Dr Bob Johnston
Senior Lecturer in Landscape Archaeology
Email address: r.johnston@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone
0114 2222941
Research interests
- Landscape archaeology
- Bronze Age Britain and Ireland
- The archaeology of upland landscapes, particularly in western Britain
- Prehistoric land enclosure in north-west Europe.
Research supervision
I would welcome applications from students interested in pursuing research into:
- Landscape archaeology
- Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology of Britain and Ireland
- Social and cultural aspects of later prehistoric agriculture
- The archaeology of highlands, uplands and mountains
- Theoretical approaches to human-environment relations.
Current students
- Roberta Bunn - The archaeology of stone clearance in later prehistoric upland Britain
- Tim Cockrell - The Don valley in prehistory: upland and lowland developments and interactions
- Andrew Hatton - Stowe Farm: a multi-period archaeological site in its landscape
- Toby Pillatt - Archaeological narratives of human-environment relations: towards inhabited perspectives on climate change
- Andrew Poyer - A landscape and contextual study of Bronze Age metalwork deposition in northern England
Teaching
Level 3
- Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain
- Decoding the Landscape
- Work-Based Learning
Masters
- Landscapes in Contemporary Perspective
- From Desk to Field: methods in landscape archaeology
- Researching the Archaeological landscape
- Landscape Survey Project
- Heritage, Place and Identity
Selected publications
Johnston R. Forthcoming. Life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Stroud: History Press.
Johnston R. Forthcoming. Bronze Age field systems. In H. Fokkens and A. Harding (eds). Handbook to the European Bronze Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Badcock, A. and Johnston, R. 2009. Placemaking through protest: an archaeology of the Lees Cross and Endcliffe Protest Camp, Derbyshire, England. Archaeologies 5(2), 306-322.
Ghey, E., Edwards, N., and Johnston, R. 2008. Categorising roundhouse settlements in Wales: a critical perspective. Studia Celtica 42, 1-25.
Fyfe, RM, Roland, T, Brück, J, Johnston, R, Lewis, H and Wickstead, H. 2008. Historical context and chronology of Bronze Age enclosure on Dartmoor, UK. Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 2250-2261.
Johnston, R. 2008. Copper mining and the transformation of environmental knowledge in Bronze Age Britain. Journal of Social Archaeology 8(2), 190-213.
Johnston, R. 2008. Later prehistoric landscapes. In J. Pollard (ed.) Prehistoric Britain. Oxford: Blackwell, 268-287.
Cummings, V. and Johnston R. (eds) 2007. Prehistoric Journeys. Oxford: Oxbow.
Ghey, E., Edwards, N., Johnston, R. and Pope, R. 2007. Characterising the Welsh Roundhouse: chronology, inhabitation and landscape Internet Archaeology 23. intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue23/johnston_index.html
Johnston, R. 2005. A social archaeology of garden plots in the Bronze Age of northern and western Britain. World Archaeology 37(2), 211-223.
Johnston, R. 2005. Pattern without a plan: rethinking the Bronze Age coaxial field systems on Dartmoor, south-west England. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24(1), 1-21.
Harding, J. and Johnston R. (eds) 2000. Northern Pasts: interpretations of the prehistory of northern England and southern Scotland. BAR (Brit Ser), Oxford.
Johnston, R. 1998. The paradox of landscape. Journal of European Archaeology 1 (3), 313-325.
Johnston, R. 1998. Approaches to the perception of landscape: philosophy, theory, methodology. Archaeological Dialogues 5(1), 54-68.