The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii

Publications of Dr. R.F.J. JONES

BOOKS

R.F.J. Jones, T.F.C. Blagg and S.J. Keay, eds. Papers in Iberian Archaeology British Archaeological Reports International Series 193. Oxford, 1984. 2 volumes, 741pp. 

 

R.F.J. Jones, P.R. Wilson and D.M. Evans, eds. Settlement and Society in the Roman North School of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, and Roman Antiquities Section, Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Bradford and Leeds, 1984. 90pp. 

 

R.F.J. Jones, J.H.F. Bloemers, S.L. Dyson and M. Biddle, eds. First Millennium Papers: Western Europe in the First Millennium AD British Archaeological Reports International Series 401. Oxford, 1988. 307pp. 

 

R.F.J. Jones, ed. Britain in the Roman Period J.R. Collis Publications. Sheffield, 1991. 120pp. Sara E. Bon and Rick Jones, eds. Sequence and Space in Pompeii Oxbow Monograph 77, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1997. In preparation: I.M. Ferris and 

 

R.F.J. Jones, eds. Excavations at Binchester Roman Fort For submission as Britannia Monograph 2004. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The Newstead Research Project 2 vols. Newstead Studies 1. National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. Completion date spring 2004. 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson The Casa delle Vestali at Pompeii (2 vols. Studi della Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei). Completion date end 2004. 

 

Series Editor with Fraser Hunter Newstead Studies (National Museums of Scotland) 

 

PAPERS IN JOURNALS / CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

 

R.F.J. Jones and D.G. Bird Roman gold mining in north-west Spain II: workings on the rio Duerna. Journal of Roman Studies 62 (1972): 59-74. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The Romano-British farmstead and its cemetery at Lynch Farm, near Peterborough. Northamptonshire Archaeology 10 (1975): 94-137. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The Roman military occupation of north-west Spain. Journal of Roman Studies 66 (1976): 45-66. R.F.J. Jones A quantitative approach to Roman burial. In R. Reece (ed.) Burial in the Roman World Council for British Archaeology Research Report 22. London, 1977. 20-25. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Archaeology in the Bowes Museum - the Bronze Age metalwork and the Roman epigraphy. Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland new series 4 (1978): 1-5. 

 

R.F.J. Jones and P. Turnbull An Imperial portrait from Chester-le-Street. Britannia 10 (1979): 260-1. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Why pottery ? In M. Millett (ed.), Pottery and the Archaeologist University of London Institute of Archaeology Occasional Publication 4. 1979. 1-5. 

 

I.M. Ferris and R.F.J. Jones Excavations at Binchester 1976-9. In W.S. Hanson & L.J.F. Keppie (eds.), Roman Frontier Studies 1979 British Archaeological Reports S71. Oxford 1980. 233-254. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Computers and cemeteries - opportunities and limitations. In P.A. Rahtz et al. (eds.), Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries 1979 British Archaeological Reports 82. Oxford, 1980. 179-195. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Cremation and inhumation - change in the third century. In A. King & M. Henig (eds.), The Roman West in the Third Century British Archaeological Reports S109. Oxford, 1981. 15-19 

 

R.F.J. Jones Change on the frontier - northern Britain in the third century. In A. King & M. Henig (eds.), The Roman West in the Third Century British Archaeological Reports S109. Oxford, 1981. 393-414. 

 

R.F.J. Jones, S.J. Keay, J.M. Tarrus, J.M. Nolla The late Roman villa of Vilauba and its context. Antiquaries Journal 62 (2) (1982): 245-282. 

 

D.F. Devereux, R.F.J. Jones and S.E. Warren X-ray fluorescence analysis of Verulamium region ware. In A. Aspinall and S.E. Warren (eds.), Proceeedings of the 22nd Symposium on Archaeometry University of Bradford. Bradford, 1983. 333-42. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The cemeteries of Roman York. In P.V Addyman and V.E. Black (eds.), Archaeological Papers from York presented to M.W. Barley York Archaeological Trust. York, 1984. 34-42. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Social evolution and the western provinces of the Roman Empire. In J. Bintliff (ed.), European Social Evolution - Archaeological Perspectives University of Bradford. Bradford, 1984. 245-266. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The Roman cemeteries of Ampurias reconsidered In T.F.C. Blagg, R.F.J. Jones and S.J. Keay (eds.), Papers in Iberian Archaeology British Archaeological Reports International Series 193. Oxford, 1984. 237-65 

 

R.F.J. Jones, S.J. Keay, J. Tarrus and J.M. Nolla Landscape, settlement and survey archaeology in Catalunya. In T.F.C. Blagg, R.F.J. Jones and S.J. Keay (eds.), Papers in Iberian Archaeology British Archaeological Reports International Series 193. Oxford 1984. 460-65. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Settlement and society in north-east England in the third century AD. In P.R. Wilson, R.F.J. Jones, and D.M. Evans (eds.), Settlement and Society in the Roman North School of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, and Roman Antiquities Section, Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Bradford and Leeds, 1984. 39-42 

 

R.F.J. Jones Urbanism in the Roman north. In P.R. Wilson, R.F.J. Jones, and D.M. Evans (eds.), Settlement and Society in the Roman North School of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, and Roman Antiquities Section, Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Bradford and Leeds, 1984. 87-88 

 

R.F.J. Jones Death and distinction. In T.F.C. Blagg and A.C. King (eds.), Military and Civilian in Roman Britain British Archaeological Reports 136. Oxford, 1984. 219-25. 

 

R.F.J. Jones, T.F.C. Blagg, C.M. Devereux, D.W. Jordan and M. Millett Settlement, landscape and survey archaeology in Catalunya. In S. Macready and F.H. Thompson (eds.) Archaeological Field Survey in Britain and Abroad Society of Antiquaries of London Occasional Paper VI. London, 1985. 116-128. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Rome in the Pennines. In T.G. Manby and P. Turnbull (eds.) Archaeology in the Pennines British Archaeological Reports 158. Oxford, 1986. 229-236. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Burial in Rome and the western provinces. In J. Wacher (ed.), The Roman World Routledge Kegan Paul. London, 1987. 812-837. 

 

R.F.J. Jones A false start ? The Roman urbanisation of western Europe. World Archaeology 19 (1) (June 1987): 48-57. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The archaeologists of Roman Britain. Bulletin of the University of London Institute of Archaeology 24 (50th anniversary volume, 1987): 85-97. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The end of the Roman countryside in the Iberian peninsula. In R.F.J. Jones, J.H.F. Bloemers, S.L. Dyson and M. Biddle (eds.), First Millennium Papers British Archaeological Reports International Series 401. Oxford, 1988. 159-173. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The hinterland of Roman York. In J. Price et al. (eds.), Recent Research in Roman Yorkshire British Archaeological Reports 193. Oxford, 1988. 161-170. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Questions, answers and the consumer in archaeological science. In E.A. Slater & J. Tate (eds.), Science and Archaeology - Glasgow 1987 British Archaeological Reports 196. Oxford, 1989. 1-7. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Natives and the Roman army: three model relationships. In H. Vetters & M. Kandler (eds.), Akten des 14. Internationalen Limeskongresses Vienna, 1990: 99-110. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The Newstead Project: the archaeological search for acculturation. Scottish Archaeological Review 7 (1990): 104-113. 

 

R.F.J. Jones, J. Evans and P. Turnbull Excavations at Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, 1978-9. Durham Archaeological Journal 7 (1991): 5-48 (plus 165 pages of microfiche) 

 

R.F.J. Jones The urbanisation of Roman Britain. In R.F.J. Jones (ed.), Britain in the Roman Period J.R. Collis Publications. Sheffield, 1991: 53-66. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Cultural change in Roman Britain. In R.F.J. Jones (ed.), Britain in the Roman Period J.R. Collis Publications. Sheffield, 1991: 115-120. 

 

I.M. Ferris and R.F.J. Jones Binchester, a northern fort and vicus. In R.F.J. Jones (ed.), Britain in the Roman Period J.R. Collis Publications. Sheffield, 1991. 103-110. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Archaeology, the longue durée and the limits of the Roman Empire. In J. Bintliff (ed.), The Annales School and Archaeology Leicester Univerity Press. Leicester, 1991. 93-107. 

 

R.F.J. Jones The Roman Empire in microcosm: Roman Spain. (review) Antiquity 66 (1992): 809-811. 

 

R.F.J. Jones Rules for the living and the dead: funerary practice and social organisation. In M. Struck (ed.) Römerzeitliche Gräber als Quellen zu Religion Bevolkerungsstruktur und Sozialgeschichte Johannes Gutenberg Universität. Mainz, 1993. 247-254 

 

R.F.J. Jones Backwards and forwards in Roman burial. (review article) Journal of Roman Archaeology 6 (1993): 427-432. 

 

Simon Clarke and Rick Jones The Newstead Pits. In C. van Driel-Murray (ed.) Military Equipment in Context. (Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 5, 1996: Oxford) : 109-124. 

 

Rick Jones, Sara E. Bon, Bernice Kurchin, and Damian Robinson Digital Imaging of Standing Buildings in Insula VI,1 at Pompeii. Archeologia e Calcalatori 7 (1996) : 939-950. 

 

Sara E. Bon, Rick Jones, Bernice Kurchin, Damian Robinson Research in Insula VI,1 by the Anglo-American Pompeii Project, 1994-6. Rivista di Studi Pompeiani 7 (1997): 153-157. 

 

Rick Jones and Sara E. Bon Sequence and Space in Pompeii: an introduction. In Sara E. Bon & Rick Jones (eds.), Sequence and Space in Pompeii. Oxbow Monograph 77, Oxford, 1997. 3-7. 

 

Rick Jones, Sara E. Bon, Bernice Kurchin, and Damian Robinson The Context of the House of the Surgeon: investigations in Insula VI,1 at Pompeii. In Sara E. Bon & Rick Jones (eds.) Sequence and Space in Pompeii. Oxbow Monograph 77, Oxford, 1997. 32-49. 

 

Rick Jones, Paul Cheetham, Simon Clarke and Damian Robinson Making Better Decisions: Geophysical Survey and Heritage Management policies. In Innovation et technologie au service du patrimoine de l'humanité. ADMITECH/ UNESCO, Paris, 1997. 

 

Rick Jones, Sara E. Bon, Bernice Kurchin, and Damian Robinson Documenting the Monument: Digital Imaging and Building Analysis at Pompeii. In Innovation et technologie au service du patrimoine de l'humanité. ADMITECH/ UNESCO, Paris, 1997. 

 

Iain Ferris and Rick Jones Transforming an elite: reinterpreting late Roman Binchester. In T. Wilmott & P. Wilson (eds.), The Late Roman Transition in the North. British Archaeological Reports 299, Oxford 2000: 1-12. 

 

Rick Jones and Astrid Schoonhoven The Story of a Street: The Vicolo di Narciso and the urban development of Pompeii In P. Wilson (ed.), The Archaeology of Roman Towns. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2003: 128-136. 

 

 

IN PRESS 

 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson The making of an elite house: the House of the Vestals at Pompeii Journal of Roman Archaeology 17 (2004). 

 

Rick Jones and Damian J. Robinson The development of inequality in Insula VI, 1 In P. Foss & J.J. Dobbins (eds.), Pompeii and the ancient settlements under Vesuvius. Routledge 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson. Lo sviluppo urbano e le differenze sociali a Pompei. Evidenze archeologiche dalla casa delle vestali e L'insula VI,1: 1994-2000. In Excavations in Italy by Foreign Institutes, Ministero di Beni Culturali, Roma. 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson The House of the Vestals (VI,1, 6-8): its development and implications In M.P. Guidobaldi (ed.) Nuove ricerche sull'area vesuviana - New research in the Vesuvian area, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei. 

 

Damian Robinson and Rick Jones The economic development of the commercial triangle Insula VI.i at Pompeii In M.P. Guidobaldi (ed.) Nuove ricerche sull'area vesuviana - New research in the Vesuvian area, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei. 

 

 

FORTHCOMING 

 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson Water wealth and status at Pompeii To be submitted to American Journal of Archaeology 

 

SELECTED RECENT CONFRERENCE, PAPERS AND LECTURES

 

 

 Rick Jones Changing identities: different ways of being "Roman" European Association of Archaeologists, Ravenna, 1997 

 

Rick Jones and Sara Bon Remaking Roman-ness: cultural implications of the development of the atrium house at Pompeii 99th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago 1997 

 

Rick Jones Roman Yorkshire The Archaeology of Yorkshire. Council for British Archaeology conference, Ripon, 1998. 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson Water, Wealth and Status at Pompeii: the House of the Vestals in the first century AD. 100th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Washington DC., 1998. 

 

Rick Jones and Iain Ferris Binchester and the end of the Roman North Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham, 1999. 

 

Rick Jones The impact of Romanisation Romanisation in the North West, Liverpool and Lancaster, 1999. 

 

Rick Jones (session organiser) How to Dig a City Society of American Archaeology Meeting, Philadelphia 2000 

 

Rick Jones, Damian Robinson and Jarrett Lobell Above and below ground at Pompeii: integrated approaches to analysis, conservation and presentation European Association of Archaeologists, Lisbon, 2000 

 

Rick Jones and Gary Devore Pompeii in Mind European Association of Archaeologists, Esslingen, 2001 

 

Rick Jones Roman and native at Newstead Roman Frontier Seminar, Glasgow 2001 

 

Rick Jones Urbanisation and Inequality at Pompeii 103nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, 2002. 

 

Rick Jones Assemblages and cultural practices at Newstead: illusions of wealth and poverty Roman Finds Research Group, Wallsend 2002 

 

Rick Jones Two centuries of Vestals: changing perceptions in the archaeology of Pompeii Antiquity Recovered, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2002 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson The House of the Vestals (VI,1, 6-8): its development and implications Nuove ricerche sull'area vesuviana - New research in the Vesuvian area, British School at Rome, 2002 

 

Damian Robinson and Rick Jones The economic development of the commercial triangle Insula VI.i at Pompeii Nuove ricerche sull'area vesuviana - New research in the Vesuvian area, British School at Rome, 2002 

 

Rick Jones and Damian Robinson The making of an elite house at Pompeii 104rd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, 2003. 

 

Rick Jones Patterns of inequality at Pompeii XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Harvard University Arts Museums, August 2003 

 

Rick Jones Military civilians and civilian civilians: social interaction on the Roman frontier in Scotland 19th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Pécs, Hungary, September 2003 

 

COLLOQIUM ORGANISED

 

 

Rick Jones (organiser) Why did the Roman Empire last so long? 

105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, 2004. 

 

Participants: 

 

Bruce Hitchner Roman Globalization and the Longevity of Empire 

Stephen L. Dyson Keep it Local, Keep it Simple, Accept Failure 

Fraser Hunter Dealing with the World Beyond 

Rick Jones An Empire of the People: the experience of the Roman masses

 

 

FIELD RESEARCH

 

1970 Roman gold mines survey, NW Spain For the University of Manchester 

1972 Lynch Farm, Peterborough. Excavation of Romano-British farmstead and cemetery
For the Nene Valley Research Committee and the Department of the Environment. 

1973 Marholm Road, Peterborough. Excavation of Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon farmsteads 
For the Nene Valley Research Committee and the Department of the Environment. 

1974 Harp Lane, City of London. Excavation of Roman and post-medieval buildings. 
For the Department of Urban Archaeology, Museum of London. 

With I.M. Ferris, Co-Director
1976-81, 1986-2003 Binchester Roman fort, Co. Durham. Excavations and geophysical survey 
Supported by English Heritage, Durham County Council and the Bowes Museum. Manpower Services Commission, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of London, University of Bradford, University of Durham, Hadrian Trust, Department of the Environment. 

With P. Turnbull, Co-Director
1978 Chester-le-Street ,Co. Durham. Excavation of Roman fort and post-medieval buildings
For the Department of the Environment and Durham County Council. 
With S.J. Keay, J.M. Nolla, J. Tarrus, Co-Director
1979-83 Ampurdán Survey, Catalunya, Spain, involving excavation of Vilauba Roman villa linked to surface collection and geophysical survey of sites in the regional study area
Sponsored by the British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of London, University of Bradford, Generalitat de Catalunya, Comarca de Banyoles. 

1980-91 Naburn. Survey and excavation of Romano-British rural settlement in the hinterland of York
For the University of Bradford. 

With H. Galinié, Co-Director
1984-5 Tours, France. Excavation and laboratory research on the health status of ancient population,
from late antiquity to the early modern period
For the University of Bradford and the Laboratoire d'Archéologie Urbaine, Tours. 

1987 Newstead Roman fort. Excavation and geophysical survey
For the University of Bradford, National Museums of Scotland and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 
With W.J.H. Willems, Co-Director
1988 Kopse Hof Roman fortress, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Excavation and geophysical survey
For the University of Bradford and the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek. (Netherlands National Archaeology Service) 

1989-2003 Newstead Research Project. Intensive regional study integrating geophysical 
survey of more than 40 sites and selective excavations, at the Roman military complex of Trimontium and at surrounding indigenous settlements
Sponsored by National Museums of Scotland, the University of Bradford, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries of London, Borders Regional Council. 

With D.J. Robinson Co-Director
1994-2008 Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, multidisciplinary investigation of complete 
block of the ancient city
In co-operation with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei.

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• The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii

• University of Bradford - Department of Archeological Sciences

• The Pompeii Trust

• Rami Gideon

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Contact details

Bradford Pompeii Research Laboratory, 
Department of Archaeological Sciences, 
University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP. 

Email: rfjjones@bradford.ac.uk
Phone:  01274 233536 (office) 

Qualifications 

BA Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Manchester (First class) 1972 
PhD Institute of Archaeology, University of London 
Cemeteries and burial practice in the western provinces of the Roman Empire 1983 
FSA Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London 
Responsabilités dans la recherche

Other professional association include 

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 
Archaeological Institute of America 
European Association of Archaeologists 
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 

Posts held 

Reader in Archaeology, University of Bradford from 1996 
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bradford 1989-1996 
Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bradford 1978-1989 
Antiquities Officer, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham 1975-1978 

Other appointmentsosts 

Trustee 
The Pompeii Trust from 2002 

Research Associate 
Dept of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York 1994-7 

External Examiner
Undergraduate: University of Manchester, Dept of Archaeology 1992-5 
Postgraduate: Universities of Leiden, York, Durham & Kent 

Referee on grant applications, publication proposals, and tenure applications 
English Heritage, AHRB, Britannia, British Academy, NERC (UK) 
Journal of Roman Archaeology, University of Michigan Press, Boston University (USA) 
NWO (National Research Organisation, Netherlands). 

Stigler Lecturer 
University of Arkansas, 1996. 
Conflict and Consent: the Cultural Dynamics of the Roman Empire. 

External Activities

Member of Council, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 
Member, British Academy Anglo-Bulgarian Archaeology Committee 
Executive Committee member: Archaeology Consortium, Teaching and Learning Technology Programme 
Member of English Heritage National Mapping Programme Working Group for Vale of York 
Contributing to television programmes, especially on Pompeii (for BBC2 and German TV).