Dr Nick Thorpe 

Head of the Department of Archaeology 

Principal Lecturer in Archaeology 

Email:

Nick.Thorpe@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0)1962 827514 

Fax:

+44 (0)1962 827103 

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Biography

I have been a lecturer at the University of Winchester since 1994. Previous to that I took my undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Reading and then carried out a PhD in the Anthropology department at University College London on Neolithic and Bronze Age Wessex and Yorkshire: a Comparative Study. I did some teaching at UCL, then at the University of Århus in Denmark and the University of Liverpool. I was the programme leader for the undergraduate degrees in Archaeology and Archaeological Practice for many years and am now the Head of the Department of Archaeology. I currently teach European and British prehistory, archaeological theory, theme studies on death, religion and landscape and excavation methods to both undergraduates and students on the MA in Local and Regional History and Archaeology. I have also supervised a number of research students on topics including prehistoric horses in Britain, human remains in caves in Yorkshire, warfare and bronze hoards.
As well as academic works listed below I have collaborated on three popular books: Centuries of Darkness, Ancient Inventions and Ancient Mysteries (see links on the right hand panel).

Current Research Projects
St Mary Magdalen Hospital Excavations

Expertise

Later Prehistory
The Archaeology of Warfare
The Archaeology of Death and the Life Cycle

Publications

Books: authored

Thorpe, I.J.N. (1996) The Origins of Agriculture in Europe (London: Routledge).
Parker Pearson M and Thorpe I J N (eds.) (2006) Warfare, Violence and Slavery in Prehistory (Oxford, British Archaeological Reports)

Edited works: contributions (since 2000)

Thorpe, I.J.N. (2000) 'Bare but Bountiful: the Later Neolithic Social and Physical Landscape of Thy, Jutland', in Ritchie A (ed) Neolithic Orkney in its European Context (Cambridge) 71-78.
Thorpe, I.J.N. (2001) 'Danish causewayed enclosures - temporary monuments?' In Darvill T & Thomas J (eds.) Neolithic Enclosures in Atlantic Northwest Europe (Oxford), 190-203.
Thorpe, I.J.N. (2002) 'Of games and invention: the function of invention, the invention of function', In Götz M. et al. (eds.) Heureka oder die Kunst des Entwerfens (Ulm), 86-92.
Thorpe, I.J.N. (2003) 'Death and Violence - the Later Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia'. In Bevan L and Moore J (eds.) Peopling the Mesolithic in a Northern Environment (Oxford), 171-180.
Thorpe, I.J.N. (2006) 'Fighting and Feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland' in Otto T, Thrane H and Vandkilde H (eds.) Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives (Århus University Press), 141-166.
Thorpe, I.J.N. (2009) 'Fighting and Feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland' in Glørstad, H. and Prescott, C. (eds.) Neolithisation as if History Mattered (Bricoleur Press), 23-63.

Journal papers: academic (since 2000)

Thorpe, I.J.N. (2003) Anthropology, Archaeology and the origin of Warfare. World Archaeology 35, 145-165.
Outram, A. et al. (2009) The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking. Science 323, 1332-1335.

Research Interests

Mesolithic to Bronze Age Northwest Europe, especially Britain and Scandinavia
Disability in prehistory
Human lifecycles, especially the experience of old age
The archaeology of death
Prehistoric warfare
Cave burial