| Post: | Associate Tutor |
| Location: | Essex House |
| Email: | C.R.Wells@sussex.ac.uk |
Biography
CAROLINE WELLS , B.A.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Caroline Wells teaches award-bearing courses such as "British Prehistory" and "Past Societies" (which covers elements of world prehistory). Since 1996 I have also taught various open courses for CCE at various venues around West Sussex with titles such as "Boxgrove Man to the Roman Invasion", "The Archaeology of Sussex", or "Landscape Archaeology".
I am interested in all periods of British prehistory from the Palaeolithic (which must be considered in a world-wide perspective) to the late Iron Age by which time my focus becomes more, but not completely, insular.
Current research interests extend from
- Human Evolution and the earliest archaeology
- a Middle Palaeolithic/Upper Palaeolithic & Late Iron Age/Early Roman site near Pulborough
- Mesolithic lithic scatter sites in the Weald
- Middle-Late Iron Age sites in Britain and Europe
- Village local history and landscape study in and around West Chiltington and Nutbourne (Pulborough) in West Sussex
- Further afield I am interested in Polynesian archaeology and society - which reflects my first degree, anthropology
Voluntary contribution:
Trustee, Sussex Archaeological Society c. 2000-2010
Chair, Sussex Archaeological Society 2007-8
Secretary, Lithics Study Society (an international organisation promoting research into stone tool technology) 2000-2005
Secretary to the Sussex Archaeology Forum c.1989 - 2000,
Role
Associate Tutor, Lithics, British Prehistory
Community & Business
Voluntary contribution:
Trustee, Sussex Archaeological Society c. 2000-2010
Chair, Sussex Archaeological Society 2007-8
Secretary, Lithics Study Society (an international organisation promoting research into stone tool technology) 2000-2005
Secretary to the Sussex Archaeology Forum c.1989 - 2000,
Research
- Prehistoric Britain
Current research interests extend from
- Human Evolution and the earliest archaeology
- a Middle Palaeolithic/Upper Palaeolithic & Late Iron Age/Early Roman site near Pulborough
- Mesolithic lithic scatter sites in the Weald
- Middle-Late Iron Age sites in Britain and Europe
- Village local history and landscape study in and around West Chiltington and Nutbourne (Pulborough) in West Sussex
- Further afield I am interested in Polynesian archaeology and society - which reflects my first degree, anthropology
Publications
- C.R.Wells 1978 Excavations by the late George Rybot FSA on Eggardon Hillfort 1963-66; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, volume 100 for 1978
- 'C.R.Wells in' B.J.Orme, J.M.Coles and C.R.Sturdy 1979; Meare Lake Village West: A report on Recent Work in Somerset Levels Papers Number 5 1979; p 6-17
- 'C.R.Wells in' B.J.Orme, C.R.Sturdy and R.A.Morgan 1980; East Moors 1979 Somerset Levels Papers Number 6; 1980; p52-59
- C.R.Wells, 1981 The archaeological implications of the Dorchester by-pass; a report prepared for the Dorset Archaeological Committee (unpublished).
- Caroline Wells: 2000 Seeing beneath the Soil at Nutbourne near Pulborough; Past & Present No. 92 December 2000, the newsletter of the Sussex Archaeological Society.