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David C Thomas

Postgraduate Student Room: Martin Building 157 Tel: (61 3) 9479 1386 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881 Email: dcthomas @students.latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA Cambridge, MSc Southampton

Research Interests
Medieval Islamic Central Asia
The archaeo-politics of water in the ancient Near East
Mud-brick architecture and excavation techniques
The social organisation of space in ancient structures

Current Research Topic/Supervisor
Topic: The ebb and flow of empires - Afghanistan and neighbouring lands in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Supervisors: Dr Phillip Edwards; Dr David Frankel; external advisor Mr Tim Williams (UCL)

Publications

• 2008 – Thomas, D.C., Kidd, F.J., Nikolovski and C. Zipfel: The Archaeological Sites of Afghanistan in Google Earth. Aerial Archaeology Research Group News 37
  
• 2008 - Thomas, D.C., 'The Nimrud Database Project', Je Curtus, HMcCall, D Collin, L al-Gailani Werr (ed(s)), Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th - 13th March 2002, British Museum, 11/03/2002, British Instritute for the Study of Iraq, United Kingdom, pp.39-46.
  
• 2007 – ‘Old Men of the Mountains’: a comparative study of the Ghūrids and the Ismā‘īlīs of Alamūt. Journal of Historical and European Studies, 1, 7-21.
  
• 2007 – Kilise Tepe Surface Collection, in J.N. Postgate, & D.C. Thomas (eds.), Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98: From Bronze Age to Byzantine in western Cilicia. Cambridge / London: MIAR / BIAA, 45-62.
  
• 2007 – Postgate, J.N. & D.C. Thomas. Level II: the end of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, in J.N. Postgate, & D.C. Thomas (eds.), Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98: From Bronze Age to Byzantine in western Cilicia. Cambridge / London: MIAR / BIAA, 121-164.
  
• 2007 – J.N. Postgate, & D.C. Thomas (eds.), Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98: From Bronze Age to Byzantine in western Cilicia. Cambridge / London: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research / British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.
  
• 2007 – Lovell, J.L., D.C. Thomas, H. Miller, K. Wesselingh, A. Kurzawska, I.K. McRae, C. Elias, E. Obeidat and A. Abu Shmeis (with a contribution by L. Weeks). The third preliminary report of the Wādī Rayyān Archaeological Project: the second season of excavations at el Khawārij. Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan 51, 103-140.
  
• 2007 – Fīrūzkūh: the summer capital of the Ghurids, in A.K. Bennison and A.L. Gascoigne (eds.) Cities in the pre-modern Islamic world: the urban impact of religion, state and society. London: SOAS / Routledge Studies on the Middle East, 115-144.
  
• 2007 – Mattingly, D.J., D.C. Thomas, J. Meadows, R. Pelling, J.N. Dore and D. Edwards, AMS and Radiometric Radiocarbon Dates from the CMD Work and FP, in D.J. Mattingly (ed.) The Archaeology of Fazzan, Volume 2, 294-302.
  
• 2006 – Thomas, D.C., K. Deckers, M.M. Hald, M. Holmes, M. Madella and K. White. Environmental Evidence from the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project, Afghanistan. Iran 44, 253-76.
  
• 2006 – Thomas, D.C. & A. Gascoigne. Recent Archaeological Investigations of Looting around the Minaret of Jam, Ghur Province, in J. van Krieken-Pieters (ed.) Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan: its Fall and Survival. A Multi-disciplinary Approach.  Leiden: E.J. Brill. 155-67.
  
• 2006 – Lovell, J.L., J. Meadows, T.J. Adams, D.C. Thomas, T. Richter, H. Miller, C. Elias, I.K. McRae and M. al Balwaneh (with a contribution from L. Weeks) 2006. The second preliminary report of the Wadi Rayyan Archaeological Project: the first season of excavations at el Khawarij. Annual of the Department of Antiquities, Jordan 50: 33-59.
  
• 2006 – Archaeological Investigations at Jam, Afghanistan. al-‘Usur al-Wusta, 18/1, 1-6.
  
• 2005 – Nobody gets off scot-free – a review of Thieves of Baghdad. Culture Without Context 17 (Autumn 2005). Available from: http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/projects/iarc/culturewithoutcontext/issue17/thomas_bogdanos_review.htm
  
• 2005 – Thomas, D.C., G. Pastori & I. Cucco: The Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project. Antiquity 79/303 On-line Project Gallery - http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/thomas/index.html
  
• 2004 – Looting, heritage management and archaeological strategies at Jam, Afghanistan. Culture Without Context 14 (Spring 2004), 16-20. Available from http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/iarc/culturewithoutcontext/issue14/thomas.htm
  
• 2004 – Thomas, D.C., G. Pastori & I. Cucco Excavations at Jam, Afghanistan. East and West 54 (Nos 1-4) pp. 87-119.
  
• 2004 – Khozhaniyazov, G.Kh., S.W. Helms & D.C. Thomas. An investigation in Southern Karakalpakstan (in Russian: Khozhaniyazov, G., Helms, S. U., Kolin, T. D.: Issledovaniya v Yuzhnom Karakalpakstane, Arkheologicheskie issledovaniya v Uzbekistane 2003 godu), in Shirinov T.Sh. (ed.) Archaeological investigations in Uzbekistan – 2003. Tashkent, 112-114.
  
• 2003 – Wells as Signatures of Social Change in the Ancient Near East / North Africa. Assemblage 7 - http://www.shef.ac.uk/assem/issue7/thomas.html
  
• 2001 – Mattingly, D.J., Brooks, N., Cole, F., Dore, J., Drake, N., Leone, A., Hay, S., McLaren, S., Newson, P., Parton, H., Pelling, R., Preston, J., Reynolds, T., Scrüfer-Kolb, I., Thomas, D., Tindall, A., Townsend, A. & White, K.: The Fezzan Project 2001: Preliminary report on the fifth season of work. Libyan Studies 32 pp. 133-53
  
• 2000 – D.J. Mattingly, et al.: The Fezzan Project II: preliminary report on the 1998 season. Libya Antiqua ns 4 [2000] pp. 219-49.
  
• 1999 – Mattingly, D.J., al-Mashai, M., Balcombe, P., Drake, N., Knight, S., McLaren, S., Pelling, R., Reynolds, T., Thomas, D., Wilson, A.I. and White, K.: The Fezzan Project, 1999: preliminary report on the third season of work. Libyan Studies 30 pp. 129-145.
  
• 1998 – Mattingly, D.J., al-Mashai, M., Aburgheba, H., Balcombe, P., Eastaugh, E., Gillings, M., Leone, A., McLaren, S., Owen, P., Pelling, R., Reynolds, T., Stirling, L., Thomas, D., Watson, D., Wilson, A.I. and White, K.: The Fezzan Project, 1998: preliminary report on the second season of work. Libyan Studies 29 pp. 115-144.
  
• 1998 – Barker, G.W., Adams, R., Creighton, O.H., Gilbertson, D.D., Grattan, J.P., Hunt, C.O., Mattingly, D.J., McLaren, S.J., Mohamed, H.A., Newson, P., Reynolds, T.E.G., Thomas, D.C.: Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: the Second Season of Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (1997). Levant XXX pp. 5-26
  
• 1997 – Computing and Archaeology in Jordan. Assemblage 2 - http://www.shef.ac.uk/assem/2/2thomas.html
  
• 1997 – Barker, G.W., O.H. Creighton, D.D. Gilbertson, C.O. Hunt, D.J. Mattingly, S.J. McLaren and D.C. Thomas: The Wadi Faynan Project, Southern Jordan: a Preliminary Report on Geomorphology and Landscape Archaeology. Levant XXIX pp. 19-40.
  
• 1995 – Baker, H.D., D. Collon, J.D. Hawkins, T. Pollard, J.N. Postgate, D. Symington & D. Thomas, Kilise Tepe 1994, Anatolian Studies XLV pp. 137-92.
• In press – Creating a Nimrud Database. Papers from the Nimrud Conference, 2002, in J.E. Curtis, H. McCall, D. Collon and L. Al-Gailani Werr (eds), New Light on Nimrud – proceedings of the Nimrud conference 11th-13th March 2002. London: BISI / British Museum.

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