Professor Simon Stoddart
College positions: Fellow, Director of Studies in Archaeology, College Lecturer in Archaeology
University position: Professor of Prehistory
Subject: Archaeology
Group membership: Governing Body
Professor Simon Stoddart is a Fellow and College Lecturer in Archaeology at Magdalene.
Professor Stoddart's research interests include Iron Age Europe, especially Italian and Maltese archaeology, complex societies and the computer visualisation and analysis of archaeological landscapes.
Professor Stoddart is the Graduate Admissions Officer at the Department of Archaeology, his main teaching focus is on Later European Prehistory (especially the Iron Age) for Part II and Mphils and the interdisciplinary paper for Part I (Becoming Human), drawing on Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Behavioural Psychology as well as Archaeology.
Research Interests
- Iron Age Europe
- Central Mediterranean (especially Italian archaeology)
- Complex society
- Island societies
- Landscape archaeology
- Mortuary ritual
- The bridging of archaeological and historical/textual evidence
- Computer visualisation and analysis of archaeological landscapes
Current Thematic Projects
- TiMe: Transformation in the Mediterranean: 1200 - 500 BC
- The European Iron Age
- Interregional comparison of Iron Age transformations: from Mediterranean Etruria to Baltic Denmark
Current Field Projects
- Frontiers of Etruria
- FRAGSUS emerging from the Gozo Project
- Science @ Tarquinia
Qualifications
- PhD University of Cambridge, UK
- MA Anthropology. University of Michigan, U.S.A
- BA Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Power and Place in Etruria. Stoddart, S. 2020. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Patterns of Etruscan urbanism. Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A., Redhouse, D, Barker, G., di Paola, G, Rasmussen, T., Samuels, T and Terrenato, N., Witcher, R. 2020. In Fulminante, F., Hanson, J.W., Ortman, S.G., Bettencourt, L.M.A. (eds), *Where Do Cities Come From and Where Are They Going To? Modelling Past and Present Agglomerations to Understand Urban Ways of Life*, Frontiers. Digital Humanities (Digital Archaeology) 7:1. doi: 10.3389/fdigh.2020.00001
An Etruscan Urban agenda: the weaving together of traditions. Stoddart, S. 2020. *Journal of Urban Archaeology*, 1, 88-121.
Mortuary ritual in prehistoric Malta. Malone, C., Stoddart, S., Trump, D., Bonanno, A, Gouder, T. and Pace, A. (eds.), 2009. The Brochtorff Circle excavations (1987-1994). Cambridge: McDonald Institute.