Lecturer in Archaeology

BA (Brist.), PhD (Southampton), FSA

Tel: 0116 223 1086

Email: ikw3@le.ac.uk

Ian Whitbread read Archaeology and Geology at the University of Bristol. After graduating he held a research fellowship at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, Greece. He took his PhD at the University of Southampton, where he also held a post-doctoral research fellowship. He was appointed Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He returned to the British School at Athens as Director of the Fitch Laboratory.  He joined the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester University in 2001. He has pursued a number of administrative roles at Leicester since and one of his main current roles is as Exchanges Co-ordinator.

Research

• Research interests

Teaching

I currently coordinate the following undergraduate and Masters modules:
AR1010 Archaeological Research
AR2031 Artefact Analysis
AR3023 Ceramic Technology
AR7023 Ancient Pottery: Technology and Materials Analysis

Selected Recent Publications

Whitbread, I. K. and R. E. Jones, 2008, Petrographic and Chemical analysis of Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I-II pottery, in W. D. Talyour and R. Janko (eds) Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia. London: The British School at Athens, Supplementary Volume 44.

Whitbread, I. K., M. J. Ponting and B. Wells, 2007, Temporal Patterns in Ceramic Production in the Berbati Valley, Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology 32, 177-193.

Boyd, M. J., I. K. Whitbread and J. A. MacGillivray, 2006, Geophysical Investigations at Palaikastro. Annual of the British School at Athens 101, 89-134.

Whitbread, I. K. and R. E. Jones, 2005, Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of the Early Iron Age Pottery from Torone, in J. K. Papadopoulos (ed), The Early Iron Age Cemetery at Torone: Excavations conducted by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in collaboration with the Athens Archaeological Society. Monumenta Archaeologica 24, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology UCLA. University of California, LA: 511-539.

Whitbread, I. K., 2003, Clays of Corinth: The Study of a Basic Resource for Ceramic Production. In Williams and Bookidis (eds), Corinth, The Centenary 1896–1996, Corinth, Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, XX. Princeton, American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 1-13.

Whitbread, I. K., 2001, Ceramic Petrology, Clay Geochemistry and Ceramic Production – from Technology to the Mind of the Potter, in D. R. Brothwell and A. M. Pollard (eds) Handbook of Archaeological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester: 449-459.