School of Humanities / Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Interlace panel from the Govan sarcophagus, carved for the bones of St Constantine, c. 900 AD

Dr Elizabeth Pierce

Dr Elizabeth Pierce
  • Affiliate Researcher (Archaeology)

email: Elizabeth.Pierce@glasgow.ac.uk


Internal Address

Archaeology
Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ


Research Projects


Research Interests

  • Norse archaeology in the North Atlantic from the Viking Age into the Middle Ages
  • Material culture, especially the use of jet and walrus ivory in medieval contexts
  • Use of material culture in the formation of identities
  • Identity theory
  • Island theory and the archaeology of islands


Recent Teaching

  • Seminars in the Celtic and Viking MLitt programme
  • Co-taught with Colleen Batey the Viking Movements honours course
  • Co-taught with Adrian Maldonado Shedding Light on the Dark Ages: Scotland AD 400-1100 for DACE/Centre for Open Studies

Additional Information

PhD thesis, ‘Identity at the Far Edge of the Earth: An examination of cultural identity manifested in the material culture of the North Atlantic, c. 1150-1450’ supervised by Dr Colleen Batey


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Number of items: 5.

2013

Pierce, E. (2013) Jet cross pendants from the British Isles and beyond: forms, distribution and use. Medieval Archaeology, 57 . ISSN 0076-6097 (In Press)

Pierce, E. (2013) View from the Norse: bringing island theory to the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 33 . ISSN 1471-5767 (In Press)

Pierce, E. (2013) Walrus hunting and the ivory trade in the North Atlantic. In: Caldwell, D. and Hall, M. (eds.) The Lewis Gaming Hoard in Context: New Analyses of their Art, Purpose and Place in History. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh. (In Press)

2009

Pierce, E. (2009) Walrus hunting and the ivory trade in early Iceland. Archaeologia Islandica, 7 . pp. 55-63. ISSN 1560-8026

2008

Pierce, E. (2008) Dinner at the edge of the world: why the Greenland Norse tried to eat a European diet in an unforgiving landscape. In: Sykes, N. and Newton, C. (eds.) Food and Drink in Archaeology I: University of Nottingham Postgraduate Conference 2007. Prospect Books, pp. 96-103. ISBN 9781903018606

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