Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present

Publications

The different academics involved in the Centre publish regularly in multiple journals. Here are examples of some of the works centre members have written which are directly related to key themes the Centre explores:

  • Harris, O.J.T. and Robb, J. 2025. Before, during and after gender: notes on a non-essentialist history of difference. Current Anthropology 66(3), 362-88 doi.org/10.1086/735735
  • Santos, J. 2025. Archaeology of loneliness. Journal of Social Archaeology 25 (1), 90–109 https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053241305300
  • Casimiro, T.M. and Santos, J. 2025. Multisensorial experiences in early modern artefacts, Archaeologies 21, 181–208 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09521-9
  • Jervis, B. 2025. Minoritarian entrepreneurs: Pottery, commerce and urbanisation in medieval England (c. AD 1200–1350), Antiquity 99 (406), 1098–1113 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.70
  • Cipolla, C.N., Crellin, R.J. and Harris, O.J.T. 2024. Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow. London: Routledge.
  • Jervis, B. 2024. Beyond urban hinterlands. Political ecology, urban metabolism and extended urbanization in medieval England. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 35 (1), 127–48 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774324000210
  • Carvajal Lopez, J.C. 2023. Islamisation and Archaeology: Culture, Religion and New Materialism. London: Bloomsbury
  • Tsoraki, C., Barton, H., Crellin, R.J., and Harris, O.J.T. 2023. From typology and biography to multiplicity: Bracers as ‘process objects’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 33 (4): 693-714, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774323000094
  • Samson, A. et al. 2023. Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean, American Anthropologist 125 (4), 824–39 https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13908
  • Crellin, R.J., Tsoraki, C., Standish, C., Pearce, R.B., Barton, H., Morriss, S. and Harris, O.J.T. 2022. Materials in movement: gold and stone in process in the Upton Lovell G2a burial, Antiquity 97 (931): 86-103 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.162
  • Hem Eriksen, M. and Kay, K. 2022. Reflections on posthuman ethics. Grievability and the more-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 32 (2), 331–43. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000561
  • Jervis, B. 2022.Examining temporality and difference: An intensive approach to understanding medieval rural settlement. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 29, 1229–58 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09555-9
  • Crellin, R.J. 2020. Change and Archaeology. London: Routledge
  • Crellin, R.J. Cipolla, C, N., Montgomery, L.M. Harris, O.J.T. and Moore, S.V. 2021. Archaeological Theory in Dialogue: Situating Relationality, Ontology, Posthumanism and Indigenous paradigms. London: Routledge
  • Harris O.J.T. 2021. Assembling Past Worlds: Materials, Bodies and Architecture in Neolithic Britain. London: Routledge
  • Kay, K. 2020. Dynamic houses and communities at Çatalhöyük: A building biography approach to prehistoric social structure. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30 (3), 451–68 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774320000037
  • Jervis, B. 2018. Assemblage Thought and Archaeology. Abingdon: Routledge
  • Eriksen, M.H. 2019. Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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