Mike Seager Thomas is a British archaeologist and Honorary Research Fellow of the

UCL Institute of Archaeology UCL's Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty of University College London (UCL) which it joined in 1986 having previously been a school of the University of London. It is currently one o ...

specialising in the study of stone in

prehistoric archaeology Prehistoric archaeology is a subfield of archaeology, which deals specifically with artefacts, civilisations and other materials from societies that existed before any form of writing system or historical record. Often the field focuses on ages s ...

and

landscape archaeology Landscape archaeology, a sub-discipline of archaeology and archaeological theory, is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them. It is also known as archaeogeography (from the Greek "ancien ...

Career

Mike Seager Thomas studied archaeology at Brighton Technical College and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been a full time professional archaeologist since 1996, working in the commercial sector as an excavator/excavation supervisor and as a freelance prehistoric pottery and stone specialist. Mike Seager Thomas is also a long-term participant in UCL Institute of Archaeology research projects, including the well-known Leskernick Project, the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project, and—most recently—the Rapa Nui (

Easter Island Easter Island ( rap, Rapa Nui; es, Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearl ...

) Landscapes of Construction Project. Out of his involvement in the Leskernick Project, he became one of the principal subjects of project sociologist Mike Willmore's very funny "The Book and the Trowel," published in the Leskernick project book ''Stone Worlds,'' and the perceived victim of a "top-down interpersonal project hierarchy," which challenged the egalitarian pretensions of what is otherwise considered a theoretically seminal archaeological project. He has ongoing academic interests in stone in prehistoric archaeology and landscape archaeology, recording strategies for Rapa Nui archaeology, Polynesian architecture, the faking of military antiques, and the use of period photographs in archaeological and historical research. Books by Mike Seager Thomas include ''Excavating Stone Worlds'' (2007), co-written with Sue Hamilton and Phillip Thomas, the ''Afrikamütze Database'' (2019), and ''Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive'' (2020).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seager Thomas, Mike Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British archaeologists People associated with the UCL Institute of Archaeology Alumni of the UCL Institute of Archaeology Geoarchaeologists Researchers in Rapa Nui archaeology People from Surbiton