Dr Roger Doonan
Director of Outreach; Senior Lecturer
PhD MSc BSc
Email address r.doonan@shef.ac.uk
Telephone 0114 2222939
Biography
1998-2005 Lecturer in Iron Age and Archaeological Materials, Bournemouth University
1997-1998 Archaeologist Ancient Monuments Laboratory English Heritage
1994-1997 British Academy Fellow, Fitch Laboratory British School at Athens
Research interests
- Material Culture Studies
- Archaeological theory
- Community archaeology
- Experimental Archaeology
Current research projects / collaborations
- Cultural transmission and social complexity of Steppe communities during the Bronze Age (with Bryan Hanks University of Pitt)
- NARNIA FP7 The use of pXRF in Archaeology
- Early Bronze Age metal Production at Ecton Hill, Staffordshire.
- Mineral Resource Perception in the Aegean Early Bronze
Research supervision
I am happy to discuss future supervision in the following areas:
- Archaeometallurgy
- Social theory and technology
- Craft production in the Mediterranean
- Experimental archaeology
- Aspects of Eurasian Archaeology
Recent students
- Kate Harrell (FT) Mycenaean Ways of War: The Past, Politics and Personhood
- Nerantizis Nerantzis (FT) Byzantine and Ottoman mineral exploration and smelting in Eastern Macedonia, Greece
Current students
- Derek Pitman(FT) Social Complexity in the Southern Urals during the Middle Bronze Age
- Jessica Slater (FT) Locating craft Practice in the British Iron Age
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Archaeology in the Laboratory
- Thinking through Archaeology (module leader)
- Archaeological Materials
- Experimental Archaeology (module leader)
- Swords and Sorcery: Northern Europe 1000 BC-AD 500
Postgraduate
- Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology
- Experimental Archaeology (module leader)
- Research Methods in Archaeology
- Introduction to Material Culture Studies
- Reconstructing Ancient Technologies: Metals (module leader)
Selected publications
- Day P.M. and Doonan R.C.P (eds) 2007 Metallurgy in the Aegean Early Bronze Age. (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology) Oxbow.
- Andrews K and Doonan R.C.P 2003 Test Tubes and Trowels: Using science in archaeology. Tempus
- Doonan R, Cadogan G, Sewell, D 2011 Standing on Ceremony: Late Bronze Age copper metallurgy in Cyprus. in (Ed) V Kassianidou. and G. Papasavvas “Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy and Metalwork in the Second Millennium BC”. Oxbow Books
- Hanks B., Doonan, R., Kupriyanova E, and Zdanovich, D 2011 The Body Violent: Metals and social practice in the Eurasian Steppe in the second Millennium BCE, in Robb ,J Boric, D. and O. Harris (eds) Body Histories,. Cambridge. McDonald Institute Monographs. University of Cambridge.
- Derham, B., Doonan, R., Lolos, Y., Sarris, A and Jones, R. 2010 Integrating geochemical survey, ethnography and organic residue analysis to identify and understand areas of foodstuff processing. In Voutsaki, S. (Ed.), Subsistence, economy and society in the Greek world; Improving the integration of archaeology and science, Athens.
- Hanks, B., Doonan, R, Zdanovich D., Kupriyanova. E., Pitman, D., Batanina, N., Johnson, J. (2010) Metals, Society and Economy in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe B. Roberts & C. Thornton (Eds) Early metallurgy: a global reader. New York: Springer.
- Doonan, R. & Boyd M. 2008. Digital modelling of object and process in artefact teaching. In: Touch in museums. Policy and practice in object handling, ed. H. J. Chatterjee (Oxford: Berg), 107–120.
- Doonan, R.C.P. Pitman, D. Hanks, B. Zdanovich D. and Kupriyanova E. In press The Organisation of Sintashta Metallurgy. in (eds) Gorelik A and Linden, M. Aus dem Herzen Eurasiens – Schätze des alten Kasachstans. Bochum
- Doonan R.C.P and Mazarakis Ainian A 2007 Forging identities in the Greek Iron Age: Implications of the metalworking debris from Oropos. (ed) Mazarakis Ainian A .Acta Oropos. Volos. 361-378
- Hanks, B., & Doonan, R. (2009). ‘From Scale to Practice: A New Agenda for the Study of Early Metallurgy on the Eurasian Steppe’. Journal of World Prehistory 22: 329-356. (J)
Other professional activities
- Council member for HMS
- HMS Newsletter Editor
- Member of Subject Benchmarking committee
- Consultant specialist for Time Team
- Commentator for local radio on heritage matters in Sheffield and surrounding area
Recent media coverage
Woods’ past investigated, The Star, 23 August 2011 07:18
Bid to uncover secrets of medieval metal workers, Yorkshire Post, 23 August 2011
Digging deep to discover history, The Star, 12 July 2010
What’s lurking under our heels in Heeley?, The Star, 27 July 2011
Youngsters get a sense of ancient times, The Star, 21 November 2008
Merry go round, The Star, 1 December 2008
Amateur diggers discover the realities of Victorian living. Yorkshire Post, 25 July 2011
Reed all about it... farm visitors get opportunity to raise roof, Yorkshire Post, 27 May 2010
Curtain up... on roundhouse that fascinates the young, Yorkshire Post, 1 December 2008
Public offered chance to dig up city estate's past, Yorkshire Post, 18 July 2010
Mud stomp volunteers needed , Yorkshire Post, 10 March 2009
Charity farm steps back in time to have a dig at history, Yorkshire Post, 23 October 2008