Caroline Wickham-Jones

Caroline Wickham-Jones is Scottish archaeologist specialising in Stone Age Orkney. She was a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen until her retirement in 2015.[1]

Caroline Wickham-Jones
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-disciplinePrehistoric archaeology
Institutions

Education and career

Wickham-Jones studied archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a master's degree in heritage management from the University of Birmingham.[2] From 2006 to 2015, she was lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen.[1] Her research at Aberdeen, supported by the Leverhulme Trust,[2] focused on the submerged landscape of Orkney around Scapa Flow.[3] As a specialist on the Mesolithic, she has collaborated on the University of Aberdeen's 'Rising Tide' project and the University of the Highlands and Islands' 'Turning Back the Tide' project.[4][5] She also helped establish the Mesolithic Room at the Tomb of the Eagles Museum on Orkney.[6]

Wickham-Jones has also held a visiting research fellowship at the University of the Highlands and Islands and is currently an honorary research assistant at the University of Aberdeen. She is a trustee of the John Muir Trust, the Orkney Archaeological Trust, and Caithness Archaeological Trust; a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an honorary fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; and a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.[2]

Selected publications

Individual Publications:

  • 2019; Landscape beneath the waves: the archaeological investigation of underwater landscapes. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
  • 2019; Seamless archaeology: the use of archaeology in the study of seascapes. In King, T. & Robinson, G. At Home on the Waves. New York: Berghahn books.
  • 2014; Prehistoric hunter-gatherer innovations: coastal adaptions. In Cummings, V., P. Jordan & M. Zvelebil. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter- gatherers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 694–711.
  • 2012; The Monuments of Orkney. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland.
  • 2010; Fear of Farming. Oxford: Oxbow Books/Windgather Press.
  • 2006; Between the Water and the Wind, World Heritage Orkney, Windgather Press (revised and republished in 2015)
  • 2001;The Landscape of Scotland: a hidden history, Gloucester: Tempus. (republished by The History Press: Feb 2009)
  • 1998; Orkney, an historical guide; Edinburgh: Birlinn Press. (reprinted and updated in 2007; revised edition published in 2015, reprinted 2017, 2018 and 2019)
  • 1993; A round bottomed vessel from a new archaeological site at Papadil, Rum;Glasgow Archaeol J; 18;73-5
  • 1987; A discoidal flint knife from near Huntly, Aberdeenshire; Proc Soc Antiq Scot; 117; 1986-7; 354-5.
  • 1986; The Procurement and Use Of Stone For Flaked Tools in Prehistoric Scotland; Proc Soc Antiq Scot; 116; 1- 10.

Joint Publications:

  • Barclay GJ, Carter SP, Dalland MM, Hastie M, Holden TG, MacSween A, & Wickham-Jones CR, 2002, A Possible Neolithic Settlement at Kinbeachie, Easter Ross. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 131 (2001) 57-86.
  • Ballin, T. B. and Wickham-Jones, C.R. 2017. Searching for the Scottish Late Upper Palaeolithic: a case study from Nethermills Farm, Aberdeenshire. Journal of Lithic Studies, 4, 1-15.
  • Bates CR, Bates M, Dawson S, Huws D, Whittaker JE, and Wickham-Jones CR 2016, The Environmental context of the Neolithic Monuments on the Brodgar Isthmus, Mainland, Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 394-407.
  • Bates M, Nayling N, Bates CR, Dawson S, Huws D, & Wickham-Jones CR 2013 A multi-disciplinary approach to the archaeological investigation of a bedrock dominated shallow marine landscape: an example from the Bay of Firth, Orkney, UK. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 42.
  • Cucchi T, R Barnett, N Martínková, S Renaud, E Renvoisé, A Evin, A Sheridan, I Mainland, CR Wickham- Jones, C Tougard, JP Quéré, M Pascal, M Pascal, G Heckel, P O’Higgins, JB Searle & KM Dobney; 2014. The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the Orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis), Evolution, 68/10, 2804-2820.
  • Elphinstone M & Wickham-Jones CR 2012 Archaeology and Fiction Antiquity, 86, 532-537.
  • Wickham-Jones CR, Dawson S & Bates CR 2009, The Submerged Landscape of Orkney. Archaeological Journal, 166 (supplement: Orkney guide), 26-30.
  • Wickham-Jones CR & Firth CR 2000; Mesolithic settlement of northern Scotland: first results of fieldwork in Caithness and Orkney, in Young R (ed) Mesolithic Lifeways, current research from Britain and Ireland, Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs no 7, 119-32.
  • Wickham-Jones CR & Woodman P 1998; Studies on the Early Settlement of Scotland and Ireland; in Strauss L & Ericksen B (eds); As the World Warmed, Human Adaptions Across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary; (= Quaternary International 49/50); 13-20. Oxford: Pergamon.

References
  1. "Caroline Wickham-Jones | Profile". www.cruiseshipenrichment.net. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. "Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Annual General Meeting Notes" (PDF). November 2018.
  3. "Aberdeen's Caroline Wickham-Jones: Painting a picture of Scapa Flow, 10,000 years ago | News | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  4. "The Rising Tide: Investigations into the Submerged Archaeology of Orkney". The University of Aberdeen. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  5. seanlisle1 (2017-07-04). "Turning Back the Tides: investigating Orkney's submerged landscape". Archaeology Orkney. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  6. Collins, Andrew. "Orcadian Genesis: The Origins of the Orkney Isles' Unique Megalithic Culture and its Roots in Britain's Own Lost Atlantis - Part Two". www.ancient-origins.net. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
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