Dr. Robin Skeates is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Durham, UK. Through his research and teaching over the last 15 years, he has made a significant contribution to the prehistoric archaeology of the central Mediterranean region, particularly through his work on radiocarbon chronologies, artefact studies, settlement patterns and social relations in central and southern Italy. He has also contributed to debates surrounding public archaeology in Britain and abroad, to the history of archaeological collecting and museums, to upland archaeology (through extensive field-survey work in the Welsh mountains), and to the training of future museum professionals. He has recently completed a book on Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy (London: Duckworth; in press). This book explores the complementarity of visual culture studies and interpretative archaeology, with particular reference to the art and social life of prehistoric South-East Italy, from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Bronze Age. His previous books comprise: Debating the Archaeological Heritage (London: Duckworth, 2000), and The Collecting of Origins: Collectors and Collections of Italian Prehistory and the Cultural Transformation of Value (1550-1999) (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2000). He has also co-edited volumes on: Radiocarbon Dating and Italian Prehistory (London: Accordia Research Centre & The British School at Rome, 1994), and Sacred and Profane: Proceedings of a Conference on Archaeology, Ritual and Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1990).
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