Ailsa Jean Mainman is a British archaeologist and pottery specialist.

Career

Mainman completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is now a research associate at the University of York. She is a former assistant director of

York Archaeological Trust The York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research Limited (YAT) is an educational charity, established in 1972 in the city of York, England. It carries out archaeological investigations, fieldwork, excavation and research in York, Yo ...

. She was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soci ...

on 12 January 1989.

Personal life

In 1991 Mainman married fellow archaeologist Richard Hall (1949–2011). In 2014 Mainman fulfilled her late husband's "last wish" by helping to publish the final volume in a progressive series of publications about York Archaeological Trust's excavations of

Jorvik Scandinavian York ( non, Jórvík) Viking Yorkshire or Norwegian York is a term used by historians for the south of Northumbria (modern-day Yorkshire) during the period of the late 9th century and first half of the 10th century, when it was do ...

Select publications

*MacGregor, A., Mainman, A. J. and Rogers, N. S. H. 1999. ''Craft, industry and everyday life: bone, antler, ivory and horn from Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval York'' (Archaeology of York 17/12). York, York Archaeological Trust. *Mainman, A. J. and Rogers, N. S. H. 2000. ''Craft, Industry, and Everyday Life: Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York'' (Archaeology of York 17/14). York, York Archaeological Trust. *Mainman, A. J. and Jenner, A. 2013. ''Medieval Pottery from York'' (Archaeology of York 16/9). York, York Archaeological Trust. *Mainman, A. J. and Hall, R. 2015. "Eoforwic: Post Roman and Anglian York", ''The British Historic Town Atlas'' Vol V.

References

External links

Ailsa Mainman's publications as listed on the Archaeology Data Service
British women archaeologists Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 21st-century British archaeologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people York Archaeological Trust 21st-century British women writers {{UK-archaeologist-stub