Books
Lucas, G. 2023. Archaeological Situations. London: Routledge
Lucas, G. 2021. Making Time. London: Routledge
Lucas, G. And Olivier, L. 2021. Conversations About Time. London: Routledge
Evans, C. & Lucas G. 2020. Hinterlands and Inlands: The Archaeology of West Cambridge and Roman Cambridge Revisited. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Lucas, G. 2019. Writing the Past. Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology. London: Routledge
Lucas, G. 2012. Understanding the Archaeological Record, Cambridge University Press.
Vésteinsson, O., Lucas, G., Þórsdóttir, K. & Gylfadóttir, R. (eds.) 2011. Upp á yfirborðið. Nýar rannsóknir í íslenskri fornleifafræði. Reykjavík: Fornleifastofnun Íslands.
Lucas, G. (ed.) 2009. Hofstaðir. Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-eastern Iceland. Reykjavík: Institute of Archaeology.
Evans, C, E. Beardsmore, M. Brudenell & G. Lucas. 2009. Fengate Revisited. Further Fen-edge Excavations, Bronze Age Fieldsystems and Settlement and the Wyman Abbott/Leeds Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. 283pp.
Lucas, G. M. 2005. The Archaeology of Time. Routledge.
Lucas, G. M. 2004. An Archaeology of Colonial Identity. Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa, 1688-1910. Kluwer.
Buchli, V. & Lucas, G. M (eds.) 2001. Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. Routledge.
Lucas, G. M. 2001. Critical Approaches to Fieldwork. Historical and Contemporary Archaeological Practice. Routledge.
Hodder, I, Shanks, M., Alexandri, A., Buchli, V., Carman, J., Last, J. & Lucas, G. (eds.) 1995. Interpreting Archaeology. Routledge.
Journal Articles
Lucas, G & B. Olsen 2022. The Case Study in Archaeological Theory. American Antiquity 87(2): 352-67.
Lucas, G & C. Witmore 2022. Paradigm Lost: What is a Commitment to Theory in Contemporary Archaeology? Norwegian Archaeological Review
Lucas, G. 2022 Archaeological Stratigraphy and the Bifurcation of Time: Solido intra solidum. Theory, Culture and Society 39(2):95-109.
Lucas, G., J.O. Jonsson & K. Martin 2021. Pots for socks. Commodity itineraries in the North Atlantic during the 17th and 18th centuries. Postmedieval Archaeology 55(2): 194-210
Anamthawat-Jónsson, K., H. Sigurgíslason and G. Lucas 2021. Wild fowl egg consumption in postmedieval Iceland. SEM analysis of archaeological eggshells from the Bishop’s seat at Skálholt, southwest Iceland, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38.
Lucas, G. & J. Robb. 2021. The Terrain of Thingworlds: central objects and asymmetry in material culture systems. Journal of Material Culture 26(2): 219-38.
Maxwell, Á.E., Lucas, G. 2021. The Archaeology of Z: Household Economies in Nineteenth-Century Iceland. Historical Archaeology 55: 238-49.
Konráðsdóttir, H., E Panagiotakopulu, G. Lucas, 2021. A very curious larder – Insects from post-medieval Skálholt, Iceland, and their implications for interpreting activity areas. Journal of Archaeological Science 126
Lucas, G., Á. Edwald Maxwell, J. O. Jónsson. 2020. Jarðfundin leirkir á Íslandi. Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 109:131-54.
Nativ, A. & G. Lucas 2020. Archaeology without Antiquity. Antiquity Vol. 94 (376): 852–863
Júlíusson, Á, B. Lárusdóttir, G. Lucas & G. Pálsson 2020. Episcopal Economics. Property and Power in post-reformation Iceland. Scandinavian Journal of History 45(1): 95-120
Anna Severine Beck, Mads Dengsø Jessen, Fredrik Fahlander, Gavin Murray Lucas, Ingrid Fuglestvedt & Vesa-Pekka Herva. 2019. Will there be a next Nordic TAG? Reflections on theoretical archaeology in the Nordic countries today. Arkæologisk Forum 41: 14-24.
Lucas, G., G. Ólafsson, A. Pétursdóttir & I. Skarphéðinsson 2019. From fisherman’s cottage to summerhouse. Towards an archaeology of poverty and affluence in twentieth century Iceland. Archaeologia Islandica 13:95-132.
Hayeur-Smith, M., G. Lucas & Q. Mould 2019. Men in Black. Performing Masculinity in 17th- and 18th-century Iceland. Journal of Social Archaeology 19 (2): 229-54
Lucas, G. 2018. The Unburied. On Archaeological Objects and Objectives. Archaeological Dialogues 25(1): 21-5.
Hodder, I. & G. Lucas 2017. The symmetries and asymmetries of human-thing relations: a dialogue. Archaeological Dialogues 24(2): 119-37.
Hodder, I. & G. Lucas 2017. Response to Commentaries. Archaeological Dialogues 24(2): 148-150
Lucas, G. 2017. The Paradigm Concept in Archaeology. World Archaeology 49(2): 260-70.
Lucas, G. 2017. Variations on a Theme: Assemblage Archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27:1, 187–190
Lucas, G. 2016. The Mobility of Theory. Current Swedish Archaeology 23: 13-32
Lucas, G. 2016. What is Theory, What is Archaeology? Reply to Comments. Current Swedish Archaeology 23: 73-82
Lucas, G. 2015. Archaeology and Contemporaneity. Archaeological Dialogues 22(1): 1-15.
Lucas, G. 2015. An Interview with Gordon Childe: Iceland, 1956. Archaeologia Islandica 11: 73-84
Lucas, G. 2015. Chronology and the Contemporary. In G. Whitehead, S. Traustadóttir & K. Mímisson (eds.) Tími, rými og sýnileiki. Ólafía V, Rit Félags fornleifafræðinga, Reykjavík, pp. 89-95.
Hreiðarsdóttir, E. & Lucas, G. 2014. Þorpið í Viðey. Árbók hins íszlenka fornleifafélags 2013: 5-48.
González-Ruibal, A. C. Holtorf, R. Harrison and L. Wilkie, with G. Lucas & V. Buchli, 2014. Archaeologies of Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past: an interview with Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(2): 63-74.
Lucas, G. 2012. Pálstóftir, Árbók hins íszlenka fornleifafélags 2011: 187-208
Lucas, G & Hreiðarsdóttir, E. 2012. The Archaeology of Capitalism in Iceland. The view from Viðey. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16: 604-621
Lucas, G. 2012. Later Historical Archaeology in Iceland. A review'. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16: 437-454
Lucas, G. 2012. Raw, Cooked and Fluid Matter. Norwegian Archaeological Review 45(1): 99-102
Lucas, G. 2011. Constructivism and the Mechanocene. Norwegian Archaeological Review 44(1): 27-29.
Lucas, G., 2010. Time and the archaeological archive. Rethinking History, 14(3), 343-59.
Lucas, G. 2010. The Tensions of Modernity: Skálholt in the 17th and 18th centuries. Journal of North Atlantic Archaeology, Special Volume 1: 75-88
Hughes, R. & G. Lucas 2009. Geochemical Identification of the source for obsidian artefacts from the Viking Settlement at Hofstaðir in Mývatnssveit, Northeastern Iceland. Archaeologia Islandica 7: 41-54.
Lucas, G. 2008. ‘Pálstóftir: A Viking Age Shieling in Iceland’, Norwegian Archaeological Review 41(1): 85-100
Lucas, G. & T.H. McGovern, 2008. ‘Bloody Slaughter. Ritual Decapitation and Display at the Viking Settlement of Hofstaðir, Iceland’ European Journal of Archaeology 10(1): 7-30
Lucas, G. 2008. ‘Time and the Archaeological Event’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(1): 59-64.
Lucas, G. 2007. ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Prehistory’ Journal of Iberian Archaeology 9/10: 25-37
Lucas, G. 2007. ‘The Slipperiness of Modernist Dichotomies: Comments on Alfredo González-Ruibal: The Past is Tomorrow: Towards an Archaeology of the Vanishing Present, Norwegian Archaeological Review 39, 110-125’, Norwegian Archaeological Review 40(1): 94-96.
Lucas, G. 2007 ‘Visions of Archaeology. An interview with Tim Murray’ Archaeological Dialogues 14(2): 155-177
Lucas, G. 2007 ´Víkingaaldarbyggðin á Hofstöðum í Mývatnssveit’ Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2004-2005: 101-118
Lucas, G. 2007 ‘Pálstóftir. Sel frá víkingaöld við Kárahnjúka’ Múlaþing 34: 110-119
Snæsdóttir, M. & Lucas, G. 2007 ‘Kostur Skálholts’ Árnessingur VIII: 75-103
McGovern, T. Orri Vésteinsson, Adolf Friðriksson, Mike Church, Ian Lawson, Ian Simpson, Arni Einarsson, Andy Dugmore, Gordon Cook, Sophia Perdikaris, Kevin Edwards, Amanda Thomson, Paul Adderley, Anthony Newton, Gavin Lucas, Ragnar Edvardsson, Oscar Aldred & Elaine Dunbar 2007 ‘Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale’ American Antrhopologist 109 (1): 27-51.
Lucas, G. 2006. ‘Archaeology at the edge. An interview with Martin Hall’, Archaeological Dialogues 13 (1): 55-67
Lucas, G. 2006. ‘Archaeologies of Modernity in the Land of the Sagas’, with Mjöll Snæsdóttir, Meta. Medeltidarkeologisk Tidskrift 2006 no.3, pp.5-18
Lucas, G. M (2004) ‘Íslensk fornleifafræði í norður-evrópsku samhengi’, Ritið 2: 11-28.
Lucas, G. M. (2004) ‘Modern Disturbances. On the Ambiguities of Archaeology’ Modernism/modernity 11
Lucas, G. M. & Regan, R (2003) ‘The Changing Vernacular. Archaeological Excavations at Temple End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire’ Journal of Post-Medieval Archaeology 33
Lucas, G. M. (2003) ‘Reading Pottery. Literature and Transfer-printed pottery in the early Nineteenth Century’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7
Gibson, D. & Lucas, G. M. (2002) ‘Pre-Flavian Kilns at Greenhouse Farm and the Social Context of Early Pottery Production ’ Britannia
Lucas G. M. (2002) ‘Disposability and Dispossession in the Twentieth Century’ Journal of Material Culture 7: 5-22
Lucas, G. M. (2001) ‘Destruction and the Rhetoric of Excavation. Norwegian Archaeological Review 34: 35-46.
Lucas G. M. (1998) ‘A Medieval Fishery on Whittlesea Mere’. Medieval Archaeology XLII, pp19-44.
Lucas G.M. (1997) ‘Forgetting the Past’. Anthropology Today 13 (1): 8-14
Lucas G.M. (1996) ‘Of Death and Debt. A History of the Body in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Yorkshire’. Journal of European Archaeology 4: 99-118
Lucas G.M. (1995) ‘The Changing Face of Time. A Study of English Domestic Clocks from the Seventeeth to Nineteenth Centuries’. Journal of Design History vol 8 no.1 pp1-9
Horton W., G. Lucas & G. Wait (1994) ‘Excavation of a Roman Site near Wimpole, Cambs., 1989’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society LXXXIII pp31-74
Lucas G.M. (1989) Review of "The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings", ed. I. Hodder. Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology 26, pp274-275
Book Chapters, Conference proceedings, etc.
Lucas, G. (forthcoming 2020). Money Makes the World Go Round. Towards an archaeology of money in the modern world. In Penny Crook and Christine Williamson (eds). Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tim Murray.
Lucas, G. 2020. Skál! Drykkjuskapur í Skálholti á 17. og 18. Öld. In Guðrún Alda Gísladóttir, Hildur Gestsdóttir & Orri Vésteinsson (eds.) Minjaþing – helgað Mjöll Snæsdóttir. Reykjavík: Fornleifastofnun Íslands, bls. 227-44.
Lucas, G. 2019. Periodization in Archaeology. Starting in the Ground. In: S. Souvatzi, A. Baysal & E. Baysal (eds.) Time and History in Prehistory. London: Routldge. Pp.77-94
Lucas, G. 2018. The Archaeological Record. In: S.L. López Varela (ed.) SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell.
Aldred, O. & G. Lucas, 2018. The Map as Assemblage. Landscape Archaeology and Mapwork. In: M. Gillings, P. Hacıgüzeller and G. Lock (eds.) Rethinking the Map: Critical Perspectives, Alternative Mappings. London: Routledge, pp.19-36
Lucas, G. 2018. Symbiotic architectures. In: S. Pilaar-Birch (ed.) Multispecies Archaeology. London: Routledge pp.105-117
Lucas, G. 2017. Later Historical Archaeologies of the North Atlantic. In: J. Symonds and V. Pekka-Herva (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Historical Archaeology. (online version: DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199562350.013.30).
Lucas, G. 2016. Building Lives. In: M. Bille & T. Flohr-Sørensen (eds.) Elements of Architecture. London: Routledge, pp.105-120.
Lucas, G. & Á. Edwald 2015. Capitalism and Mobility in the North Atlantic, In M. Leone & J. Knaupf (eds.) Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, New York: Springer.
Lucas, G. 2015. Debating Archaeological Empiricism: Some Closing Comments, In: J. Siapkas & C. Hillerdal (eds.) Debating Archaeological Empiricism. London: Routledge.
Lucas, G. 2015. Chronology and the Contemporary. In G. Whitehead, S. Traustadóttir & K. Mímisson (eds.) Tími, rými og sýnileiki. Ólafía V, Rit Félags fornleifafræðinga, Reykjavík, pp. 89-95.
Lucas, G. 2014. “Evidence of What? On the Possibilites of Archaeology”. In A. Wylie & B. Chapman (eds.) Material Culture as Evidence. London: Routledge, pp. 311-323.
Lucas, G. 2014. “Moving On: a conversation with Chris Witmore”, In Ö. Harmanşah (ed.) Rocks and Water: an archaeology of place, Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp.242-244.
Lucas, G. 2014. “Interpretation in Archaeological Theory”. In C. Smith (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, pp. 4013-4022. (also online version: file:///C:/Users/Gavin%20Lucas/Documents/Publications/Book%20Chapters/EGA/Published%20pdfs/Interpretation%20in%20Archaeological%20Theory%20-%20Springer.htm).
Lucas, G. 2014. Time. In A. Gardiner, M. Lake & U. Sommer (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory (online version 2014: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199567942.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199567942-e-016?rskey=wTOb0r&result=1)
Lucas, G. 2014. “Conduits of Dispersal. Dematerializing an early twentieth century village in Iceland,“ in B. Olsen & Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: materialities, aesthetics and the archaeology of the recent past, London: Routledge.
Lucas, G. 2013. “Archaeology and the Science of New Objects,“ in B. Alberti, A. Jones & J. Pollard (eds.) Archaeology after Interpretation: returning materials to archaeological theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Lucas, G. 2013. Ruins. In Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.192-203.
Lucas, G. & Parigoris, A. 2012. Icelandic Archaeology and the ambiguities of colonialism. In J. Nordin & M. Naum (eds.) Small time agents in a global arena: Danish and Swedish colonialism and the rise of modernity. New York: Springer.
Lucas, G. 2011. Excavations at the Viking Age Settlement of Hofstaðir in North-Eastern Iceland. In: Viking Settlements and Viking Societies. Papers from the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Viking Congress, Reykjavík and Reykholt, 16-23 August 2009. Ed. Svavar Sigmundsson. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press. Pp.273-291.
Friðriksson, A. & Lucas, G. 2011. Fornleifastofnun Íslands og hlutverk fornleifafræðinnar í samtímanum. In: Vésteinsson, O., Lucas, G., Þórsdóttir, K. & Gylfadóttir, R. (eds.) 2011. Upp á yfirborðið. Nýar rannsóknir í íslenskri fornleifafræði. Reykjavík: Fornleifastofnun Íslands, pp.11-21.
Lucas, G. & Roberts, H. 2011. Fornleifar í fersku ljósi. Nýar rannsóknir á fjórum landnámsbýlum. In: Vésteinsson, O., Lucas, G., Þórsdóttir, K. & Gylfadóttir, R. (eds.) 2011. Upp á yfirborðið. Nýar rannsóknir í íslenskri fornleifafræði. Reykjavík: Fornleifastofnun Íslands, pp.25-48.
Lucas, G. 2011. Að grafa upp nútímann. Fornleifar siðari tíma á Íslandi. In: Vésteinsson, O., Lucas, G., Þórsdóttir, K. & Gylfadóttir, R. (eds.) 2011. Upp á yfirborðið. Nýar rannsóknir í íslenskri fornleifafræði. Reykjavík: Fornleifastofnun Íslands, pp.141-151.
Lucas, G. 2011. Kræklingamynstur. In: Vésteinsson, O., Lucas, G., Þórsdóttir, K. & Gylfadóttir, R. (eds.) 2011. Upp á yfirborðið. Nýar rannsóknir í íslenskri fornleifafræði. Reykjavík: Fornleifastofnun Íslands, p. 150.
Lucas, G., 2010. Triangulating Absence: exploring the fault-lines between archaeology and anthropology, in Archaeology and Anthropology. Understanding similarity, exploring difference, eds. D. Garrow & T. Yarrow Oxford: Oxbow Books, 28-39.
Lucas, G., 2010. Fieldwork and Collecting, in Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, eds. D. Hicks & M. C. Beaudry Oxford: Oxford University Press, 227-43.
Lucas, G. 2010. The Ceramic Revolution in Iceland 1850-1950, in J. Symonds (ed.) Table Settings: the Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 125-132
Lucas, G. 2010. Class Identity and Postcolonialism, in J. Lydon & U. Rizvi (eds.) Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology, Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press. 349-357.
Aldred, O. & Lucas, G 2010. Events, Temporalities and Landscapes in Iceland, in D. Bolender (ed.) Eventful Archaeologies: New Approaches to Social Transformation in the Archaeological Record, Albany, State University of New York Press, 189-198.
Lucas, G. 2009. Materiality and the Paradox of Material Culture. In G. Jóhannesson & H. Björnsdóttir (eds.) Rannsóknir í Félagsvísindum X, pp.427-36.
Lucas, G. 2007 ‘The widespread adoption of pottery in Iceland 1850-1950’ in Benedikt Eyþórsson & Hrafnkell Lárusson (ritstj.) Þriðja íslenska söguþing 18-21 mai 2006, Reykjavík, bls.62-8.
Lucas, G. 2007 ‘The Viking settlement at Hofstaðir in Mývatnssveit’ in Benedikt Eyþórsson & Hrafnkell Lárusson (ritstj.) Þriðja íslenska söguþing 18-21 mai 2006, Reykjavík, bls.198-204.
Lucas, G. 2007 ‘Tense reflections in the North Area’ in Ian Hodder (ed.) Excavating Çatalhöyük: South, North and Kopal Area reports from the 1995-99 seasons, McDonald Institute Monographs/British Institute at Ankara Monograph No.37, pp.393-394.
Lucas, G. 2007 ‘The Pottery’ in I Rogers & D Garner (eds.) Wilderspool and Holditch Roman Boom-Towns in the ‘Road North’, British Archaeological Reports Series 449, pp.71-77; 86-90; 114-117.
Lucas, G. 2006. ‘Historical Archaeology and Time’, in The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology, eds. Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry, CUP, pp.34-47
Lucas, G. 2006. ‘The Roman Pottery’ and other contributions to Marshland Communities and Cultural Landscapes from the Bronze Age to the Present Day (Haddenham Project Volume 2), C. Evans & I. Hodder, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, pp.92-3, 197-205, 353-7, 365-9, 396-407, 411-13, 431-5, 442-3, 446-50
Lucas, G. 2006. ‘Changing configurations: the relationships between theory and practice’ in Archaeological Resource Management in the UK. An Introduction (2nd Edition), eds. John Hunter and Ian Ralston, pp.15-22, Sutton Publishing Limited
Mjöll Snæsdóttir, Gavin Lucas and Orri Vésteinsson, 2006. ‘Fornleifar og rannsóknir í Skálholti’, in Saga biskupsstólanna, eds. Gunnar Kristjánsson and Óskar Guðmundsson, Bókaútgáfan Hólar, pp. 675-697
Lucas G. M. (1997) ‘Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Pottery’, In Price, Brooks and Maynard (eds.) The Archaeology of the St. Neots to Duxford Gas Pipeline 1994. BAR 255, pp.49-88. Oxford
Pollard, J., Hall, D. & Lucas, G. (2001) ‘Excavation of a Medieval Saltern at Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire’, in T. Lane & E. Morris (eds.) A Millennium of Saltmaking: Prehistoric and Romano-British Salt Production in the Fenland, pp.427-455. Sleaford: Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire.
Buchli, V. & Lucas, G.M. (2000) ‘Childhood and Modernity’, in The Archaeology of Childhood, ed. J. Sofaer-Deverenski. Routledge.
Lucas G.M. (1999) ‘The Archaeology of the Workhouse’, in The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Britain 1550-1995, eds. Tarlow & West Routledge.
Lucas G.M. (1995) ‘Interpretation in Contemporary Archaeology: Some Philosophical Issues’. Interpreting Archaeology, eds. Hodder & Shanks et al., Routledge pp37-44
Book Reviews
Lucas, G. 2017. Review of Robert Chapman and Alison Wylie, Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology. European Journal of Archaeology 20(4): 740-44.
Lucas, G. 2014. Review of J. Pillsbury (ed.) Past Presented. Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20: 190-91.
Lucas, G. 2010. Review of B. Mills & W. Walker (eds.) Memory Work. Journal of Field Archaeology 34(4): 497-99
Lucas, G. 2010. Review of Laurent Olivier, Le Sombre Abîme du Temps. European Journal of Archaeology 13: 273-275
Lucas, G. 2010. Review of S. Holdaway & L.Wansnider (eds.). Time in archaeology: time perspectivism revisited. Antiquity 84: 572-573
Lucas, G. 2009. Review of Sadrettin Dural: Protecting Catalhoyuk. Memoirs of an archaeological site guard. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 10(2): 192-3.
Lucas, G. 2008. Review of Measuring Time with Artifacts, by Lyman & O’Brien, American Antiquity 73(3): 565-6