Dr Joanna Bruck

Research summary

My primary area of research is the archaeology of the British Bronze Age. I am particularly interested in the treatment of the human body and concepts of the self; depositional practices and what these reveal about the meanings and values ascribed to objects; and the relationship between space and society including domestic architecture and the changing organisation of landscape. I co-organise the Bronze Age Forum, which holds biannual conferences on the British and Irish Bronze Age. I have a longstanding interest in archaeological theory, particularly relational ontologies and phenomenological approaches to archaeological landscapes, and I am an editor of Archaeological ...

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Biography

I completed my BA and PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where I also held a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare Hall.  Before joining Archaeology and Anthropology at Bristol, I was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin.  My primary area of research is the archaeology of the British Bronze Age. I am particularly interested in the treatment of the human body and concepts of the self; depositional practices and what these reveal about the meanings and values ascribed to objects; and the relationship between space and society including domestic architecture and ...

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Selected publications

• Bruck, J, 2013, ‘Landscapes of desire: parks, colonialism and identity in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol 17., pp. 196-223
• Bruck, J & Fontijn, D, 2013, ‘The myth of the chief: prestige goods, power and personhood in the European Bronze Age.’. in: The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. Oxford Uni Press, Oxford, pp. 197

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Recent publications

• Bruck, J & Jones, A, 2017, ‘Finding objects, making persons: Fossils in British Early Bronze Age burials’. in: E Harrison-Buck, J Hendon (eds) Other-than-human agency and personhood in archaeology. University of Colorado Press
• Bruck, J, 2017, ‘Reanimating the dead: The circulation of human bone in the British Later Bronze Age ’. in: Jennie Bradbury, Chris Scarre (eds) Engaging with the dead: Exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 138-148

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