David Wheatley

I am particularly interested in:

  1. Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes of southern England, particularly spatial patterning in the Neolithic and Bronze Age monumental landscapes. Survey and excavations in the Avebury region (see below) and reconsideration of the environmental sequence against which the development of the monuments of the Avebury landscape could be set into their wider environmental and spatial context.
  2. The archaeology of Iberia, particularly Andalucia. Investigating key questions relating to the emergence of large nucleated settlements during the third millennium BCE, and their associated funerary record, and understanding the social and economic transformations that follow. Also investigating, through a postdoctoral research fellow (Spanish Ministry of Education grant) late Bronze age Iberian engraved stelae, sometimes called “warrior stelae”.
  3. Theoretical and practical aspects of spatial archaeology, particularly GIS-based approaches to the analysis of archaeological sites and landscapes. This includes analysis of visibility and inter-visibility within ancient landscapes, the role of movement in structuring ancient landscapes, the integration of imaging, rendering and three-dimensional methods with spatial analysis and the use of new survey methodologies including GPS and LIDAR.
  4. Photography and digital imaging, including the use of both High Dynamic Range and Infrared imaging methods.

I co-directed the major AHRB-funded excavations at and around the Avebury complex between 1999 and 2003, leading to the re-discovery and excavation of the Beckhampton Avenue and Longstones Enclosure. This work is published as the “Landscape of the Megaliths” monograph (2008). I also excavated a Neolithic, Chalcolithic and protohistoric tomb complex in Almaden de la Plata, Seville (1999 – 2000 with Leonardo GarcĂ­a-SanjuĂĄn of University of Seville), revealing an exceptionally preserved ‘tholos’ tomb as only one component of a multi-period funerary site. The monograph publication of this work is at an advanced stage of preparation and should be published in 2014.  I completed my BSc in Archaeology from University College Cardiff 1988, my MSc in Archaeology Computing at Southampton 1988/9, and my PhD in Archaeological Applications of GIS with Case Studies in Neolithic Wessex  at Southampton in 1994. My research interests lie in the later Prehistory of western Europe from the beginnings of farming to the emergence of ‘state like’ polities in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages and spatial approaches to archaeology. I am currently investigating the prehistoric landscape of Antequera, AndalucĂ­a (with L GarcĂ­a SanjuĂĄn) and the later Bronze Age ‘warrior’ stelae of southern Iberia (with M Diaz-Guardamino Uribe. I am a member of the AHRC peer-review college, editorial panel of CAA (2012-2103), advisory board of MENGA (the Journal of Andalucian Prehistory) and SPAL (the Archaeological Journal of the University of Seville.

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 I completed my BSc in Archaeology from University College Cardiff 1988, my MSc in Archaeology Computing at Southampton 1988/9, and my PhD in Archaeological Applications of GIS with Case Studies in Neolithic Wessex  at Southampton in 1994. My research interests lie in the later Prehistory of western Europe from the beginnings of farming to the emergence of ‘state like’ polities in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages and spatial approaches to archaeology. I am currently investigating the prehistoric landscape of Antequera, Andalucía (with L García Sanjuán) and the later Bronze Age 'warrior' stelae of southern Iberia (with M Diaz-Guardamino Uribe. I am a member of the AHRC peer-review college, editorial panel of CAA (2012-2103), advisory board of MENGA (the Journal of Andalucian Prehistory) and SPAL (the Archaeological Journal of the University of Seville.

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