Prof Chris Gosden

Research Interests

Anthropology and archaeology, archaeology and colonialism, archaeology and intelligence, Iron Age Britain, Turkmenistan, Papua New Guinea.

Current Activities

Currently excavating the site of Marcham (with Gary Lock) – a late Iron and Romano-British site with large religious structures which throws light on ritual and belief before and during the Romano-British period. He is co-director (with Mike O’Hanlon) of the Relational Museum Project examining the sets of connections between people and objects which make up the Pitt Rivers Museum. He is currently working on a book on archaeology and intelligence.

Publications

• Archaeology and Colonialism. (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• Prehistory. A very short introduction. (Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Collecting colonialism: material culture and colonial change in Papua New Guinea – with C. Knowles. (Berg, 2001)
• Archaeology and Anthropology (Routledge, 1999)
• Social Being and Time (Blackwell, 1994)