Mike Seager Thomas

File:Rapa Nui house god.jpg in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui]]

Mike Seager Thomas studied archaeology at Brighton Technical College and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been a full time professional archaeologist since 1996, working in the commercial sector as an excavator/excavation supervisor and as a freelance prehistoric pottery and stone specialist.{{Cite web|title=Artefact Services: archaeological stone and British prehistoric pottery analysis|url=https://artefactservices.webs.com/|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Artefact Services: archaeological stone and British prehistoric pottery analysis}} Mike Seager Thomas is also a long-term participant in UCL Institute of Archaeology research projects, including the well-known Leskernick Project,{{Cite web|title=Leskernick Homepage|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/leskernick/home.htm|access-date=2021-03-28|website=www.ucl.ac.uk}} the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project,{{Cite web|title=Research|url=https://www.accordia-research.org/research|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Mysite|language=en}} and—most recently—the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project,{{Cite journal|last=Hamilton|first=Sue|date=2013|title=Rapa Nui (Easter Island)'s Stone Worlds|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469628/1/265-1564-1-PB.pdf|journal=Archaeology International|volume=16|pages=108|doi=10.5334/ai.1613 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite web|last=UCL|date=2019-01-22|title=Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/directory/rapa-nui-landscapes-construction|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Institute of Archaeology|language=en}} and he has reported on prehistoric pottery from several IOA Institute of Archaeology training excavations.{{Cite journal |last=Seager Thomas |first=Mike |year=2023 |title=Prehistoric pottery from UCL Institute of Archaeology excavations at Downley Park, West Sussex. A Middle Iron Age settlement assemblage in context |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368471651_Prehistoric_pottery_from_UCL_Institute_of_Archaeology_excavations_at_Downley_Park_West_Sussex_A_Middle_Iron_Age_settlement_assemblage_in_context_Artefact_Services_Technical_Reports_30 |journal=Artefact Services Technical Reports |volume=30 |pages=1–44 |via=ResearchGate}}{{Cite journal |last=Seager Thomas |first=Mike |date=2016 |title=Bronze and Iron Age Pottery from Bow Hill and Goosehill Camp, Sussex; excavations by UCL Institute of Archaeology |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308792748_Bronze_and_Iron_Age_Pottery_from_Bow_Hill_and_Goosehill_Camp_Sussex_excavations_by_UCL_Institute_of_Archaeology_Artefact_Services_Technical_Reports_25 |journal=Artefact Services Technical Reports |volume=25 |pages=1–17 |via=ResearchGate}} Out of his involvement in the Leskernick Project, he became the principal subject of project sociologist Mike Willmore's very funny "The Book and the Trowel,"{{Cite book|last=Willmore|first=Mike|title=The Book and the Trowel. In Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology|publisher=Left Coast Press|year=2007|location=Walnut Creek, CA|pages=244–76}} published in the Leskernick project book Stone Worlds,{{Cite book|last1=Bender|first1=Barbara|title=Stone Worlds|last2=Hamilton|first2=Sue|last3=Tilley|first3=Christopher|publisher=Left Coast Press|year=2007|location=Walnut Creek, CA|pages=244–76}} and the perceived victim of a "top-down interpersonal project hierarchy," which challenged the egalitarian pretensions of what is otherwise considered a theoretically seminal archaeological project.{{Cite journal|last1=Krsmanovic|first1=Damjan|last2=Anderson|first2=William|title=Critiquing the archaeological diary|url=https://www.academia.edu/2926240|journal=P.i.t.: Archeologische ervaringen 6, 29-40.|date=January 2008 |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=How Can Phenomenological Methodologies help us understand past Landscapes? {{!}} The Post Hole|url=https://www.theposthole.org/read/article/230|access-date=2021-03-28|website=www.theposthole.org}}{{Cite web|title=Review of Stone Worlds: narrative and reflexivity in landscape archaeology {{!}} Studio Michael Shanks ~ Stanford|date=13 December 2008 |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/archaeolog/cgi-bin/archaeolog/2008/12/13/review-of-stone-worlds-narrative-and-reflexivity-in-landscape-archaeology/|access-date=2021-03-21|language=en-US}} He has ongoing academic interests in stone in prehistoric archaeology, conflict heritage and landscape archaeology, recording strategies for Rapa Nui archaeology, Polynesian architecture, and the use of period photographs in archaeological and historical research.{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Mike Seager Thomas (0000-0002-4767-346X)|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4767-346X|access-date=2021-05-02|website=orcid.org|language=en}} Books by Mike Seager Thomas include Excavating Stone Worlds (2007), co-written with Sue Hamilton and Phillip Thomas,{{Cite book|last1=|first1=|title=Excavating Stone Worlds|last2=|first2=|last3=|first3=|publisher=UCL Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1844721375|location=London}} the Afrikamütze Database, Volumes 1–3 (2019),{{Cite book |last=Seager Thomas |first=Mike |url=https://archive.org/details/asrp81afrikamutzedatabasetheauthenticcap2019 |title=The Afrikamütze Database. A guide to the identification, context and interpretation of the German army tropical field cap, 1940–43. Part 1: The Authentic Cap. Artefact Services Research Papers 8/1 |publisher=Artefact Services |year=2019 |edition=1st |location=Lewes}}{{Cite book |last=Seager Thomas |first=Mike |url=https://archive.org/details/asrp82afrikamutzedatabasethefake2019 |title=The Afrikamütze Database; A Guide to the Identification, Context and Interpretation of the German Army Tropical Peaked Cap, 1940–43, Part 2: The Fake. Artefact Services Research Papers 8/2 |publisher=Artefact Services |year=2019 |edition=1st |location=Lewes}}{{Cite book |last=Seager Thomas |first=Mike |url=https://archive.org/details/asrp83afrikamutzedatabaseappendices2019 |title=The Afrikamütze Database. A guide to the identification, context and interpretation of the German army tropical peaked cap, 1940–43. Part 3: References & Appendices. Artefact Services Research Papers 8/3 |publisher=Artefact Services |year=2019 |edition=1st |location=Lewes}} Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive and The WW2 Foggia Airfield Complex in the Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs (both 2020),{{Cite web |last=OpenLibrary.org |title=The WW2 Foggia Airfield Complex in the Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs by Mike SEAGER THOMAS {{!}} Open Library |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL42179005W/The_WW2_Foggia_Airfield_Complex_in_the_Bradford_Archive_of_Aerial_Photographs?edition=key:/books/OL57227510M |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=Open Library |language=en}} and Wally's War: The WW2 North African Campaign Diaries of Walter von Schramm of the NZ Graves Registration & Enquiries Unit (2024).{{Cite book |last=Seager Thomas |first=Mike |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379436502_Wally's_War_The_WW2_North_African_Campaign_Diaries_of_Walter_von_Schramm_of_the_NZ_Graves_Registration_Enquiries_Unit |title=Wally's War: The WW2 North African Campaign Diaries of Walter von Schramm of the NZ Graves Registration & Enquiries Unit |last2=von Schramm |first2=Walter |publisher=Artefact Services |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-0685961-1-7 |edition=1st |location=Lewes |publication-date=2024 |language=English}}

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