Dr Allan Hall
- Honorary Research Fellow (School of Humanities)
email:
Allan.Hall@glasgow.ac.uk
R313 Level 3, Archaeology, Gregory Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Publications
2014
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp and calcite analyses. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 75-89. ISBN 9781902957661
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp summary report. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 101-108. ISBN 9781902957661
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Eros, Mercator and the Cultural Landscape of Melos in Antiquity. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824001
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Lemnian Earth, alum and astringency: a field based approach. In: Michaelides, D. (ed.) Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 183-189. ISBN 9781782972358
2013
Cuenca-Garcia, C. , Jones, R. , Hall, A. and Poller, T. (2013) From the Air to the Atomic Level of a Ditch: Integrating Geophysical and Geochemical Survey Methods at the Prehistoric Cropmark Complex of Forteviot (Perthshire, Scotland). In: 10th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (AP2013), Vienna, Austria, 29 May - 2 Jun 2013, pp. 129-133.
2012
Agate, A. et al. (2012) Early medieval settlement at Mothecombe, Devon: the interaction of local, regional and long-distance dynamics. Archaeological Journal, 169(1), pp. 343-394. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2012.11020918)
2011
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Archaeological recording and chemical stratigraphy applied to contaminated land studies. Science of the Total Environment, 409(24), pp. 5432-5443. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.035)
Hall, A., Ellam, R. , Wilson, L., Pollard, T. and Ferguson, N. (2011) Corrosion studies and lead isotope analyses of musket balls from Scottish battlefield sites. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (ed.) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, pp. 591-597. ISBN 9783642140770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7)
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2011) "Harvesting" the Ore: The Use of Iron Seepages in the Early Bloomery Furnace in Ireland. In: 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy, 13-16 May 2008, pp. 629-635. ISBN 9783642146770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_92)
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Lemnian Earth and the Earths of the Aegean: An Archaeological Guide To Medicines, Pigments And Washing Powders. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824004
2010
Russell, M.J., Hall, A. and Martin, W. (2010) Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life. Geobiology, 8(5), pp. 355-371. (doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00249.x)
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. (2010) Stypteria phorime as alunogen in solution: possible pointer to the gradual cooling of the Melos geothermal system. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences, 45, pp. 117-226.
2009
Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2009) The juice of the pomegranate: quality control for the processing and distribution of alumen in antiquity and making sense of Pliny’s Phorimon and Paraphoron. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 197-206. ISBN 9781842172599
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Jones, R. and Pantos, E. (2009) ‘Sweet waste’: the industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 223-230. ISBN 9781842172599
Russell, M.J. and Hall, A. (2009) The hydrothermal source of energy and materials at the origin of life. In: Zaikowski, L., Friedrich, J.M. and Seidel, S.R. (eds.) Evolution II: From the Origins of Life to Modern Society. Series: ACS Symposium Series (1025). American Chemical Society: Washington DC, USA, pp. 45-62. ISBN 9780841269804 (doi: 10.1021/bk-2009-1025.ch003)
2008
Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2008) Accessing past beliefs and practices: the case of Lemnian Earth. Archaeometry, 50(6), pp. 1034-1049. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00377.x)
Photos-Jones, E. , Dalglish, C., Coulter, S., Hall, A., Ruiz-Nieto, R. and Wilson, L. (2008) Between archives and the site: the case of the 19th-century iron and steel industry in the Monklands, Central Scotland, and one small forge within, Moffat Upper Steam Forge. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 42(1), pp. 157-180.
2007
Photos-Jones, E. , Smith, B. B., Hall, A. J. and Jones, R. E. (2007) On the intent to make cramp: an interpretation of vitreous seaweed cremation ‘waste’ from prehistoric burial sites in Orkney, Scotland. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 26(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00270.x)
2006
Russell, M. and Hall, A. (2006) The onset and early evolution of life. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 198, pp. 1-32. (doi: 10.1130/2006.1198(01))
2003
Hall, A.J., Fallick, A.E., Perdikatsis, V. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) A model for the origin of AI-rich efflorescences near fumaroles, Melos, Greece: enhanced weathering in a geothermal setting. Mineralogical Magazine, 67(2), pp. 363-379. (doi: 10.1180/0026461036720102)
Hall, A.J., Photos-Jones, E. , McNulty, A., Turner, D. and McRobb, A. (2003) Geothermal activity at the archaeological site of Aghia Kyriaki and its significance to Roman industrial mineral exploitation on Melos, Greece Mineral Exploitation on Melos, Greece. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 18(3), pp. 333-357. (doi: 10.1002/gea.10068)
Hall, A. J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) The nature of Melian alumen and its potential for exploitation in antiquity. In: L'Alun de Mediterranee, Colloque International, Naples, Italy, 04-06 Jun 2003, pp. 77-84. ISBN 9782903189846
Photos-Jones, E. , Jones, R.E. and Hall, A.J. (2003) Technical report on painted plaster fragments from the Greek-Swedish excavations at Kastelli, Khania, Crete. In: Hallager, E. and Hallager, B. P. (eds.) The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterinini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970-87 and 2001 vol. III:1 The Late Minoan IIIB2 Settlement. Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 3:1. P Åstrom Forlag: Stockholm, pp. 306-320. ISBN 9789179160456
2001
Hansom, J.D. , Hall, A.J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) Rapid environmental change during industrial minerals exploitation in the Aegean: the case of Roman Aghia Kyriaki, Melos, Greece. In: 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 12-15 Sep 2000, pp. 92-100.
1999
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Atkinson, J.A., Tompsett, G., Cottier, A. and Sanders, G.D.R. (1999) The Aghia Kyriaki, Melos survey: prospecting for the elusive earths in the Roman period in the Aegean. Annual of the British School at Athens, 94, pp. 377-413. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400000654)
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Pollard, T. , Meikle, T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) The manner of how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver at Hilderstone in Scotland. In: Young, S.M.M. (ed.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR international series, 792 (792). Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Pollard, A., Meikle, Y.T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) 'The manner how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head’: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver. In: Young, S.M.M., Pollard, A.M., Budd, P. and Ixer, R.A. (eds.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR International Series, 792. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082
1997
Photos-Jones, E. , Cottier, A., Hall, A.J. and Mendoni, L.G. (1997) Kean miltos: the well-known iron oxides of antiquity. Annual of the British School at Athens, 92, pp. 359-371. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400016737)
Articles
Agate, A. et al. (2012) Early medieval settlement at Mothecombe, Devon: the interaction of local, regional and long-distance dynamics. Archaeological Journal, 169(1), pp. 343-394. (doi: 10.1080/00665983.2012.11020918)
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Archaeological recording and chemical stratigraphy applied to contaminated land studies. Science of the Total Environment, 409(24), pp. 5432-5443. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.035)
Russell, M.J., Hall, A. and Martin, W. (2010) Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life. Geobiology, 8(5), pp. 355-371. (doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00249.x)
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. (2010) Stypteria phorime as alunogen in solution: possible pointer to the gradual cooling of the Melos geothermal system. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences, 45, pp. 117-226.
Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2008) Accessing past beliefs and practices: the case of Lemnian Earth. Archaeometry, 50(6), pp. 1034-1049. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00377.x)
Photos-Jones, E. , Dalglish, C., Coulter, S., Hall, A., Ruiz-Nieto, R. and Wilson, L. (2008) Between archives and the site: the case of the 19th-century iron and steel industry in the Monklands, Central Scotland, and one small forge within, Moffat Upper Steam Forge. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 42(1), pp. 157-180.
Photos-Jones, E. , Smith, B. B., Hall, A. J. and Jones, R. E. (2007) On the intent to make cramp: an interpretation of vitreous seaweed cremation ‘waste’ from prehistoric burial sites in Orkney, Scotland. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 26(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00270.x)
Russell, M. and Hall, A. (2006) The onset and early evolution of life. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 198, pp. 1-32. (doi: 10.1130/2006.1198(01))
Hall, A.J., Fallick, A.E., Perdikatsis, V. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) A model for the origin of AI-rich efflorescences near fumaroles, Melos, Greece: enhanced weathering in a geothermal setting. Mineralogical Magazine, 67(2), pp. 363-379. (doi: 10.1180/0026461036720102)
Hall, A.J., Photos-Jones, E. , McNulty, A., Turner, D. and McRobb, A. (2003) Geothermal activity at the archaeological site of Aghia Kyriaki and its significance to Roman industrial mineral exploitation on Melos, Greece Mineral Exploitation on Melos, Greece. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 18(3), pp. 333-357. (doi: 10.1002/gea.10068)
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Atkinson, J.A., Tompsett, G., Cottier, A. and Sanders, G.D.R. (1999) The Aghia Kyriaki, Melos survey: prospecting for the elusive earths in the Roman period in the Aegean. Annual of the British School at Athens, 94, pp. 377-413. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400000654)
Photos-Jones, E. , Cottier, A., Hall, A.J. and Mendoni, L.G. (1997) Kean miltos: the well-known iron oxides of antiquity. Annual of the British School at Athens, 92, pp. 359-371. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400016737)
Books
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Eros, Mercator and the Cultural Landscape of Melos in Antiquity. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824001
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Lemnian Earth and the Earths of the Aegean: An Archaeological Guide To Medicines, Pigments And Washing Powders. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824004
Book Sections
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp and calcite analyses. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 75-89. ISBN 9781902957661
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp summary report. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 101-108. ISBN 9781902957661
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Lemnian Earth, alum and astringency: a field based approach. In: Michaelides, D. (ed.) Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 183-189. ISBN 9781782972358
Hall, A., Ellam, R. , Wilson, L., Pollard, T. and Ferguson, N. (2011) Corrosion studies and lead isotope analyses of musket balls from Scottish battlefield sites. In: Turbanti-Memmi, I. (ed.) Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy. Springer, pp. 591-597. ISBN 9783642140770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7)
Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2009) The juice of the pomegranate: quality control for the processing and distribution of alumen in antiquity and making sense of Pliny’s Phorimon and Paraphoron. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 197-206. ISBN 9781842172599
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Jones, R. and Pantos, E. (2009) ‘Sweet waste’: the industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 223-230. ISBN 9781842172599
Russell, M.J. and Hall, A. (2009) The hydrothermal source of energy and materials at the origin of life. In: Zaikowski, L., Friedrich, J.M. and Seidel, S.R. (eds.) Evolution II: From the Origins of Life to Modern Society. Series: ACS Symposium Series (1025). American Chemical Society: Washington DC, USA, pp. 45-62. ISBN 9780841269804 (doi: 10.1021/bk-2009-1025.ch003)
Photos-Jones, E. , Jones, R.E. and Hall, A.J. (2003) Technical report on painted plaster fragments from the Greek-Swedish excavations at Kastelli, Khania, Crete. In: Hallager, E. and Hallager, B. P. (eds.) The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterinini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970-87 and 2001 vol. III:1 The Late Minoan IIIB2 Settlement. Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 3:1. P Åstrom Forlag: Stockholm, pp. 306-320. ISBN 9789179160456
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Pollard, T. , Meikle, T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) The manner of how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver at Hilderstone in Scotland. In: Young, S.M.M. (ed.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR international series, 792 (792). Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082
Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Pollard, A., Meikle, Y.T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) 'The manner how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head’: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver. In: Young, S.M.M., Pollard, A.M., Budd, P. and Ixer, R.A. (eds.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR International Series, 792. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082
Conference Proceedings
Cuenca-Garcia, C. , Jones, R. , Hall, A. and Poller, T. (2013) From the Air to the Atomic Level of a Ditch: Integrating Geophysical and Geochemical Survey Methods at the Prehistoric Cropmark Complex of Forteviot (Perthshire, Scotland). In: 10th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (AP2013), Vienna, Austria, 29 May - 2 Jun 2013, pp. 129-133.
Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2011) "Harvesting" the Ore: The Use of Iron Seepages in the Early Bloomery Furnace in Ireland. In: 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy, 13-16 May 2008, pp. 629-635. ISBN 9783642146770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_92)
Hall, A. J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) The nature of Melian alumen and its potential for exploitation in antiquity. In: L'Alun de Mediterranee, Colloque International, Naples, Italy, 04-06 Jun 2003, pp. 77-84. ISBN 9782903189846
Hansom, J.D. , Hall, A.J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) Rapid environmental change during industrial minerals exploitation in the Aegean: the case of Roman Aghia Kyriaki, Melos, Greece. In: 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 12-15 Sep 2000, pp. 92-100.