About our staff
Dr Andrew Lamb
Teaching Fellow in Iron Age and Theoretical Archaeology; Iron Age Europe
- Email: alamb3@ed.ac.uk
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, 1M.21 | William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School
Roles
Teaching Fellow
Biography
I have studied at Queen's University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leicester. I was awarded my PhD in 2019, and examined Iron Age mortuary practices in southern England between the 5th century BC and the first decades of the Roman conquest in the 1st century AD. On the basis of my doctoral research I received an honorable commendation in the 2020 Prix européen d’archéologie Joseph Déchelette. Between 2021 and 2022 I worked for the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, as a researcher on the European Union's Danube Archaeological eLandscapes project.
My primary research interests include mortuary practices, ritual, La Tène art and links between Iron Age Ireland, Britain and the Continent. I have previously excavated in the UK, France, Germany, Morocco and Ukraine.
Useful Links
Academia: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AndrewLamb
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Lamb-13
Summary of research interests
Places:- Britain & Ireland
- Europe
- Culture
- Gender
- Material Culture
- Migration
- Religion
- Prehistory
Research interests
Iron Age mortuary practices
Links and contacts between Iron Age Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe
Ritual as a tool for societal change and control
La Tène art
Undergraduate teaching
The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe (ARCA 10093)
Theoretical Archaeology (ARCA 10064)
Postgraduate teaching
The Archaeology of ‘Celtic’ Europe (PGHC11508)
Theoretical Archaeology (PGHC11329)
Publications
Lamb, A.W. 2022. Iron Age Mortuary Practices in Britain: An assessment of current trends andtheir characteristics within contemporary north-western European traditions. Proceedings ofthe Prehistoric Society 87, 227–260
Lamb, A.W. and Schönfelder, M. 2022. Spearbutts for horse bits: a new interpretation for certain bronze fittings from the Irish Iron Age. Journal of Irish Archaeology 31, 69-80
Lamb, A.W. 2022. Les fleuves et la société durant l’âge du Fer en Ulster. In B. Bonaventure and S. Carrara (eds). Axes fluviaux et territoires à l'âge du Fer en Europe, 293-7. Collection AFEAF 4. Paris: AFEAF
Lamb, A.W. 2021. An Iron Age scabbard chape from Liss, Hampshire: A Northern artefact from a Southern find-spot. Hampshire Studies 76, 66-72
Lamb, A.W. 2021. Dressing the Dead: Dress fittings in the Later pre-Roman British Iron Age. In S. Adroit, A. Bertraud, T. Le Dreff, C. Moulin, and T. Poigt (eds). Représenter la protohistoire / Se représenter à la protohistoire – Representations of Protohistory / Self-representations inProtohistory. Actes des IV e rencontres doctorales de l ̇École européenne de protohistoire deBibracte (12-13 mars 2018), 107-113. Glux-en-Glenne: Bibracte
Lamb, A.W. 2020. The Deal-type inhumations of Kent: Defining an Iron Age mortuary group inlight of new discoveries. Archaeologia Cantiana 141, 98-124
Lamb, A.W. 2020. An Iron Age torc from Burnley, Lancashire. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 112, 182-201
Ellis, R.L. and Lamb, A.W. 2019. The Breckland Beast: An Iron Age zoomorphic terminal withimplications for our understanding of artistic influences during the Iron Age in Norfolk. NorfolkArchaeology 48, 165-173
Lamb, A.W. 2019. La Tène anthropoid art in Britain: Changes in style and people.Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 49(1), 83-94
Lamb, A.W. 2019. The prehistoric pedigree of Romano-British bucket escutcheons: the view from Mountsorrel. Later Prehistoric Finds Group Newsletter 13, 7-11
Lamb, A.W. 2018. The Belgae of Gaul and Britain: Revisiting cross-Channel contacts in the Later Iron Age. In P. Pavúk, V. Klontza-Jaklová & A. Harding (eds). ΕΥΔΑΙΜΩΝ. Studies in Honour of Jan Bouzek, 335-357. Prague: The Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Lamb, A.W. 2018. Seated burials of the La Tène Iron Age. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 37(4), 429-442
Lamb, A.W. 2018. The curious case of the Iceni and their relationship with Rome. In M.A.Janković & V.D. Mihajlović (eds), Reflections of Roman Imperialisms, 106-127. Newcastleupon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Mattingly, D., Bokbot, Y., Sterry, M., Cuénod, A., Fenwick, C., Gatto, M.C., Ray, N., Rayne, L.,Janin, K., Lamb, A.W., Mugnai, N. and Nikolaus, J. 2018. Long-term History in a Moroccan OasisZone: The Middle Draa Project 2015. Journal of African Archaeology 15, 1-32
Lamb, A.W. 2016. The rise of the individual in Late Iron Age southern Britain and beyond.Chronika 6, 26-40