Prof Sue Hamilton

Professor of Prehistory

Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square

Institute of Archaeology

Joined UCL: 1st Oct 1990

Research summary

Landscape archaeology (Pacific, Continental Europe; UK):

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project
Sensory and gendered landscapes; Phenomenology
Rethinking archaeological field practice
Later Prehistory of the Tavoliere-Gargano, Puglia, Southern Italy Project: social and sensory landscapes
Bodmin Moor Bronze Age Landscapes Project (1996-2001)
Caburn Hillfort, East Sussex, Excavation and Landscape Project (1996-2001)

Later European prehistory:

Later Prehistory of the Tavoliere-Gargano, Puglia, Southern Italy Project
British Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement and technologies – ceramic production and exchange
British 1st millennium BC hillforts
Later prehistoric social landscapes

Presentation/representation:

The use of art, text and graphic imagery in archaeological interpretation and presentation

Teaching summary

I would welcome applications to supervise PhDs on the following topics:

Landscape Archaeology – particularly social and sensory landscapes, landscape art, and the archaeology of islands
Pacific (Oceania) Archaeology – particularly Polynesia and Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Bronze Age and Iron Age societies, UK and Europe
Prehistoric ceramics, in general but I have particularly expertise in UK and European ceramics
Art and Archaeology

Current PhD students:

Leah Acheson Roberts How can contemporary sculpture be used as an interpretive resource for archaeology in a museum context? (second supervisor Gabriel Moshenska)

Selected completed PhD students:

Felipe Armstong Human representation in Rapa Nui Art. Discussing personhood through aesthetic (joint principal supervisor Jeremy Tanner)
Susheela Crease An investigation of the practice of deposition in watery contexts in the British pre Roman Iron Age-Roman transition (second supervisor Andrew Gardner)
Stuart Eve Through Dead Men's Eyes: Augmented Reality, Embodied GIS and Visitors to Open-Air Heritage Sites (principal supervisor Mark Lake)
Nicky Garland An analysis of the Early Urban landscape in the Late Iron Age (second supervisor Andrew Gardner; tertiary supervisor Dominic Perring)
Hilary Orange Public Perceptions of Cornish mining landscapes (principal supervisor Andrew Gardner)
Elisa Perego The construction of personhood in Iron Age Veneto (Italy) (principal supervisor Corinna Riva)
Rebecca Rennell Exploring places and landscapes of everyday experience in the Outer Hebridean Iron Age: A study of theory, method and application in experiential archaeology (second supervisor Mark Lake)

Education

University College London: First Degree, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) |
University College London: Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy |

Biography

Please contact Sue Hamilton via ioa-director@ucl.ac.uk in the first instance.

BA, PhD, FSA
Director, UCL Institute of Archaeology (2014-present)
Professor of Prehistory
Chair of UCL IQR Committee
Joint Chair of Departmental Staff Student Consultative Committee
Awarded Provost's Teaching Award 2009-10 for commitment to innovation in teaching

Collaborations:

2006-ongoing: Rapa Nui Landscapes (Easter Island) of Construction Project. This project is directed by Sue Hamilton (Principle Investigator) and C. Richards (University of Manchester, UK: Co-Investigator) in collaboration with Bournemouth University, UK (K. Welham: Co-Investigator)), the Chilean National Parks Authority, Rapa Nui (S. Nahoe) and the Museo Antropologico Padre Sebastian Englert, Rapa Nui (F. Torres H.). Funding: AHRC (2011-17) and The British Academy (2009)
2001-2006: The Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project, Puglia, southern Italy. Survey of the landscapes and archaeology of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages of the Tavoliere Plain and adjacent Gargano promontory with a focus on spatial pattering and scales, and the sociology of sensual and gendered landscapes. Directors: Sue Hamilton and Ruth Whitehouse Funding: The British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust
1995 - 2000: The Bodmin Moor Landscape Project. Survey and excavation of a Late Neolithic/Bronze Age ritual and settlement complex, Leskernick Hill, NW Bodmin Moor and the associated Bronze Age settlement of the Moor. A collaboration between the Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Anthropology, UCL. Directors: B. Bender, S. Hamilton, and C. Tilley. Funding: The British Academy and the Prehistoric Society.
1996 - 2000: The Caburn Hillfort and Landscape Project. Excavation, palaeoenvironmental studies, and intra/intervisibility studies of the Caburn Iron Age hillfort, (Lewes, East Sussex) and its topographic emplacement. A collaboration within the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. Directors: P. Drewett and S. Hamilton. Funding: Sussex Archaeological Society.

Educational Background:

BA Hons, PhD: UCL Institute of Archaeology

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