Prof Gary Lock

Research Interests

• Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology especially Geographical Information Systems, their application and theoretical aspects (current interests are modelling visibility and movement).
• Landscape archaeology.
• British later prehistory (especially hillforts, their landscapes and meaning).
  

Current Activities

• The Vale and Ridgeway Project (with C. Gosden)
• The South Cadbury Environs Project (with Richard Tabor).
• King's Low and Queen's Low (with The Stoke on Trent Museum Society).
• The Sangro Valley Project Phase 1 (with A. Wilson, N. Christie, A. Faustoferri and others).
• The Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project - Alfred's Castle (with C. Gosden).

GIS Research

• Computer-based movement with visibility (with J. Pouncett).
• Forthcoming book (with J. Pouncett), Spatial thinking in Archaeology: towards a theory of practice (Indiana University Press - The Spatial Humanities series).

Publications

• Archaeology and Geographic Information Systems: A European Perspective with Stancic, Z. (eds), (Taylor and Francis, 1995)
• Beyond the Map: Archaeology and Spatial Technologies, (IOS Press, 2000)
• On the Theory and Practics in Archaeological Computing with Brown, K. (eds), (Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 51, 2000)
• Using computers in archaeology: towards virtual pasts (Routledge, 2003)
• Uffington White Horse Hill and its Landscape: Investigations at White Horse Hill, Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill, Ashbury, 1993-4, Oxfordshire with Miles, D., Palmer, S., Gosden, C. and Cormarty A.M. (eds), (Oxford: Oxford Archaeology. Thames Valley Landscape Monograph 18, 2003)
• Segsbury Camp. Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway with Gosden, C. and Daly, P. (Oxford: University of Oxford School of Archaeology Monographs 61, 2005)
• Digging Numbers: Elementary Statistics for Archaeologists with Fletcher, M. (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 2005) - second edition - expanded and revised.
• Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of theory and practice with Molyneaux, B. (eds), (Springer, 2006)
• Archaeology and landscape in central Italy. Papers in memory of J.A. Lloyd with Faustoferri, A. (Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 69, 2008)
• A valley in La Rioja: The Najerilla Project with Cunliffe, B. (Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 73, 2010)