Nicholas J. Saunders

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Nicholas J Saunders
Nicholas Saunders
Born	1953
Nationality	British

Nicholas J. Saunders (born 1953) is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield (BA Archaeology, 1979), Cambridge (MPhil Social Anthropology, 1981), and Southampton (PhD Archaeology, 1991). He has held teaching and research positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the West Indies, and at University College London, where he was Reader in Material Culture, and undertook a major British Academy sponsored investigation into the material culture anthropology of the First World War (1998-2004).As of 2009 Saunders is course organiser in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where he is responsible for the M.A. programmes in historical archaeology, conflict archaeology as well as archaeology and screen media. He is a prominent contributor to the nascent field of conflict archaeology, and has authored and edited numerous academic publications in the field. In addition to his research specialising in the anthropology of 20th-century conflicts and the archaeology of World War I theatres in Belgium, France and the Middle East, Saunders has also conducted extensive fieldwork and research in pre-Columbian and historical archaeology of the Americas. Saunders has investigated and published on material cultures and landscapes of Mesoamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. His most recent research has been on the aesthetics of brilliance and colour in indigenous Amerindian symbolism, and an extensive survey investigation of the Nazca Lines in Peru.

Major Publications

Contested Objects, (ed.) (with P. Cornish). 2009. Abingdon, Routledge.

Images of Conflict, (ed.) 2009. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars.

Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War, 2007. Stroud: Sutton.

Alexander's Tomb, 2006. New York: Basic.

Peoples of the Caribbean, 2005. San Diego: ABC-Clio.

Matters of Conflict (ed.) 2004. Abingdon: Routledge.

Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War, 2003. Oxford: Berg.

Icons of Power (ed.) 1998. London: Routledge.

External links

• Works by or about Nicholas J. Saunders in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Faculty profile, University of Bristol Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology
• Great Arab Revolt Project, co-directed by Nicholas Saunders
• Team biography profile, Great Arab Revolt Project