Dr George Nash

BA, MPhil, DPhil (Trondheim, Norway)

Dr. George Nash is currently a part-time lecturer and visiting fellow at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, an associate professor at the Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania and senior researcher at the Museum of Prehistoric Art (Quaternary and Prehistory Geosciences Centre, Macao, Portugal). George has been a professional archaeologist for the past 20 years and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on prehistoric rock-art and mobility art in Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway Spain and Sweden. Between 1994 and 1997 he directed excavations at the La Hougue Bie passage grave on Jersey, one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments and recently he has directed excavations at Westminster Hall, London. He has also written and edited many books on prehistoric art and monumentality including Status, Exchange and Mobility: Mesolithic Portable Art of Southern Scandinavia (1998), Signifying Place and Space: World Perspectives of Rock-art and Landscape (2000), and European Landscapes of Rock-art (2001), The Figured Landscapes of Rock-art: Looking at Pictures and Place, edited with Christopher Chippindale (2004), The Architecture of Death (2006), Art as Metaphor edited with Aron Mazel and Clive Waddington (2007) and the Archaeology of People and Territoriality (2009). George is currently involved in four major rock-art recording and interpretation projects in Penang, north-east Malaysia, the Valcamonica in northern Italy, looking at Iron Age house carvings. In Wales, he is co-director of the Anglesey Rock-art Project (ARAP) and is about to coordinate and direct a rock-art landscape project in Staffordshire, Central England. He has also written and presenting five programmes on European rock-art and contemporary graffiti for BBC Radio 4. George is currently working on two projects; a landscape assessment within the eastern sector of Rhossili Down, South Wales and representative rock-art in the Channel Islands. Since 2009 he has directed an excavation of a Neolithic gallery grave in Dalancey Park, north of St Peter Port, Guernsey, part of a three-year project and a Neolithic Portal Dolmen in South-west Wales. In 2011 and part of his ongoing publishing commitments, George has recently co-edited and published Arkeos (with Professor Luiz Oosterbeek of Tomar University) and edited The Levantine Question: the rock art of the Spanish Levant (edited with José Julio García Arranz, Hipólito Collado Giraldo). In 2012, George will be undertaking further fieldwork in NE Brazil, Italy, Sardinia and South Wales, and will publish chapters in several text books; the subject Rock art!

For a list of publications see George Nash Biography and Publications.