Rupert Housley

BSc (Leicester University), MSc (Southampton University), PhD (Cambridge University), FSA, FSAScot
Lecturer in Archaeological Science
Department of Archaeology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Tel. +44 (0)141 330 6873
Fax. +44 (0)141 330 3544
Email: rupert.housley@rhul.ac.uk or r.housley@archaeology.gla.ac.uk

(Address from Jan 2008 – Dec 2012:
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX)

   

Research

• RESET: RESponse of humans to abrupt Environmental Transitions (Project Manager, seconded to Royal Holloway College, University of London 2008-2012)
• Neanderthal climate preferences and tolerances. Research programme investigating the late Mousterian chronology of sites in southern Russia and the Crimea north and east of the Black Sea (Principal Investigator)
• Lismore Landscape Project. Study of the Holocene environment of the island of Lismore and its relation to past human land-use practices (Environmental Archaeologist)
• Scottish Wetland Archaeology Programme. SWAP is a group of archaeologists who aim to further the preservation, investigation and management of Scotland’s archaeological wetland resource (Programme member)
• Origins of Venice. Project looking at the environment of the Lagoon and the development of the city in late Antiquity (Environmental Archaeologist)

PhD Supervision

• Iona Anthony (Luminescence dating of Scottish burnt mounds: new investigations in Orkney and Shetland) 2003
• Anne Sommerville (Luminescence dating of wind blown sands from archaeological sites in northern Scotland) 2003
• Diane Aldritt (Economy and environment in the first millennium AD in Northern Scotland and the Northern Isles) 2003

Accepting PhD students in the following areas:
None before 2013, due to secondment to RHUL

Administration

• Departmental Equipment Officer
• Fieldwork Placement Officer
• Departmental Library Representative
• Elected member of Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Board
• External examiner, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
• Whithorn Research Committee

Selected Publications

Burbidge, C.I., Sanderson, D.C.W., Housley, R. A. and Allsworth-Jones, P. 2007. Survey of Palaeolithic sites by luminescence profiling: a case study from Eastern Europe, Quaternary Geochronology 2 (1-4), 296-302.

Housley, R.A., Campbell, E.N., and Clarke, C. 2007. Modelling the archaeological potential of a Scottish Wetland: a case study from the Mòine Mhór, Argyll, in: Archaeology from the wetlands: recent perspectives, 355-363, Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Housley, R.A., Straker, V., Chambers, F.M., and Lageard, J.G.A. 2007. An ecological context for the Post-Roman Archaeology of the Somerset Moors (South West England, UK) Journal of Wetland Archaeology 7, 1-22.

Ramsay, S., Miller, J.J., and Housley, R.A. 2007. Palaeo-environmental investigations of Rispain Mire, Whithorn, Transactions of the Dumfries & Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society 81, 35-55.

Somerville, A.A., Hansom, J.D., Housley, R.A., and Sanderson, D.C.W. 2007. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of coastal aeolian sand accumulation in Sanday, Orkney Islands, Scotland, The Holocene 17 (5), 1-11.

Housley, R.A., van Andel, T.H. and Sanderson, D.C.W. 2006. A new research project to investigate the chronology connected with Neanderthal climate preferences and tolerances in the North-East Black Sea region, in: Anikovich, M.V., and Platonova, N.I. (eds.), The Early Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia: General Trends, Local Developments (International conference devoted to the 125th anniversary of the Paleolithic investigations in Kostenki, August, 23-26, 2004), 26-38, St. Petersburg: Nestor-History.

McClennen, C.E. and Housley, R.A. 2006, Late-Holocene channel meander migration and mudflat accumulation rates, Lagoon of Venice, Italy, Journal of Coastal Research 22 (4), 930-945.

Housley, R.A., Ammerman, A.J., and McClennen, C.E. 2004. That sinking feeling: wetland investigations of the origins of Venice, Journal of Wetland Archaeology 4, 139-154.

Housley, R.A., Campbell, E.N., Miller, J.J. and Ramsay, S. 2004. A high-resolution study of human impact and land-use around the first millennium AD royal centre at Dunadd, Argyll, in Housley, R.A. and Coles, G. (eds.), 12-26.

Housley, R.A. and Coles, G. (eds.), 2004. Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: economies, environments and subsistence in the North Atlantic, Oxford.

Housley, R.A., Manning, S.W., Cadogan, G., Jones, R.L., and Hedges, R.E.M. 1999. Radiocarbon, calibration, and the chronology of the Late Minoan IB Phase, Journal of Archaeological Science 26, 159-171.

Ammerman, A.J., McClennen, C.E., De Min, M. and Housley, R.A., 1999. Sea-level change and the archaeology of early Venice, Antiquity 73, 303-312.

Housley, R.A., Gamble, C.S., Street, M., Pettitt, P. 1997. Radiocarbon evidence for the Late-glacial human re-colonisation of northern Europe, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63, 25-54.