PhD Hala Alarashi
Humanities, Prehistoric archaeology
University of Adelaide, Australia
Archaeology, Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Landscape Archaeology
As a cultural landscape archaeologist and theorist, my current areas of research involve monuments, landscapes, astronomy, depositional behaviour and the belief systems of ‘prehistoric’ peoples. I investigate the roles that monuments and the natural world may have had in past people’s belief systems. Further, I undertake to understand the degree to which people in different regions possessed 'shared worlds' or shared understandings/cosmologies. The geographical coverage of my specialist research is the British Isles and Europe with a particular focus on western Britain and western Iberia. My investigations include the development and implementation of geographical information systems (GIS) as well as the application of statistics and other mathematically-oriented approaches used in astrophysics and social sciences. I collaborated with philosophers by applying major interpretive analysis through the critical use of phenomenology and ideas about materiality.
Awarded Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship “SHoW” – project no. 80236
SHARED WORLDS: Revealing prehistoric shared worlds along Europe’s Atlantic Façade, 2018
Recipient of ongoing DPP Foundation Travel and Field Work Award (DPP: Digital Preservation Projects, Dordrecht, Nederlands): 2020 Co-author writing workshop in Rotterdam; 2019 Assistance with field work on Islay; 2019 CAA, Prague; 2018 CAA, Tubingen, 2015 – 2020
EAA, Barcelona, IAU – Vienna; 2018 March-April Germany field work for 2 weeks, 2018
DPP Foundation Travel and Research, 2015 – 2017
Award (DPP: Digital Preservation Projects, Dordrecht, Nederlands) -2017 Mull Field Trip; 2017 CAA, Atlanta; 2015 EAA, Glasgow; Mull &
Argyll field work for 2 weeks; Travel visits to Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) in Frankfurt, Stirling University and Glasgow in Scotland.
Recipient of George Southgate Travel Grant – MS-C application prep with Felipe Criado-Baodo (Funded by Incipit to come from UK); EAA, Maastricht; SEAC, Santiago de Compostela and submission of MSCA; 2016 Recipient of George Southgate Travel Grant – World Archaeological Congress (WAC 8), Japan, 2016, 2017
CADW Research Grant, Wales, UK – Burnt Mounds in south-east Wales. Part of Cadw funded project won and managed by self for the Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, 2007
Also won 16 post-graduate grants and awards
English
PhD in Arts, Study of Neolithic and Bronze Age Monuments in Western Scotland. Researching the connection between monument & landscape choices, University of Adelaide
Masters Qualifying – History, Classical Studies & Physics, ‘Main Research Essay Classical Tradition – Voltaire’s use of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things for his Dictionnaire Philosophique, University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Arts, 3 majors – Ancient Greek History, Classical Studies, Psychology,
University of Adelaide
Higginbottom G. & Mom, V. "Illuminating Time: the visibility of temporality in prehistory". In Costas Papadopoulos and Holley Moyes The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Higginbottom G. & Mom, V. "Lochbuie, a Bronze Age focal point of astronomical knowledge". In Łukasz Miszk et al., Check Object Integrity, Tübingen: University of Tübingen Press.
Higginbottom, G. 2020 "The World ends here, the World begins here: Bronze Age megalithic monuments in western Scotland”. Journal of World Prehistory. Volume 32: 1; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-020-09139-z – Article Open Access; Published: 28 May 2020; 1469 Accesses by26-6-2020.
Higginbottom, G. 2020 "Perception creates worlds: meaning and experience in the erection of free-standing stones of Scotland”. In Lisa A. Dunbar, Rebecca Parkes, Christine Gant-Thompson and Damian Tybussek (eds); Yachay Wasi: a collection of papers in honour of I. S. Farrington. Oxford: British International Archaeological Reports, 2962, pp. 115-126.
Higginbottom G. & Clay, R. 2016 "Origins of Standing Stone Astronomy in Britain: New quantitative techniques for the study of archaeoastronomy". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, pp. 249-258. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.025
Most popular article with largest global interest (see Media coverage)
A Re-creation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland”, Higginbottom and Smith, A.G.K. and Tonner, P. The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 22 (2): 584-645
doi:10.1007/s10816-013-9182-7.
SHoW – Shared Worlds: revealing prehistoric shared worlds along Europe ́s Atlantic Façade
Marie Curie Fellowship
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions | Horizon 2020
This project has received funding from the [European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme][European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme][Euratom research and training programme 2014 – 2018] under grant agreement No [800236].
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2012 – 2020
Founding member &Treasurer; Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, AUSTRALIA (CAA Aus), 2012 – 2019
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA, International) -Ordinary member, 1999 – 2001, 2003 – 2006, 2010, 2013, 2015 – 2019
European Association for Archaeologists (EAA) – Ordinary member, 1999 – 2003, 2005 – 2007, 2009 – 2010, 2013, 2015 – 2020
World Archaeological Congress (WAC); Ordinary member, 2003 – 2004, 2010 – 2013, 2016 – 2020
SEAC – Societe Europeenne Pour L’astronomie Dans La Culture; Ordinary member, 1999, 2007, 2014, 2017 – 2018
International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISSAC); Ordinary member, 1999, 2007, 2011
I have had a variety of media coverage since being a student. However, my joint paper "Origins of Standing Stone Astronomy in Britain: New quantitative techniques for the study of archaeoastronomy", was my most popular article with the largest global interest (over 120 international news stories & interviews). Altmetric score for this paper: Compared to other papers this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
Origins of Standing Stone Astronomy in Britain: New quantitative techniques for the study of archaeoastronomy (Score = 359)
Joint research projects
Networking, Brainstorming research & project ideas, Can weave together the big picture and the detail to create holistic understandings of concepts or the past
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