Melanie Giles | |
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| Occupation | Archaeologist |
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| Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
| Thesis | Open-weave, Close-knit: archaeologies of identity in the late prehistoric landscape of East Yorkshire (2000) |
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| Institutions | University of Manchester |
Melanie Giles FSA FBA is a British archaeologist and academic,specialising in Iron Age Britain. She is a Professor in European Prehistory at the University of Manchester. [1]
Giles completed her BA in Archaeology and MA in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. [1] Her PhD,undertaken at the University of Sheffield was supervised by Mike Parker Pearson and John Barrett. [2] She investigated the Iron Age landscapes of East Yorkshire. The thesis was titled 'Open-weave,close-knit' :archaeologies of identity in the later prehistoric landscape of East Yorkshire. [3]
Giles' initial research looked at British Iron Age communities,especially the square barrow burials of East Yorkshire,resulting in her major monograph A Forged Glamour. The book combined evidence for landscape management and mobility,aspects of community,power and personal biography,approached through the study of material culture including Iron Age mirrors,swords,shields and jewellery. The book was described as "a model of how big questions can be addressed by close attention to the archaeological data". [4] More recent work has addressed disease and violence in Iron Age Britain,and their relationship with funerary behaviour and mortuary treatment. [5] Giles is a member of the Bog Body network, [6] and has undertaken research on Iron Age bog bodies. [7] She has also undertaken the study of material culture,including the aesthetics of martial objects, [8] and the symbolic aspects of ironworking technology. [9] Giles has also undertaken research on industrial archaeology,including horse lads in East Yorkshire, [10] and the Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project. [11]
Giles joined the University of Manchester after having taught at University College Dublin and the University of Leicester. [1]
In 2016,Giles was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). [12] In 2022,she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [13] She was promoted to Professor in European Prehistory in January 2023. [1]
A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War. The unifying factor of the bog bodies is that they have been found in peat and are partially preserved; however, the actual levels of preservation vary widely from perfectly preserved to mere skeletons.
Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe,, known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an emeritus professor.
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The Arras culture is an archaeological culture of the Middle Iron Age in East Yorkshire, England. It takes its name from the cemetery site of Arras, at Arras Farm, (53.86°N 0.59°W) near Market Weighton, which was discovered in the 19th century. The site spans three fields, bisected by the main east-west road between Market Weighton and Beverley, and is arable farmland; little to no remains are visible above ground. The extent of the Arras culture is loosely associated with the Parisi tribe of pre-Roman Britain.
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