Tina L. Thurston
Associate Professor |
Office: 353 Richmond 4 Phone: (716) 645-0408 Email: tt27@buffalo.edu |
Office Hours
By appointment; on sabbatical 2009-2010
Research Interests
Dr. Tina Thurston is an archaeologist who works regularly in northern Europe: Sweden, Denmark and Northern Ireland. Her research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society, concerns the development of the political complexity during the Iron Age, Early Medieval, and Early Modern periods in Scandinavia and Ireland. The study of these sequences involves both historically contingent processes, embedded in local knowledge and practice, but also includes comparative, cross-cultural studies of similar sequences in many times and places. To answer research questions about rulership, dominion, and strategies for expanding centralization, as well as local efforts to resist state agendas and evade authority, Dr. Thurston focuses on theories of domination and resistance, force vs. power, interethnic conflict, the role of identity in political, economic and religious participation and/or exclusion, and the impetus for and the meaning of continuity or change in cultural landscapes.
Selected Publications
Books
Tina L. Thurston and Roderick B. Salisbury (eds.) 2009. Re-imagining Regional Analyses: The Archaeology of Spatial and Social Dynamics Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge.
Thurston, Tina L. and Christopher T. Fisher (eds.) 2007 Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change Human Ecology and Adaptation Book Series. Springer Scientific Publishing, New York
Thurston, Tina L. 2001 Landscapes of power, landscapes of conflict: state formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age. Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Springer Scientifc Publishing, New York
Journal articles and book chapters
Thurston, Tina L. (forthcoming) Bitter Arrows and Generous Gifts: What Was a King in the European Iron Age? In Pathways to Power: Inequality, dominance and exploitation Price, T.D. and G. M. Feinman (eds.) Springer Scientific Publishing, New York.
Thurston, Tina L, Jørgen Westphal and Mette Roesgaard. 2009. Imagining Danish prehistory through 50 years: methodological and paradigmatic transformations in regional and interregional archaeology. In Re-imagining Regional Analyses: The Archaeology of Spatial and Social Dynamics Tina L. Thurston and Roderick B. Salisbury (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge pp. 67-98.
Thurston, Tina L. 2009 Farming the Margins: on the social causes and consequences of soil management strategies in The Archaeology of Environmental Change: Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience. C. T. Fisher, B. Hill, & G. Feinman (eds) University of Arizona Press pp. 106-134.
Thurston, Tina L. 2009. Unity and diversity in the European Iron Age: out of the mists, some clarity? Journal of Archaeological Research 17(4): 7-84.
Thurston, Tina L. 2008. Rituals of Rebellion: Cultural Narratives and Metadiscourse of Violent Conflict in Iron Age and Medieval Denmark in Scorched Earth: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict, Pollard, T. and Banks I (eds.) Brill: Leiden, Boston, pp. 265-293.
Thurston, Tina L. 2007 Infields, Outfields, and Broken Lands: agricultural intensification and the ordering of space in Iron Age Denmark. Thurston and Fisher (eds.) Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change Human Ecology and Adaptation Book Series. Springer Scientific Publishing New York pp. 155-191.
Thurston, Tina L. 2007 Rituals of Rebellion: Cultural Narratives and Metadiscourse of Violent Conflict in Iron Age and Medieval Denmark Journal of Conflict Archaeology. 3(1):269-295.
Thurston, Tlna L. 2007 The location of power and the art of resistance: spatial analysis and social theory in regional archaeology in Space – The Final Frontier? An Intercontinental Approach. R. Salisbury & D. Keeler (eds.) Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge.
Thurston, Tina L. and Christopher T. Fisher. 2007. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation And Change. Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change Thurston and Fisher (eds.) Human Ecology and Adaptation Book Series. Springer Scientific Publishing New York
Thurston, Tina L. and Christopher T. Fisher. 2007 Intensification, innovation, and change: New Perspectives and Future Directions. Seeking A Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and ChangeThurston and Fisher (eds.) Human Ecology and Adaptation Book Series. Springer Scientific Publishing New York
Thurston, Tina L. 2006. The Barren and the Fertile: central and local intensification strategies across variable landscapes. Agricultural Strategies J. Marcus & C. Stanish (eds). Cotsen Institiute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles CA pp. 131-161.
Thurston, Tina L. 1999. The knowable, the doable, and the undiscussed: tradition, submission, and the "becoming" of rural landscapes in Denmark’s Iron Age Antiquity 1999 (3):661-671.
Fisher, Christopher T. and Tina L. Thurston. 1999. Dynamic Landscapes and Socio-political Process: the topography of anthropogenic environments in global perspective. Antiquity 1999 (3):630-31.
Thurston, Tina L. 1997. Historians, prehistorians, and the tyranny of the historical record: Danish state formation through documents and historical data. New Approaches To Combining The Archaeological And Historical Records: Current Research in the New and Old Worlds. Ed. S. Kepecs & M. Kolb. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 4(3-4):239-263
Undergraduate Courses Offered
333 North American Archaeology
437 Celts, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings
420 Gender Archaeology
434 The Archaeology of Sacred Places
Graduate Courses Offered
589 Complex Societies
609 Gender Archaeology
610 Archaeological Method and Theory
611 Celts, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings
729 Human Impacts on Ancient Environments
731 Landscape Archaeology
733 Analytical Methods in Archaeology