Guerilla Archaeology is a collective made up of 100s of volunteers they are all listed here

More detail on some members below

Jacqui Mulville

Jacqui, founder of Guerilla Archaeology, (pictured here at the Ness of Brodgar) is an Emeritus Professor in Bioarchaeology at Cardiff University. She finds archaeology endlessly fascinating and wants everyone to be able to easily engage with the fantastic research that is being done.

She created Guerilla Archaeology to reach folk beyond museums. She has translated archaeological research for audiences at music festivals (Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Green Man, Bluedot, Wilderness, Lunar and Shambala), shopping centres and science and art festivals.  

In 2011, with Paul Evans (see below) she kicked this off via  ‘Future Animals’ an art/science crossover creative workshop delivered to groups of 14-18 year olds and she also spoke at TEDx Cardiff on Art, science and archaeology 

Jacqui’s research focuses on the human:animal relationship in the past. She is particularly interested in wild animals and their relationships with hunters and farmers. This led to a project recreating and experiencing shamanic antler headdresses.  Her research areas have spanned various British islands and mainland, Europe and Namibia.

Jacqui has been going to gigs and festivals regularly from the age of 14.

 

ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Julia Best

Julia is a bioarchaeology buff with a soft spot for ancient animals.
Specialising in zooarchaeology, she’s explored sites from the Neolithic to the Medieval across all kinds of landscapes. Her passion? Using cutting-edge science to uncover how humans and animals once lived, worked, and shaped each other’s worlds. By blending multiple analytical techniques, she helps bring past societies, lifeways, and economies back to life.

Julia is our chicken,and all things fibre (e.g. spinning), expert.

Ian Dennis

Ian is an visual artist, experimental archaeologist and lecturer based at Cardiff University. He is a talented illustrator, flint knapper, bone and antler worker;  he has recreated exact copies of a series of Viking antler bone combs and the Star Carr antler headdresses. 

Ian’s hobbies include riding around on his vintage motorbikes and Pokemon Go. 

Kirsty Harding

Kirsty is an archaeologist and digital illustrator. She is responsible for producing many of our logos and images and is a creative and knowledgeable force in workshop design.

Kirsty loves techno and sunglasses.

Richard Madgwick

Rich is an archaeological scientist who digs into the past—literally and molecularly.
Armed with microscopes, molecules, and a love for ancient bones, he studies how humans and animals moved, lived, and were treated both before and long after they were buried. He’s worked on everything from Mesolithic mysteries to Post-Medieval puzzles across Europe and beyond, and is currently neck-deep in later prehistoric, Roman, and Medieval projects.

Rich is a keen Southend fan.

Dr Ffion Reynolds

Ffion is an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University and works as Cadw‘s  Heritage & Arts Manager. She is also a Public Engagement STEM Ambassador.Her main research interests are the Neolithic of the British isles and Ireland, focusing on themes of worldview including shamanism, animism, totemism and Amerindian perspectivism, funerary practices, material culture and art, as well as working to integrate anthropological and archaeological perspectives. She is particularly interested in the changing nature of the human:deer relationship through time. Ffion currently co-directs the Bryn Celli Ddu Public Archaeology Project on Anglesey.

Dr Jerrod Seifert

Jerrod is a conservator and archaeologist focused on the deterioration and preservation of archaeological cultural heritage, with specialities in the conservation and management of archaeological sites and archaeological metals.

Jerrod’s phd was on rusty cannonballs (from the Mary Rose).

Helen Smith

Helen was a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University specialising in the analysis of archaeobotanical remains, having completed her PhD in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield on traditional farming practices of the Western Isles.

Helens super powers include being able to work closely with communities and academics.

ARTISTS

Paul Evans

Paul is a contemporary visual artist who has worked with Dr Jacqui Mulville and Cardiff University on a range of projects. His work aims to reflect a mutual interest in the creative possibilities of exploring animal form and function through skeletal structure. http://www.pkevans.co.uk/

Edwina Williams-Jones

Edwina is a  freelance costume designer and qualified Design and Technology secondary school teacher with a passionate interest in the past.  She has over 30 years experience in work for theatre, film and T.V.and a fine pedigree in dressing everyone from Captain Jack to the Coal House kids. Edwina regularly whips up outfits for us at the drop of her hat and can get anyone, even the most reluctant participants, into a costume within seconds.  Edwina is also responsible for theatrical input and directing many of our more crafty activities and creatively uses recycled materials in all our projects.

She has accompanied us on fieldwork to the Isles of Scilly and survived her tent collapsing in gale force 8 at night, sleeping on until rescued at daylight.

SHAMAN

Dr Henry Dosedla

Henry is a storyteller and shaman. He has spent many years working among the New Guinean highland tribes in the early seventies. He has also worked with traditional Hungarian healers known as ‘táltos’, who share relations with the Central Asian shamanic complex. By developing workshops and sessions for special interest groups and schools, Henry has developed new ways to explore the practical application of shamanism. His annual program of works include involvemnt with CINDIS – the Austrian Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies and Research, which actively encourages co-operation with representatives of the international neo-shamanic movement. In recent years, he has been collaborating with Dr Ffion Reynolds on projects which tie these diverse practices with archaeology and prehistoric instances of shamanism.