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Dr Mark Eccleston

La Trobe Postdoctoral Fellow Room:Martin Building, Room 158 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2806 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881 Email: m.eccleston@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications:BA (Hons) Monash, MSc Sheffield, PhD Monash

My research interests are primarily related to the technological and social organisation of high-temperature industries, the analysis of inorganic materials, experimental archaeology and theoretical approaches to the production and consumption of material culture. The majority of my research is related to fieldwork in Egypt, but I have also worked on ceramics and metalworking debris in the UK and have excavated and been a finds specialist in Australia. My current research in Egypt is at the New Kingdom site of Amarna, where I am studying the metalworking industry and its links to other industries such as faience production and the production of ceramic crucibles. My previous fieldwork in Egypt was with the Dakhleh Oasis Project, where I was studying the organisation of Ptolemaic and Roman Period industries. Prior to working at La Trobe I was the Teaching Fellow in Archaeological Materials at the University of Sheffield from 2003-2006.

Research Projects

• Amarna Project, Egypt
  
• Dakhleh Oasis Project, Egypt

Research Publications

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Eccleston, M.A.J., in press (2009), Crucibles, In: B.J. Kemp and A.K. Stevens (eds) Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations at Grid 12 in the Main City. London: Egypt Exploreation Society.
• Osinski, G.R., Kieniewicz, J., Smith, J.R., Boslough, M.B.E., Eccleston, M.A.J., Schwarcz, H.P., Kleindienst, M.R., Haldemann, A.F.C. and Churcher, C.S., 2008, The Dakhleh Glass: Product of an impact airburst or cratering event in the Western Desert of Egypt?, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 43, 2089-2107.
• Eccleston, M.A.J., 2008, Metalworking at Amarna: A Preliminary Report. The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, 19, 29-48.
• Eccleston, M.A.J., 2008, Replicating Faience in the Bread Oven at Amarna. Egyptian Archaeology, 32, 33-35.
  
• Stevens, A.K. and Eccleston, M.A.J., 2007, Craft Production and Technology. In: T. Wilkinson (ed.) The Egyptian World; pp. 146-159. London: Routledge. (Ancient Worlds Series).
• Eccleston, M.A.J., 2007, The Social and Craft Identities of Metalworkers in Roman Egypt. In: B. Croxford, R. Roth and N. Ray (eds) TRAC 2006: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, 2006; pp. 1-16. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

In preparation

• Eccleston, M.A.J and Gerisch, R., in prep (2009), Plant Ashes as Alkalis in Egyptian Faience: New Evidence from Amarna, Journal of Archaeological Science.
• Eccleston, M.A.J., in prep (2009), Metalworking, In: C.A. Hope and G.E. Bowen (Eds) Ancient Kellis: Life and Death in an Egyptian Village in the Roman Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Eccleston, M.A.J., in prep (2009), High Temperature Industries in the Dakhleh Oasis. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
• Jamieson, A.S. and Eccleston. M.A.J., in prep (2009), Archaeological Pottery Studies: A Visual Account. Pan MacMillan: Melbourne.
  
• Eccleston, M.A.J. and Kemp, B.J. Metalworking. In: B.J. Kemp and A.K. Stevens (eds) Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations at Grid 12 in the Main City. London: EES.
• Kemp, B.J. and Eccleston, M.A.J. Glass and Faience. In: B.J. Kemp and A.K. Stevens (eds) Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations at Grid 12 in the Main City. London: EES.
• Eccleston, M.A.J. The Experimental Replication of Faience in a Bread Oven at Amarna, Egyptian Archaeology.