Julian D. Richards
Julian Daryl Richards is a British archaeologist. He is a professor at the University of York, the director of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS),[1] and the editor of Internet Archaeology.[2] He is also the director of the Centre for Digital Heritage at the university, and the founding director of The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.[1] His research focuses on the archaeological applications of information technology, as well as on Anglo-Saxon and Viking archaeology. He has led excavations at Cottam, Cowlam, Burdale, Wharram Percy, and Heath Wood barrow cemetery.[1]
Career
Richards studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, after switching from history. He began his Ph.D. in 1980, researching burial rituals among pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons. In the 1970s or 1980s Richards took part in the excavations of Viking Age settlements around the Coppergate Shopping Centre in York, which eventually yielded the Anglo-Saxon Coppergate helmet. He then spent time at the University of Leeds, before returning to York in 1986 to lecture about Anglo-Saxon and Viking archaeology at the University of York.[1]
Richards is a professor at the University of York, concentrating on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age archaeology, particularly mortuary behaviour and settlement evolution, in England. In that capacity he published Viking Age England in 1991,[3] and has led excavations at Cottam, Cowlam, Burdale, Wharram Percy, and Heath Wood barrow cemetery, the only Viking cremation cemetery in Britain. As of February 2018[update], he is exploring a winter camp used by the Great Viking Army at Torksey,[1][4][5] stretching over 136 acres (55 ha).[6][7]
Another concentration of Richards is the intersection of archaeology and technology. In 1985 he co-edited a textbook on archaeological computing, Current Issues in Archaeological Computing,[8] a focus of subsequent books and papers.[1] He is the director of the Archaeology Data Service, a digital archive of archaeological research,[1] and the co-director of Internet Archaeology, an electronic peer-reviewed journal.[2] He is also the director the Centre for Digital Heritage at the University of York, and has been the founding director of The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities since October 2013.[1]
Publications
- Richards, Julian D. (1992). "Anglo Saxon Symbolism". In Carver, Martin (ed.). The Age of Sutton Hoo: The seventh century in north-western Europe. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. pp. 131–147.
- Richards, Julian D.; Hadley, Dawn M. (2016). "The Viking Winter Camp and Anglo-Scandinavian Town at Torksey, Lincolnshire – The Landscape Context". In Turner, Val E.; Owen, Olwyn A.; Waugh, Doreen J. (eds.). Shetland and the Viking World: Papers from the Seventeenth Viking Congress, Lerwick. Lerwick: Shetland Amenities Trust. pp. 127–139. ISBN 978-0-9932740-3-9.
- Hadley, Dawn M.; Richards, Julian D. (September 2016). "The Winter Camp of the Viking Great Army, AD 872–3, Torksey, Lincolnshire" (PDF). The Antiquaries Journal. 96. Society of Antiquaries of London: 23–67.
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References
- ^ a b c d e f g h University of York Bio.
- ^ a b Internet Archaeology.
- ^ Batey 1992.
- ^ Hadley & Richards 2016, p. 24.
- ^ Weiss 2018.
- ^ Pappas 2017.
- ^ ScienceDaily 2017.
- ^ Nixon 1987.
Bibliography
- "About Us". Internet Archaeology. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Batey, Colleen (1992). "Review: Viking Age England". The Archaeological Journal. 149 (1). British Archaeological Institute: 433–434. doi:10.1080/00665983.1992.11078027.
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(help) - "Julian D Richards, Professor of Archaeology". Department of Archaeology. University of York. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Nixon, Joseph M. (November 1987). "Review: Current Issues in Archaeological Computing". Plains Anthropologist. 32 (118). Plains Anthropological Society: 435–437. JSTOR 25668724.
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(help) - Pappas, Stephanie (25 May 2017). "Vikings Wintered and Planned Raids at 9th-Century English Site". Live Science. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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(help) - "Viking Army Camp Uncovered by Archaeologists in England". ScienceDaily. 18 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- Weiss, Daniel (March–April 2018). "The Viking Great Army: A Tale of Conflict and Adaptation Played Out in Northern England". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. ISSN 0003-8113. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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