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The University of Manchester: Manchester, GB

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University of Manchester - PURE

University of Manchester: Manchester, Manchester, GB

2005-04 to present | Senior Lecturer (Archaeology)
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Melanie Giles

University of Leicester: Leicester, Leicester, GB

2003-09 to 2005-04 | Lecturer (Fixed term) (Ancient History and Archaeology)
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Melanie Giles

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2001-09 to 2002-09 | Lecturer (Temporary) (Archaeology)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Sheffield: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

1996-09 to 2001-03 | PhD in Archaeology (Archaeology)
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Melanie Giles

University of Sheffield: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

1995-09 to 1996-09 | MA in Landscape Archaeology (Distinction) (Archaeology)
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Melanie Giles

University of Sheffield: Sheffield, Sheffield, GB

1990-09 to 1993-07 | BA (Hons) in Archaeology (1st class) (Archaeology)
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Works (32)

Potential and limitations of adhesive identification on museum curated metal objects

Journal of Cultural Heritage
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2024.12.013
Contributors: Tabea J. Koch; Sophia Adams; Melanie Giles; Aimée Little; Francesco Palmas; Frederik W. Rademakers; Martine Regert; Yohann Thomas; Rebecca Stacey
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Materializing mortality

Curator
2024-05-18 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/cura.12625
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Contributors: Neil Wilkin; Rafie Cecilia; Jennifer Wexler; Melanie Giles; Duncan Garrow
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Making finds matter: using charismatic objects, people power and digital technologies to build a better future for archaeological finds in Scotland

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland
2024-04-17 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.9750/PSAS.153.1375
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Contributors: Hugo Anderson-Whymark; Anwen Cooper; Crispin Flower; Duncan Garrow; Melanie Giles; Susan Hamilton; Maya Hoole; Susan Kruse; Leanne McCafferty; Bruce Mann
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The shield from the Mile Chariot Burial

Chariots, Swords and Spears
2022-11-15 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781789255430
Part of ISBN: 9781789255423
Contributors: Melanie Giles; Matthew Hitchcock
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Grave Goods

2021-12-10 | Book | Author
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ISBN: 9781789257489
ISBN: 9781789257472
Contributors: Anwen Cooper; Duncan Garrow; Catriona Gibson; Melanie Giles; Neil Wilkin
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Bog Bodies

2020-12-15 | Book | Author
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ISBN: 978-1526150189
ISBN: 1526150182
Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Covering the Dead in Later Prehistoric Britain: Elusive Objects and Powerful Technologies of Funerary Performance

Proceedings of the prehistoric Society
2019-12-20 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/ppr.2019.8
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Contributors: Anwen Cooper; Duncan Garrow; Catriona Gibson; Melanie Giles
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The Arras culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age. Proceedings of ‘Arras 200 – Celebrating the Iron Age’
2019-12-10 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-1-78925-259-0
Part of ISBN: 978-1-78925-258-3
Contributors: Melanie Giles; Victoria Green; Pedro Piexoto
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Dig! Arts Access Project

Engaging Communities in Archaeology
2019-10-18 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles; Karina Croucher
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Aging well

European Journal of Archaeology
2017-02 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2016.6
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Contributors: Catherine J. Frieman; Joanna Brück; Katharina Rebay-Salisbury; Sophie Bergerbrant; Sandra Montón Subías; Joanna Sofaer; Christopher J. Knüel; Helle Vandkilde; Melanie Giles; Paul Treherne
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Afterword: Strands of Evidence in Later Prehistory

Internet Archaeology
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11141/ia.42.6.14
Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Afterword: Strands of Evidence in Later Prehistory

Internet Archaeology
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11141/ia.42.14
Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Archaeologists and the Dead

2016-06-09 | Edited book | Editor
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ISBN: 9780198753537
Contributors: Howard Williams; Melanie Giles
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Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project: An Evaluation Report for the Heritage Lottery Fund.

2015 | Report | Author
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Contributors: Sian Jones; Hannah Cobb; Melanie Giles; K. Shone; R. Colton
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Performing pain, performing beauty: dealing with difficult death in the Iron Age

Cambridge Archaeological Journal
2015-05-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774314001036
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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The Danes Graves Wheel-Headed Pin (The Yorkshire Museum)

Coral
2013 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Preserving the Body

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
2013-06-06 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-0199569069
Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Open Air Learning: schools, education and the Whitworth Park Community, Archaeology and History Project.

Journal of Victorian Culture Online
2013-03-26 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Ruth Colton; Melanie Giles; Hannah Cobb; Sian Jones
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‘Parklife’ past and present: The Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project

Journal of Victorian Culture Online
2013-03-26 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Sian Jones; Hannah Cobb; Ruth Colton; Melanie Giles
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A forged glamour: landscape, identity and material culture in the Iron Age

2012-10-28 | Book | Author
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ISBN: 978-1905119462
Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Partnership in the park

The Archaeologist
2011 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Hannah Cobb; Melanie Giles; Sian Jones
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Signs of the times: nineteenth - twentieth century graffiti in the farms of the Yorkshire Wolds

Wild Signs: graffiti in Archaeology and History.
2010 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles; K. Giles
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Iron Age bog bodies of north-western Europe. Representing the dead

Archaeological Dialogues
2009 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/S1380203809002815
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Identity, Community and the Person in Later Prehistory.

Prehistoric Britain
2008 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Seeing red: the aesthetics of martial objects in the British and Irish Iron Age

Rethinking Celtic Art
2008 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781842173183
Contributors: Melanie Giles
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The use of colour in Iron Age art

Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Prehistory Research Section Bulletin
2008 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Good fences make good neighbours? Exploring the ladder enclosures of Late Iron Age East Yorkshire

The later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond
2007 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles; M. Giles
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Mirrors in the British Iron Age: performance, revelation and power.

The Book of the Mirror. An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural Story of the Mirror.
2007 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles; Jody Joy
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Refiguring rights in the early Iron Age landscapes of East Yorkshire

The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent
2007 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Melanie Giles; M. Giles
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The writing on the wall: The concealed communities of the East Yorkshire horselads

International Journal of Historical Archaeology
2007-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s10761-007-0037-3
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Contributors: Kate Giles; Melanie Giles
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Making metal and forging relations: Ironworking in the British Iron Age

Oxford Journal of Archaeology
2007-11 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00290.x
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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Collecting the past, constructing identity: the antiquarian John Mortimer and the Driffield Museum of Antiquities and Geological Specimens

The Antiquaries Journal
2006 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/S0003581500000147
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Contributors: Melanie Giles
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