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Dr. Julie Bond,
Associate Professor

Information about Dr. Julie Bond at the University of Bradford.

School of Archaeological & Forensic Sci
(Faculty of Life Sciences)
Email:
j.m.bond@bradford.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 1274 233534
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Biography

My research has focused on the impact of climate and environment and the stability of agrarian strategies in marginal environments, using multiperiod settlements as a way of studying change over long time sequences. I am interested in the social and economic impact of Viking Landnám in the North Atlantic settlements, through excavations and research projects such as Pool (Orkney), Tofts Ness (Orkney), Old Scatness (Shetland), Jarlshof (Shetland), the Viking Unst Project (Shetland), and the international Heart of the Atlantic Project, Faroe Islands. I am currently co-directing (with Steve Dockrill) the excavation of an eroding coastal site at Swandro on the island of Rousay; an international research-based Field School with funding from Historic Environment Scotland, Orkney Islands Council, the University of Bradford and public funding raised through the Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust (of which I am Vice-Chair and Trustee). Swandro featured in the 2018 TV series ‘Digging for Britain’. My research is in part field-based and uses excavation data from the North Atlantic region. The Viking Unst project, 2006-2009 was a major initiative with Shetland Amenity Trust for which I was the excavation director; funded principally by Heritage Lotteries Fund and other funds distributed through Shetland Amenity Trust, the research team included specialists and research students from the Universities of Bradford, Durham (Mike Church), Glasgow (Colleen Batey), CUNY and Stirling (Ian Simpson). I was also a co-director and post excavation manager (with Steve Dockrill, Bradford) of Old Scatness field and publication project (1995-2019), excavations at the Historic Environment Scotland site of Jarlshof (co-director with PI Steve Dockrill, funded by the British Academy and Historic Scotland, 2005-6), and one of the team of directors of Undir Junkarinsfløtti (the international Heart of the Atlantic project, involving the Faroese National Museum (Sίmun Aarge), City University New York (Tom McGovern), Durham (Mike Church) and Bradford Universities). Currently my work centres on Orkney, Gateway to the Atlantic: fieldwork and community outreach in Rousay (2009-current, with S J Dockrill, University of Bradford; J Gibson, I L Mainland and J Downes; Orkney College UHI, Ruth Maher; William Paterson University, USA and students from Bradford, CUNY (USA) and other national and international universities. I am a member of two international research co-operatives; the North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) and the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA). In 2008 I co-organised the NABO conference Archaeological Futures: A Research Agenda for the North Atlantic, held in Bradford, which led to a published protocol for work in the North Atlantic (NABO 2008 Bradford Community Statement Problems, Potentials, and Progress in North Atlantic Human Ecodynamics). In 2010 I became an Adjunct Research Professor for the City University of New York (CUNY). In 2011 I was invited to become a member of the NABO NSF-funded International Polar Year research project: Long Term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic: cases of sustainability, survival and collapse (2007-2010) and the GHEA RCN-SEES Global long-term human ecodynamics research co-ordination network: assessing sustainability on the millennial scale. (Office of Polar Programs Science, Engineering and Education Research Coordination Network grant no. 1140106). The Gateway to the Atlantic Project (Swandro) formed part of this. I am also a member of the Humanities for the Environment (HfE) ‘Circumpolar Observatory’, a research network distributed throughout the Arctic and Subarctic. My laboratory-based work centres on aspects of zooarchaeology including the archaeology of human/animal burials, cremation and the understanding of palaeoeconomies, especially intensification, dairying and adaptation to marginal environments. I have researched and published on the animal offerings in Anglo- Saxon cremation cemeteries such as Sutton Hoo, Sancton and Spong Hill, as well as the Roman fort of Brougham and the Viking cemetery at Ingleby (with Fay Worley). In 2015 I won the University of Bradford’s Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award for the development of teaching methods in archaeological fieldwork. In 2017 I received a student-nominated commendation in the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, for work in the School of Archaeology and for the teaching of Viking archaeology.

Research

Julie’s field research consists of excavation in the North Atlantic on projects such as: Old Scatness (1995-present; assistant director & post excavation manager), the Historic Scotland site of Jarlshof (co-director) Undir Junkarinsfløtti (the international Heart of the Atlantic project, involving the Faroese National Museum, City University New York, Durham and Bradford Universities) Viking Unst project (a major initiative with Shetland Amenity Trust for which she is excavation director; funded principally by Heritage Lotteries Fund her team includes researchers from the Universities of Bradford, Durham, Glasgow, CUNY and Stirling) Julie is also a co-investigator in the NSF IPY application ‘Island connections: comparative historical ecology in Faroes, Iceland and Greenland’, (PI McGovern, CUNY). Her lab-based work concentrates on aspects of palaeoeconomy and the social and ritual use of animals. Her research focuses on the following themes: Continuity and change in the subsistence base of settlements in the North Atlantic region The impact of climate and environment and the stability of agrarian strategies in marginal environments. Projects: Pool, Tofts Ness, Old Scatness, Jarlshof, Heart of the Atlantic and Viking Unst. Publications: Bond & MacSween 1998, Bond 1998, Dockrill, Bond & O’Connor 1998, Bond 2002, Bond 2003, Bond, Guttman & Simpson 2004, Bond, Nicholson & Simpson 2005, Turner, Nicholson Dockrill & Bond 2005, Bond, Nicholson & Simpson 2005, Nicholson, Barber & Bond 2005, Hunter, Bond & Smith 2007, Dockrill, Bond, Nicholson & Smith 2007. Research students, Cussans, Wooding (AHRC) Detecting agricultural intensification in the archaeological record Publications: Bond 1998, Bond & O’Connor 1998, Bond 2002, Bond 2003, Bond, Guttman and Simpson 2004, Mulville, Bond & Craig 2005, Bond, Nicholson & Simpson 2005, Dockrill, Bond, Nicholson & Smith 2007, Hunter, Bond & Smith, 2007. Viking settlement in the North Atlantic region and cultural and economic change at the Viking Landnám in the North Atlantic settlements Projects: Pool Old Scatness Jarlshof Viking Unst Heart of the Atlantic Publications: Bond 1998, Bond 2002, Bond 2003, Forster & Bond 2004, Hunter, Bond & Smith 2007. Research students; Redmond (AHRC, 2005), Mustchin, Summers (AHRC) The ritual and symbolic use of animals, especially in funerary practices; the taphonomy and significance of cremated animal bone in archaeological contexts. Projects: Sancton Sutton Hoo Spong Hill Brougham Ingleby Publications: Bond 1996, McKinley & Bond 2001, Bond and Worley 2004, Bond 2005, Bond & Worley 2006, Richards, Beswick, Bond, Jecock, McKinley, Rowland & Worley 2004. Research student Worley (AHRC).

Professional activities

Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Julie Bond is as follows:

Education

  • University of Bradford - PhD
  • University of Sheffield - MA
  • University of Bradford -

Publications

There are 34 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Julie Bond. They are listed as:

  • book (7)
  • book chapter (9)
  • other journal (1)
  • peer reviewed journal (17)

Book

Dr. Julie Bond has 7 publication(s) listed under book.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland. Volume 3: The Post-medieval township 2019 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.; Turner, V.E.; Brown, L.D.; Bashford, D.J.; Cussans, Julia E.; Nicholson, R.A.
Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland, Volume 2: The Broch and Iron Age Village 2015 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.; Turner, V.E.; Brown, L.D.; Bashford, D.J.; Cussans, Julia E.; Nicholson, R.A.
Viking Unst: excavation and survey in Northern Shetland 2006-2010 2013 1 Turner V. E., Bond J. M. and Larsen A-C. Shetland Heritage Publications
Excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland. Volume 1: The Pictish Village and Viking Settlement 2010 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.; Turner, V.E.; Brown, L.D.; Bashford, D.J.; Cussans, Julia E.; Nicholson, R.A.
Old Scatness excavation manual: A case study in archaeological recording. 2008 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.; Turner, V.E.; Brown, L.D.
Investigations on Sanday, Orkney volume 1: Pool. 2007 1 Hunter J. R., Bond J. M. and Smith A. N. The Orcadian
Investigations on Sanday. Vol 2. Tofts Ness: An island landscape through 3000 years of Prehistory Orcadian 2007 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.; Nicholson, R.A.; Smith, A.N.

Book Chapter

Dr. Julie Bond has 9 publication(s) listed under book chapter.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Agency and renegotiated identities in the North Atlantic Isles 2019 Archaeology of identity and dissonance: contexts fir a brave New World. Archaeology of identity and dissonance: contexts fir a brave New World. Maher R. A. and Bond J. M. University Press of Florida
Food, gatherings and social power: case studies in feasting and community gatherings in Iron Age Scotland. 2017 Gatherings past and present Gatherings past and present 2832 Cussans J. E. M., Dockrill S. J., Bond J.M. and McKenzie J British Archaeological Reports
Viking settlement and Pictish estates: new evidence from Orkney and Shetland 2016 Shetland and the Viking World: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Viking Congress Shetland and the Viking World: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Viking Congress 7 - 13 Bond, Julie M.; Dockrill, Stephen J. Shetland Heritage Publications
The cremated animal bone 2015 Before Sutton Hoo: the prehistoric remains and early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Tranmer House, Bromeswell, Suffolk Before Sutton Hoo: the prehistoric remains and early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Tranmer House, Bromeswell, Suffolk Bond J. M. and Mustchin A. R. R. Fern C.J.R. East Anglian Archaeology
The prehistoric village of Old Scatness: a research study in longevity, ecodynamics, and interactions 2014 Human eco dynamics in the North Atlantic; a collaborative model of humans and nature through time. Human eco dynamics in the North Atlantic; a collaborative model of humans and nature through time. 35 - 53 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M. Lexington Books
The White Stuff: Milking in the Outer Scottish Isles 2005 The Zooarchaeology of fats, oils, milk and dairying The Zooarchaeology of fats, oils, milk and dairying 167 - 182 Mulville, J.; Bond J M and Craig, O.E. Oxbow Books
Bringing in the sheaves: farming Intensification in post-broch Iron Age 2004 Atlantic connectionsand adaptations: economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic Atlantic connectionsand adaptations: economies, environments and subsistence in lands bordering the North Atlantic 138 - 145 Bond, Julie M.; Guttmann, E.B.; Simpson, I.A. Housely R and Coles G 1 84217 106 2 Oxbow Books
A Growing Success? Agricultural intensification and risk management in Late Iron Age Orkney. 2003 Sea change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the Later Iron Age AD 300-800 Sea change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the Later Iron Age AD 300-800 105 - 110 Bond, Julie M. Downes J and Ritchie A Pinkfoot Press
Pictish pigs and Celtic cowboys: food and farming in the Atlantic Iron Age. 2002 In the shadow of the brochs; the Iron Age in Scotland In the shadow of the brochs; the Iron Age in Scotland 177 - 190 Bond, Julie M. Tempus

Other Journal

Dr. Julie Bond has 1 publication(s) listed under other journal.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Between land and sea: Beneath the beach at Swandro, Rousay. 2018 Orkney Archaeology Review Orkney Archaeology Review Number 3 Stephen Dockrill & Julie Bond Orkney Archaeology Society

Peer Reviewed Journal

Dr. Julie Bond has 17 publication(s) listed under peer reviewed journal.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Reviewing the palaeopathological evidence for bovine tuberculosis in the associated bone groups at Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire. 2019 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 29 Wooding J., King S., Taylor G. M., Bind J., Dent J. S. doi: 10.1002/oa.2846.
Vikings, peat formation and settlement abandonment: A multi-method chronological approach from Shetland 2019 Quaternary Science Reviews 210 211 - 225 Swindles G.;Outram Z.;Batt C.;Hamilton W.;Church M.;Bond J.;Watson E.;Cook G.;Sim T.;Newton A.;Dugmore A. 0277-3791 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.026
Vikings, peat formation and settlement abandonment: multi-method chronological approach from Shetland 2019 Quaternary Science Reviews 210 211 - 225 Swindles, G.T.; Outram, Z.; Batt, Catherine M.; Hamilton, W.D.; Church, M.J.; Bond, Julie M.; Watson, E.J.; Cook, G.T.; Sim, T.G.; Newton, A.J.; Dugmore, A.J.
An isotopic investigation into the origins and husbandry of Mid-Late Bronze Age cattle from Grimes Graves, Norfolk 2017 Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15 59 - 72 Towers, Jacqueline R.; Bond, Julie M.; Evans, J.; Mainland, Ingrid L.; Montgomery, Janet
Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD: an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel 2017 Environmental Archaeology 22 40 - 55 Towers, Jacqueline R.; Mainland, Ingrid L.; Montgomery, Janet; Bond, Julie M.
Refining the chronology of the Neolithic settlement at Pool, Sanday, Orkney: implications for the emergence and development of Grooved Ware. 2015 Proceedings Of The Prehistoric Society 81 283 - 310 MacSween A.;Hunter J.;Sheridan A.;Bond J.;Ramsey C.;Reimer P.;Bayliss A.;Griffiths S.;Whittle A. 0079-497X 10.1017/ppr.2015.12
Islands of change vs. islands of disaster: Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic 2015 Holocene 25 1676 - 1684 Brewington S.;Hicks M.;Edwald Á.;Einarsson Á.;Anamthawat-Jónsson K.;Cook G.;Ascough P.;Sayle K.;Arge S.;Church M.;Bond J.;Dockrill S.;Friðriksson A.;Hambrecht G.;Juliusson A.;Hreinsson V.;Hartman S.;Smiarowski K.;Harrison R.;McGovern T. 0959-6836 10.1177/0959683615591714
An investigation of cattle birth seasonality using δ13C and δ18O profiles within first molar enamel 2014 Towers, Jacqueline R.; Gledhill, Andrew R.; Bond, Julie M.; Montgomery, Janet
An investigation of cattle birth seasonality using δ13C and δ18O profiles within first molar enamel 2014 Archaeometry 56 208 - 236 Towers J.;Gledhill A.;Bond J.;Montgomery J. 0003-813X 10.1111/arcm.12055
The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands 2013 Quaternary Science Reviews 77 228 - 232 Church M.;Arge S.;Edwards K.;Ascough P.;Bond J.;Cook G.;Dockrill S.;Dugmore A.;McGovern T.;Nesbitt C.;Simpson I. 0277-3791 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011
Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity 2013 Holocene 23 1493 - 1501 Swindles G.;Galloway J.;Outram Z.;Turner K.;Schofield J.;Newton A.;Dugmore A.;Church M.;Watson E.;Batt C.;Bond J.;Edwards K.;Turner V.;Bashford D. 0959-6836 10.1177/0959683613489586
Sustainability and Resilience in Prehistoric North Atlantic Britain: The Importance of a Mixed Paleoeconomic System 2009 Journal of the North Atlantic 2 33 - 50 Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.
Bayesian methods applied to the interpretation of multiple OSL dates: high precision sediment ages from Old Scatness Broch excavations, Shetland Isles. 2009 Rhodes, E.J.; Bronk Ramsey, C.; Outram, Zoe; Batt, Catherine M.; Willis, Laura H.; Dockrill, Stephen J.; Bond, Julie M.
New evidence for the date of introduction of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus Schwartz & Schwartz, and the field mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus (L.), to Shetland 2005 Environmental Archaeology 10 143 - 151 Nicholson R.;Barber P.;Bond J. 1461-4103 10.1179/env.2005.10.2.143
Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire 2004 Antiquaries Journal 84 23 - 117 Richards J.;Beswick P.;Bond J.;Jecock M.;Mckinley J.;Rowland S.;Worley F. 0003-5815 10.1017/S0003581500045819
Quaternary Science Reviews 2003 Quaternary Science Reviews 22 1231 - 1244 Rhodes E.;Bronk Ramsey C.;Outram Z.;Batt C.;Willis L.;Dockrill S.;Bond J. 0277-3791 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00046-5
Scatness, shetland: An integrated survey of a multiperiod settlement mound 1995 Archaeological Prospection 2 141 - 154 Dockrill S.;Bond J.;Crummett J.;Heron C. 1075-2196 10.1002/1099-0763(199509)2:3<141::AID-ARP6140020304>3.0.CO;2-V