Teaching
My teaching provides introductory learning on Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe at Year 1; Year 2 (Age of Stonehenge) sees critical analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age studies in Britain and Ireland; Year 3 (Beyond the Celts) provides advanced learning on Iron Age Europe that is suitable for both archaeologists and ancient historians; and I provide specialist supervision at Masters level on Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. I am currently taking a break from field training and critical research skills teaching at undergraduate level, training in research skills at Masters level instead.
Prehistory fieldtrips (copyright Richard Mason and Rachel Pope) Postgraduate: Bronze Age and Iron Age studies
I offer teaching on Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain at Masters level: working through core debates in the field, whilst providing a developed understanding of trends in later British prehistory. Since joining Liverpool, I've supervised over fifty UG dissertations and Masters theses. Standout MA/MSc students: Tabitha Craig: Society & identity in Beaker period SW Scotland (80): aDNA & archaeology [publication in prep.] Jess Hornby: Developing method on Iron Age identity (84) [publication in prep.] Sally Longworth: Bronze Age settlement in Mersey Basin (80) [Best in Year, went on to UoL PhD] Catherine Jones: Crannogs (78) [awarded Departmental funding for Bradford MSc, now BM/Manchester Swords PhD] Ashley Brogan: Prehistoric Cairns in north-west England (77) [joined Salford Archaeology; now PhD at York] Jake Morley-Stone: Late Iron Age pellet moulds (75) [awarded University PhD funding] Morgan Murphy: Hillforts and settlement temporality (76) [joined Cotswold Archaeological Trust] Diana Nikolova: Field Techniques in Egyptology (80) [awarded Departmental PhD funding, now in post at Garstang Museum] Lorrae Campbell: Late Bronze Age hillforts (75) [Best in Year, went on to UoL PhD] PhD/MRes students: Tabitha Craig: Scottish Chalcolithic. Funding pending. Jess Hornby (2024- AHRC NWCDTP funding; Duncan Norman scholarship). PhD on sequencing Iron Age cemeteries towards identity. Sally Longworth (2019-2026): PhD on New method on Bronze Age agricultural settlement landscapes in northern Britain Jake Morley-Stone (2018-2023, Joseph Rotblat scholarship): PhD on Late Iron Age pellet moulds: metallugical and contextual analysis (viva complete) Eleanor de Spretter Yates (2016-2023, AHRC funding & John Lennon scholarship): PhD on Bronze Age razors in Prehistoric Britain (viva complete) Dr Lorrae Campbell (2013-2020): PhD on Late Bronze Age hillfort origins in western Britain Published here Emily Prtak (Best in Year; Best Poster award at IARSS 2019): MRes on Molly Cotton and British hillfort studies in the interwar period Dr Alan Williams (2011-2018): PhD on Geochemical and isotopic characterization of the Great Orme BA copper mine Published here Dr Eddie Rule (2011-2018): PhD on Iron Age material culture and meaning in central western Britain Post-doc Research Assistants: 2021-2025: Dr Lorrae Campbell (Park in the Past; publishing Eddisbury & Penycloddiau monographs) 2014-2020: Dr Ceren Kabucku (environmental & C-14 programmes: Penycloddiau, Eddisbury, Kidlandlee) 2011-2020: Richard Mason (Post-ex manager: Penycloddiau, Eddisbury, W.J. Varley Archive, Kidlandlee) 2010-2011: Dr Lisa Snape-Kennedy (Kidlandlee β-stanols, North Wyke Labs) 2009-2010: Dr Alexis McBride (Roundhouses)
Skills training at Penycloddiau (copyright Rachel Pope) Undergraduate: European/British Prehistory
My contributions to Year 1 teaching reveal how Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe contrast with the development of civilisations in the Near East and Mediterranean world. My specialist teaching focuses on Neolithic-Bronze Age Britain; and the western European Iron Age (800 BC-AD 70); teaching regional understandings of British Prehistory in their wider European context. Courses: Introductory lectures on Bronze Age Europe and Iron Age Europe (Year 1) The Age of Stonehenge: Rethinking British & Irish Prehistory (Year 2) Iron Age Europe: Beyond the Celts (Year 3) Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain (MA/MSc)
Supervisors and second years at Penycloddiau: three generations of hats (copyright Rachel Pope) Archaeological Practice
My greatest contributions to the undergraduate experience have been an active commitment to research-led fieldwork training, to early research skills training, and to critical thinking through practice - although I no longer contribute to teaching in these areas at present at Liverpool.
Modules for 2024-25
ACE MA AND MSC DISSERTATION
Module code: ALGY600
Role: Teaching
BRONZE AGE AND IRON AGE BRITAIN
Module code: ALGY786
Role: Module Co-ordinator
BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATIONS: MESOPOTAMIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
Module code: ALGY106
Role: Teaching
DESIGNING AND COMMUNICATING RESEARCH
Module code: ALGY731
Role: Module Co-ordinator
EMPIRES AND CITIZENS: THE CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN AND THE NEAR EAST
Module code: ALGY131
Role: Teaching
IRON AGE EUROPE: BEYOND THE CELTS
Module code: ALGY358
Role: Module Co-ordinator
PRINCIPLES OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Module code: ALGY101
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPMENT BY DIRECTED STUDY
Module code: HLAC503
Role: Teaching
THE AGE OF STONEHENGE: RETHINKING BRITISH PREHISTORY
Module code: ALGY283
Role: Module Co-ordinator
Supervised Theses
- Characterising Bronze Age copper from the Great Orme mine in North Wales to determine and interpret its distribution
- Here Be Dragons: A Contextual Analysis of the Evidence for Society and Culture in Iron Age Central Western Britain
- Razors and Identity in Later Prehistory in Britain
- Re-Examining Late Iron Age Pellet Mould Technology
- The Origins of British Hillforts: A comparative study of Late Bronze Age hillfort origins in the Atlantic West