Rachel Pope
{{short description|Archaeologist}}
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Rachel Pope FSA is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Europe. She is Reader in European Prehistory at the University of Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/staff/rachel-pope/|title=Rachel Pope - University of Liverpool|website=www.liverpool.ac.uk|access-date=2019-09-13}}
Education
Pope undertook undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Durham University. Her PhD thesis was entitled "Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c 2500 BC - AD 500", was awarded in 2003, and funded partly through support provided by the British Federation of Women Graduates and St Mary's College.{{Cite thesis|title=Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c2500 BC - AD 500|url=https://library.dur.ac.uk/record=b1920988~S1|date=2003|place=Durham|first=Rachel|last=Pope}}
Career
In 2004 Pope held an early career fellowship at the University of Leicester. Pope's research includes Iron Age hillforts,{{Cite web|url=https://www.archaeology.co.uk/issues/ca-222.htm|title=CA 222|last=CA|date=2009-02-10|website=Current Archaeology|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-14}} the Celts, and gender.
Pope has directed excavations at the Kidlandlee Dean Bronze Age Landscapes Project (Northumberland) and Eddisbury Hillfort, Merrick’s Hill (Cheshire), and at Penycloddiau Hillfort. She co-edited the volume The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent with Colin Haselgrove, which provided a thorough "overview of research into the early first millennium BC".{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/07_10_haselgrove.htm|title=The Prehistoric Society - Book Review|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|access-date=2019-09-14}} She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sal.org.uk/about-us/fellows-directory/?fs=Pope&page=1|title=Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries|website=www.sal.org.uk|access-date=2019-09-13}} Pope is director of British Women Archaeologists.{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/staff/rachel-pope/external-engagement/|title=Rachel Pope - University of Liverpool|website=www.liverpool.ac.uk|access-date=2019-09-13}} She is a key member of campaign to stop development at Old Oswestry Hillfort.{{Cite web|url=https://trowelblazers.com/raising-horizons-queens-of-the-castles/|title=Raising Horizons: Queens of the Castles {{!}} TrowelBlazers|date=17 October 2016 |access-date=2019-09-14}} Pope was featured in the Leonora Saunders and TrowelBlazers Raising Horizons exhibition as Margaret Guido.{{Cite web|url=http://raisinghorizons.co.uk/portraits#margaret-guido|title=Raising Horizons {{!}} Home|last=|first=|date=|website=raisinghorizons.co.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-18}}
Selected publications
- Pope, R. E. (2007). Ritual and the roundhouse: a critique of recent ideas on domestic space in later British prehistory. In C. C. Haselgrove, & R. E. Pope (Eds.), The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow: 204-228.
- Ghey, E., Edwards, N., and Pope, R. (2007) Characterising the Welsh Roundhouse: chronology, inhabitation and landscape, Internet Archaeology 23. {{doi|10.11141/ia.23.1|doi-access=free}}
- Pope, R. (2011). Processual archaeology and gender politics. The loss of innocence. Archaeological Dialogues 18(01): 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203811000134
- Pope, R. E., & Ralston, I. B. M. (2011). Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent. In L. Armada, & T. Moore (eds), Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Edwards, B. G., & Pope, R. E. (2012). Gender in British Prehistory. In D. Bolger (eds), A Companion to Gender Prehistory. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Pope, R. E. (2015). Bronze Age architectural traditions: dates and landscapes. In F. Hunter, & I.B.M. Ralston (eds), Scotland in Later Prehistoric Europe. Oxford: Oxbow.
- Pope, R. E. (2018). Gender and society in Iron Age Europe. In C. C. Haselgrove, K. Rebay-Salisbury, & P. Wells (eds) Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Pope, R. (2021). Re-approaching Celts: Origins, society, and social change. Journal of Archaeological Research, 1-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09157-1
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Category:Academics of the University of Liverpool
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