Staff Profile:Professor Bob Chapman

Name:

Professor Bob Chapman

Job Title:

Professor in Archaeology

Responsibilities:

Programme Director MA and MRes Archaeology

Areas of Interest:

• The later prehistory of the Mediterranean
• The development of social, political and economic inequalities in human societies
• Marxism and Archaeology
• Archaeological Theory

Postgraduate Supervision:

I am currently involved in the supervision of four research students, covering topics on the re-use of megalithic tombs in later periods (Vejby), the agricultural colonisation and land use of the west Mediterranean (Poggi), trade and interaction in the Ancient Near East (Crossman) and early state societies in Mesopotamia (Beckman).

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Key Facts:

I have excavated on Mallorca, Menorca, and in south-east Spain, where in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona we are currently working on the third monograph of publication of our excavations on the Bronze Age settlement of Gatas in its regional context. Among my other published monographs on the later prehistory of the west Mediterranean are: Emerging Complexity: the later prehistory of S.E. Spain, Iberia and the west Mediterranean and Archaeologies of complexity. I also co-edited The Archaeology of Death.

I am on the editorial boards of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Journal of World Prehistory, Trabajos de Prehistoria and the Menga.Revista de Prehistoria de Andalucía as well as being a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College.

Recently I received a grant from the Leverhulme Trust to support the six-month visit of Professor Alison Wylie to the Department in 2010. This was the beginning of a collaborative project on Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology, which we pursued through a series of departmental seminars and then a workshop of archaeologists, philosophers of science and science studies scholars. We are now preparing a co-authored book and a co-edited volume, both to be completed and submitted to publishers by 2013/2014. Currently I am also preparing a co-organised symposium with Jay Cunningham (University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) on ‘Everywhere and Nowhere: Taking the pulse of Marxism in Archaeology’ for the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Memphis in April 2012.

Publications:

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Number of items: 14.

2010

• Chapman, R. (2010) Downsizers, upgraders, cultural constructors and social producers. In: Alt, S. M. (ed.) Ancient complexities: new perspectives in pre-Columbian North America. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 205-219. ISBN 9781607810261

2009

• Chapman, R. (2009) Working with the dead. In: Sayer, D. and Williams, H. (eds.) Mortuary practices and social identities in the Middle Ages. University of Exeter Press, UK, pp. 23-37. ISBN 9780859898317

2008

• Chapman, R. (2008) Producing Inequalities: Regional Sequences in Later Prehistoric Southern Spain. Journal of World Prehistory, 21 (3-4). pp. 195-260. ISSN 0892-7537

2007

• Chapman, R. (2007) Evolution, complexity and the state. In: Kohring, S. and Wynne-Jones, S. (eds.) Socialising Complexity. Structure, Interaction and Power in Social Discourse. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 13-28. ISBN 9781842172940

2006

• Chapman, R.W. (2006) Alternative states. In: Habu, J., Fawcett, C. and Matsunaga, J. (eds.) Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist and Imperialist Archaeologies: Evaluating Multiple Narratives. UNSPECIFIED.
• Chapman, R. (2006) Middle Woodland/Hopewell. A view from beyond the periphery. In: Charles, D.K. and Buikstra, J.E. (eds.) Recreating Hopewell. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, pp. 510-528.
• Chapman, R.W. and Black, S. (2006) (on the Vera Basin). UNSPECIFIED.

2005

• Chapman, R.W. (2005) Changing social relations in the Mediterranean Copper and Bronze Ages. In: Blake, E. and Knapp, A.B. (eds.) The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 77-101.
• Chapman, R.W. (2005) Food systems, power structures and social differentiation: case studies from the prehistoric Mediterranean. In: Kuijt, I. and Prentiss, W.C. (eds.) Social and Economic Dynamics among New World and Old World Middle-Range Societies: Changing Food Systems and New Power Structures. University of Arizona Press.
• Chapman, R.W. (2005) Mortuary analysis. A matter of time? In: Rakita, G.F.M., Buikstra, J.E., Beck, L.A. and Williams, S.R. (eds.) Interacting with the Dead. Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 25-40.

2003

• Chapman, R.W. (2003) Archaeologies of complexity. Routledge, London.
• Chapman, R.W. (2003) Beyond the archaeology of death. Historiae Mortis, 1. pp. 1-12.
• Chapman, R.W. (2003) Death, society and archaeology: the social dimensions of mortuary practices. Mortality, 8 (3). pp. 308-315. ISSN 1469-9885
• Chapman, R.W. (2003) Other archaeologies and disciplines: mortuary analysis in the twenty-first century. In: Jeske, R.J. and Charles, D.K. (eds.) Theory, Method and Practice in Modern Archaeology. Praeger, Westport, pp. 3-13.

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Qualifications:

MA PhD (Cambridge) FSA