2005
Deputy Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
Cambridge, and Editor of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal
1990-1994
Assistant Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
Cambridge, and Editor of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal
1986-1990
Research Assistant to Professor Lord Renfrew, Master of Jesus
College, Cambridge
1976-1978
Department of the Environment, London: Ancient Monuments
Secretariat
Qualifications & experience
BA, Cambridge: Archaeology & Anthropology (1976); PhD (1982): thesis
“Settlement Patterns and Landscape Change in Later Prehistoric West-Central
France”
Founder-editor of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal and the McDonald Institute
Monograph series
Archaeological fieldwork in Britain, France and Greece: director of excavations in
France; author of research papers and monographs on European prehistory; field
survey in India (Surat)
Principal Research Interests and Fieldwork
Research themes
a) landscape and coastal change in Atlantic Europe
b) origins, morphology and significance of the Neolithic monuments of western
Europe
c) early European trading contact in western India: the indigenous context and
material remains of Dutch and British factories and cemeteries of the 17th and 18th
centuries AD in Gujarat and adjacent regions
d) human social and cognitive development from the Palaeolithic to the present day
Archaeological field projects
1980-82
Bougon, France (cemetery of megalithic tombs) (with Jean-Pierre
Mohen)
1984-88
La Mastine and Pied-Lizet, France (Neolithic enclosures and
palaeoenvironmental investigations) (with Serge Cassen and Frédéric
Bouin)
1987-90
Markiani, Amorgos and Keros, Greece: directed by Professor Lord
Renfrew (Early Bronze Age settlement and cemetery)
1995-2004
Prissé-la-Charrière: (Neolithic burial mound) (with Luc
Laporte & Roger Joussaume)
(see www-mcdonald.arch.cam.ac.uk/Projects/Prisse/index.htm)
2000
English cemetery at Surat, western India: field survey and recording
International Lectures
Cotsen Institute Public Lecture, Cotsen Institute UCLA (February 2001)
Taft Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati (April 2003)
Recent conference presentations
European Association of Archaeologists: Thessaloniki 2002, Lyon 2004
‘Sinais de Pedra’, Evora (Portugal) January 2003
‘Rethinking Materiality’, Cambridge, March 2003
6th Intensive Programme on European Prehistoric Art, Tomar (Portugal) April 2003
SAA conference, Montreal, April 2004
Megalithic workshop, Göteborg, 17-19 May 2004
Neolithic Studies Group meeting ‘I see no ships: What evidence for cross-channel
connections in the Neolithic?’ London, 8 November 2004
Artrisk Seminar, Mação (Portugal), 18-19 March 2005
‘Going Over’, Cardiff, May 2005
Membership of Archaeological Societies
Member of the Prehistoric Society, Society for American Archaeology, Société
Préhistorique Française, the Archaeological Institute of America, the European
Association of Archaeologists & the Society for Roman Studies; Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
Key publications
2005
Les Monuments Mégalithiques de la Grande Bretagne et d’Irlande. Paris:
Errance.
2005
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human
Societies (edited). London: Thames & Hudson.
2005
The English cemetery at Surat: pre-colonial cultural encounters in western
India (with Judith Roberts). The Antiquaries Journal 85, 250-291.
2004
Displaying the stones: the materiality of 'megalithic' monuments, in
Rethinking Materiality. The engagement of mind with the material world
(eds. Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden & Colin Renfrew). Cambridge:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 141-152.
2003
Long mounds and megalithic origins in western France: recent excavations
at Prissé-la-Charrière (with Luc Laporte & Roger Joussaume). Proceedings
of the Prehistoric Society 67, 235-251.
2002
Les Tumulus de Bougon (Deux-Sèvres): complexe mégalithique du Ve et IVe
millénaire (with Jean-Pierre Mohen). Paris: Errance.
2002
Le tumulus C de Péré à Prissé-la-Charrière (79). Etat des recherches après 6
années d’intervention (with Luc Laporte & Roger Joussaume). Gallia
Préhistoire 44 167-214.
2002
Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe (edited). London: Routledge.
2002
A pattern of islands: the Neolithic monuments of north-west Brittany.
European Journal of Archaeology 5, 24-41.