Brian Boyd (M.A. Glasgow 1991: Ph.D. Cambridge 1996) is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He was previously Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales Lampeter. He teaches "The Social Production of Technologies", "Holy Lands, Unholy Histories: Archaeology Before the Bible" and (Fall 2008) "Humans & Other Animals: Critical Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations".

Research
Brian's research interests focus on the archaeology of the prehistoric Levant, social technologies, human-animal relations, the history and philosophy of science, queer theory, and cultural politics in Israel/Palestine. He has published several articles on theoretical aspects of the Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant and his first book Beyond Bones: Towards a Social Archaeology of Human-Animal Relations Will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. He has been carrying out research and fieldwork in Israel and the Palestinian Territories for a number of years and will be starting new projects there in 2009.

Selected publications
2001 The Natufian burials from el-Wad: beyond issues of social differentiation. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 31: 185-200.

2002a. Ways of eating/ways of being in the Later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant. In Hamilakis, Y., M. Pluciennik and S. Tarlow (eds.) Thinking through the body: archaeologies of corporeality. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 137-152.

2002b. The Myth Makers: archaeology in Doctor Who. In Russell, M. (ed.): Digging holes in popular culture: archaeology and science fiction. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 30-37.

2004. Agency and landscape: abandoning the nature/culture dichotomy in interpretations of the Natufian. In Delage, C. (ed.) The last hunter-gatherer societies in the Near East. Oxford: BAR. I.S. 1320, pp. 119-136.

2005. Transforming food practices in the Later Epipaleolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant. In Archaeological Prespectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean (ed. J. Clarke). Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 106-112.

2006. On "sedentism" in the Later Epipaleolithic (Natufian) Levant. World Archaeology. 38/2: 164-178.

Forthcoming (a). Beyond Bones: Towards a Social Archaeology of Human Animal Relations. Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming (b). The Prehistory of Southwest Asia. Cambridge University Press.