Nicholas Saunders Email & Phone Number

Nicholas J. Saunders 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, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., 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).He is currently Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where he has many PhD students researching various aspects of modern conflict archaeology. He is a prominent contributor to this nascent field, 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, he has also conducted extensive fieldwork and research in pre-Columbian and historical archaeology of the Americas. He has been involved with major museum exhibitions in London, Ypres (Belgium), Tübingen (Germany), and at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), and has investigated and published on material cultures and landscapes of Mesoamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. Recent research has focused on the aesthetics of brilliance and colour in indigenous Amerindian symbolism, an extensive survey of the Nazca Lines (Peru), and the landscape anthropology of the First World War and its legacies along the Soca (Isonzo) Front on the Slovenian-Italian border.He is co-editor with Paul Cornish (Imperial War Museum) of the Routledge series 'Material Culture and Modern Conflict', and series editor of the Pen & Sword series 'Modern Conflict Archaeology'.

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  University Of Southampton

  Archaeology