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Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy (2017)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2017). Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 30(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.35404

This paper offers a revised overview and model of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers in Italy, one that questions and extends existing materialist, evolutionary and ecological perspectives through an emphasis on the socio-cultural d... Read More about Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy.

Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics (2017)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2017). Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(4), 607-616. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774317000622

The concept of aesthetics has long been marginalized in archaeology. It was originally formulated in the eighteenth century as part of an appreciation of Greek art and was fundamentally concerned with appreciating a quasi-universal idea of beauty; an... Read More about Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics.

Prehistoric figurines in Italy (2017)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2017). Prehistoric figurines in Italy. In T. Insoll (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of prehistoric figurines (777-798). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.038

An overview is provided of anthropomorphic figurines in peninsular Italy and Sicily between the Palaeolithic and Copper Age. Some updated patterns in the data and contextual interpretations of the production, use, and deposition of figurines are pres... Read More about Prehistoric figurines in Italy.

Museums and Archaeology (2017)
Book
Skeates, R. (Ed.). (2017). Museums and Archaeology. Routledge

Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of... Read More about Museums and Archaeology.

Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past (2017)
Journal Article
Olivieri, A., Sidore, C., Achilli, A., Angius, A., Posth, C., Furtwängler, A., …Torroni, A. (2017). Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(5), 1230-1239. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx082

Sardinians are “outliers” in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To learn more about their genetic ancestry, we analyzed 3,491 modern and 21 ancient mitogenomes... Read More about Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past.

Soundscapes of Temple Period Malta (2017)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2017). Soundscapes of Temple Period Malta. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 10(1), 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696x.2016.1267920

During the later prehistoric Temple Period (c. 3400–2500 bc) we can begin to discriminate some of the diverse sounds and soundscapes that characterized the Maltese Islands. For example, we can imagine the sounds of the early farming communities, part... Read More about Soundscapes of Temple Period Malta.

Fetishism and visual culture in Later Neolithic Southeast Italy (2016)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2016). Fetishism and visual culture in Later Neolithic Southeast Italy. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 9(4), 335-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696x.2016.1244951

The term ‘fetish’ has been used since the sixteenth century to refer to indigenous ‘power objects’, perceived to embody positive supernatural energy. This concept is explored here with reference to the visual culture of the Later Neolithic in Southea... Read More about Fetishism and visual culture in Later Neolithic Southeast Italy.