Fires of Prometheus reflects my experiences and interests as an historical archaeologist – someone researching the archaeology of the recent past. I am particularly interested in industrial archaeology and nineteenth century material culture, especially mass-produced miniatures.

LATEST NEWS

Updated 21st January 2012.

THEMES:

I am interested in a number of areas of historical archaeology, including the mines of SE Spain, nineteenth century mass-produced miniatures and the streetcar suburbs of Vancouver.

NEW:

THE TOPSOIL PROJECT: A new section describing my examination of the historical archaeological potential of a much-neglected context - topsoil.

WATERWAYS: This new section introduces my involvement with canals.

CANADA 2010: I've added a section that describes some historical archaeology-related elements of my sojourn into British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, during the summer of 2010.