Mike Seager Thomas

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Mike Seager Thomas is a British archaeologist and Honorary Research Fellow of the UCL Institute of Archaeology specialising in the study of stone in prehistoric archaeology and landscape archaeology. [1] [2] [3]

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Mike Seager Thomas studying a Rapa Nui "house god" outside the Museo Antropologico P. Sebastian Englert in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui Rapa Nui house god.jpg
Mike Seager Thomas studying a Rapa Nui "house god" outside the Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui

Mike Seager Thomas studied archaeology at Brighton Technical College and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. [2] 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. [2] [7] [8] 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," [9] published in the Leskernick project book Stone Worlds, [10] 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. [11] [12] [13] He has ongoing academic interests in stone in prehistoric archaeology and landscape archaeology, recording strategies for Rapa Nui archaeology, Polynesian architecture, the faking of military antiques, and the use of period photographs in archaeological and historical research. [3] Books by Mike Seager Thomas include Excavating Stone Worlds (2007), co-written with Sue Hamilton and Phillip Thomas, [14] the Afrikamütze Database (2019), [15] [16] [17] and Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive (2020). [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mike Seager Thomas" . Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 UCL (2019-01-22). "Michael Seager Thomas - Honorary Research Associate". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  3. 1 2 ORCID. "Mike Seager Thomas (0000-0002-4767-346X)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
  4. ↑ "Artefact Services: archaeological stone and British prehistoric pottery analysis". Artefact Services: archaeological stone and British prehistoric pottery analysis. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  5. ↑ "Leskernick Homepage". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  6. 1 2 "Research". Mysite. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  7. ↑ Hamilton, Sue (2013). "Rapa Nui (Easter Island)'s Stone Worlds" (PDF). Archaeology International. 16: 108. doi: 10.5334/ai.1613 .
  8. ↑ UCL (2019-01-22). "Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  9. ↑ Willmore, Mike (2007). The Book and the Trowel. In Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. pp. 244–76.
  10. ↑ Bender, Barbara; Hamilton, Sue; Tilley, Christopher (2007). Stone Worlds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. pp. 244–76.
  11. ↑ Krsmanovic, Damjan; Anderson, William (January 2008). "Critiquing the archaeological diary". P.i.t.: Archeologische ervaringen 6, 29-40.
  12. ↑ "How Can Phenomenological Methodologies help us understand past Landscapes? | The Post Hole". www.theposthole.org. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  13. ↑ "Review of Stone Worlds: narrative and reflexivity in landscape archaeology | Studio Michael Shanks ~ Stanford". 13 December 2008. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
  14. ↑ Excavating Stone Worlds. London: UCL Press. 2007. ISBN   978-1844721375.
  15. ↑ The Afrikamütze Database. A guide to the identification, context and interpretation of the German army tropical field cap, 1940–43. Part 1: The Authentic Cap. Artefact Services Research Papers 8/1. Lewes: Artefact Services. 2019.
  16. ↑ The Afrikamütze Database; A Guide to the Identification, Context and Interpretation of the German Army Tropical Peaked Cap, 1940–43, Part 2: The Fake. Artefact Services Research Papers 8/2. Lewes: Artefact Services. 2019.
  17. ↑ The Afrikamütze Database. A guide to the identification, context and interpretation of the German army tropical peaked cap, 1940–43. Part 3: References & Appendices. Artefact Services Research Papers 8/3. Lewes: Artefact Services. 2019.
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