Publications

The broad range of publications on this list shows the many opportunities that are available for research based on the museum and its extensive collections. From the early tetrapods, Bronze Age food, prehistoric warfare, Etruscan mirrors and Gertrude Bell researchers based at Newcastle University, and those from the wider research community, have used our collections across a diverse range of subjects. See the Our Collections section for more information on the amazing opportunities available.

2018

Adams, J., Bence, P. and Clark, A. (2018) Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections. Leiden: Sidestone Press

Armstrong, R., Ferracina, S., and Hughes, R. (2018) Living Bricks. Newcastle: Experimental Architecture Group

Boardman, J. and Parkin, A. (2018) ‘Brian Benjamin Shefton, 11 August 1919 – 25 January 2012’,  Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy XVII, pp.50–61. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/shefton-brian-benjamin-1919-2012

Collins, R., Davis, N., and Hardy, S. (2018) ‘The ‘Virtual’ Wall: Building global interest in Roman frontiers through digital outreach’, in C.S. Sommer and S. Matešić (eds.), Limes XXIII. Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies Ingolstadt 2015. Beiträge zum Welterbed Limes Sonderband 4, Mainze, pp.387-391.

Collins, R. (2018) ‘Landscapes of the Limitanei at the Northern Edge of Empire’, in N. Christie and P. Diarte-Blasco (eds.), Interpreting Transformations of Landscapes and People in Late Antiquity, Oxford: Oxbow, pp.149-161.

Collins, R. and Turner, S. (2018) ‘The Eslington Sword and the Kingdom of Northumbria’, Medieval Archaeology, 62(1), pp.28-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2018.1451473

Crellin, R.J., Dolfini, A., Uckelmann, M. & R. Hermann (2018) ‘An experimental approach to prehistoric violence and warfare?’ in Dolfini, A., Crellin, R.J., Horn, Ch. & M. Uckelmann (eds.), Prehistoric Warfare and Violence: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, New York: Springer, pp.279-305.

Croom, A. (2018) ‘A shoe brooch from the Roman Fort at South Shields’ in Pickup, S. and Waite, S. (eds) Shoes, Slippers and Sandals.  Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity.  (Routledge: London and New York).  301 – 309.

Dolfini, A., Crellin, RJ., Horn, C., Uckelmann, M. (eds.) (2018) Prehistoric Warfare and Violence: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. New York: Springer International Publishing.

Dolfini, A., Hermann, R., Crellin, R.J & Uckelmann, M. (2018) ‘L’arte della guerra nell’età del Bronzo: la parola alle armi’, in N. Negroni, C. (ed.) Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria. Atti del XIII Incontro di Studi: 181-198. Milan: Centro Studi di Preistoria e Archeologia.

Dolfini, A. & Collins, R. ( 2018) ‘Modelling physical and digital replication: Bridging the gap between experimentation and experience’, Open Archaeology 4: Topical Issue on Exploring Advances in the Use of 3D Models of Objects in Archaeological Research, pp.36-49. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0002

Parkin, A. (2018) ‘A Colossal Porphyry Foot’ in Pickup, S. and Waite, S. (eds.) Shoes, Slippers and Sandals. Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity.  London: Routledge. 

Spawforth, T. (2018) The Story of Greece and Rome. London: Yale University Press

Waite, S. and Gooch, E. (2018) ‘Sandals on the wall: the symbolism of footwear on Athenian painted pottery’ in Pickup, S. and Waite, S. (eds) Shoes, Slippers and Sandals.  Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity, Routledge: London and New York, pp.17 – 89.

2017

Collins, R. (2017) ‘The frontier foundations of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria’, in S. Semple, C. Orsini and S. Mui (eds.) Life on the Edge: Social, Political and Religious Frontiers in Early Medieval Europe, Neue Studien zur Sacshenforschung, pp.45-54

Collins, R. (2017) ‘Power at the Periphery: Military Authority in Transition in Late Roman Britain,’ in R. Varga and V. Rusu-Bolindet (ed.), Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces, London: Routledge, 127-144 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317086147/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315598734-15

Collins, R. (2017) ‘Decline, collapse, or transformation? The case for the northern frontier of Britannia,’ in N. Roymans, S. Heeren, and W. Clerq (eds.) Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire: Beyond Decline or Transformation, Amsterdam: University Press, pp.203-220.

Harding, D. (2017) The Iron Age in Northern Britain: Britons and Romans, Natives and Settlers. London: Routledge.

Kamash, Z., Abd el Gawad, H., Banks, P., Bell, A., Charteris, F., Ekdawi, S., Z. Glen, Z., Howe, J., Laidlaw, A., Mitchell, M., Nafde, A., Parkin, A., Wilson, F., Thandiwe Wilson, L., and Wood, A. (2017) “Remembering the Romans in the Middle East and North Africa: memories and reflections from a museum-based public engagement project”. Epoiesen http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/epoiesen/2017.9

McIntosh, F., Guest, P., and Ponting, M. (2017) ‘The Walbottle Coin Hoard of 1879: Re-examination and reassessment’, Archaeologia Aeliana, 5:46. http://www.newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk/index.php?pageId=759

Paddon, H (2017) Redisplaying Museum Collections: Contemporary Display and Interpretation in British Museums. London: Routledge

Witzmann, F. and Werneburg, I. (2017) ‘The Palatal Interpterygoid Vacuities of Temnospondyls and the Implications for the Associated Eye- and Jaw Musculature’, The Anatomical Record, 300, pp.1240–1269. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23582

2016

Tetrapod

Lack, J., and Anderson, J. (2016) ‘Early Tetrapods: Experimenting with Form and Function’ in J.A. Clack et al. (eds.), Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear—Evidence from the Fossil Record, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research 59 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46661-3_4

Schifino Ferraro, JL., Simões Pires, MG., and Shinkai, R. (2016) ‘PUCRS and Newcastle University: an internationalization experience from the construction of a joint exhibition between the Science and Technology Museum and the Great North Museum: Hancock’, in Educação Por Escrito, Porto Alegre, 7(2), pp. 201-207, jul.-dez. 2016.

2015

Shefton Dolphin Rider

Barringer, J. (2015) ‘The Shefton Dolphin Rider’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Gill, D.W.J. (2015) ‘The Nostell Priory Bolsal’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Jackson, M. and Parkin, A. (2015) The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell. Newcastle: Tyne Bridge Publishing

Lissarrague, F. (2015) ‘Note on an Askos in Newcastle’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Matheson, S. (2015) ‘Farewells by the Achilles Painter’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Moignard, E. (2015) ‘Little Boxes, Little Boxes’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Naso, A. (2015) ‘Brian Benjamin Shefton and the Etruscan Bronze Funnels’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (Eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Parkin, A. (2015) ‘Three Etruscan Mirrors in the Shefton Collection’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Rodríguez Pérez, D. (2015) ‘Evocative Objects: The Attic Black-Glazed Plemochoai (Exaleiptra) between Archaeology and Vase Painting’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Sparkes, B. (2015) ‘Some Early Attic Red-Figure Stemless Cups’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Taylor R, Bowers J, Nissen B, Wood G, Wright P, Chaudhry Q, Bruce L, Glynn S, Mallinson H, Bearpark R (2015) ‘Making Magic: Designing for Open Interactions in Museum Settings’, Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition C&C 2015. Available from: ACM Portal: ACM Digital Library.

Tsingarida, A. (2015) ‘Two Coral-Red Bowls in the Shefton Collection’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Waite, S. (2015) ‘An Attic Red-Figure Kalathos in the Shefton Collection’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Williams, D. (2015) ‘Lydian Gold to Newcastle’, in Boardman, J., Parkin, A., and Waite, S. (eds.) On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxford: Oxbow Books

2014

Etruscan Mirror

Parkin, A. (2014) ‘An Etruscan Mirror from the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne’ in Collins,R. and McIntosh, F. (eds) Life in the Limes.  Studies of the people and objects of the Roman frontiers presented to Lindsay Allason-Jones on the occasion of her birthday and retirement.  (Oxbow: Oxford and Philadelphia) pp.194 – 196.

Young, M., Steel, L., Rigby, M., Howlett, E., and Humphrey, S. (2014) ‘Largest known specimen of the genus Dakosaurus (Metriorhynchidae: Geosaurini) from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Late Jurassic) of England, and an overview of Dakosaurus specimens discovered from this formation (including reworked specimens from the Woburn Sands Formation)’, Historical Biology: An international Journal of Paleobiology 27(7), pp.947-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2014.915822

2013

Hancock

Cross, E., McLean, S. (2013) ‘Something for Everyone? The Great North Museum at Newcastle University’, in Jandl, S.S. and Gold, M.(ed.) A Handbook for Academic Museums: Beyond Exhibitions and Education. Edinburgh & Boston: MuseumsEtc, pp.220-247.

Scott, G. (2013) ‘Curating Human Remains in a Regional Museum: Policy and Practice at the Great North Museum: Hancock’, in Geisen, M. (ed.) Curating Human Remains: Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom, pp.99-108. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.

Sharp, E. and  Clack, J.A. (2013) ‘A review of the Carboniferous lungfish genus Ctenodus Agassiz, 1838 from the United Kingdom, with new data from an articulated specimen of Ctenodus interruptus Barkas, 1869’, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 104, pp.169–204. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691013000479

Waxenberger, G. (2013) ‘Text Types and Formulas on Display: the Old English Rune Stone Monuments in England’, in Schulz, M. (ed.) Vindærinne wunderbærer mære, Studia Medievalia Septentronalia, 24, Wien: Fassbaender, pp.495-518.

Wilkin, N. (2013) ‘The Early Bronze Age Food Vessel Pottery & Funerary Practices of England & Wales’. PhD thesis, University of Birmingham.