Career
Mike Seager Thomas studied archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. [3] He has been a full time professional archaeologist since 1996, working in the commercial sector as an excavator/excavation supervisor and as a freelance prehistoric pottery and stone specialist. [4] Mike Seager Thomas is also a long-term participant in UCL Institute of Archaeology research projects, including the well-known Leskernick Project, [5] the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project, [6] and—most recently—the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project, [3] [7] [8] and he has reported on prehistoric pottery from several IoA Institute of Archaeology training excavations. [9] [10] Out of his involvement in the Leskernick Project, he became the principal subject of project sociologist Mike Willmore's very funny "The Book and the Trowel," [11] published in the Leskernick project book Stone Worlds, [12] and the perceived victim of a "top-down interpersonal project hierarchy," which challenged the egalitarian pretensions of what is otherwise considered a theoretically seminal archaeological project. [13] [14] [15] He has ongoing academic interests in stone in prehistoric archaeology, conflict heritage and landscape archaeology, Rapa Nui, and the use of period photographs in archaeological and historical research. [2] Books by Mike Seager Thomas include Excavating Stone Worlds (2007), co-written with Sue Hamilton and Phillip Thomas, [16] the Afrikamütze Database, Volumes 1–3 (2019), [17] [18] [19] Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive and The WW2 Foggia Airfield Complex in the Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs (both 2020), [6] [20] and Wally's War: The WW2 North African Campaign Diaries of Walter von Schramm of the NZ Graves Registration & Enquiries Unit (2024). [21]
