Gary Robinson is a senior lecturer in archaeology at Bangor University in North Wales. His main research interest is the prehistoric archaeology of maritime and coastal communities in western Britain and Ireland. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (PhD 2006), where his interest in British prehistory was fi rst encouraged. His doctoral thesis explored the prehistoric archaeology of the Isles of Scilly, and he has continued to research prehistoric island and coastal communities in Western Britain and Ireland.

Latest Publication

At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today

Edited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson

Foreword by Bonnie McCay

Afterword by Tim Ingold

https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KingAt

Email: g.robinson@bangor.ac.uk

Telephone: 01248 382156

I am willing to supervise a PhD

2024

• PublishedAn interdisciplinary research agenda for climate change and cultural heritage
  Forino, G., Yorke, L., Del Pinto, M., Griffiths, H., Barker, L., Bates, M., Brummage, S., Davies, S., Patterson, C., Roberts, H., Robinson, G. & Webb, A., 18 Sept 2024, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers .
  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

2023

• PublishedThe need for a people’s perspective when exploring climate change and cultural heritage
  Forino, G., Yorke, L., Robinson, G., Austin, M., Sieradzan, K. & Hewitt, J., 28 Jun 2023, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers .
  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

2019

• PublishedAt Home on the Waves: The Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
  Robinson, G. & KIng, T., 1 Feb 2019, New York: Berghahn Books. 372 p. (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology; vol. 24)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• PublishedExploration of a Buried Seascape: The Cultural Maritime Landscapes of Tremadoc Bay
  Robinson, G., Feb 2019, At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today. King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds.). Berghahn Books
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2015

• PublishedAn island archaeology of Neolithic Ynys Môn
  Robinson, G., Nash, G. (Editor) & Townsend, A. (Editor), 31 Aug 2015, Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island. 2015 ed. Oxbow Books
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedBuilding the Great Stone Circles of the North (Book Review)
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2015, In: Landscape History. 36, 1, p. 94-95
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe Life and Times of a Chambered Tomb: The Results of Survey and Excavation at Blasthill Chambered Tomb, Kintyre, Western Scotland
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 28 Jan 2015, In: Archaeological Journal. 172, 1, p. 1-29
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe Southern Kintyre Project: Exploring Interactions Across the Irish Sea from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age
  Cummings, V. (Editor) & Robinson, G. (Editor), 31 Jul 2015, 2015 ed. British Archaeological Reports.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedVlog to Death: Project Eliseg's Video-Blogging
  Tong, J., Evans, S., Williams, H., Edwards, N. & Robinson, G., 1 May 2015, In: Internet Archaeology. 39
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2014

• PublishedBefore Farming: Life in Prehistoric Wales 30,000-4,000 BC (Book Review)
  Robinson, G., 1 Aug 2014, In: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published‘Is There a British Chalcolithic?: People, Place and Polity in the later Third Millennium’ (Book Review)
  Robinson, G., 22 Dec 2014, In: Archaeological Journal. 171, p. 402-403
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2013

• Published'A Sea of Small Boats': places and practices on the prehistoric seascape of western Britain
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2013, In: Internet Archaeology. 34
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedA Gazetteer of Prehistoric Standing Stones in Great Britain (Book Review)
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2013, In: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. 107
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedFrom Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist (Book Review)
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2013, In: Archaeological Journal. 169
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedRe-building memory, identity and place: the long-term re-use of prehistoric settlements on the Isles of Scilly
  Robinson, G., Chadwick, A. M. (Editor) & Gibson, C. D. (Editor), 1 Dec 2013, Memory: Myth and Long-term Landscape Inhabitation. 2013 ed. Oxbow Books, p. 146-164
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedThe excavation of a multi period rock-shelter at Garreg Hylldrem, Llanfrothen 2011-2012
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2013, In: Archaeology in Wales. 52, p. 3-10
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2009

• PublishedAn archaeological walk to the Inneans.
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2009, In: Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Magazine. 66, p. 27-28
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedGeophysical survey at Machorioch chambered tomb.
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2009, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland: Volume 10. 2009 ed. Unknown
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedPlaces and practices on the prehistoric Scillonian Seascape.
  Robinson, G., 8 Apr 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedPrehistoric Invasions into North Wales.
  Robinson, G. & Roberts, J., 7 Oct 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedSeascapes and coastal archaeology.
  Robinson, G., 8 May 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedSomewhere beyond the sea: modelling contact across the Irish Sea in the late Mesolithic and early Neolithic.
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 8 Apr 2009.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedThe excavation of Blasthill chambered tomb.
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2009, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland: Volume 10. 2009 ed. Unknown
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

2007

• PublishedInteractions Across the Irish Sea: The Southern Kintyre Project
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 1 Apr 2007, In: PAST: Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society. 55, p. 12-13
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe Prehistoric Island Landscape of Scilly
  Robinson, G., 15 Nov 2007, British Archaeological Reports.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedThe Southern Kintyre Project: 2007 Interim Report No. 6
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2007, 2007 ed. University of Central Lancashire.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
• PublishedTime and tide: exploring the prehistoric island landscape of Scilly.
  Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2007, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book

2006

• PublishedThe Southern Kintyre Project: September 2006 Interim Report No. 5
  Cummings, V. & Robinson, G., 1 Jan 2006, 2006 ed. University of Central Lancashire Studies in Archaeology Specialist Report.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

2023

• Internal Examiner PhD

  Nebu George

  20 Jul 2023

  Activity: Examination (Examiner)
• Responding to a Dynamic Environment—A Long View of Coastal and Maritime Communities in North Wales.

  15 Jul 2023

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

2022

• Internal Examiner PhD

  Paul Thomas

  The making and remaking of Gwent: tribe, civitas, kingdom and lordship. Cultural transition or outside imposition?

  17 Nov 2022

  Activity: Examination (Examiner)
• External PhD examiner

  Christopher Dwan PhD Thesis

  Landscape Stability & the Formation of Social Memory in Prehistoric Britain

  10 Oct 2022

  Activity: Examination (Examiner)

2020

• Internal Examiner PhD

  Christina Homer

  Situating Crossley-Holland’s Collection of Ancient Mexican Musical Instruments: Strategies for interpretation, dissemination and sustainability

  15 Sep 2020

  Activity: Examination (Examiner)

• The 'university of revolution': archaeological excavations at Frongoch internment camp, north Wales

  01/06/2019 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)