Dr Vicky Winton - Research Interests

Senior Archaeologist, Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting

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Biography

Vicky studied for an undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford (1994-1997).  She completed a doctorate in Palaeolithic archaeology at the University of Oxford in 2002 and has since worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 2002-2004); Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow (Centre for Archaeology, University of Western Australia, 2005); and Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology (University of Liverpool, 2005-2007) where she taught courses in human evolution and Palaeolithic archaeology.  In her current role at Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting, UWA Vicky acts as a project manager, a lithic artefact specialist and coordinator of research and publication from the Consultancy.

Key Research

Vicky specialises in the analysis and interpretation of stone artefact assemblages and hunter-gatherer archaeology.  She has directed archaeological field projects in Europe, Africa and Australia.  Her particular interests lie in the interface between stone tool technology and social/cultural behaviour as she believes that this helps us to understand what it means to be modern humans!  Her work has incorporated studies of artefact assemblages recovered from surface contexts, experimental studies on the acquisition of stone tool-making skills in humans and the functional attributes of handaxe size and shape.  The indigenous archaeology of Western Australia offers Vicky an exciting new perspective on both the question of the relationship between stone tool technology and social/cultural behaviour and the possibility of more robust data sets from surface contexts.

Publications

Winton, V. (in prep.) Zebra River Gorge, central Namibia – Results of a cave excavation.  To be submitted to South African Archaeological Bulletin.

Winton, V. (2008) Palaeolithic Finds from Westhawk Farm (NGR TR 000399). In Booth, P., Bingham, A. and Lawrence, S., The Roman Roadside Settlement at Westhawk Farm, Ashford, Kent. Oxford Archaeology: Oxford.

Winton, V. (2006) An Investigation of Acheulian knapping skill development in the manufacture of Palaeolithic handaxes. In Roux, V. and Bril, B. (eds). Stone Knapping : the necessary conditions for a uniquely hominid behaviour. McDonald Institute Monograph Series, Cambridge. (Actes du workshop de Pont-à-Mousson, 21-24 novembre 2001): 109-116.

Haour, A., Winton, V., Idé, O., Rendell, H., and Clarke, M. (2006). The Projet SAHEL 2004: The archaeological sequence in the Parc W, Niger. Journal of African Archaeology, 4 (2): 65-80.

Winton, V. and Walkington, H. (2006) A left-hander handaxe from Upperton, near Watlington, Oxfordshire and its Geological Context. Oxoniensia LXX: 1-8.

Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Crisp, J., Crivellaro, F., Jousse, H., Markiewicz, E., Nichol, M., Raffin, M., Robinson, R., Wasse, A., Winton, V. (2006) Funerary sites in the ‘Free Zone’: Report on the second and third seasons of fieldwork of the Western Sahara Project. Sahara 17: 73-94.

Winton, V., Haour, A and Idé, O. (2005) The Projet SAHEL 2004: Preliminary review of new work in the Parc W, Niger. Nyame Akuma 64: 50-54.

Winton, V. (2004) A study of Palaeolithic Artefacts from Selected Sites on Deposits Mapped as Clay-with-flints of Southern England with Particular Reference to Handaxe Manufacture. British Archaeological Reports British Series 2004 360, Archaeopress: Oxford.

Haour, A., and Winton, V. (2003) A Palaeolithic Cleaver from the Sahel: freak or fact?  Antiquity Vol. 77 No. 297: Project Gallery Web page http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/haour/haour.html

Winton, V. (2002) Book Review of: Woo Lee, H. (2001) A Study of Lower Palaeolithic Artefacts from Selected Sites in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley, with particular reference to the R. J. MacRae Collection. British Archaeological reports, British series 319. Archaeopress: Oxford. Oxoniensia. Vol. LXVI, pp. 415–416.

Scott-Jackson, J. E. and Winton, V. (2001) Recent Investigations at Dickett's Field, Yarnham's Farm, Holybourne, Hants. In Milliken, S. and Cook, J. A Very Remote Period Indeed. Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 214-222.