Usuário(a):Archaelogist George H. Nash
Dr George Nash Archaeologist & specialist in Prehistoric and Contemporary art
Senior Researcher, Instituto Terra e Memória, Mação, Portugal Adjunct Professor, IPT, Portugal and Visiting Fellow within the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol, England.
Dr. George Nash is an archaeologist and specialist in prehistoric and contemporary rock art based in the UK and Portugal. He is a visiting fellow at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and an Associate Professor at Instituto Terra e Memória (Quaternary and Prehistory Geosciences Centre), Mação, IPT, Portugal. Dr Nash has been a professional archaeologist for the past 25 years and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on prehistoric rock-art and mobility art in Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Sardinia, Spain and Sweden.
Between 1994 and 1997 he directed excavations at the La Hougue Bie passage grave in Jersey, one of Europe’s largest Neolithic passage grave monuments and preliminary excavations at Westminster Hall, London. It was during excavations under St Stephen's Step that Dr Nash discovered sections of the 'King's Table', a stone trestle table dating to the medieval period.
Over a twenty-year career, he has also written and edited many books on prehistoric art and monumentality including Status, Exchange and Mobility: Mesolithic Portable Art of Southern Scandinavia (1998), Signifying Place and Space: World Perspectives of Rock-art and Landscape (2000), and European Landscapes of Rock-art (2001), The Figured Landscapes of Rock-art: Looking at Pictures and Place, edited with Christopher Chippindale (2004), The Architecture of Death (2006), Art as Metaphor edited with Aron Mazel and Clive Waddington (2007) and the Archaeology of People and Territoriality (2009).
In the recent past Dr Nash has been involved in five major rock-art recording and interpretation projects in northern Italy, looking at Iron Age house carvings, the megalithic rock art of the Irish Sea Province, Upper Paleeolithic engravings along the Gower Peninsula in Wales, the rock art of the central Andean region of Chile and the rock art of the Domus de Janus sites in NW Sardinia.
In Wales, he is the convener of the Welsh Rock art Organisation (WRAO) and has recently coordinated and directed a rock-art project which is part of the EU's Gestart Fund (commenced in July 2013). In addition to fieldwork, Dr Nash has also written and presented programmes on European rock-art and contemporary graffiti for Independent/BBC Radio and Television.
In 2009 he has directed three field seasons at the Neolithic gallery grave in Dalancey Park, north of St Peter Port, Guernsey and a newly discovered Neolithic Portal Dolmen in South-west Wales called Trefael. In 2014, George's attentions switched to North Wales, at a site called Perthi Duon; yet another Neolithic boing publishing commitments, George co-edited and published Arkeos (with Professor Luiz Oosterbeek of IPT) and has edited The Levantine Question: the rock art of the Spanish Levant (edited with José Julio García Arranz, Hipólito Collado Giraldo).
Currently, Dr Nash is involved in a project to sample potential applied haematite spreads using Raman Spectrometry and Uranium Series from a cave in South Wales (part-funded by Cadw). It is hoped that the sampling and analysis will reveal the first datable painted rock art in the British Isles. urial-ritual monument!
Email: georgenash@btinternet.com Email: George.Nash@Bristol.ac.uk