Staff profile

Dr Mark Eccleston

Honorary

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

MB 158, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Monash), MSc (Sheffield), PhD (Monash).

Area of study

Archaeology

Brief Profile

Dr Mark Eccleston’s 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 Dr Eccleston’s research is related to fieldwork in Egypt, but he has also worked on ceramics and metalworking debris in the UK and has excavated and been a finds specialist in Australia. Dr Eccleston’s current research in Egypt is at the New Kingdom site of Amarna, where he is studying the metalworking industry and its links to other industries such as faience production and the production of ceramic crucibles.

Research interests

Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant

- Analysis of Organic Materials

- Archaeology of Egypt

Historical Archaeology

- Material Culture

Recent Publications

Eccleston, MAJ, in press 2009, ‘Crucibles’, in BJ Kemp and AK Stevens (eds), Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations at Grid 12 in the Main City, London: Egypt Exploration Society.

 

Osinski, GR, Kieniewicz, J, Smith, JR, Boslough, MBE, Eccleston, MAJ, Schwarcz, HP, Kleindienst, MR, Haldemann, AFC & Churcher, CS  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, MAJ 2008, ‘Metalworking at Amarna: A Preliminary Report’, The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, 19, 29-48.

 

Eccleston, MAJ 2008, ‘Replicating Faience in the Bread Oven at Amarna’, Egyptian Archaeology, 32, 33-35. 

 

Stevens, AK & Eccleston, MAJ 2007, ‘Craft Production and Technology’, in T Wilkinson (ed.), The Egyptian World, pp. 146-159, London, Routledge (Ancient Worlds Series).

 

Eccleston, MAJ 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, MAJ & Gerisch, R in prep 2009, ‘Plant Ashes as Alkalis in Egyptian Faience: New Evidence from Amarna’, Journal of Archaeological Science.

 

Eccleston, MAJ, 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, MAJ, in prep 2009, High Temperature Industries in the Dakhleh Oasis, Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Jamieson, AS & Eccleston, MAJ, in prep 2009, Archaeological Pottery Studies: A Visual Account, Pan MacMillan, Melbourne.

Eccleston, MAJ & Kemp, BJ ‘Metalworking’, in BJ Kemp and AK Stevens (eds), Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations at Grid 12 in the Main City, London, EES.

Kemp, BJ & Eccleston, MAJ in prep 2009, ‘Glass and Faience’, in BJ Kemp and AK Stevens (eds), Busy Lives at Amarna: Excavations at Grid 12 in the Main City, London, EES.

Eccleston, MAJ in prep 2009, ‘The Experimental Replication of Faience in a Bread Oven at Amarna’, Egyptian Archaeology.

Research projects

Amarna Project, Egypt: Directed by Professor Barry Kemp (University of Cambridge) under the auspicesof the Egypt Exploration Society and the Amarna Trust.

 

Dakhleh Oasis Project, Egypt: Part of the Monash University excavations in the area before and during PhD (1996 – 2002).