Publications to 2016*

*Please see my UoM and Orcid profiles for more recent publications

 

Authored Books

• Croucher, H. L. Cobb, and A. Brennan 2008. Investigating the role of fieldwork in teaching and learning archaeology. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing.

Edited Books

• H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, C. Jones and P. Richardson (eds) 2012. Reconsidering fieldwork: Exploring on site relationships between theory and practice. New York: Springer.
• H. L. Cobb, S. Price, F. Coward, and L. Grimshaw (eds.) 2005. Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities: Case Studies from Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe. Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports).

Editorships: Journal

• Guest editor (with K. Croucher) of the Higher Education Academy’s Research in Archaeological Education Journal, Volume 1(issue 2), 2009, Prehistoric Pedagogies theme

Peer reviewed academic journal articles

• H. L. Cobb and K. Croucher. 2016. Personal, Political, Pedagogic: Challenging the binary bind in archaeological pedagogy. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
• H. L. Cobb and K. Croucher. 2014. Assembling archaeological pedagogy: a theoretical framework for valuing pedagogy in archaeological interpretation and practice. Archaeological Dialogues 21(2), 197-216.
• E. C. Casella, H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, H. Gray, P. Richardson and R. Tuffin. 2014. From Knowing into Telling: A Dialogue in Five Parts. Journal of Historical Archaeology 48(1), pp.71-86.
• S. Jones, H. Cobb, R. Colton and M. Giles. 2013. ‘Parklife’ past and present: The Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project. Journal of Victorian Culture Online. http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/2013/03/26/%E2%80%98parklife%E2%80%99-past-and-present-the-whitworth-park-community-archaeology-and-history-project/
• R. Colton, M. Giles, H. Cobb and S. Jones. 2013. Open Air Learning: schools, education and the Whitworth Park Community, Archaeology and History Project. Journal of Victorian Culture Online. http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/2013/03/26/open-air-learning-schools-education-and-the-whitworth-park-community-archaeology-and-history-project/
• O. Harris, H. L. Cobb, H. Gray, P. Richardson. 2012. A Viking at Rest: New Discoveries on Ardnamurchan. Medieval Archaeology 56, pp.333-339.
• H. L. Cobb and P. Richardson. 2009. Transition/Transformation: Exploring Alternative Excavation Practices to Transform Student Learning and Development in the Field. Research in Archaeological Education 1(2), Prehistoric Pedagogies theme, pp. 21-40.
• H. L. Cobb and K. Croucher (eds.). 2009. Introduction to: Prehistoric Pedagogies? Approaches to Teaching European Prehistoric Archaeology. Research in Archaeological Education 1(2). Prehistoric Pedagogies theme.
• H. L. Cobb. 2007. Media for Movement and Making the World: Exploring Materiality and Identity in the Mesolithic of the Northern Irish Sea Basin. Internet Archaeology 22. Mesolithic Archaeology Theme. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue22/cobb_toc.html
• H. L. Cobb. 2007. Mutable Materials and the Production of Persons: Reconfiguring Understandings of Identity in the Mesolithic of the Northern Irish Sea Basin. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 9/10, pp. 123-136.
• H. L. Cobb. 2005. Straight Down the Line? A Queer Consideration of Hunter-Gatherer Studies in North-Western Europe. World Archaeology (December 2005), pp. 630-636.

Book Chapters

• H.L. Cobb. (In Press). Why the Mesolithic needs assemblages. In K. Franklin, J. Johnson, E. Miller-Bonney, L. Smejda (eds). Towards Incomplete Archaeologies? Oxford: Oxbow. (Expected publication 2016).

• H.L. Cobb and J. Ransley. (In Press) Inhabiting watery worlds and moving beyond the ‘scape’. In T. F. King and G Robinson (eds.) Inhabiting the Sea. New York and London: Berghahn. (Expected publication 2016).
• H. L. Cobb. 2015. A diverse profession? Challenging inequalities and diversifying involvement in British archaeology. In P. Everill and P. Irving (eds.) Rescue Archaeology: Foundations for the Future. Hereford: RESCUE. pp.226-245.
• H. L. Cobb. 2014. Materials, Biographies, Identities, Experiences: New Approaches to Materials in Hunter-Gatherer Studies. In Cummings, V., Jordan, P., and Zvelebil, M., (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp 1204-1220.
• K. Croucher, H. L. Cobb and E. Casella. 2013. Feminist Pedagogy: Implications and Practice. In M. J. Rodríguez-Shadow and S. Kellogg (eds.) Género y Arqueología en Mesoamérica.  Homenaje a Rosemary A. Joyce. Mexico: Centro de Estudios de Antropoloia de la Mujer. pp.112-128.
• H. L. Cobb. 2013. Disclosing the World During the Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition in the Irish Sea Basin. In Larsson, M, and Debert, J (eds). North West Europe in Transition: The Early Neolithic in Britain and Southern Sweden. Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports),  pp 55-62.
• H. L. Cobb and K. Croucher. 2012. Field Schools, Transferable Skills and Enhancing Employability. In Mytum, H., (ed). Global Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools: Constructions of Knowledge and Experience. New York: Springer, pp. 25-40.
• H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, C. Jones and P. Richardson. 2012. Reconsidering Fieldwork, an Introduction: Confronting Tensions in Fieldwork and Theory. In H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, C. Jones and P. Richardson (eds)  Reconsidering fieldwork: Exploring on site relationships between theory and practice. New York: Springer, pp.1-14.
• H. L. Cobb and members of the ATP Team. 2012. The Struggle Within: Challenging the subject/object relationship on a shoestring. In H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, C. Jones and P. Richardson (eds) Reconsidering fieldwork: Exploring on site relationships between theory and practice. New York: Springer, pp.113-130.
• H. L. Cobb, J. Debert, and M. Giles. 2010. The Place of Finding. Embedding Enquiry-Based Learning in Archaeology. LTEA 2010. Sheffield, Hallam University.
• H. L. Cobb. 2009. Being in the Mesolithic World: Place, Substance and Person in the Mesolithic of Western Scotland. In McCartan, S., Schulting, R., Warren, G., and Woodman., P., (eds.). Mesolithic Horizons. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 368-372.
• H. L. Cobb. 2009. Tasks, Transformations, and Transitions: The Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Farming in the Northern Irish Sea basin. In Glorstad, H., and Prescott., C., (eds.). Neolithisation as if history mattered. Lindome: Bricoleur Press, pp. 65-84.
• H. L. Cobb. 2005. Midden, Meaning, Person, Place: Interpreting the Mesolithic of Western Scotland. In Cobb, H., L., Price, S., Coward, F., and Grimshaw, L. (eds.). Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities: Case studies from Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe. Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports), pp.69-78.
• H. L. Cobb and S. Price. 2005. We’re Not Waiting Any More… Or Hunting for Meaning in the Mesolithic of North-West Europe. In Cobb, H., L., Price, S., Coward, F., and Grimshaw, L. (eds.). Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities: Case studies from Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe. Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports), pp.65-67.

Professional Journal Papers

• H. L. Cobb, D. Connolly and P. Richardson. 2014. A passport to the past: developing an archaeological skills passport. The Archaeologist 93: 8-13.
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2013. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.14. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 94.
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2012. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.13. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 95.
• H.L. Cobb, M. Giles and S. Jones. 2011. Partnership in the park: exploring the past, inspiring the future in inner-city Manchester. The Archaeologist 82: 20-21
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2011 Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.12. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 94
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2010. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.11. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 85-86
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2009. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.10. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 89.
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2007. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.8. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 104.
• H.L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2006. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Highland (Ardnamurchan parish), research field school. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, New, vol.7. Wiltshire: Cathedral Communications Limited, pp 86. 

Popular Journal Papers

• H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, H. Gray, P. Richardson. 2013. Time’s tide in Swordle Bay: Life and death on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. Current Archaeology, Issue 280, pp 18-24.
• H. Gray, H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, and P. Richardson. 2012. The Viking buried at Swordle Bay. British Archaeology 125, 28-33.
• H. L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2009. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Western Scotland. PAST (Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society) 61 (April 2009): 1-3.
• H. L. Cobb and P. Richardson. 2006. Transitions and Transformations: Investigations in to the Prehistory of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. PAST (Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society) 54 (November 2006): 5-7.
• H. L. Cobb and P. Richardson. 2006. The Ardnamurchan Transitions Project: Excavation and Survey work on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. Scottish Archaeological News 52 (Winter 2006): 10-11.

Review Articles

• H. L. Cobb. 2013. Review of Milner et al.  Star Carr: Life in Britain after the Ice Age. The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.
• H. L. Cobb. 2012. Review of Wickham-Jones, C. Fear of Farming. The Archaeological Journal.
• H. L. Cobb. 2010. Review of Borić, D, and Robb, J. Past Bodies: Body-Centred Research in Archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25(1).

Other Publications

Unpublished Archaeological Excavation Reports

• H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, H. Gray, P. Richardson. 2014. Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Nine, 2014: Archaeological Excavations – Project Design. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 24.
• H. L. Cobb, K. Fenelley, N. J. Overton, M. Giles, S. Jones. 2014. Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project. Season Two, 2013: Archaeological Excavations – Data Structure Report. Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project unpublished report no. 2.
• O. Harris, P. Richardson, H. L. Cobb, H. Gray. 2013. Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Eight, 2013: Archaeological Excavations – Project Design. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 23.
• H. L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2012. Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Seven, 2012: Archaeological Excavations – Project Design. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 18.
• H. L. Cobb, N. J. Overton, M. Giles, S. Jones. 2012. Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project. Season One, 2011: Archaeological Excavations – Data Structure Report. Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project unpublished report no. 1.

• Harris, H. Gray, H. L. Cobb, P. Richardson. 2011. Viking Boat Burial, Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Six, 2011: Archaeological Excavations – Data Structure Report. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 17.

• H. L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2011. Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Six, 2011: Archaeological Excavations – Project Design. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 15.
• O. Harris, P. Richardson, H. L. Cobb, P. Murtagh, I. Pringle. 2010. Cladh Aindreis Chambered Cairn Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Five, 2010: Archaeological Excavations – Data Structure Report. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 14
• H. L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson, P. Murtagh, H. Lawson. 2009. Cladh Aindreis Chambered Cairn Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Four, 2009: Archaeological Excavations – Data Structure Report. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 12
• H. L. Cobb, H. Gray, O. Harris, P. Richardson. 2008. Cladh Aindreis Chambered Cairn Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Three, 2008: Archaeological Excavations – Data Structure Report. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 11
• H. L. Cobb and P. Richardson. 2008. Cladh Aindreis Chambered Cairn Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan. Season Three, 2008: Archaeological Excavations – Project Design. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 6
• Cobb, H. & Richardson, P. 2006 Project Design for season 2 (2007), Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 5
• Richardson, P. & Cobb, H. 2006 Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, Season One (2006) Data Structure Report. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 4.
• Cobb, H. & Richardson, P. 2005 Project Design – Sanna Bay Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 3

• Cobb, H. & Richardson, P. 2005 Project Design – Cladh Aindreis chambered cairn, Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 2
• Cobb, H. & Richardson, P. 2005 Ardnamurchan Transitions Project: an Archaeological Research Design Including Initial Desk-based Assessment, Ardnamurchan Transitions Project unpublished report no. 1

Other Media

Popular publications

• M. Giles, H. L. Cobb, S. Jones. 2014. Whitworth Park: Past and Present. University of Manchester.

Project blogs and websites:

• H. L. Cobb, O. Harris, H. Gray, P. Richardson. Ardnamurchan Transitions Project: Website and Project Blog. http://ardnamurchantransitionsproject.com
• Cobb, H., Colton, R., Giles, M. and Jones, S. 2011. Whitworth Park Archaeology and History Project: Project Blog. http://www.whitworthpark.wordpress.com

Museum Exhibitions

• British Museum. 6th March – 22nd June 2014. Vikings: Life and Legend. Featured the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project Viking Boat Burial find. VISITOR NUMBERS: 288,351
• Manchester Museum. 24^th May – 5th October 2014. Whitworth Park: Pleasure, Play and Politics. I designed and curated the exhibition with Melanie Giles and Sian Jones. VISITOR NUMBERS: tbc