Rachel Pope FSA is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Europe. She is Reader in European Prehistory at the University of Liverpool.[1]
Rachel Pope | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | archaeologist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
| Thesis | Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c2500 BC – AD 500 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
Education edit
Pope undertook undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Durham University.[1] Her PhD thesis was entitled "Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c 2500 BC - AD 500", was awarded in 2003, and funded partly through support provided by the British Federation of Women Graduates and St Mary's College.[2]
Career edit
In 2004 Pope held an early career fellowship at the University of Leicester.[1] Pope's research includes Iron Age hillforts,[3] the Celts, and gender.
Pope has directed excavations at the Kidlandlee Dean Bronze Age Landscapes Project (Northumberland) and Eddisbury Hillfort, Merrick’s Hill (Cheshire), and at Penycloddiau Hillfort.[1] She co-edited the volume The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent with Colin Haselgrove, which provided a thorough "overview of research into the early first millennium BC".[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.[5] Pope is director of British Women Archaeologists.[6] She is a key member of campaign to stop development at Old Oswestry Hillfort.[7] Pope was featured in the Leonora Saunders and TrowelBlazers Raising Horizons exhibition as Margaret Guido.[8]
Selected publications edit
- Pope, R. E. (2007). Ritual and the roundhouse: a critique of recent ideas on domestic space in later British prehistory. In C. C. Haselgrove, & R. E. Pope (Eds.), The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow: 204-228.
- Ghey, E., Edwards, N., and Pope, R. (2007) Characterising the Welsh Roundhouse: chronology, inhabitation and landscape, Internet Archaeology 23. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.23.1
- Pope, R. (2011). Processual archaeology and gender politics. The loss of innocence. Archaeological Dialogues 18(01): 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203811000134
- Pope, R. E., & Ralston, I. B. M. (2011). Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent. In L. Armada, & T. Moore (eds), Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Edwards, B. G., & Pope, R. E. (2012). Gender in British Prehistory. In D. Bolger (eds), A Companion to Gender Prehistory. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Pope, R. E. (2015). Bronze Age architectural traditions: dates and landscapes. In F. Hunter, & I.B.M. Ralston (eds), Scotland in Later Prehistoric Europe. Oxford: Oxbow.
- Pope, R. E. (2018). Gender and society in Iron Age Europe. In C. C. Haselgrove, K. Rebay-Salisbury, & P. Wells (eds) Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Pope, R. (2021). Re-approaching Celts: Origins, society, and social change. Journal of Archaeological Research, 1-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09157-1
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Rachel Pope - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
- ^ Pope, Rachel (2003). Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c2500 BC - AD 500 (Thesis). Durham.
- ^ CA (2009-02-10). "CA 222". Current Archaeology. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ "The Prehistoric Society - Book Review". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
- ^ "Rachel Pope - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
- ^ "Raising Horizons: Queens of the Castles | TrowelBlazers". 17 October 2016. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ "Raising Horizons | Home". raisinghorizons.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-18.