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outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Monograph

Young, R.  (2003). Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Oxford: BAR. S1124.

Chapters in Books/Monographs

Young, R. (submitted to editor) Munsa and Kasunga. The Archaeobotanical Assemblages. In: P. Robertshaw (ed.) The Evolution of Complex Societies in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda

 Fazeli, H. & Young, R. (submitted, 2009) Revolutionary archaeology or the archaeology of revolution? The first archaeological project exploring the recent past in Iran. In: S. Penrose (ed.) Heritage CHAT.

 Edirisingha, P., Nie, M., Pluciennik, M., & Young, R. (in press) Using a three-dimensional multi-user virtual environment to teach spatial theory in archaeology. In: A. Wilson (ed.) Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference Proceedings 2009.

 Young, R. & R.A.E. Coningham (2010) From Village to State Modelling Food consumption and Ideological Change at Anuradhapura Sri Lanka in P. Gunawardhana, G. Adikari and R.A.E. Coningham (eds) Essays in Archaeology. Sirinimal Lakdusinghe Felicitation Volume Neptune Publications (Pvt) Ltd. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: 81 – 92.

 Young, R., Coningham, R., Ali, I., & Ali,T. (2008). The archaeological visibility of transhumance tested using faunal material from NWFP, Pakistan. In: E.M. Raven & G.L. Possehl (eds) South Asian Archaeology 1999. Groningen: Egbert Forsten Publishing: 203-210.

 Young, R. (2007) The Archaeozoological Remains. In: R. Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Charsadda, NWFP, Pakistan. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 247-257.

 Young, R. (2007) The Archaeobotanical Remains. In: R. Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Charsadda, NWFP, Pakistan. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 241-245.

 Young, R. & Ali, I. (2007) The Environmental Setting. In: R. Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Charsadda, NWFP, Pakistan. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 11-20.

 Coningham, R., Ali, I. & Young, R. (2007) The Regional Synthesis: A Conclusion. In: R. Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Charsadda, NWFP, Pakistan. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 259-270.

 Young, R. (2007). Qazvin Plain Animal Bone Report. In: H. Fazel Nashli (ed.) The Archaeology of the Qazvin from the sixth to the first millennium BC. 275-284. Tehran: University of Tehran. 

 Coningham, R. & Young, R. (2007).  The archaeological visibility of caste. In: T. Insoll (ed.) The Archaeology of Identities. A  Reader.  250-264. London: Routledge.

 Gillmore, G.K., Coningham, R.A.E., Young, R., Fazeli, H., Rushworth, G., Donahue, R. & Batt, C. (2007). Holocene alluvial sediments of the Tehran Plain: Sedimentation and Archaeological Site Visibility. In; L. Wilson, P. Dickinson, & J. Jeandron (eds) Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars: 37-67. ISBN 1-84718-188-0.

 Young, R. & Coningham, R. (2006). The botanical remains. In: R Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Anuradhapura: Volume II: The Artefacts. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 629-646

 Young, R., Coningham, R., Nalinda, K., Perrara, J. and Khan, H. (2006). The faunal remains. In: R. Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Anuradhapura: Volume II: The Artefacts. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 501-618

 Coningham, R., Ford, L., Cheshire, S. & Young, R. (2006). Unglazed Ceramics. In: R. Coningham (ed.) Excavations at Anuradhapura: Volume II: The Artefacts. London, Society for South Asian Studies: 127-331.

 Young, R. (2005). Environmental Archaeology in NWFP, Pakistan: Using plant and animal assemblages to distinguish between urban and rural. In: C. Jarrige & V. Lefevre (eds) South Asian Archaeology 2001.Volume 1: 337-343

 Reid, A. & Young, R. (2003). Iron-smelting and bananas in Buganda. In: P. Mitchell, A. Haour & J. Hobart (eds) Researching Africa’s Past. New Contributions from British Archaeologists.118-123. Oxford, Oxford University School of Archaeology. Monograph 57.

 Coningham, R. & Young, R. (1999). The Archaeological Visibility of Caste: An Introduction. In: T. Insoll (ed.) Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion. The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference. Oxford: BAR International Series 755: 84-93.

 Thompson, G.B. & Young, R. (1999). Fuels for the furnace: recent and prehistoric ironworking in Uganda and beyond. In: M. van der Veen (ed.) The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa. New York, Plenum: 221-239.

 Young, R. & Thompson, G.B. (1999). Missing plant foods? Where is the archaeobotanical evidence for sorghum and finger millet in East Africa? In: M van der Veen (ed.) The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa. New York, Plenum: 63-72.

 Journal Articles

Young, R. (2010, in press) Transhumant Groups and Subordination in the former North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Ancient Pakistan

 Fazeli Nashli, H., Beshkani, A., Markosian, A., Ilkani, H., Abbasnegad Seresty, R. & Young, R. 2009. The Neolithic to Chalcolithic transition in the Qazvin Plain, Iran: chronology and subsistence strategies. Archäologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran and Turan, Band 41: 1-21.

 Fazeli,H., Salimi, M. & Young, R. (2009) Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain, and Historical Archaeology in Iran. Iran XLVII: 149-164.

 Young, R. (2009) Representation within the landscape of northern Pakistan: the meanings of Gandhara South Asian Studies 25; 29-40.

 Edirisingha, P., Nie, M., Pluciennik, M. & Young, R. (2009) Socialisation for learning at a distance in a 3-D multi-user virtual environment. British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 40 No 3:  458–479. ISSN: 0007-1013. EISSN: 1467-8535.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.00962.x

 Ali, I. Khalil, M.R., Young, R., Zahir, M. (2009). A survey of Lower Dir, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan in 2005.  Man and Environment XXXIV(1): 30-37.

 Young, R. (2009). The importance of names in archaeology: exploring ‘Gandhara’. Pakistan Heritage. 1: 57-63.

 Gillmore, G.K., Coningham, R.A.E., Fazeli, H., Young, R., Magshoudi, M., Batt, C.M., Rushworth, G., (2009). Irrigation on the Tehran Plain, Iran: Tepe Pardis - The site of a possible Neolithic irrigation feature? Catena, doi:10.1016/j.catena

 Young, R. & Fazeli, H. (2008). Interpreting animal bones in Iran: considering new animal bone assemblages from three sites in the Qazvin Plain within a broader geographical and chronological perspective. Paleorient.34.2: 153-172.

 Ali, I., Hamilton, D., Newson, P., Qasim, Q., Young, R. & Zahir, M. (2008). New radiocarbon dates from Chitral, NWFP, Pakistan, and their implications for the Gandharan Grave Culture of northern Pakistan. Antiquity. Vol 82 Issue 318 (online project gallery)

 Fazeli, H. & Young, R. (2008). Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain: season 1.  Iran XLVI: 347-360.

 Coningham, R., Gunawardhana, P., Manuel, M., Adikhari, G., Katugampola, M., Young, R., Schmidt, A., Krishnan, K. & Simpson, I. (2007). The state of theocracy: defining an Early Mediaeval hinterland in Sri Lanka. Antiquity.81: 699-719.

 Fazeli, H., Coningham, R.A.E., Young, R.L., Gillmore, G.K., Maghsoudi, M. & Raza, H. (2007). Socio-Economic Transformations in the Tehran Plain: Final Season of Settlement Survey and Excavations at Tepe Pardis. Iran XLV: 267-285.

 Coningham, R., Gunawardhana, P., Adikari, G., Kattugampola, M., Simpson, I. & Young, R. (2006) The Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) Project: The hinterland (phase II): Preliminary Report of the First Season 2005. South Asian Studies, 22:  53- 64.

 Coningham, R., Fazeli, H., Young, R., Gillmore, G., Karimian, H., Maghsoudi, M., Donohue, R. & Batt, C. (2006). Socio-economic transformations: settlement survey in the Tehran Plain and excavations at Tepe Pardis. Iran XLIII: 33-62.

 Coningham, R., Fazeli, H., Young, R. & Donohue, R. (2004) Location, location, location: A pilot survey of the Tehran plain in 2003 Iran XLII: 1-12.

 Ali, I., Batt, C., Coningham, R., & Young, R. (2002). New Archaeological Exploration in the Chitral Valley, Pakistan: and extension of the Gandharan Grave Culture. Antiquity 76:647-53.

 Young, R., Coningham, R., Batt, C., & Ali, I. (2000). A comparison of Kalasha and Kho subsistence patterns in Chitral, NWFP, Pakistan. South Asian Studies.16: 133-142.

 Reid, A. & Young, R. (2000). Pottery Abrasion and the Preparation of African Grains. Antiquity. 74: 101-11.

 Young, R. (1999). Finger millet processing in East Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 8: 31-34.

 Young, R. & Coningham, R. (1998). Subsistence patterns in NWFP: a diachronic archaeological study. The faunal remains from Charsadda VI, Hund and Rehman Dheri. Ancient Pakistan 12: 93-126.

 Young, R. (1998). A cattle skeleton from Gor Khuttree. Ancient Pakistan 12: 139-146

 Robertshaw, P., Kamuhangire, E.R., Reid, A., Young, R., Childs, S.T., Pearson, N., (1997). Excavations in Bunyoro-Kitara: preliminary results. Nyame Akuma. 48:70-77.

 Other

 Alldritt, D. & Young, R. (2009). Environmental Samples. In: J. Richardson (ed.) Iron Age and Roman Settlement Activity at Timberland, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. Archaeological Services WYAS Publications 11: 35-38.

 Young, R. (2008). Book review: Southeast Asia. From Prehistory to History. I. Glover and P. Bellwood (eds). Medieval Archaeology, 52:471-2.

 Young, R. (2008). Archaeobotanical Material. In: M. Gillings, J. Pollard, D. Wheatley & R. Peterson (eds). Landscape of the Megaliths. Excavation and Fieldwork on the Avebury Monuments, 1997-2003.Oxford: Oxbow: 44-45. 

 Young, R. (2004) The Art of Central Asia, 5000-500 BC. In: J. Onians (ed.) Atlas of World Art  Oxford, Laurence King Publishing. 44-45

 Young, R., & Waghmar, B. (2004) The Art of Central Asia, 500 BC – AD 500. In: J. Onians (ed.) Atlas of World Art  Oxford, Laurence King Publishing. 82-83

 Young, R. (2003) Book Review: The Past in Prehistoric Societies, R. Bradley. Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture.14,2: 241-2.

 Young, R. (2001). Book Review: God Apes & Fossil Men. Paleoanthropology in South Asia, K.A.R. Kennedy. South Asian Studies. 17:225-6.

 Young, R. (2000). Book Review: Ethnohistoric Archaeology of the Mukogodo in North-Central Kenya.  Hunter-gatherer subsistence and the transition to pastoralism in secondary settings, K.K. Mutundu. Azania XXXV: 238-9.

 Coningham, R. & Young, R. (1999). Reformation of the Nomination File of the Indus Valley Civilisation and the Tentative List of Pakistan. Report and Recommendations of the UNESCO Mission.

 Coningham, R., Young, R., & Schmidt, A. (1999). Archaeological Research at Tilaurakot (Kapilavastu), Nepal. Report and Recommendations of the UNESCO Mission.

 Schmidt, A., Young, R., & Coningham, R. (1999). Tilaurakot and Ramagrama: Non-destructive Archaeological Investigations. Report and Recommendations of the UNESCO Mission.