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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.

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.

Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy (2003)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2003). Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 68, 165-83

Using the approach of visual culture, which highlights the embeddedness of art in dynamic human processes, this paper examines the prehistoric archaeology of the Lecce province in south-east Italy, in order to provide a history of successive visual c... Read More about Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy.