Gibson Collection

Alex Gibson has specialised in the study of the Neolithic and Bronze Age for over 40 years and has published books and specialist reports on subjects such as ceramics, burials, monuments and settlement. He has been a council member of a number of academic societies and has been secretary vice-president and President of the Prehistoric Society. In 2022, he was the winner of the British Academy Grahame Clark medal for Prehistoric Archaeology. He has worked for the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, English Heritage and latterly lectured in Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology at the University of Bradford until his retirement in 2018.

• SourcesEditorial notePreface1. Introduction2. All fired up: ceramic technology (from British Pottery: The First 3000 Years. 2024)3. First impressions: a review of Peterborough Ware in Wales (from I. Kinnes and G. Varndell (eds), Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape. Essays on British and Irish Pottery for Ian Longworth. 1995) 4. The Beaker pottery (from C. Evans, G. Appleby and S. Lucy (eds), Lives in Land. Mucking Excavations by Margaret and Tom Jones 1965–1978. 2015)5. Postscript to Neolithic Impressed and Related Wares (from A. Barclay and A. Gibson (eds), Neolithic Impressed and Related Wares in Britain and Ireland. 2025)6. Postscript to British Pottery (from British Pottery: The First 3000 Years. 2024) 7. Grooved Ware and timber circles (from R. Cleal and A. MacSween (eds), Grooved Ware in Britain and Ireland. 1999) 8. Cursus and possible cursus monuments in Wales: avenues for future research (or roads to nowhere?) (from A. Barclay and J. Harding (eds), Pathways and Ceremonies: The Cursus Monuments of Britain and Ireland. 1999) 9. Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the Upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire (from J. Leary, T. Darvill and D. Field (eds) Round Mounds and Monumentality in the British Neolithic and Beyond. 2010) 10. The Beaker funerary tradition in Britain in the context of Neolithic and Bronze Age practices (from M. Parker Pearson, A. Sheridan, M. Jay, A. Chamberlain and J. Evans (eds), The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain. 2019)11. Where have all the houses gone? Or times they are a changin’ (from A.M. Gibson (ed.), Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective. 2019) 12. What do we mean by Neolithic Settlement? Some approaches 10 years on (from I. Armit, E. Murphy, E. Nelis and D. Simpson (eds), Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain. 2003) 13. The later Neolithic structures at Trelyastan, Powys, Wales: ten years on (from T. Darvill and J. Thomas (eds), Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and Beyond. 2003)14. Beaker domestic architecture in Britain and Ireland (from A.M. Gibson (ed.), Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective. 2019)