Richard Jones

BSc, MSc, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Archaeology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Tel. +44 (0)141 330 5690
Fax. +44 (0)141-330 3544
email: r.jones@archaeology.arts.gla.ac.uk

Research

• The Mycenaeans and Italy: the archaeological and archaeometric ceramic evidence. Collaboration with Dr L. Vagnetti (CNR Istituto Studi Micenei, Rome), Dr S. Levi (Modena University) and others
• Non-destructive laser-based analysis in archaeological and conservation science;  International Collaboration programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust 
• Exploration of the Medieval sugar industry at Tawahin in Jordan
• Sources and distribution of steatite in the Viking North Atlantic, in collaboration with SUERC (East Kilbride)
• Production and distribution of Scottish Medieval pottery, in collaboration with R. Will, D. Hall and G. Haggarty
• Neolithic pottery on Orkney: production, function and replication 
• Cuween-Wideford (Orkney) Landscape Project, in collaboration with Colin Richards (Manchester University) and Orkney Archaeological Trust 
• Exploring the environs of Roman forts along the Antonine Wall
  

PhD Supervision

• Kirsten Bedigan:  Boeotian Kabeiric ware: the significance of the ceramic offerings from the Theban Kabeirion in Boeotia
• Vasiliki Ivrou:  The maritime cultural landscape in the SW Peloponnese and West Crete during the Mycenaean period
• Daniel Sahlen:  Production of metalworking ceramics in late prehistoric and early historic Scotland

Accepting PhD students in the following areas:

• Pottery: issues of production, exchange and function
• Aspects of geophysical and geochemical survey
• Aspects of Aegean prehistory

Teaching

• Introduction to Archaeological Practice (Level 1)
• Analytical Archaeology (Level 2; convenor)
• Production & Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Honours; convenor)
• Ceramic Production (Honours; convenor)
• Interpretation & Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics (Honours; convenor)
• Mediterranean Archaeology (MLitt)
• Aerial Photography with Geophysical Survey (MLitt)
• Material Culture and Artefact Studies (MLitt)

Administration

• Exams Officer 
• Safety Committee

External responsibilities

• Associate editor of Archaeometry
• Editorial board of Archaeological Prospection

Select publications

Photos-Jones, E., Hall, A.J. and Jones, R.E. in press. “Sweet waste”: The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan. In I. Freestone, T. Rehren and A. Shortland (eds.) From mine to microscope - studies in honour of Mike Tite, UCL Press.

Jones, R.E. 2007. Chemical and organic residue analysis of Types Bi, Bii and Bv amphorae from Tintagel,  in R.C. Barrowman, C.E. Batey and C.D. Morris (eds.) Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall 1990-1999, Society of Antiquaries of London Monograph.

Jones, R.E. and others, in preparation, The archaeology of sugar in South Jordan Valley in the Medieval period, Internet Archaeology.

Vagnetti, L., Jones, R.E., Levi, S.T. and Bettelli, M., in preparation,  The Mycenaeans and Italy: the archaeological and archaeometric dimension. Incunabula Gracae/Studi Micenei ed Anatolici  Monograph, Rome.

Haskell, H., Jones, R.E., Day, P.M. and Killen, J.T. in preparation, Transport stirrup jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean.  INSTAP Press Monograph.

Jones, R.E., Olive, V.,  Kilikoglou, V. Ellam, R., Bassiakos, Y., Bray, I. and Sanderson, D.C.W. 2007. A new protocol for the chemical characterisation of steatite – two case studies in Europe: the Shetland Islands and Crete. Journal of Archaeological Science 34, 626-41.

Jones, R.E. and Sharpe, L. (eds.) 2006  Going over Old Ground:  perspectives on archaeological geophysical and geochemical survey in Scotland, BAR 416.

Jones, R.E., Will, R., Haggarty, G. and Hall, D. 2002-03. Sourcing Scottish White Gritty ware. Medieval ceramics 26/7, 45-84.

Jones, R.E. 2005. Technical studies of Aegean Bronze Age wall painting: methods, results and future prospects. In L. Morgan (ed.), Aegean Wall Painting: a tribute to Mark Cameron. British School at Athens Studies 13, 199-224.

Jones, R.E., Levi, S.T. and Bettelli, M. 2005. Mycenaean pottery in the Central Mediterranean:  imports, imitations and derivatives, in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), Emporia:  Aegeans in the Central & Eastern Mediterranean. Aegaeum series 25, Liege, 539-46.

Whitbread, I.K. and Jones, R.E. 2005. Petrographic and chemical analysis of the Early Iron Age pottery from Torone. In J. Papadopoulos (ed.) The Early iron Age Cemetery at Torone 1, Monumenta Archaeologica 24. California, 511-40.

Jones, A., Cole, W.J. and Jones, R.E. 2005. The results of residue analysis using GC-MS on the Barnhouse Grooved ware assemblage, in C. Richards (ed.), Dwelling amongst the monuments:  excavations at Barnhouse and Maes Howe, Orkney, McDonald Institute Monograph, Cambridge, 283-92.

Jones, R.E. and Buxeda I Garrigos, J. 2004. The identity of Early Greek pottery in Italy and Spain: an archaeometric perspective. In K. Lomas (ed.), Greek identity in the western Mediterranean, Brill, 83-114.

Buxeda i Garrigos, J., Jones, R.E., Kilikoglou, V., Levi, S., Maniatis, Y., Vagnetti, L., Wardle, K.A. and Andreou, S. 2003. Technology transfer on the periphery of the Mycenaean world: the case of Mycenaean pottery found in central Macedonia and the Plain of Sybaris (Italy). Archaeometry 45, 263-84.

Isserlin, B.S.J., Jones, R.E., Karastathis, V., Syrides, G., Papamarinopoulos, S.and Uren, J. 2003. Investigations at Xerxes Canal 1999-2001. Annual British School at Athens 98, 369-87.