Dr Martin Porr - Research Interests

Master of Arts in Archaeological Theory
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Doctor of Philosophy
“Reflections of Human Beings: The Aurignacian Art of Central Europe”
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Research interests

- the archaeology of hunter-gatherers

- the archaeology of Palaeolithic Europe

- human cognitive evolution

- theoretical issues of archaeological research

- anthropology and archaeology of art

- anthropology and archaeology of shamanism

- material culture studies

Selected publications

M. Porr & K. W. Alt 2006. The burial of Bad Dürrenberg, Central Germany. Osteopathology and Osteoarchaeology of a Late Mesolithic Shaman’s grave. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16, 5, 395-406.

C. S. Gamble & M. Porr (eds.) 2005. The Hominid Individual in Context. Archaeological investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts. London/New York: Routledge.

M. Porr 2005. The making of the biface and the making of the individual. In: C. S. Gamble & M. Porr (eds.), The Hominid Individual in Context. Archaeological investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts. London/New York: Routledge, 68-80.

L. R. Owen & M. Porr & R. Struwe 2004. From Birth to Death. Individual and social dimensions of age and gender in prehistory - Introduction. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift 45, 2-3, 147-152.

M. Porr 2004. Individual reflections: Gender and the Aurignacian art of Southwest Germany. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift 45, 2-3, 257-269.

H. Müller-Beck & M. Porr 2004. Genesis and Evolution of Human Thought. Review of Archaeology 25, No.2, 1-9.

M. Porr 2001. Between Nyae Nyae and Anaktuvuk – On the use of anthropology in Palaeolithic archaeology. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift 42(2), 159-173.

T. A. Dowson & M. Porr 2001. Special Objects - Special Creatures. Shamanistic Imagery and the Aurignacian Art of Southwest Germany. In: N. Price (ed.), The Archaeology of Shamanism. London/New York: Routledge, 165-177.

M. Porr 2000. Signs of the Times. A Different Approach towards the Origins of Lower Palaeolithic Handaxes. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 17(1), 19-32.

M. Porr 1999. The Name of Foucault. An Experimental Exploration of the Works of Umberto Eco. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 15(2), 103-123.

L. R. Owen & M. Porr (eds.) 1999. Ethno-Analogy and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Production. Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte 14. Tübingen: MoVince.