Elizabeth G. BLOXAM B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow

Research Interests:

• The social context of raw material acquisition in Egypt: post-doctoral research is to further develop the application of cross-cultural and cross-level conceptual models in social archaeology to production data in second millennium BC quarry and mining sites in Egypt.
• Logistics of ancient stone quarrying in Egypt, 3 rd – 2 nd millennium BC
• Gemstone and copper mining in ancient Egypt
• Conservation of ancient quarry landscapes
• Fieldwork also covers a range of quarry sites in Norway, Turkey and Jordan

Current and Forthcoming Research Projects and Fieldwork

• Current fieldwork project: archaeological and geological survey of the west bank silicified sandstone quarries at Gebel Gulab, Aswan, Egypt
• ‘QuarryScapes: conservation of ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean’ – project designer with Tom Heldal and Per Storemyr of The Geological Survey of Norway. An EU 6 th Framework funded multi-disciplinary collaborative project commencing November 2005 for three years in Turkey, Egypt and Jordan
• A rchaeological and geological survey of the Widan el-Faras basalt quarries – March/April 2006

The Gebel Gulab Silicified Sandstone (Quartzite) Quarries, Aswan, Egypt

Recent Publications:

Bloxam,E. (2006). Miners and Mistresses: Middle Kingdom mining on the margins. Journal of Social Archaeology 6(2), 277-303. ISSN: 1469-6053

Bloxam, E. G. 2005 ‘The Organisation and Mobilisation of Old Kingdom Quarry Labour Forces at Chephren’s Quarry (Gebel el-Asr) Lower Nubia ’ in A. Cooke and F. Simpson (eds) Current Research in Egyptology II pp. 11-19 Oxford : Archaeopress.

Bloxam, E. G. and P. Storemyr 2005 ‘The Quarries of Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar, Aswan ’ Egyptian Archaeology No. 26: 37-40

Heldal, T., E. G. Bloxam, P. Storemyr and A. Kelany 2005: ‘The Geology and Archaeology of the Ancient Silicified Sandstone Quarries at Gebel Gulab and Gebel Tingar, Aswan ’ Marmora: International Journal for Archaeology, History and Archaeometry of Marbles and Stones

Bloxam, E. G., P. Storemyr and T. Heldal 2004, (in press) ‘Hard Stone Quarrying in the Egyptian Old Kingdom (3 rd Millennium BC ): rethinking the social organisation’ in Y. Maniatis (ed) ASMOSIA VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. Thassos , Greece , 15-20 September 2003.

Heldal, T., P. Storemyr, E. G. Bloxam, I. Shaw and A. Salem 2004, (in press) ‘GPS and GIS Methodology in the Mapping of Chephren’s Quarry, Upper Egypt: A Significant Tool for Documentation and Interpretation of the Site’ in Y. Maniatis (ed) ASMOSIA VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. Thassos , Greece , 15-20 September 2003.

P. Storemyr, T. Heldal, E. G. Bloxam and J. A. Harrell 2004, (in press) ‘New Evidence of Small-scale Roman Basalt Quarrying in Egypt: Widan El-faras in the Northern Faiyum Desert And Tilal Sawda by El-Minya’ in Y. Maniatis (ed) ASMOSIA VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. Thassos , Greece , 15-20 September 2003.

Bloxam, E. G. 2004 Book review: ‘Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology: Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt’ (by Denys A. Stocks) Egyptian Archaeology No. 24 Spring 2004: 43.

Bloxam, E. G. and P. Storemyr 2002 ‘Old Kingdom Basalt Quarrying Activities at Widan el-Faras, Northern Faiyum Desert’ Journal of Egyptian archaeology Vol 88: 23-36.

Storemyr, P., E. G. Bloxam, T. Heldal & A. Salem 2002 ‘Survey at Chephren’s Quarry, Gebel el-Asr, Lower Nubia : 2002' Sudan & Nubia Bulletin No.6: 25-9.

Bloxam, E. G. 2002 ‘An Alternative Strategy for the Transportation of Quarried Hard Stone from Lower Nubia to Giza during the Old Kingdom ’ Conference Proceedings from the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo , 2000 Vol I pp. 86-91 Cairo : AUC Press.

Shaw, I. M. E., E. G. Bloxam, J. Bunbury, R. Lee, A. Graham, D. Darnell 2001 ‘Survey and Excavation at the Gebel el-Asr gneiss and quartz quarries in Lower Nubia (1997-2000)’ Antiquity 75: 33-4.

Bloxam, E.G. 2000 ‘Transportation of Quarried Hard Stone from Lower Nubia to Giza during the Egyptain Old Kingdom ’ British Archaeological ReportsInternational Series 909: 19-27.

Shaw, I. M. E. & E. G. Bloxam 1999 ‘Survey and Excavation at the Ancient Pharaonic Gneiss Quarrying Site of Gebel el-Asr, Lower Nubia ’ Sudan & Nubia Bulletin No.3:13-20.

Collaborations:

• Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt
• Egyptian Antiquities Information System
• Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority
• The Geological Survey of Norway
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium
• University of Liverpool
• Middle East Technical University , Turkey
• Yarmouk University, Jordan
• Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy

Educational Background:

• 2003: PhD. Egyptology – Institute of Archaeology , UCL
• 1999: M.A. Research Methods in the Humanities - Institute of Archaeology, UCL 1998: B.A. Egyptian Archaeology - Institute of Archaeology , UCL

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