Christopher John Scarre
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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.