Project Team

Wayne Bennett
Wayne Bennett lives in West Dorset. He originally worked in the theatre before studying fine art and art history at Camberwell School of Art and Goldsmiths’ College, London. For the past twelve years he has worked with Chris Tilley on many archaeological projects in this country and abroad. The day job involves running Dillington
House – Somerset’s residential college for adult education – which surprisingly features many archaeological courses in its programme. Like Chris, he enjoys the engagement of philosophical approaches to fieldwork research from which insightful interpretative accounts can be constructed.

Henry Broughton
Henry’s general interests are in material culture of place and the pastin every day life. He has conducted ethnographic research in Fowey, Cornwall as well as in the South Pacific. He is also interested in the Bronze Age, in particular the role of everyday ritual in maintaining ancestral connections within the landscape. Henry worked on the UCL Laskernick Project on Bodmin Moor where he conducted landscape surveys of Settlements and houses, co-produced artworks and curated the Stoneworlds travelling exhibition.

Jill Cobley
Jill Cobley has just completed an MA in Medieval Gardens. She has recorded the pebble structures around the heathland pebblebeds in 17 villages. These range from walls of pebbles arrange in neat rows, to gutters along the road side particularly in Budleigh Salterton, to paths with intricate designs and walls of buildings. All this has lead onto trying to date the structures and discover hidden use of pebbles, such as a coal cellar floor and farm yards.

Jim Cobley
Jim Cobley has been assisting his wife Jill in recording the local pebble structures in East Devon. He has also taken on the role of creating awareness of the importance of the heathlands Pebbles Project through the various means of local communications, including television, radio, magazines, and newspapers, together with the community involvement.

Kate Cameron Daum
Having completed her M.Res in Antropology at UCL, Kate is researching the contemporary engagement with the ancestral landscape of the Pebblebed heathlands. She is interested in how management and experience of its ecology embodies phenomenological meaning and cultural values that evolve into sometimes-competing discourses.Kate would welcome the view of those who use these heathlands and can be contacted at kate@pebblebedsproject.org.uk or you can place your comments on the guestbook page.

Dr. Paolo Favero
With a PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University Paolo is currently teaching visual culture at UCL. He has conducted research in India on youth culture, imagination, identity and globalisation, and earlier on also mental issues., tourism and popular music. Recently has published the book India Dreams: cultural identity
among young middle class men in New Delhi. As an image-maker Paolo has held photo shows on Indian modernity and on Pakistani mountain areas,created video installaments for clubs as well as for theatres and he is the author of Fly over Delhi a documentary on young people andglobalization in New Delhi.

Davina Freedman
Davina Freedman is currently undertaking research for a PhD at the University of Reading having previously studied at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in prehistoric rock art and the social organisation of Neolithic and Bronze Age society.

 

Shisachila Imchen is an Ao Naga from Nagaland, India. She received herfirst degree in History from St. Edmund's College, North-Eastern Hill University (Shillong, Meghalaya, India), an MA in Archaeology from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Pune, Maharashtra, India)and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of Anthropology, University College London.

 

Dr. Andrew Jones
Andy is co-director of the Pebblebeds Project. He is lecturer in Archaeology in the University of Southampton. He is the author of Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice (2002), Memory and Material (2007) and co-editor with G. MacGregor of Colouring the Past (2002). The study of landscapes, colour and pattern is one of his particular interests. He has recently been directing excavations and field surveys at the Bronze Age rockcarving sites in the Kilmartin area of western Scotland.

Jan Oke
Jan has lived with her family in Budleigh Salterton for over 20 years and has joined the project to assist with field walking and recording. Previous fieldwork experience was in the American South-West. She has also worked in Budleigh library and is a children’s author.

Karolína Pauknerová was born in 1977 in Prague. She studied humanities and anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, both at Charles University in Prague. She is interested in anthropology of landscape and experimental archaeology. In her PhD project she analyses prehistoric agricultural settlement strategies in flatlands of Bohemia. At the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, she currently lectures and leads seminars about Industrial Landscapes, Landscape and Temporality, and Landscape as Activity.

Dr. Clarissa Sanfelice Rahmeier
Clarissa is visiting research fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, where she carries out research on material culture. She received her PhD in History in 2007 from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research interests include landscape archaeology, domestic architecture, phenomenology and social identity. Clarissa also teaches and carries out her research on historical archaeology in Brazil. E-mail: issarahmeier@yahoo.co.uk

Professor Michael Rowlands
Mike is Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. His earlier research involved an extensive study of the Bronze Age metal workin Britain from a social perspective, later research was in long-term social change and the Archaeology of colonialism in prehistoric Europe and West Africa. More recently he has focused on cultural heritage issues and ethnographic studies of heritage projects in Mali and Cameroon. Recent publications include Social Transformations in Archaeology (with Kristian Kristiansen 1998), Handbook of Material Culture (co-editor, 2006 and Reclaining Heritage (edited with Ferdinand de Jong, 2007))

Professor Christopher Tilley
Chris is director of the Pebblebeds Project. He is Professor of Material Culture in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. He has written and edited twenty books on archaeological theory and practice and the study of material culture in the past and in the present. One of his particular interests is in the study of landscapes. He lives in East Devon. Some recent publications include Body and Image: Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2 (2008), Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (2007) (co-written with Barbara Bender and Sue Hamilton), Handbook of Material Culture ed (2006) The Materiality of Stone: Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 1 (2004). He has carried out archaeological and ethnographic field research in Britain, France, Scandinavia and the Pacific.

Tor
Tor is the project dog. She is a ten-year-old Border Collie. She is named after a Cornish Tor or rock stack. Her main interests are food and chasing footballs, lawnmowers, frisbies, kites, rabbits, model aircraft, squirrels etc. etc. She has visited all the known prehistoric monuments on the Pebblebed heathlands and has a profound sensory knowledge of the landscape.

 

Priscilla Trenchard
Priscilla Trenchard initially trained as a Graphic Designer and worked as a Scientific Illustrator for many years. She studied Art and Design in a Social Context at Dartington for two years before completing the BA in Contemporary Cultural Studies in London. Having lived in Austria and America for many years she has returned to live in the landscape of her childhood in East Devon. Now studying for an MA in Multi Disciplinary Print she is using the experience of working on the dig to inform her visual work.

Dr, David Wengrow
David teaches at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. His research focuses upon the interpretation of material culture as evidence for long-term social change, and more generally upon the application of archaeological data to current problems in anthropological theory. Prior to the Pebblebeds he has worked mainly in the Middle East and North-East Africa, and is the author of 'The Archaeology of Early Egypt' (CUP, 2006).