Nyree Finlay

MA (University of Edinburgh), PhD (University of Reading)
Lecturer
Department of Archaeology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Tel. +44 (0)141 330 5690
Fax. +44 (0)141 330 3544
Email: n.finlay@archaeology.gla.ac.uk

Research

• Scottish Mesolithic Geophysical Survey Project (Director) 
• Colonsay Midden Project (Director)
  
• Bute: foragers to farmers (Director)
  
• Prehistoric archaeology in Northwest Europe
• Mesolithic Scotland and Ireland
• Lithic technology: technological analysis, chaîne opératoire and experimental perspectives
• Materiality and material culture studies
• Gender, the life-cycle and archaeologies of childhood and infancy
• Archaeologies of difference, the body and disability
  

PhD Supervision

• Nicola Hall: Megaliths, materiality and ritual practice in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Arran, Argyll and Bute

Accepting PhD students in the following areas:

• Mesolithic Scotland and Ireland
• Lithic Technology
• Gender, disability and archaeologies of childhood and difference
  

Teaching

• Introduction to Archaeological Practice (Level 1)
  
• Archaeology and Material Culture (Honours; convenor)
• The Archaeology of Life and Death (Honours; convenor)
• Theory and Interpretation in Archaeology (Honours)
  
• Material Culture and Artefact Studies (MLitt; convenor)

Administration

• Departmental Disability Contact
• Advisor of Studies
• Undergraduate Board of Studies Committee member, Faculty of Arts
• Scottish Archaeological Journal Editorial Board 
• World Archaeology Editorial Board
• AHRC Peer Review Panel
  

Publications

Finlay, N. 2006. Manifesting microliths: insights and strategies from experimental replication. In J. Apel & K. Knutsson (eds) Skilled Production and Social Reproduction: aspects of traditional stone-tool technologies. Proceedings of a Symposium in Uppsala, August 20-24, 2003, Societas Upsaliensis, Uppsala 299-314.
Finlay, N. 2006. Gender and Personhood, in C. Conneller and G. Warren (eds) Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: new approaches, pp. 35-60. Tempus.
Finlay, N 2004. E-scapes and E-motion: other ways of writing the Mesolithic. Before Farming [online] 2004/1 article 4.
Finlay, N. 2000. Outside of Life: infant burials from cillin to cist. World Archaeology 31(3): 407-22.
Finlay, N. (ed). 1999. Disability and Archaeology. Archaeological Review Cambridge 15:2.
Woodman, P., Finlay, N., & Anderson, E. 2006. The Archaeology of a Collection: The Keiller-Knowles Collection of the National Museum of Ireland. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland Monograph 2.