ACADEMIC Publications

This list shows my main scholarly and popular publications on archaeology from 1984 to 2003, when I began to concentrate on novel-writing full-time. The cut-off date for this list is a little misleading as I've actually published almost as much non-fiction since 2003 as I did before that date, in the chapter-length 'Author's Note' at the end of each of my ten novels - now adding up to more than 80,000 words - in which I discuss the archaeological and historical backdrop. Over the next period the list will be augmented by interim reports on new field projects as well as by several non-fiction books currently in preparation.

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Gibbins, D.J.L.  1984.  Travel Grant Report. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 36th Annual Report, 15-16.

Gibbins, D.  1986.  Review of Lanitski, G., Amphoren wracks versunkene Stadte. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 15: 352-3.

Gibbins, D.J.L. and Parker, A.J.  1986.  The Roman wreck of c. AD 200 at Plemmirio, near Siracusa (Sicily): interim report. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 15: 267-304.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1987.  Review-article, reviewing Peacock, D.P.S. and Williams, D., Amphorae and the Roman Economy.  Libyan Studies 18: 154-6.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1988.  Surgical instruments from a Roman shipwreck off Sicily. Antiquity 62: 294-7.

Edge, C. and Gibbins, D.   1988.  Underwater discovery of Roman surgical equipment. British Medical Journal 6664: 1645-6.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1989.  The Roman wreck of c. AD 200 at Plemmirio, near Siracusa (Sicily): second interim report. The domestic assemblage 1: medical equipment and pottery lamps. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 18: 1-25.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1989.  Review of Hoffman, G., Versunkene Welten. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 18: 79-80.

Gibbins, D.J.L. and Hurst, H.R.  1989.  Bronze ring from ancient Carthage. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 18: 69-70.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1990.  The hidden museums of the Mediterranean. New Scientist 1739: 35-40.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1990.  Analytical approaches in maritime archaeology: a Mediterranean perspective. Antiquity 64: 376-89.

Gibbins, D.J.L. and Chippindale, C.R. (eds)  1990. Special section: maritime archaeology. Antiquity 64: 330-400.

Gibbins, D.J.L. and Chippindale, C.R. (eds)  1990.  Heritage at sea: proposals for the better protection of British archaeological sites underwater. Antiquity 64: 390-400.

Gibbins, D.J.L. 1991.  The Roman wreck of c. AD 200 at Plemmirio, near Siracusa (Sicily): third interim report. The domestic assemblage 2: kitchen and table pottery, glass and fishing weights. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 20: 227-46.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1991.  Archaeology in deep water – a preliminary view. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 20: 163-8.

Gibbins, D.  1991.  The maritime archaeology of Greece. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 20: 353-6.

Gibbins, D., 1991.  Review of Casson, L. The Periplus Maris Erythraei. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 20: 373-5.

Gibbins, D.  1992.  Listed contributor to chapters in Redknap, M. (ed.), Archaeology Underwater: the NAS Guide to Principles and Practice. London: Archetype.

Gibbins, D.  1992.  Review-article, reviewing W.R. Biers and P.E. McGovern, Organic Contents of Ancient Vases. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 21: 278-80.

Gibbins, D.  1992.  Review-article, reviewing Carrell, T., Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, 1990. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 21: 82-4.

Gibbins, D.  1992.  Lament for Britain’s dying seas. Review-article, reviewing Rob Palmer, Underwater Britain. New Scientist 1807: 49-50.

Gibbins, D.  1993.  Bronze Age wreck’s revelations. The Illustrated London News 7116: 72-3.

Gibbins, D.  1993.  Das im Mittelmeer verborgene Museum. Mannheimer Forum 92/93. Ein Panorama der Naturwissen Schaften. Mannheim: Boehringer Manheim, 175-233.

Gibbins, D. 1995. What shipwrecks can tell us. Review-article, reviewing Lionel Casson, Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times; Gillian Hutchinson, Medieval Ships and Shipping; Mitchell Marken, Pottery from Spanish Shipwrecks, 1500-1800; Peter Marsden, Ships of the Port of London, 2nd to 11th century AD;  J. Richard Steffy, Wooden shipbuilding and the interpretation of ships;  Christer Westerdahl, Crossroads in Ancient Shipbuilding; and Margaret Rule and Jason Monaghan, A Gallo-Roman trading vessel from Guernsey. Antiquity 69: 408-11.

Gibbins, D.   1996.  Ancient maritime economics: a view from the Mediterranean. In Carrington, P. (ed.), Where Deva winds her weary stream: Trade and the Port of Chester. Chester Archaeology Monographs 4: 45-67.

Emery, M.M., Gibbins, D.J.L. and Matthews, K.J.  1996.  The Archaeology of an Ecclesiastical Landscape. Chapel House Farm, Poulton (Cheshire), 1995. Chester Archaeology Excavation and Survey Report 9. Chester City Council/University of Liverpool.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1997.  More underwater finds of Roman medical equipment. Antiquity 71: 457-8.

Gibbins, D.J.L.  1997. Deleta est Carthago? Review-article, reviewing Serge Lancel, Carthage: a History; H.R. Hurst, Excavations at Carthage: the British Mission II, 1; and M.G. Fulford and D.P.S. Peacock, Excavations at Carthage: the British Mission, II, 2. Antiquity 71: 217-19.

R.J. Taylor, V.J. Robinson and D.J.L. Gibbins.  1997.  An investigation of the provenance of the Roman amphora cargo from the Plemmirio B shipwreck. Archaeometry 39: 9-21.

Emery, M., Gibbins, D. and Matthews, K.  1997.  Poulton Chapel, Cheshire, 1995-6: Mesolithic to Medieval occupation in the upper Dee Valley. Archaeology North West 11: 120-26.

Gibbins, D.  2000.  Classical shipwreck excavation at Tektaş Burnu, Turkey. Antiquity 74: 19-20. (See here).

Gibbins, D. in Archibald, Z. et al. (eds.), 2001.  Shipwrecks and Hellenistic trade. Hellenstic Economies. London: Routledge, 273-312.

Gibbins, D.  2001.  A Roman shipwreck of c. AD 200 at Plemmirio, Sicily: evidence for north African amphora production during the Severan period. World Archaeology 32: 311-334.

Gibbins, D. and Adams, J. (eds),  2001. Shipwrecks. World Archaeology 32.3 (London: Routledge).

Gibbins, D. and Adams, J.  2001. Shipwrecks and maritime archaeology. World Archaeology 32: 279-291.

Gibbins, D., 2002. Articles on Maritime Archaeology, Cape Gelidonya, Madrague de Giens. In Shaw, I. and Jameson, R. (eds), A Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell (paperback edition).

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