Professor Chris Gosden
Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology
+44 (0)1865 288012
Research Interests
Archaeology, Landscape and Identity, Archaeology and intelligence, History of the rainforest, Eurasian connections, Papua New Guinea.
Research Profile
Current Activities
Chris is the Principal Investigator for the ERC funded HORSEPOWER project in collaboration with the British Museum and colleagues at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and, the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA).
Previously Chris directed the English Landscape and Identities project looking at the history of the English Landscape from 1500 BC to AD 1088 (funded by the ERC), and the European Celtic Art in Context project, exploring Celtic art and its eastern connections (funded by the Leverhulme Trust). Chris is also finishing a project on the English Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum (funded by the ESRC).
Links
HORSEPOWER: China, Mongolia and the steppe
Publications
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching
Lecturer for core papers:
- Honour Moderations - Introduction to World Archaeology
- FHS - Social Analysis and Interpretation
- FHS - Cultural Representations, Beliefs and Practices
- FHS - Landscape and Ecology
Postgraduate teaching
Postgraduate taught course options in:
Doctoral Supervision
Current students
| The Characterisation and Prediction of Roman Settlement, Farming and Land Use Patterns in Central and Southern England Paul Chadwick | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Horse Power: Interactions between China, Mongolia and the steppe 2000-0 BCE Akari Goda-Maurezzutt | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Emancipatory Archaeology: Resilience in the Terminal Classic at Lamanai, Belize (8th to 11th centuries CE) Guopeng Chen | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Alexander Geurds |
| Focusing on the systematic typological study and through a great deal of induction and arrangement work Ruyue Wang | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| The Archaeology of Urbanism and Transformation in Southeast Asia Michael Leadbetter | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Archaeology and Disaster: Geospatial and remote sensing approaches for determining the susceptibility of archaeology to disaster Rachel Smith | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Becoming Chu: Interaction and Ideology during the Eastern Zhou Period Shui Shen | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
Past students
| An assemblage and material agency approach to the function of jades in a mortuary context: the case of Fu Hao's tomb in late Shang China Xuying Du (2023) ORA | MLitt Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| A drop of soul amidst the clay - Cognitive aspects of Mycenaean archives and archival texts Miriam Mann (2023) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Lisa Bendall |
| Plantiness: Re-evaluating Plant-Human Relationships Across Temporal Landscapes in Britain Molly Masterson (2023) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Cities and the Mongol Conquest: Urban Change in Central Asia from 1200-1400 Katie Campbell (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Paul Wordsworth and Chris Gosden |
| Tradigital Knowledge? Indigenous Video Games, Intellectual Property Law, and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge Gabrielle Hughes (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Graeme Dinwoodie |
| The Bay of Biscay as a sphere of interaction (2900-1100 BC): big data and big thinking in the Bronze Age Juan Latorre-Ruiz (2021) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Changing Meanings of Megalithic Monuments in the Upper Baram, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo Nicholas Gani (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Prehistoric Aesthetics: An Ontology of Stone Age Art from the Lower Palaeolithic until the Neolithic Brecht Govaerts (2020) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and Chris Gosden |
| Neolithic occupation and stone working on the Yorkshire Wolds John Pouncett (2018) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Integrating Art, Landscape, and Archaeology. Investigations of Prehistoric Wall Paintings at Çatalhöyük Ina St George (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Mark Pollard |
| Diets in England: Change, Continuity and Regionality between the Iron Age and Domesday Book (700 B.C. - 1086 A.D.) Sarah Mallet (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeological Science | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| A Study in Grey: Grey Literature and Archaeology in England 1990 to 2010 Victoria Donnelly (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Materiality in numerical cognition: Material Engagement Theory and the counting technologies of the Ancient Near East Leee Overmann (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Lambros Malafouris and Chris Gosden |
| The circulation of flesh: regional food producing/consuming systems in Southern England 1500BC-AD1086 Dan Stansbie (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Mobilising Stone: Investigating Relations of Materiality, Movement and Corporality in Holocene Saharan Rock Art Victoria Waldock (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Peter Mitchell and Chris Gosden |
| What is Icenian coinage? John Talbot (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| The Spatial Construct of Social Relations: social transformation in early Kau-Shi, Taiwan Mu-chun Wu (2015) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Gary Lock and Chris Gosden |
| Social Being and the Navan Complex: c.4000BC - c.90BC David Price (2014) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World: Combining historical linguistic and archaeological approaches Tom Hoogervorst (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Nicole Boivin and Chris Gosden |
| Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c.1500-400 BC): An analysis of settlements and monuments in the mid-Korean peninsula Sunwoo Kim (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Rick Schulting |
| Complex assemblages, complex social structures: rural settlements in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley 100BC-AD100 Wendy Morrison (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Interregional Interaction and Social Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin Vajk Szeverenyi (2012) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| The Changing Scale and Mode of Textile Production in Late Saxon England : Its Relationship to Developments in Textile Technology Philippa Henry (2011) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| How Others Drink their Wine: An Inter-contextual Approach to the Ethnic Makeup of the Ebro Valley (Spain) in the Iron Age Aaron Alzola Romero (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Barrington Cunliffe |
| The material culture of folklore: British ethnographic collections between 1890 and 1900 Oliver Douglas (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| The Acadians of Mi`kma`ki: An Archaeology of Acadian Identities Prior to 1755 Jonathan Fowler (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Skeuomorphs and Stone Working: Elaborate Lithics from the Early Metal-Using Era in Coastal Northwest Europe Catherine Frieman (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Change in the Iron Age of the Lower Rhone: Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism or Colonization? Victoria Jefferson (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Antiquities Trade: Cultural biographies of two Euphronios vases looted from Etruria Vernon Silver (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Tessa Verney Wheeler: Women and Archaeology before World War Two Lydia Carr (2008) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Chris Gosden and Barrington Cunliffe |
| Town and Gown: Amateurs and Academics. The Discovery of British Prehistory; Oxford 1850-1900 'A Pastime Professionalised' Megan Price (2007) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Reusing Roman Monuments in Arles and Nimes: An Evaluation of Heritage Management Strategies in Local Government Paul Gardner (2006) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Chris Gosden |
| Construction of space in early Holocene iron gates Vuk Trifkovic (2004) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Gary Lock and Chris Gosden |
