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Nicholas J. Saunders is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield (BA Archaeology, 1979), Cambridge (MPhil Social Anthropology, 1981), and Southampton (PhD Archaeology, 1991). He has held teaching and research positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the West Indies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., and at University College London, where he was Reader in Material Culture, and undertook a major British Academy sponsored investigation into the material culture anthropology of the First World War (1998–2004). As of 2014 Saunders was Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, where he was responsible for the MA programmes in historical archaeology and conflict archaeology. As of 2018, he is Emeritus Professor of Material Culture in that department. He is a prominent contributor to the nascent field of conflict archaeology, and has authored and edited numerous academic publications in the field. In addition to his research specialising in the anthropology of 20th-century conflicts and the archaeology of World War I theatres in Belgium, France and the Middle East, Saunders has also conducted extensive fieldwork and research in pre-Columbian and historical archaeology of the Americas. He has been involved with major museum exhibitions in London, Ypres (Belgium), Tübingen (Germany), and at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France). Saunders has investigated and published on material cultures and landscapes of Mesoamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. His most recent research has been on the aesthetics of brilliance and colour in indigenous Amerindian symbolism, an extensive survey investigation of the Nazca Lines in Peru, the anthropological archaeology of twentieth-century conflict (especially the First World War) and its legacies along the Soca (Isonzo) Front on the Slovenian-Italian border, and the conflict artworks of the Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front during and after the First World War. Major book publications Curating the Great War, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2022: London: Routledge. Feuilles de Poilus: Decorated leaves from the First World War, (with D. Dendooven and Luc Volatier) 2022: Ieper: In Flanders Fields Museum. Conflict Landscapes: Materiality and Meaning in Contested Places, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2021. London: Routledge. Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt. 2020. Oxford: Oxford University Press.https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722007.001.0001 Modern Conflict and the Senses, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2017. London: Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682228 Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality and Transformation, (ed.) (with P. Cornish) 2014. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851846 The Poppy: From Ancient Egypt to Flanders Fields to Afghanistan, 2013. London: Oneworld. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2014.0239 Beyond the Dead Horizon: Studies in Modern Conflict Archaeology, (ed.) 2012. Oxford: Oxbow. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dwsh To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama, (with R.Cooke, J.Hoopes, and J.Quilter). 2012. Gilcrease Museum and University of Oklahoma Press. Contested Objects, (ed.) (with P. Cornish). 2009. Abingdon, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873854 Images of Conflict, (ed.) 2009. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars. Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War, 2007. Stroud: Sutton. Alexander's Tomb, 2006. New York: Basic. Peoples of the Caribbean, 2005. San Diego: ABC-Clio. Trench Art: Lost Worlds of the Great War, (with D. Dendooven) (2004). Ypres: In Flanders Fields Museum. Ancient Americas: The Great Civilizations, 2004. Sutton. Matters of Conflict (ed.) 2004. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203502549 Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War, 2003. Oxford: Berg. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087267 Icons of Power (ed.) 1998. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383827 Astronomies and Cultures (ed.) (with C.Ruggles) 1993. Niwot: University Press of Colorado. Ancient America: Contributions to New World Archaeology, (ed.) 1992. Oxford: Oxbow. People of the Jaguar, 1989. London: Souvenir. [1] Major article publications Placemaking at Les Blanches Banques, Jersey’s First World War Prisoner of War Camp. 2023. The Antiquaries Journal 103: 407-437. (with H. Mytum, G. Carr, and R. Philpott). Identity, Place and Memory in First World War Trench Art Coins. 2022. In, R. Kelleher (ed.) Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest, pp 96-101. Cambridge and London: Fitzwilliam Museum and Paul Holberton. East of the Jordan: Curating and forgetting the First World War and Arab Revolt along the Hejaz Railway. 2022.In, P. Cornish and N.J. Saunders (eds.)Curating the Great War, pp 107-127. London: Routledge. The education of attention: Visualizing conflict at the In Flanders Fields Museum, 1998-2021. 2022 In, D. Dendooven and P. Trogh (eds.), Nous irons en Flandres: Festschrift for Piet Chielens pp 326-335. Ieper: In Flanders Fields Museum. The dead and their spaces: Origins and meanings in modern conflict landscapes. 2021. In, N.J. Saunders and P. Cornish (eds.), Conflict Landscapes: Materiality and meaning in contested places, pp 3-33. London: Routledge. Forged in conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory. 2020. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7 Nov 2020 online, with S. Griffiths. [2] Zeitgeist archaeology: conflict, identity and ideology at Prague Castle, 1918–2018. 2019. Antiquity 93 (370):1009-1025. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.107 Traces of being: Interdisciplinary perspectives on First World War Conflict Landscapes. 2018. In, S.Daly, M.Salvante and V. Wilcox (eds.), Landscapes of the First World War, pp 209–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89411-9_12 Pearl's Treasure:The Trench Art Collection of an Australian Sapper. 2018. In, L. Slade (ed.), Sappers and Shrapnel:Contemporary Art and the Art of the Trenches, pp 13–27. Adelaide:Art Gallery of South Australia. Trench Art: Objects and people in conflict. In, J. Bourke (ed.), War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict, 2017, pp 209–215. London: Reaktion. Materiality, space and distance in the First World War. In, N.J.Saunders and P. Cornish (eds.), Modern Conflict and the Senses, 2017, pp 29–42. London: Routledge. Bodies in trees: a matter of being in Great War landscapes. In, P. Cornish and N.J. Saunders (eds.), Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality and Transformation, 2014, 22–38. London: Routledge. Travail et nostalgie sur le front de l’Ouest : l’Art des tranchées chinois et la Première guerre mondiale. In, Li Ma (ed.), Les travailleurs chinois en France dans la Première Guerre mondiale, 2012, pp 435–451. Paris: CNRS. Desert Labyrinth: Lines, Landscape and Meaning at Nazca, Peru. (with C. Ruggles). Antiquity 2012, Vol 86, pp 1126–1140. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00048.... Discover the Nicholas J Saunders popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Nicholas J Saunders books.