Matthew Murray
Associate Director of Projects and Instructional Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
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Email: mlmurray@olemiss.edu
http://socanth.olemiss.edu/2011/10/matthew-l-murray/

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Research Description: My primary research interest is the investigation and interpretation of later prehistoric landscapes in Central Europe from the early Neolithic to the later Iron Age. I explore early Iron Age mortuary places through excavation and landscape archaeology and I use archaeological reconnaissance and survey to examine Neolithic social development and settlement practices and the lives of ancient “Celtic” peoples of the Bronze and Iron ages. I have also practiced applied archaeology and cultural resource management in the United States, where I have directed numerous archaeological field projects focused on resource identification, evaluation, and data recovery. I have two ongoing research projects in Europe: the “Landscape of Ancestors” project and the “Lower Bavaria Survey.”

Honors Theses:

Grevy, Sara Anne (2022) A Cross-Cultural Survey of the Funerary Practice of Body Element Removal and Deposition in Mortuary Pottery (full text)

Gochenauer, Alexandria Elizabeth (2016) An Analysis of the Archaeological Collection from the Jaketown (22HU505) site at The University of Mississippi. (full text)

Wicks, Elizabeth E. (2016) Windows Into Changing Worldviews: A Critical Cartographic Analysis of Four Influential World Maps from the 13th to the 21st Century. (full text)