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Book review: Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: The Archaeology of Landscape Revisited (2009)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2009). Book review: Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: The Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. European Journal of Archaeology, 12(1-3), 255-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/14619571090120011404

This book presents the methods and preliminary results of six Anglo-American-Sicilian archaeological landscape projects undertaken in the uplands of Sicily and Calabria: the Bova Marina Archaeological Project, the Gornalunga and Margi Valleys Survey,... Read More about Book review: Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: The Archaeology of Landscape Revisited.

Book Review: An Introduction to Museum Archaeology. By Hedley Swain (2009)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2009). Book Review: An Introduction to Museum Archaeology. By Hedley Swain. Archaeological Journal, 166(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2009.11078254

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the key themes of museum archaeology, ranging from the history of archaeological collections and museums to future trends, and from collections management to exhibition design and interpretation. It is ful... Read More about Book Review: An Introduction to Museum Archaeology. By Hedley Swain.

Trade and interaction (2009)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2009). Trade and interaction. In C. Gosden, B. Cunliffe, & R. Joyce (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of archaeology (555-578). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199271016.013.0019

This article focuses on the relevance of trade and interaction in archaeology. It evaluates the definitions of these terms, provides a critical synthesis of the diverse ways in which successive generations of archaeologists have approached and interp... Read More about Trade and interaction.

Making sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception (2008)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2008). Making sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 1(2), 207-238. https://doi.org/10.2752/175169708x309815

This paper attempts to formulate a culturally specific sensory inventory of the Maltese islandscape during the distinctive Temple Period (c. 3400-2500BC), with particular reference to the sensory stimuli and constraints of three dynamic types of plac... Read More about Making sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception.

Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols (2008)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2008). Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols. Documenta Praehistorica, 35, 179-184. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.35.13

This paper explores the cultural and conceptual dimensions of ceramic (and stone) stamps found at Neolithic and Copper Age sites in Western Asia and Southern Europe, dating to between the eighth and third millennia BC. Based upon a recent study of th... Read More about Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols.

Neolithic stamps: cultural patterns, processes and potencies (2007)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2007). Neolithic stamps: cultural patterns, processes and potencies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 17(2), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774307000248

Decorated clay stamps carrying a culturally filtered range of abstract designs are one of the most visually striking but problematic categories of portable art found at Neolithic and Copper Age sites in western Asia and southern Europe. This article... Read More about Neolithic stamps: cultural patterns, processes and potencies.

Abstract and figurative representation and the politics of display in Neolithic Southeast Italy (2007)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2007). Abstract and figurative representation and the politics of display in Neolithic Southeast Italy. In C. Renfrew, & I. Morley (Eds.), Image and imagination : a global prehistory of figurative representation (199-210). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

This paper explores the social use and significance of ‘figurative’ and ‘abstract’ modes of visual representation within the Neolithic communities of South-East Italy. It does so by highlighting some patterns in the spatial distribution of these elem... Read More about Abstract and figurative representation and the politics of display in Neolithic Southeast Italy.

Chronological bibliography of Luigi Cardini’s publications. (2005)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2005). Chronological bibliography of Luigi Cardini’s publications. In K. Francis (Ed.), Explorations in Albania, 1930-39: the Notebooks of Luigi Cardini, Prehistorian with the Italian Archaeological Mission (205-9). British School at Athens

Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy (2005)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2005). Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy. In P. Attema, A. Nijboer, & A. Zifferero (Eds.), Papers in Italian archaeology VI : communities and settlements from the neolithic to the early medieval period (541-544). Archaeopress

This paper examines transformations in the form and significance of visual material in Neolithic Apulia. It is argued that ‘portable art’ was increasingly valued as ritual paraphernalia, gifts and status symbols, which were circulated, accumulated, d... Read More about Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy.

Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy (2005)
Book
Skeates, R. (2005). Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy. Duckworth

This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves, exploring this process through an extended case-stud... Read More about Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy.

Luigi Cardini (1898-1971): a biography (2005)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2005). Luigi Cardini (1898-1971): a biography. In K. Francis (Ed.), Explorations in Albania, 1930-39: the notebooks of Luigi Cardini, prehistorian with the Italian archaeological mission (4-9). British School at Athens

Little has been written about Luigi Cardini, with the exception of a couple of obituaries (Segre 1972; Acanfora 1971) and some brief statements about his contribution to the development of Italian archaeology (e.g. Guidi 1988: 81, 83; Peroni 1992: 65... Read More about Luigi Cardini (1898-1971): a biography.