Dr Gemma Watson
Post Doctoral Research Assistant
School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Gemma Watson is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Medieval Archaeology. Her main responsibility is assisting Professor Roberta Gilchrist on her project regarding Later Medieval Monastic Magic and Healing. Gemma completed her AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Southampton in 2013, where she examined the life of little-known medieval herald, Roger Machado, from a material culture perspective. Her areas of interest broadly encompass medieval material culture, specifically the social and cultural interpretation of objects. Gemma is also passionate about interdisciplinary research, being especially interested in the relationship, interaction and incorporation of archaeological with historical/documentary evidence. Gemma undertook her BA in Archaeology at Durham University and her MA in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Reading.
Research Interest
Later medieval material culture Medieval Archaeology and History Archaeology of medieval belief and magic Interdisciplinary research Social Archaeology
Publications
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Mithen, S., Wicks, K., Pirie, A., Riede, F., Lane, C., Banerjea, R., Cullen, V., Gittins, M. and Pankhurst, N. (2015) A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north-west of Europe at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian-style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30 (5). pp. 396-416. ISSN 0267-8179 doi: 10.1002/jqs.2781
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Wicks, K., Finlayson, B., Maricevic, D., Smith, S., Jenkins, E. and Mithen, S. (2016) Dating WF16: exploring the chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlement in the Southern Levant. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 82. pp. 73-123. ISSN 0079-797X doi: 10.1017/ppr.2015.21
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Waddington, C. and Wicks, K. (2017) Resilience or wipe out? Evaluating the convergent impacts of the 8.2 ka event and Storegga tsunami on the Mesolithic of northeast Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 14. pp. 692-714. ISSN 2352-409X doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.04.015
