Mr Niall Sharples
Research Interests
- Monumentality
- Material Culture
- British Prehistory
- The Norse settlement of the North Atlantic
- The history of Archaeology in the 20th Century
Selected Publications
Niall Sharples (2007) Building communities and creating identities in the first millennium BC. The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent, pp 174-184. Oxbow Books.
Niall Sharples (2006) The first (permanent) houses: an interpretation of the monumental domestic architecture of Iron Age Orkney. Journal of Iberian Archaeology, No 8. pp 281-305.
Niall Sharples (2005) A Norse farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, South Uist. Oxbow Books.
Niall Sharples (2005) Life histories and the buildings of the Atlantic Iron Age. Tall Stories: 2 Millennia of Brochs. Shetland Times.
V Cummings, C Henley, N Sharples (2005) The Chambered cairns of South Uist. Set in Stone. Oxbow Books.
Mike Parker Pearson, Niall Sharples (2004) South Uist: Archaeology and History of a Hebridean Island. Tempus.
Niall Sharples, M Parker Pearson, J Symonds (2004) The archaeological landscape of South Uist. Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: Economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic. pp 28-47. Oxbow Books.
Niall Sharples (2004) A find of Ringerike art from Bornais in the Outer Hebrides. Land, Sea and Home, pp 255-272. Maney.
Teaching
- Iron Age Britain - 20 credits (HS2306)
- Archaeology Today - 10 credits (HS2364)
- Later Prehistoric Britain (HST730)