Nicholas J. Saunders

Nicholas J Saunders
Nicholas Saunders
Nationality	British

Nicholas J. Saunders

on the Slovenian-Italian border, and the conflict artworks of the Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front during and after the First World War.

Major book publications

• Curating the Great War, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2022: London: Routledge.
• Feuilles de Poilus: Decorated leaves from the First World War, (with D. Dendooven and Luc Volatier) 2022: Ieper: In Flanders Fields Museum.
• Conflict Landscapes: Materiality and Meaning in Contested Places, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2021. London: Routledge.
• Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt. 2020. Oxford: Oxford University Press.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722007.001.0001
• Modern Conflict and the Senses, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2017. London: Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682228
• Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality and Transformation, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2014. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851846
• The Poppy: From Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan, 2013. London: Oneworld. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2014.0239
• Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in Modern Conflict Archaeology, (ed.) 2012. Oxford: Oxbow. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dwsh
• To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama, (with R.Cooke, J.Hoopes, and J.Quilter). 2012. Gilcrease Museum and University of Oklahoma Press.
• Contested Objects, (ed.) (with P. Cornish). 2009. Abingdon, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873854
• Images of Conflict, (ed.) 2009. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars.
• Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War, 2007. Stroud: Sutton.
• Alexander's Tomb, 2006. New York: Basic.
• Peoples of the Caribbean, 2005. San Diego: ABC-Clio.
• Trench Art: Lost Worlds of the Great War, (with D. Dendooven) (2004). Ypres: In Flanders Fields Museum.
• Ancient Americas: The Great Civilizations, 2004. Sutton.
• Matters of Conflict (ed.) 2004. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203502549
• Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War, 2003. Oxford: Berg. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087267
• Icons of Power (ed.) 1998. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383827
• Astronomies and Cultures (ed.) (with C.Ruggles) 1993. Niwot: University Press of Colorado.
• Ancient America: Contributions to New World Archaeology, (ed.) 1992. Oxford: Oxbow.
• People of the Jaguar, 1989. London: Souvenir. [1]

Major article publications

• Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp. 2023. The Antiquaries Journal 103: 407-437. (with H. Mytum, G. Carr, and R. Philpott).
• Identity, Place and Memory in First World War Trench Art Coins. 2022. In, R. Kelleher (ed.) Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest, pp 96-101. Cambridge and London: Fitzwilliam Museum and Paul Holberton.
• East of the Jordan: Curating and forgetting the First World War and Arab Revolt along the Hejaz Railway. 2022.In, P. Cornish and N.J. Saunders (eds.)Curating the Great War, pp 107-127. London: Routledge.
• The education of attention: Visualizing conflict at the In Flanders Fields Museum, 1998-2021. 2022 In, D. Dendooven and P. Trogh (eds.), Nous irons en Flandres: Festschrift for Piet Chielens pp 326-335. Ieper: In Flanders Fields Museum.
• The dead and their spaces: Origins and meanings in modern conflict landscapes. 2021. In, N.J. Saunders and P. Cornish (eds.), Conflict Landscapes: Materiality and meaning in contested places, pp 3-33. London: Routledge.
• Forged in conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory. 2020. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7 Nov 2020 online, with S. Griffiths. [2]
• Zeitgeist archaeology: conflict, identity and ideology at Prague Castle, 1918–2018. 2019. Antiquity 93 (370):1009-1025. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.107
• Traces of being: Interdisciplinary perspectives on First World War Conflict Landscapes. 2018. In, S.Daly, M.Salvante and V. Wilcox (eds.), Landscapes of the First World War, pp 209–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89411-9_12
• Pearl's Treasure:The Trench Art Collection of an Australian Sapper. 2018. In, L. Slade (ed.), Sappers and Shrapnel:Contemporary Art and the Art of the Trenches, pp 13–27. Adelaide:Art Gallery of South Australia.
• Trench Art: Objects and people in conflict. In, J. Bourke (ed.), War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict, 2017, pp 209–215. London: Reaktion.
• Materiality, space and distance in the First World War. In, N.J.Saunders and P. Cornish (eds.), Modern Conflict and the Senses, 2017, pp 29–42. London: Routledge.
• Bodies in trees: a matter of being in Great War landscapes. In, P. Cornish and N.J. Saunders (eds.), Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality and Transformation, 2014, 22–38. London: Routledge.
• Travail et nostalgie sur le front de l’Ouest : l’Art des tranchées chinois et la Première guerre mondiale. In, Li Ma (ed.), Les travailleurs chinois en France dans la Première Guerre mondiale, 2012, pp 435–451. Paris: CNRS.
• Desert Labyrinth: Lines, Landscape and Meaning at Nazca, Peru. (with C. Ruggles). Antiquity 2012, Vol 86, pp 1126–1140. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00048298
• Fire on the Desert: Conflict Archaeology and the Great Arab Revolt in Southern Jordan 1916–1918. (with N. Faulkner). Antiquity 2010, Vol 84 (324), pp 514–527. [3]
• People in objects: Individuality and the quotidian in the material culture of war. In, C. White (ed.), The Materiality of Individuality 2009, pp 37–55. New York: Springer.
• The Cosmic Earth: Materiality and Mineralogy in the Americas. In N. Boivin and M.A. Owoc (eds.), Soil, Stones and Symbols: Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World 2004, pp 123–141. London: UCL Press.
• 'Catching the light': Technologies of power and enchantment in Pre-Columbian goldworking. In, J. Quilter and J.W. Hoopes (eds.), Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia 2003, pp 15–47. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.
• Crucifix, Calvary, and Cross: materiality and spirituality in Great War Landscapes. World Archaeology 2003, Vol 35 (1), pp 7–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0043824032000078045
• Excavating memories: archaeology and the Great War, 1914–2001. Antiquity 2002, Vol 76 (291), pp 101–8.
• A Dark Light: Reflections on Obsidian in Mesoamerica. World Archaeology 2001, Vol 33 (2), pp 220–236. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240120079262
• Matter and memory in the landscapes of conflict: The Western Front 1914–1999. In, B. Bender and M. Winer (eds.), Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place 2001, pp 37–53. Oxford: Berg. [4]
• Bodies of metal, shells of memory: 'Trench Art' and the Great War Re-cycled. Journal of Material Culture 2000, Vol 5 (1), pp 43–67.
• Biographies of brilliance: Pearls, transformations of matter and being, c. AD 1492. World Archaeology 1999, Vol 31 (2)pp 243–57. [5]
• Stealers of light, traders in brilliance: Amerindian metaphysics in the mirror of conquest. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 1998, Vol 33 (1): 225–52.
• Zemís, trees and symbolic landscapes: three Taíno carvings from Jamaica. (with D.Gray). Antiquity 1996, Vol 70, No.270, pp 801–812. [6]
• Predators of culture: Jaguar symbolism and Mesoamerican Elites. World Archaeology 1994, Vol. 26:1, pp 104–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1994.9980264

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External links

• Faculty profile, University of Bristol Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology
• Great Arab Revolt Project, co-directed by Nicholas Saunders
• Team biography profile, Great Arab Revolt Project