UCL Institute of Archaeology

• BSc, MSc, PhD
• Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
• Associate Fellow, The Institute of Latin American Studies (University of London)
• Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL1016 Sites and Artefacts
  
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG112 Interpreting Pottery
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG227 Technology in Society: Archaeology and ethnography in the Andes

Research Interests

• Archaeology and ethnography of the Andes
• Ceramics
• Material culture and technology
• Biography of an artefact

Research Directory Records

• Andean Technology
• Inka Ceramics
• Pottery Technology
• Raqchi

Other Projects

• The West Dean Project 

Educational Background:

• BSc Institute of Archaeology, University of London. 1985
• MSc Institute of Archaeology, UCL 1988
• PhD Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge 1995

• Sillar, B., 2005. Who’s indigenous? Whose archaeology? Public Archaeology 4(2&3), 71-94. ISSN: 1465-5187
• Sillar, B., Fforde, C. 2005. Conservation, Identify and Ownership in Indigenous Archaeology. Public Archaeology, 4 (2&3), 67-221. ISSN: 1465-5187
• Sillar B. and E. Dean, 2004 (April). Identidad étnica bajo el dominio Inka: una evaluación arqueológica y etnohistórica de las repercusiones del estado Inka en el grupo étnico Canas. Boletin de Arqueologia Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Vol 6 (dated 2002). 205-264
• Sillar B., 2004. Acts of god and active material culture: agency and commitment in the Andes in. A. Gardner (ed.) Agency and Archaeology. London: UCL Press 153-209
• Sillar B., 2004. Pottery in B. Fagan (ed.) The seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World. Thames and Hudson, 37-40.
• Sillar B., 2003. Technological Choices and Experimental Archaeology: Comments on: M. S. Tite, V. Kilikoglou and G. Vekinis ‘Strength, Toughness and Thermal Shock Resistance of Ancient Ceramics and their Influence on Technological Choice. Archaeometry 45(1) 161-169.
• Sillar, B., 2000. Shaping Culture: Making Pots and Constructing Households. An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Pottery Production, Trade and Use in the Andes, BAR International Series 883. Oxford.
• Sillar, B., & Tite, M., 2000. The challenge of 'technological choices' for material science approaches in archaeology, Archaeometry, 42(1), 2-20
• Sillar, B., 2000. Dung by Preference: The choice of fuel as an example of how Andean pottery production is embedded within wider technical, social and economic practices, Archaeometry, 42(1), 43-60
• Sillar, B., 1997. Engendrando la vida y vivificando la muerte: jugando con ollas en los Andes, in D Y Arnold (ed), Más allá del Silencio: Las Fronteras de Género en los Andes, CIASE/ILCA. La Paz, Bolivia, 513-529
• Sillar, B., 1997. Reputable pots and disreputable potters: individual and community choice in present-day pottery production and exchange in the Andes, in C Cumberpatch and P Blinkhorn (eds), Not So Much a Pot as a Way of Life, Oxbow Monograph, 1-20. Oxford
• Sillar, B., 1996. Playing with God: cultural perception of children, play and miniatures in the Andes, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 13(2), 47-63
• Sillar, B., 1996. The Dead and the Drying; techniques for transforming people and things in the Andes, Journal of Material Culture, 1(3), 259-289
• Lampeter Archaeology Workshop, 1997. Relativism, objectivity and the politics of the past, Archaeological Dialogues, 2, 164-184 and Discussion & response, in Archaeological Dialogues 1, 43-53
• Sillar, B., Kendall, A. & Early, R., 1995. Arquitectura Inca Temprana en Juchuy Cosco, Boletín de Lima, Vol. XVII (97), 43-67
• Sillar, B. & Kendall, A., 1995. Arquitectura y ocupación Inca temprana en Warq'ana, Sector de Juchuy Cosco, Revista del museo e Instituto de Arqueología, 25, 75-102. Universidad de San Antonio Abad del Cusco

Current Students

• Yvette Balbaligo Earthenware pottery from Ille Cave, Palawan, the Philippines: local change and regional connections (second supervisor Dorian Fuller)
• Margaret Broomfield The archaeology, topography and continuing context of the medieval leather industry in London, 600 - 1600 (second supervisor Gustav Milne)
• Kirsten Halliday Imagery by default or design?: Artisan and State in Chimu and Chimu-Inka cloth and clay (second supervisors Renata Peters and Colin Peters BM)

Second Supervisor

• Fernanda (Maria Kalazich Cultural meanings and values  of the Likan Antai. The practise of archaeology through a participatory approach (principal supervisor Tim Schadla-Hall)
• Meredith Wiggins Roman households: Space, status and identity (principal supervisor Andrew Gardner)
• Virginia McRostie Agriculturization process in the Western Salty Basin of Atacama (2910BC-500AD). When, where, how and why? A research based on macro and micro botanical evidences. (principal supervisor Arlene Rosen)
• Claudia Zehrt Do we need royalty? The negotiation of social identity from the standpoint of the support population at Minanha, Belize (principal supervisor Elizabeth Graham)
• Paolo Guarino Aspects of complexity in Arslantepe (principal supervisor Roger Matthews)