Staff Profile:Dr John Creighton

Name:

Dr John Creighton

Job Title:

Senior Lecturer in Archaeology

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Imagery and the negotiation of power
• Coinage and commodification
• Urban landscapes and social memory
• Postgraduate supervision

John is happy to discuss proposals for postgraduate research in any area of Iron Age or Roman studies, particularly areas involving aspects of coinage, economy, urban development, landscape survey and geophysical prospection. For further information, please contact Dr Creighton.

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Key Facts:

Dr. John Creighton's research centres upon Later Iron Age and Early Roman NW Europe. His books include: 'Britannia: the creation of a Roman Province' (2005); 'Coins & Power in Late Iron Age Britain' (2000), Celti: the archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica (with Simon Keay and Jose Remesal, 2001), and he has co-edited the volume Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction (1999).

His fieldwork has included work in Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Presently he is completing a project, with Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore, examining the landscape in the vicinity of the Iron Age oppidum of Mont Beuvray (Bibract) and the Roman town of Autun in Burgundy and a large fieldsurvey and digitisation project of the Roman town and hinterland of Silchester (Hampshire).

John was seconded from 2005-10 to direct the University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, in a project enhancing linkage between teaching and research, both at Reading and across the HE sector. He initiated the University's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme.

He is currently the Director the Society of Antiquaries of London and has been a trustee of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and has sat on the grant awarding committees of all those organisations.

Research Projects:

• Arroux Valley (Burgundy)
• Sources de l'Yonne
• Silchester mapping project
• Money and society
• Urbanism in Spain (1987-93)

Teaching:

On sabbatical 2010-11

Publications:

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Number of items: 14.

2011

• Creighton, J. (2011) Atzbach geophysical survey and excavation. In: von Abegg, A., Walter, D. and Biegert, S. (eds.) Die Germanen und der Limes: Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld des Wetterau-Limes im Raum Wetzlar-Gießen. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen (67). Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 240-243. ISBN 9783805343855
• Creighton, J. (2011) Krofdorf geophysical survey. In: von Abegg, A., Walter, D. and Biegert, . (eds.) Die Germanen und der Limes: Ausgrabungen im Vorfeld des Wetterau-Limes im Raum Wetzlar-Gießen. Römisch-Germanische Forschungen (67). Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 205-206. ISBN 9783805343855
• Phillips, T. J. and Creighton, J. (2011) Employing people with disability: good practice guidance for archaeologists. IFA Professional Paper (9). Institute for Archaeologists, Reading. (In Press)
• John, J. and Creighton, J. (2011) Researcher development: the impact of undergraduate research opportunity programmes on students in the UK. Studies in Higher Education. ISSN 0307-5079 (In Press)

2009

• Creighton, J. (2009) Herod's contemporaries in Britain and the West. In: Jacobson, D.M. and Kokkinos, N. (eds.) Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference 21st-23rd June 2005. Studies in Judea (6). Institute of Jewish Studies, London, pp. 361-381.

2008

• Creighton, J., Haselgrove, C., Lowether, P. and Moore, T. (2008) Becoming Roman in southern Burgundy: A field survey between Autun and Bibracte in the Arroux Valley (Saône-et-Loire), 2000-2003. Internet Archaeology, 25.
• Creighton, J. and Moore, T. (2008) Sondages au site des Sources de l'Yonne, commune de Glux-en-Glenne. In: UNSPECIFIED Rapport Annuel d'Activité 2007. Centre archéologique européen du Mont Beuvray, Glux-en-Glenne, pp210.

2007

• Creighton, J., Haupt, P., Klenner, I., Moore, T., Nouvel, P., Christophe, P. and Schönfelder, M. (2007) Prospectiones autor de Bibracte : Nouvelles méthodes et nouveaux résultats. Association Francaise pur l'Etude de l'Age du Fer, Bulletin, 25. pp. 17-20.
• Creighton, J., Haupt, P., Klenner, I., Moore, T. and Schönfelder, M. (2007) Site des sources de l'Yonne, commune du Glux-en-Glenne. In: Bibracte: Rapport Annuel d'Activite 2006. Centre archéologique européen, Glux-en Glenne, pp. 192-199.

2006

• Creighton, J. (2006) Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province. Routledge, Abingdon, pp180.
• Williams, M. and Creighton, J. (2006) Shamanic practices and trance imagery in the Iron Age. In: de Jersey, P. (ed.) Celtic Coinage: new discoveries, new discussions. BAR International Series, Oxford, pp. 49-60.

2005

• Creighton, J. (2005) Cattle, community and corrals. Archaeological Dialogues, 12 (2). pp. 132-135. ISSN 1478-2294
• Creighton, J. (2005) Gold, ritual and kingship. In: Wigg-Wolf, D. and Haselgrove, C.C. (eds.) Iron Age Coinage and Ritual Practices. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, pp. 69-84.
• Creighton, J. (2005) Links between the classical imagery in post-Caesarian Belgica and the rest of the Roman world. In: Metzler, J. and Wigg, D. (eds.) Die Kelten und Rom: neue numismatische Forschungen. Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike (SFMA) (19). Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur , Mainz-am-Rhein, pp. 87-108.

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Other Publications

John Creighton (2011) Review of 'Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British' by S. Trow, S. James and T. Moore. In Britannia, volume 42, pp 491-492. doi: 10.1017/S0068113X11000328

Creighton, J. (2000) Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge University Press, 249pp

Keay, S. Creighton, J. & Remesal, J. (2000) Celti. The Archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica. Survey and Excavations 1987-1992. Oxbow Books: Oxford.254pp

Creighton, J. & Wilson, R.J.A. (Eds.) (1999) Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 32: Portsmouth, Rhode Island. 248pp

Qualifications:

BA PhD (Durham) FSA