Duncan Garrow
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+44 (0) 118 378 6458
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Professor
Areas of interest
- British and European later prehistory
- Ritual deposition
- Grave goods and material culture of death
- Celtic art and Iron Age material culture
- Archaeological theory
- Interdisciplinary approaches to objects
- The integration of commercial and university-based archaeology.
Postgraduate supervision
Duncan would be happy to discuss research proposals on any area of the later prehistoric archaeology of Britain and continental Europe, especially the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, ritual deposition and hoarding, grave goods and burial practice, and material culture more generally.
For further information, please contact d.j.garrow@reading.ac.uk
Teaching
Duncan teaches later European prehistory (with a particular focus on Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain) and archaeological theory.Research centres and groups
Research projects
Duncan's research interests include long-term histories of deposition, burial practice and material culture, island archaeologies, archaeological theory, and the integration of developer-funded and university-based archaeology.
His current research projects include Islands of Stone: Neolithic crannogs in the Outer Hebrides (with Fraser Sturt and Angela Gannon), 'Boundary Objects' (with Anwen Cooper and Melanie Giles) and 'Icons in Context: Rethinking Symbols of Power at the Time of Stonehenge' (with Neil Wilkin).
Background
Duncan worked in the commercial archaeology sector (at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit) from 1996-2002, when he left to undertake his PhD on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pits in East Anglia.
His books include Technologies of Enchantment? Exploring Celtic Art 400 BC to AD 100 (2012, co-authored with Chris Gosden) and Neolithic Stepping Stones: excavation and survey within the western seaways of Britain, 2008-2014 (2017, co-authored with Fraser Sturt).
Publications
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Hammann, S.
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Bishop, R.
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Copper, M.
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Garrow, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3164-2618
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Greenwood, C.
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Hewson, L.
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Sheridan, A.
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Sturt, F.
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Whelton, H.
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Cramp, L.
(2022)
Neolithic culinary traditions revealed by cereal, milk and meat lipids in pottery from Scottish crannogs.
Nature Communications
(13).
ISSN:
2041-1723
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32286-0
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Garrow, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3164-2618
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Wilkin, N.
(2022)
The world of Stonehenge.
Trustees of British Museum Press
ISBN:
9780714123493
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Cooper, A.
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Garrow, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3164-2618
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Gibson, C.
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Giles, M.
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Wilkin, N.
(2021)
Grave goods: objects and death in later prehistoric Britain.
Oxbow
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308.
ISBN:
9781789257472
- Cooper, A. , Garrow, D. , Gibson, C. (2020) Spectrums of depositional practice in later prehistoric Britain and beyond: grave goods, hoards and deposits ‘in between’. Archaeological Dialogues , 27 (2). pp. 135-157. ISSN: 1478-2294 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1380203820000197
- Cooper, A. , Garrow, D. , Gibson, C. , Giles, M. (2019) Covering the dead in later prehistoric Britain: elusive objects and powerful technologies of funerary performance. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 85 pp. 223-250. ISSN: 0079-797X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2019.8
- Garrow, D. and Sturt, F. (2019) Neolithic crannogs: rethinking settlement, monumentality and deposition in the Outer Hebrides and beyond. Antiquity , 93 (369). pp. 664-684. ISSN: 0003-598X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.41
- Garrow, D. and Sturt, F. (2017) Neolithic stepping stones: excavation and survey within the western seaways of Britain, 2008-2014. Oxbow Books , Oxford. pp 192. ISBN: 9781785703478
- Garrow, D. , Griffiths, S. , Anderson-Whymark, H. , Sturt, F. (2017) Stepping stones to the Neolithic? Radiocarbon dating the Early Neolithic on islands within the ‘western seaways’ of Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 83 pp. 97-135. ISSN: 0079-797X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2017.4
- Garrow, D. and Sturt, F. (2017) The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Channel Islands: maritime and terrrestrial perspectives. Oxford Journal of Archaeology , 36 (1). pp. 3-23. ISSN: 1468-0092 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12102
- Garrow, D. and Sturt, F. (2015) Continental connections: concluding discussion. In: Anderson-Whymark, H. , Garrow, D. , Sturt, F. , (eds.) Contental Connections: exploring cross-channel relationships from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Oxbow , Oxford. pp. 166-172. ISBN: 9781782978091
- Garrow, D. and Sturt, F. (2015) Continental connections: introduction. In: Anderson-Whymark, H. , Garrow, D. , Sturt, F. , (eds.) Contental Connections: exploring cross-channel relationships from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Oxbow , Oxford. pp. 1-6. ISBN: 9781782978091
- Anderson-Whymark, H. and Garrow, D. (2015) Seaways and shared ways: imaging and imagining the movement of people, objects and ideas over the course of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, c. 5000-3500 BC. In: Anderson-Whymark, H. , Garrow, D. , Sturt, F. , (eds.) Contental Connections: exploring cross-channel relationships from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Oxbow , Oxford. pp. 59-77. ISBN: 9781782978091
- Anderson-Whymark, H. , Garrow, D. , Sturt, F. , eds. (2015) Continental connections: exploring cross-channel relationships from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age. Oxbow , Oxford. pp 176. ISBN: 9781782978091
- Anderson-Whymark, H. , Garrow, D. , Sturt, F. (2015) Microliths and maritime mobility: a continental European-style Late Mesolithic flint from the Isles of Scilly. Antiquity , 89 (364). pp. 954-971. ISSN: 1745-1744 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.77
- Garrow, D. (2015) Deposition in pits. In: Fowler, C. , Harding, J. , Hoffman, D. , (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 729-744. ISBN: 9780199545841
- Garrow, D. , Meadows, J. , Evans, C. , Tabor, J. (2014) Dating the dead: a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology of burial Within an Early Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Over, Cambridgeshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 80 pp. 1-30. ISSN: 2050-2729 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2014.2
- Sturt, F. , Garrow, D. , Bradley, S. (2013) New models of North West European Holocene palaeogeography and inundation. Journal of Archaeological Science , 40 (11). pp. 3963-3976. ISSN: 0305-4403 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.023
- Garrow, D. (2012) Odd deposits and average practice. A critical history of the concept of structured deposition.. Archaeological Dialogues , 19 (2). pp. 85-115. ISSN: 1478-2294 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1380203812000141
- Garrow, D. and Gosden, C. (2012) Technologies of enchantment? Exploring Celtic Art, 400 BC to AD 100.. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp 400. ISBN: 9780199548064
- Garrow, D. (2011) Concluding discussion: pits and perspective. In: Anderson-Whymark, H. and Thomas, J. , (eds.) Beyond the mundane: regional perspectives on Neolithic pit deposition. Neolithic studies group seminar papers Oxbow Books (12). , Oxford. pp. 216-225. ISBN: 9781842174685
- Garrow, D. and Sturt, F. (2011) Grey waters bright with Neolithic argonauts? Maritime connections and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition within the 'western seaways' of Britain, c. 5000-3500 BC.. Antiquity , 85 (327). pp. 59-72. ISSN: 0003-598X
- Garrow, D. (2010) The temporality of materials: occupation practices in Eastern England during the 5th and 4th millennia BC. In: Finlayson, B. and Warren, G. , (eds.) Landscapes in transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant. Levant Supplementary Series Oxbow Books (8). , Oxford. pp. 208-220. ISBN: 9781842174166
- Garrow, D. and Yarrow, T. (2010) Introduction: archaeological anthropology. In: Garrow, D. and Yarrow, T. , (eds.) Archaeology and Anthropology: understanding similarity, exploring difference. Oxbow Books , Oxford. pp. 1-12. ISBN: 9781842173879
- Garrow, D. (2010) Celtic art, GIS analysis and the Portable Antiquities Scheme. In: Worrell, S. , Egan, G. , Naylor, J. , Leahy, K. , Lewis, M. , (eds.) A decade of discovery: proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007. British Archaeological Reports British Series 520 Archaeopress , Oxford. pp. 67-73.
- Garrow, D. and Yarrow, T. , eds. (2010) Archaeology and anthropology: understanding similarity, exploring difference. Oxbow Books , Oxford. pp 200. ISBN: 9781842173879
- Beadsmore, E. , Garrow, D. , Knight, M. (2010) Re-fitting Etton: space, time and material culture within a causewayed enclosure in Cambridgeshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 76 pp. 115-134. ISSN: 0079-797X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00000475
- Garrow, D. , Gosden, C. , Hill, J. , Bronk Ramsey, C. (2010) Dating Celtic art: a major radiocarbon dating programme of Iron Age and early Roman metalwork in Britain. Archaeological Journal , 166 pp. 79-123. ISSN: 0066-5983
- Garrow, D. (2008) The space and time of Celtic Art: interrogating the 'Technologies of Enchantment' database. In: Garrow, D. , (eds.) Rethinking Celtic Art. Oxbow Books , Oxford. pp. 15-39. ISBN: 9781842173183
- Garrow, D. and Gosden, C. , eds. (2008) Rethinking Celtic art. Oxbow Books , Oxford. pp 224. ISBN: 9781842173183
- Garrow, D. and Shove, E. (2007) Artefacts between disciplines: the toothbrush and the axe. Archaeological Dialogues , 14 (2). pp. 117-155. ISSN: 1478-2294 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1380203807002267
- Garrow, D. (2007) Placing pits: landscape occupation and depositional practice during the Neolithic in East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 73 pp. 1-24. ISSN: 0079-797X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00000037
- Garrow, D. , Lucy, S. , Gibson, D. (2006) Excavations at Kilverstone, Norfolk 2000-02: an episodic landscape history. East Anglian Archaeology Monograph East Anglian Archaeology (113). , Cambridge.
- Garrow, D. (2006) Pits, settlement and deposition during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in East Anglia. British Series , 414. British Archaeological Reports , Oxford. pp 172. ISBN: 9781841717487
- Garrow, D. , Beadsmore, E. , Knight, M. (2005) Pit clusters and the temporality of occupation: an earlier Neolithic site at Kilverstone, Thetford, Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 71 pp. 139-157. ISSN: 0079-797X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00000980