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 | Name: Mike Seager Thomas Honorary Title: Honorary Research Fellow Email: mike.thomas@ucl.ac.uk IoA staff nominator’s name and email address: Sue Hamilton s.hamilton@ucl.ac.uk |
- Profile
IoA involvement:
Mike Seager Thomas is a graduate of the Institute of Archaeology (1996) and a long term participant in Institute of Archaeology research projects, including the well-known Leskernick Project and the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project. His specialisms include landscape archaeology, stone in prehistoric archaeology and British prehistoric pottery. Since 2008, he has worked with Professor Sue Hamilton on the Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project and is the main author of several of its annual reports. The most recent product of this collaboration is a joint paper (with Professor Hamilton and Rapanui architect Hetereki Huke): 'Imagining Polynesia: Heritage, Identity Politics and the Evolution of a New Rapa Nui Architecture', currently undergoing review. Other recent Institute projects with which he has been involved include Mark Roberts' training excavations on Bow Hill and at Downley, West Sussex, for which he analysed the prehistoric pottery assemblages recovered (2015 and 2019); and, also with Professor Hamilton, a successful trial of the techniques of sensory archaeology in the environs of the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum, Lintong, China (2018). Mike’s involvement with these projects is ongoing.
- Publications
Selected recent publications
Armstrong, F., Astete, T., Hamilton, S. and Seager Thomas, M. (2020) 'The LOC taheta survey', UCL Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Interim Report, 16.
Seager Thomas, M. (2020) Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive. Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy, 19(2). London: Accordia Research Institute.
Seager Thomas, M. (2020) 'Fortuitous interventions: geomorphological and artefactual investigations on Neolithic features exposed at two gravel quarries' in Hamilton, S. and Whitehouse, R. Neolithic Spaces, Volume 1: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy. Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy, 19(1). London: Accordia Research Institute, 295–382.
Hamilton, S. and Seager Thomas, M. (2018) 'Eroding heritage: an island context', Archaeology International, 21(1), 64–74.
Seager Thomas, M. (2014) 'Stone use and avoidance on Easter Island. Red scoria from the topknot quarry at Puna Pau and other sources', Archaeology in Oceania, 49(2), 95–109.
