User:DavidThomas71

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DCT, Sydney, 2002
DCT, Sydney, 2002

David C. Thomas is a freelance field archaeologist and researcher. He has worked on projects from North Africa through the Near East to Central Asia and is currently directing an archaeological project at the Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan. He's also worked at Pella, Jordan, Tell Brak in Syria and Jarma in Libya.

David's research interests include wells and the 'archaeo-politics' of water (he has just been awarded a scholarship to write a PhD on the topic in La Trobe University in Melbourne, mud-brick architecture and the use of space. When not in a hole he's dug himself into, he enjoys travel (deserts and mountains, and places without McDonalds), thought-provoking films and alternative music.

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[edit] Afghanistan

Jam: Minaret and Qasr Zarafshan

Jam from Koh-e Khara

Jam: Minaret decoration

Jam: Minaret staircase

Jam: Baked-brick paving and wall

Qasr Zarafshan

[edit] Misc Photos

The medieval casbah at Jarma, Libya

The Bronze / Iron Age Migdol (Fortress) temple at Pella, Jordan

Pahlavan Mahmoud Tomb, Khiva, Uzbekistan

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[edit] Bibliography

  • 2005 - with G. Pastori & I. Cucco: “The Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project.” Antiquity 79/303 On-line Project Gallery
  • 2004 - “Looting, heritage management and archaeological strategies at Jam, Afghanistan”. Culture Without Context 14 (Spring 2004), 16-20.
  • 2004 - with G. Pastori & I. Cucco “Excavations at Jam, Afghanistan.” East and West 54 (Nos 1-4) pp. 87-119.
  • 2004 - with G.Kh. Khozhaniyazov & S.W. Helms. 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
  • 2001 - with D.J. Mattingly, et al.: “The Fezzan Project 2001: Preliminary report on the fifth season of work.” Libyan Studies 32 pp. 133-53
  • 2000 - with D.J. Mattingly, et al.: “The Fezzan Project II: preliminary report on the 1998 season.” Libya Antiqua ns 4 [2000] pp. 219-49.
  • 1999 - with D.J. Mattingly, et al.: “The Fezzan Project, 1999: preliminary report on the third season of work.” Libyan Studies 30 pp. 129-145.
  • 1998 - with D.J. Mattingly, et al.: “The Fezzan Project, 1998: preliminary report on the second season of work.” Libyan Studies 29 pp. 115-144.
  • 1998 - with G.W. Barker, et al: “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
  • 1997 - with G.W. Barker, et al.: “The Wadi Faynan Project, Southern Jordan: a Preliminary Report on Geomorphology and Landscape Archaeology.” Levant XXIX pp. 19-40.
  • 1995 - with Baker, H.D. et al.: “Kilise Tepe 1994”. Anatolian Studies XLV pp. 137-192.
  • in press – with A. Gascoigne. Recent Archaeological Investigations of Looting at Jam, Ghur Province, in J. van Krieken (ed.) Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage: its Fall and Survival. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
  • in press – “Archaeological Investigations at Jam, Afghanistan”. al-‘Usur al-Wusta
  • in press – J.N. Postgate & D.C. Thomas (eds.), Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98. MIAR / BIAA.
  • in press – “Kilise Tepe Surface Collection” in Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98
  • forthcoming – “The 2nd Season of the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project”. Iran 2006
  • forthcoming – with I. Shearer, The Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project (Afghanistan) - in Papers from the 2005 TAG Conference in Sheffield
  • forthcoming – with J. Meadows, et al. Radiocarbon dates from Fazzan. Libyan Studies
  • forthcoming – with J.N. Postgate, “The Iron Age Phases c-f” in Excavations at Kilise Tepe, 1994-98
  • forthcoming – with J.L. Lovell, et al. “The 2nd Season of the Wadi Rayyan Archaeological Project”. ADAJ.
  • forthcoming – with J.L. Lovell, et al. “The 3rd Season of the Wadi Rayyan Archaeological Project”. ADAJ.
  • forthcoming – “Creating a Nimrud Database”. Papers from the Nimrud Conference, 2002
  • forthcoming – “The Excavations at Jarma” in Mattingly, D.J. (ed.): Fazzan Monograph IV
  • forthcoming – contribution to “The Middle to Late Uruk levels in TW” in Oates, D. et al. Tell Brak Vol. III