Mark LAKE - B.A., Ph.D.

• Senior Lecturer
• Degree Programme Co-ordinator: M.Sc. in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2028 Current issues in archaeological theory
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG055 Model building in archaeology
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG116 Archaeological approaches to the human use of space
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG117 Spatial analysis in archaeology
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCLG118 Research skills for spatial analysis
  

Research Interests:

I am actively engaged in the development and use of quantitative and computational methods for studying the past, especially agent-based computer simulation and geographical information systems. I have used these techniques to study the evolutionary origins of cultural transmission, Mesolithic settlement strategies in Scotland and the spread of farming in Neolithic Europe. I also have a long standing interest in the problem of memes and the manner in which human innovation explores design space. Further information (and software) is available on my personal web pages.

• For information about the AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity projects, follow the Associated Projects links from here [which will open in a separate window]

Recent Publications:

Lake, M W, (ed.) 2007. Viewing Space. World Archaeology, 39 (theme issue).

Lake, M W, 2007. Viewing Space. World Archaeology, 39:1-3.

Lake, M W, 2007. Whither Processulism? (Review Article). Antiquity, 81:208-210.

Conolly, J and Lake M, 2006. Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bentley, R A, Lake M W and Shennan, S J, 2005. Specialisation and wealth inequality in a model of a clustered economic network. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 1346-1356.

Lake, M W, 2004. Being in a Simulacrum: Electronic Agency. pp.191-209 in A. Gardner (ed.), Agency Uncovered, London: UCL Press.

Lake, M W and Woodman, P E, 2003. Visibility studies in archaeology: A review and case study. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 30:689-707.

Lake, M W, 2001. Numerical Modelling in Archaeology. pp.23-732 in D R Brothwell & A M Pollard (eds), Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, John Wiley & Sons.

Lake, M W, 2001. The Use of Pedestrian Modelling in Archaeology, with an Example from the Study of Cultural Learning. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 28, 385-403.

Lake, M W, 2000. Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging. pp.107-143 in G Gumerman & T Kohler (eds), Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes, New York: Oxford University Press.

Lake, M W, 2000. MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging on Islay. pp.465-495 in S J Mithen (ed), Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project, 1988--98 The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2: Archaeological Fieldwork on Colonsay, Computer Modelling, Experimental Archaeology, and Final Interpretations, Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Lake, M W, 1998 Digging for Memes: the role of material objects in cultural evolution, in C Renfrew & C Scarre (eds). Cognition and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Symbolic Storage. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Lake, M W, 1998. Homo: the Creative Genus? in S J Mithen (ed). Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory. London: Routledge.

Lake, M W, Woodman, P E & Mithen, S J, 1998. Tailoring GIS Software for Archaeological Applications: an example concerning viewshed analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 25, 27-38

Lake, M W, 1997. Darwinian Archaeology: an `Ism' for Our Times? (review article), Antiquity 71, 1086-8.

Lake, M W, 1996. Archaeological Inference and the Explanation of Hominid Evolution. pp. 184-206 in J Steele & S Shennan (eds), The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: power, sex and tradition, London: Routledge.

Educational Background:

• 1991: University of Cambridge, B.A.
• 1995: University of Cambridge, Ph.D.

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