UCL Institute of Archaeology

• BSc, MSc, PhD
• Senior Research Associate in Ceramic Petrography
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG114 Archaeological Ceramics Analysis
• Training Course Co-ordinator: Thin Section Petrography of Archaeological Ceramics
• Ceramic Petrography Analytical Service

Research Interests

• Thin Section Ceramic Petrography and Geochemistry
• Prehistoric Ceramic Production and Consumption in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean
• Pre-Contact Hunter Gatherer Ceramics of Southern California
• Thin Section Petrography of Archaeological Ceramics of all Periods of UK
• Application of Micropalaeontology to Archaeology

Research Directory Records

• Imperial Logistics: The Making of the Terracotta Army
• Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Ceramic Production and Distribution
• Pottery Technology

Appointments

• Research Officer in Archaeological Ceramic Analysis, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK. 2005-2010
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Biological Sciences, California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), San Diego, USA. 2004-2005
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Geological Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland. 2000-2004
• Teaching Fellow in Archaeomaterials Science, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK. 1999-2000

Educational Background

• PhD Archaeological Ceramic Analysis. Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK, 1999
• MSc Industrial Micropalaeontology. Earth Sciences, University College London, UK. 1995
• BSc (Hons) Geology and Geography (Upper Second Class). Department of Geology, University of Keele, England, 1993

Books

• Quinn, P. S. 2013. Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section. Archaeopress, Oxford.
• Quinn, P. S. (Ed.) 2009. Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics. Archaeopress, Oxford.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Quinn, P. S., Burton, M. M., Broughton, D. and Van Heymbeeck, S. in press. Deciphering Compositional Patterning in Plainware Ceramics from Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Peninsular Ranges, San Diego County, California. American Antiquity.
  
• Burton, M. and Quinn, P. S. 2013. Malcolm J. Rogers on Archaeological Ceramics: Foundations and Current Studies in the San Diego Region. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly, 48: 98-108.
  
• Day, P. M., Quinn, P. S., Rutter, J. and Kilikoglou, V. 2011. A World of Goods: Transport Jars and Commodity Exchange at the Late Bronze Age Harbor of Kommos, Crete. Hesperia, 80: 511-558.
• Quinn, P. S., Stringer, L., Rout, D., Alexander, T., Armstrong, A. and Olmstead, S. 2011. Petrodatabase: An On-line Database for Thin Section Ceramic Petrography. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 2491-2496.
• Quinn, P. S., Day, P. M. and Kilikoglou, V. 2010. Keeping An Eye on Your Pots: The Provenance of Neolithic Ceramics from Cyclops Cave on the Island of Youra, Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37: 1042-1052.
• Quinn, P. S. 2008. The occurrence and research potential of microfossils in inorganic archaeological materials. Geoarchaeology, 23: 275–291.
• Quinn, P. S. and Day, P. M. 2007a. Calcareous microfossils in Bronze Age Aegean Ceramics: Illuminating Technology and Provenance. Archaeometry, 49: 775–793.
• Quinn, P. S. and Day, P. M. 2007b. Ceramic Micropalaeontology: The Analysis of Microfossils in Ancient Ceramics. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 26: 159–168.
• Quinn, P. S., Bowers, R. M., Zhang, X., Wahlund, T. M., Fanelli, M. A., Olszova, D. and Read, B.A. 2006. cDNA Microarrays as a Tool for Identification of Biomineralization Proteins in the Coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyta). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72: 5512–5526.
• Quinn, P. S., Bollmann, J. and Cortés, M. 2005. Morphological biodiversity in the deep oceandwelling coccolithophore Florisphaera profunda (Haptophyta). European Journal of Phycology, 40: 31–42.
• Hein, A., Day, P. M., Quinn, P. S. and Kilikoglou, V. 2004. The geochemical diversity of Neogene clay deposits and its implications for provenance studies of Minoan pottery, Archaeometry, 46: 357–384.
• Saez, A. G., Probert, I., Geisen, M., Quinn, P. S., Young, J. R. and Medlin, L. K. 2003. Pseudocryptic speciation in coccolithophores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100: 7163–7168.
• Quinn, P. S., Thierstein, H. R., Brand, L. E. and Winter, A. 2003. Experimental evidence for the species character of Calcidiscus leptoporus morphotypes. Journal of Paleontology, 77: 825–830.

Book chapters

• Quinn, P. S. and Burton, M. 2009. Ceramic Petrography and the Reconstruction of Hunter-Gatherer Craft Technology in Late Prehistoric Southern California. In: Quinn, P. S. (Ed.) Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Cultural Materials. Archaeopress: 267-295.
• Alaimo, R., Giarrusso, R., Montana, G., Quinn, P. 2007. Petrographic and Micropalaeontological Data in Support of a Sicilian Origin for the Statue of Aphrodite. In: Workshop on the Cult Statue of a Goddess Summary of Proceedings from a Workshop Held at the Getty Villa on May 9, 2007. Getty Publications: 23-28.
• Bollmann, J., Quinn, P. S., Vela, M., Brabcec, B., Brechner, S., Schmidt, R., Schiebel, R. and Thierstein, H. R. 2005. Automated particle analysis: Calcareous microfossils. In: Francus, P. (ed.) Image Analysis, Sediments and Paleoenvironments. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Series, Vol. 7. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 110–135.
• Quinn, P. S., Saez, A. Baumann, K-H., Steel, B. A. and Sprengel, C. 2004. Coccolithophorid biodiversity: Evidence from the cosmopolitan species Calcidiscus leptoporus. In: Thierstein H. R. and Young J. R. (eds.) Coccolithophores: Molecular processes to global impact. Springer Verlag, Berlin: 299–236.
• Day, P. M., Oren, E. D., Joyner, L. and Quinn, P. S. 1999. Petrographic analysis of the Tel Haror inscribed sherd: Seeking provenance within Crete. In: Betancourt, P. P., Karageorghis, V., Laffineur, R. and Neimeiee, W-D (Eds.) Meletemata, Vol. 1, Aegaeum 20, Annales d’archéologie égéene de l’Université de Liège et UT-Pasp: 191–197.

Current students

• Silvia Amicone,  Ceramic Petrography and Archaeological Analysis of the Vince Culture Pottery, Serbia. (Joint Principal Supervisor with Thilo Rehren)
• David Gilbert. Islamic Ceramic Production in the Merv Oasis in the 7th – 13th Centuries (Principal Supervisor: Tim Williams)
• Yvette Balbaligo. Local communities and regional connections: The earthenware pottery from Ille Cave, the Philippines. (Primary supervisor: Bill Sillar)
• Barbara Borgers. Ceramic technology during the Early Roman period in the civitas Tungrorum region of Belgium. (at Vrie University, Brussels with Marc DeBie and Patrick Degryse)

Past students

• Kevin Cootes. Ceramic Production, Distribution and Prehistoric Society in the Peak District National Park. (at Sheffield University with Paul Halstead)