Staff profile

My research and publications explore a wide variety of themes within the overlapping inter-disciplinary fields of material, visual and sensual culture studies, and museum and heritage studies.

I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2005 in recognition of my long-term work on Central Mediterranean prehistoric archaeology, and am currently writing a book on Prehistoric Italy. In 2019, I was made an Honorary Member of the European Association of Archaeologists, having served as General Editor of the European Journal of Archaeology for 9 years; I was also made a Guest Professor in the School of Archaeology at Jilin University, China, having helped to develop collaboration between Durham University, the Palace Museum in Beijing, and Jilin. I am now Associate Editor of Antiquity.

My book, An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta, has led to keynote lecture invitations at home and abroad, a pioneering AHRC-funded collaboration with philosophers on the aesthetics and ethics of archaeology, and commissioning of the Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology (co-edited with Jo Day).

Another volume, Caves in Context (co-edited with Knut-Andreas Bergsvik), has been complemented by two successive British Academy- and other-funded, collaborative, field-projects on the ritual uses of caves in prehistoric Italy, related publications and television interviews, postgraduate student research, and visiting researchers.

In recent years, I have also participated in collaborative work with a variety of archaeological scientists, including post-docs and PhD students, on human bioarchaeology (aDNA and stable isotope analyses) and archaeometry (physical and chemical analyses of ceramic fabrics and of pigments) applied to Central Mediterranean prehistory, adding to my long-standing commitment to radiocarbon dating in this region.

My impact on public archaeology has been enhanced by my work as an archaeological advisor to the National Trust, my related Durham and NT-funded ‘Archaeological Wows’ research project, an AHRC Newton-Khalidi-funded museum modernization project in Jordan (Co-I Shatha Abu-Khafajah), associated publications such as my edited volumes, the Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology and Museums and Archaeology, and postgraduate student research.

I welcome expressions of interest from prospective new post-docs and PhD students.

• cave archaeology
• archaeological theory
• prehistory of the central Mediterranean
• material culture studies
• artefact studies
• visual culture
• prehistoric art
• museum studies
• archaeological collecting
• heritage studies
• public archaeology
• ethics
• cultural representation
• politics of the past
• sensual culture studies

• Material and Visual Culture
• Prehistoric Worlds

• Aesthetics and Ethics of Archaeology Research Network
• An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta
• Caves in Context: the Place of Caves in Middle Bronze Age Southern Lazio, Italy
• Identifying and communicating the ‘wows’ of archaeology outdoors
• Journeys to the Underworld: Ritual Transformations of Persons, Objects and Caves in Prehistoric Central Sardinia

• Aesthetics and Ethics of Archaeology Research Network
• An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta
• Caves in Context: the Place of Caves in Middle Bronze Age Southern Lazio, Italy
• Identifying and communicating the ‘wows’ of archaeology outdoors
• Journeys to the Underworld: Ritual Transformations of Persons, Objects and Caves in Prehistoric Central Sardinia

• 2020: Associate Editor, Antiquity:
• 2012: Member National Trust Archaeology Advisory Panel:
• 2010: General Editor, European Journal of Archaeology:
• 2008: External Examiner, University of Leicester: External Examiner, Archaeology undergraduate programmes, School of Archaeology and Ancient History
• 2007: AHRC Peer Review College Member: Member of AHRC's Peer Review College (2007-)
• 2007: British School at Rome Faculty Member: Member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters of the British School at Rome, from 2007-2011.
• 2005: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries: Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Available for media contact about:

• Ethics: Archaeological ethics
• European Prehistory: Mediterranean prehistory - Italy, Malta, etc
• Art: Visual culture studies
• Museums: Museum studies

Authored book

• Skeates, Robin & Day, Jo (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology. Routledge.
• Skeates, Robin (2010). An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hicks, D., Milne, G., Shepherd, J. & Skeates, R. (2009). Excavating the Archives: Archive Archaeology and the Higher Education Sector. London: HEFCE.
• R. Skeates (2005). Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy. London: Duckworth.
• Skeates R (2000). Debating the Archaeological Heritage. London: Duckworth.
• Skeates R (2000). The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Book review

• Skeates, R. (2016). From Cave to Dolmen: Ritual and Symbolic Aspects in the Prehistory between Sciacca, Sicily and the Central Mediterranean. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology. 2014. Germania 94(1-2): 311-314.
• Skeates, Robin (2015). Book review. Rethinking the North Italian Early Neolithic. European Journal of Archaeology 18(1): 165-169.
• Skeates, Robin (2014). Book review. Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology. American Antiquity 79(2): 372-373.
• Skeates, Robin (2014). Book review. The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World. European Journal of Archaeology 17(4): 733-736.
• Skeates, Robin (2013). Book review. Nils Anfinset and Melanie Wrigglesworth (eds): Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe. Norwegian Archaeological Review 46(1): 131-133.
• Skeates, Robin (2011). Book review. Caroline Malone, Simon Stoddart, Anthony Bonanno and David Trump, eds, Mortuary Customs in Prehistoric Malta: Excavations at the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra (1987–94). (Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2009, 521 pp., 333 figs., hbk, ISBN 978-1-902937-49-6). European Journal of Archaeology 14(1-2): 299-301.
• Skeates, R. (2010). Book Review: Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice, edited by Andrew Jones, 2008. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(1): 132-133.
• Skeates, R. (2009). Book review: Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: The Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. European Journal of Archaeology 12(1-3): 255-257.
• Skeates, Robin (2009). Book Review: An Introduction to Museum Archaeology. By Hedley Swain. The Archaeological Journal 166(1): 265.
• Skeates, R. (2007). Review: Menotti, F. (ed.) 2004. 'Living on the Lake in Prehistoric Europe: 150 Years of Lake-Dwelling Research'. London: Routledge. Environmental Archaeology 12(1): 95-97.
• Skeates, R. (2007). Book Review: Dougless W. Bailey. Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 2005. Antiquity 81(313): 801-802.
• Skeates, R. (2006). The Power of Art: Aesthetics and Rock Art, edited by Thomas Heyd & John Clegg, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16(2): 261-262.
• R. Skeates (2002). What’s in store: Regional Museums Store, Beamish Open Air Museum, Durham. Museums Journal 102(9): 37.
• R. Skeates (2001). Book review: Making City Histories in Museums, by Gaynor Kavanagh and Elizabeth Frostick (eds), London: Leicester University Press, 1998. Urban History 28(1): 133-134.

Chapter in book

• Prijatelj, Agni & Skeates, Robin (2019). Caves as Vibrant Places: A Theoretical Manifesto. In Between Worlds. 9.
• Silvestri, L., Rolfo, M.F., Angle, M., Skeates, R. & Salari, L (2018). Faunal remains and ritualisation: case studies from Bronze Age caves in central Italy. In The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion. A. Livarda, R. Madgwick & S. Riera Mora Oxbow Books. 129-147.
• Skeates, Robin (2017). Prehistoric figurines in Italy. In The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines. Insoll, Tim Oxford: Oxford University Press. 777-798.
• Skeates, R. (2016). Experiencing darkness and light in caves: later prehistoric examples from Seulo in central Sardinia. In The Archaeology of Darkness. Dowd, M. & Hensey, R. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 39-49.
• Skeates, Robin (2015). Italian enclosures. In The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Fowler, C., Harding, J. & Hofmann, D. Oxford University Press. 779-794.
• Skeates, Robin (2015). Imagining the sensual cultures of prehistoric Malta. In How Do We Imagine the Past? On Metaphorical Thought, Experientiality and Imagination in Archaeology. Gheorghiu, D. & Bouissac, P. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 111-120.
• Skeates, Robin (2015). Underground religion in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic. In The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Fowler, C., Harding, J. & Hofmann, D. Oxford University Press. 895-910.
• Skeates, Robin (2014). Communicating over space and time in the world of the Iceman. In Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory. Souvatzi, S. & Hadji, A. New York: Routledge. 138-159.
• Skeates, Robin (2013). Constructed caves: transformations of the underworld in prehistoric southeast Italy. In Sacred Darkness: A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves. Moyes, H. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. 27-44.
• Skeates, R., Carman, J. & McDavid, C. (2012). Introduction: questioning archaeology's place in the world. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carman, J. Oxford University Press. 1-10.
• Gradoli, G. & Skeates, R. (2012). Intellectual and spiritual expression in central Sardinia during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: the Seulo Caves Project. In The Intellecual and Spiritual Expressions of Non-Literate Peoples. Colloquio UISPP – CISNEP, Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica, 22-24 June 2012. Anati, E. UISPP and CISNEP. 128-136.
• Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. (2012). Caves in context: an introduction. In Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 1-9.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Caves in need of context: prehistoric Sardinia. In Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 166-187.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Making sense of the history of archaeological representation. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carman, J. Oxford Oxford University Press. 82-99.
• Skeates, Robin (2010). The art of memory: personal ornaments in Copper Age South-East Italy. In Material Mnemonics: Everyday Memory in Prehistoric Europe. Lillios, K.T. & Tsamis, V. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 73-84.
• Skeates, R. (2009). Trade and interaction. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology. Gosden, C., Cunliffe, B. & Joyce, R.A. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 555-578.
• Skeates, Robin (2007). Religious experience in the prehistoric Maltese underworld. In Cult in Context: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology. Barrowclough, David & Malone, Caroline Oxford: Oxbow Books. 90-96.
• Skeates, Robin (2007). Abstract and figurative representation and the politics of display in Neolithic Southeast Italy. In Image and Imagination: a global prehistory of figurative representation. Renfrew, C. & Morley, I. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 199-210.
• R. Skeates (2005). Museum archaeology and the Mediterranean cultural heritage. In The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory. Blake, E. & Knapp, A. B. Oxford: Blackwell. 303-320.
• Skeates, R. (2005). Luigi Cardini (1898-1971): a biography. In Explorations in Albania, 1930-39: the Notebooks of Luigi Cardini, Prehistorian with the Italian Archaeological Mission. Francis, K. London: British School at Athens. 37: 4-9.
• Skeates, R. (2005). Chronological bibliography of Luigi Cardini’s publications. In Explorations in Albania, 1930-39: the Notebooks of Luigi Cardini, Prehistorian with the Italian Archaeological Mission. Francis, K. London: British School at Athens. 205-9.
• Skeates, R.G. (2005). Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy. In Papers in Italian Archaeology VI: Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval Period: Proceedings of the 6th Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the University of Groningen, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, The Netherlands, April 15-17, 2003. Attema, P., Nijboer, A. & Zifferero, A. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2: 541-544.
• R. Skeates (2003). Radiocarbon dating and interpretations of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Italy. In The Widening Harvest. The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Ammerman, A. J. & Biagi, P. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America. 157-187.
• R. Skeates (2002). The Neolithic enclosures of the Tavoliere, South-East Italy. In Enclosures in Neolithic Europe: Essays on Causewayed and Non-Causewayed Sites. G. Varndell & P. Topping Oxford: Oxbow Books. 51-8.
• R. Skeates (2001). Archaeologies of art: contributions to World Art Studies. In Raising the Eyebrow: John Onians and World Art Studies. An Album Amicorum in his Honour. L. Golden Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. 289-300.

Edited book

• Skeates, R. (2017). Museums and Archaeology. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
• Bergsvik, K.A. & Skeates, R. (2012). Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Oxbow Books.
• Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carman, J. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Oxford University Press.
• Skeates, R. & Gheorghiu, D. (2008). Prehistoric Stamps: Theory and Experiments. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti.

Edited Journal

• Skeates, R. & Robb, J. (2008). Editorial: Ruth Whitehouse. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 21 (1): Equinox Publishing.

Journal Article

• Burkette, Allison & Skeates, Robin (2022). The Words that Archaeologists Choose: A Maltese Case Study in Artifact Terminology, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 35(1): 85-107.
• Lambert, M., Courtaud, P., Le Bourdonnec, F.-X., Lemasson, Q., Pichon, L., Leandri, F., Cesari, J., Bressy-Leandri, C. & Skeates, R. (2022). Characterising the pigment on a Mesolithic cranium from Corsica using ion beam analysis. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 529: 24.
• Machause López, Sonia & Skeates, Robin (2022). Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta. Open Archaeology 8(1): 1-29.
• Saupe, Tina, Montinaro, Francesco, Scaggion, Cinzia, Carrara, Nicola, Kivisild, Toomas, D’Atanasio, Eugenia, Hui, Ruoyun, Solnik, Anu, Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Larson, Greger, Alessandri, Luca, Arienzo, Ilenia, De Angelis, Flavio, Rolfo, Mario Federico, Skeates, Robin, Silvestri, Letizia, Beckett, Jessica, Talamo, Sahra, Dolfini, Andrea, Miari, Monica, Metspalu, Mait, Benazzi, Stefano, Capelli, Cristian, Pagani, Luca & Scheib, Christiana L. (2021). Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula. Current Biology 31(12): 2576-2591.
• Skeates, Robin, Beckett, Jessica, Mancini, Daniela, Cavazzuti, Claudio, Silvestri, Letizia, Hamilton, W. Derek, Sayle, Kerry L., Crowder, Kayla D., Rolfo, Mario & Angle, Micaela (2021). Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy. Journal of Field Archaeology 46(6): 382-398.
• Marcus, Joseph H., Posth, Cosimo, Ringbauer, Harald, Lai, Luca, Skeates, Robin, Sidore, Carlo, Beckett, Jessica, Furtwängler, Anja, Olivieri, Anna, Chiang, Charleston W. K., Al-Asadi, Hussein, Dey, Kushal, Joseph, Tyler A., Liu, Chi-Chun, Der Sarkissian, Clio, Radzevičiūtė, Rita, Michel, Megan, Gradoli, Maria Giuseppina, Marongiu, Patrizia, Rubino, Salvatore, Mazzarello, Vittorio, Rovina, Daniela, La Fragola, Alessandra, Serra, Rita Maria, Bandiera, Pasquale, Bianucci, Raffaella, Pompianu, Elisa, Murgia, Clizia, Guirguis, Michele, Orquin, Rosana Pla, Tuross, Noreen, van Dommelen, Peter, Haak, Wolfgang, Reich, David, Schlessinger, David, Cucca, Francesco, Krause, Johannes & Novembre, John (2020). Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Nature Communications 11: 939
• Key, Felix M., Posth, Cosimo, Esquivel-Gomez, Luis R., Hübler, Ron, Spyrou, Maria A., Neumann, Gunnar U., Furtwängler, Anja, Sabin, Susanna, Burri, Marta, Wissgott, Antje, Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar, Vågene, Åshild J., Meyer, Matthias, Nagel, Sarah, Tukhbatova, Rezeda, Khokhlov, Aleksandr, Chizhevsky, Andrey, Hansen, Svend, Belinsky, Andrey B., Kalmykov, Alexey, Kantorovich, Anatoly R., Maslov, Vladimir E., Stockhammer, Philipp W., Vai, Stefania, Zavattaro, Monica, Riga, Alessandro, Caramelli, David, Skeates, Robin, Beckett, Jessica, Gradoli, Maria Giuseppina, Steuri, Noah, Hafner, Albert, Ramstein, Marianne, Siebke, Inga, Lösch, Sandra, Erdal, Yilmaz Selim, Alikhan, Nabil-Fareed, Zhou, Zhemin, Achtman, Mark, Bos, Kirsten, Reinhold, Sabine, Haak, Wolfgang, Kühnert, Denise, Herbig, Alexander & Krause, Johannes (2020). Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4(3): 324-333.
• Cavazzuti, Claudio, Cardarelli, Andrea, Quondam, Francesco, Salzani, Luciano, Ferrante, Marco, Nisi, Stefano, Millard, Andrew R. & Skeates, Robin (2019). Mobile elites at Frattesina: flows of people in a Late Bronze Age ‘port of trade’ in northern Italy. Antiquity 93(369): 624-644.
• Cavazzuti, C., Skeates, R., Millard, A., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Bernabò Brea, M., Cardarelli, A. & Salzani, L. (2019). Flows of people in villages and large centres in Bronze Age Italy through strontium and oxygen isotopes. PLOS ONE 14(1): e0209693.
• Skeates, Robin & Frieman, Catherine J. (2019). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 22(1): 1.
• Skeates, Robin & Frieman, Catherine J. (2019). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 22(4): 451-453.
• Frieman, Catherine J. & Skeates, Robin (2019). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 22(3): 319.
• Frieman, Catherine J. & Skeates, Robin (2019). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 22(2): 165-167.
• Frieman, Catherine J. & Skeates, Robin (2018). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 21(03): 333-335.
• Skeates, Robin & Frieman, Catherine J. (2018). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 21(02): 157-158.
• Skeates, Robin & Frieman, Catherine J. (2018). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 21(01): 1-2.
• Skeates, Robin (2018). Ernestine S. Elster Eugenia Isetti John Robb and Antonella Traverso eds. The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria: Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy (Monumenta Archaeologica 38. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 2016, 446 pp., 230 figs, 121 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-938770-07-4). European Journal of Archaeology 21(1): 136-139.
• Skeates, Robin (2017). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 20(04): 601-602.
• Skeates, Robin (2017). Towards an Archaeology of Everyday Aesthetics. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27(4): 607-616.
• Skeates, Robin (2017). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 20(03): 401.
• Skeates, Robin (2017). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 20(02): 209-210.
• Olivieri, A., Sidore, C., Achilli, A., Angius, A., Posth, C., Furtwängler, A., Brandini, S., Rosario Capodiferro, M., Gandini, F., Zoledziewska, M., Pitzalis, M., Maschio, A., Busonero, F., Lai, L., Skeates, R., Gradoli, M.G., Beckett, J., Marongiu, M., Mazzarello, V., Marongiu, P., Rubino, S., Rito, T., Macaulay, V., Semino, O., Pala, M., Abecasis, G.R., Schlessinger, D., Conde-Sousa, E., Soares, P., Richards, M.B., Cucca, F. & Torroni, A. (2017). Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(5): 1230-1239.
• Skeates, R. (2017). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 20(01): 1-3.
• Skeates, R. (2017). Soundscapes of Temple Period Malta. Time and Mind 10(1): 61-67.
• Skeates, R. (2017). Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 30(2): 167-188.
• Skeates, R. (2016). Fetishism and visual culture in Later Neolithic Southeast Italy. Time and Mind 9(4): 335-352.
• Skeates, R. (2016). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 19(4): 569-570.
• Skeates, R. (2016). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 19(3): 399.
• Skeates, R. (2016). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 19(2): 185-186.
• Skeates, R. (2016). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 19(1): 1-2.
• Skeates, R. (2015). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 18(4): 559-561.
• Skeates, R. (2015). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 18(3): 377-379.
• Skeates, R. (2015). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 18(2): 187-189.
• Skeates, R. (2015). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 18(1): 1-3.
• Skeates, R. (2014). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 17(4): 577-578.
• Skeates, R. (2014). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 17(3): 367-368.
• Skeates, Robin (2014). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 17(2): 181-183.
• Skeates, R. (2014). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 17(1): 1-3.
• Skeates, R. (2013). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 16(3): 375-377.
• Skeates, R. (2013). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 16(1): 1-2.
• Skeates, R.G., Beckett, J. & Gradoli, M.G. (2013). The cultural life of caves in Seulo, central Sardinia. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 26(1): 97-126.
• Skeates, Robin (2013). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 16(4): 587-588.
• Skeates, R. (2013). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 16(2): 219-220.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 15(3): 365-366.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 15(2): 183-186.
• Skeates, R. (2012). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 15(1): 1-3.
• Skeates, R. (2012). On the noble digger's ode to the trowel. Norwegian Archaeological Review 45(1): 102-103.
• Skeates, R. (2011). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 14(3): 357-359.
• Skeates, Robin (2011). Making sense of world art: an archaeological perspective. World Art 1(1): 143-149.
• Skeates, Robin (2011). The Seulo caves project, Sardinia: a report on archaeological work undertaken in 2009 and 2010. Cave and Karst Science 38(3): 131-136.
• Skeates, R. (2011). Editorial. European Journal of Archaeology 14(1-2): 7-10.
• Skeates, Robin (2010). Journeys to the underworld: ritual transformations of persons, objects and caves in prehistoric Central Sardinia. Past: The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society (65): 13-14.
• Skeates, Robin (2009). Archaeological discoveries in the caves of Seulo, Central Sardinia. The European Archaeologist (32): 4-5.
• Skeates, R. (2008). Making sense of the Maltese Temple Period: An Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 1(2): 207-238.
• Skeates, R. (2008). Pounding and grinding stones in prehistoric Malta. The European Archaeologist (29): 8.
• Skeates, R. (2008). Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols. Documenta Praehistorica 35: 179-184.
• Skeates, R. (2007). Neolithic stamps: cultural patterns, processes and potencies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(2): 183-198.
• R. Skeates (2003). Prehistoric chert exploitation in the Valle del Cesolone (Macerata): a preliminary project report. Papers of the British School at Rome 71: 1-15.
• R. Skeates (2003). Speaking for the past in the present: text, authority and learning in archaeology museums. Public Archaeology 2(4): 209-18.
• R. Skeates (2003). Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 68: 165-83.
• R. Skeates (2003). New radiocarbon dates for prehistoric Italy: supplementary list 5. The Accordia Research Papers 9: 163-182.
• R. Skeates (2000). The social dynamics of enclosure in the Neolithic of the Tavoliere, south-east Italy. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 13.2: 155-88.

Other (Print)

• Badran, A., Skeates, R., Abu Khafajah, S., Wilkinson, R., Ronza, M.E., Marii, F., Bakkar, L., Massadeh, A., Al Qaisi, M., Kifafi, J., Sharaiaah, F. & Dababneh, R. (2022). Engaging Young People in Museum Learning: Good Practice Guidelines and Recommendations for Anyone Working with Museums, Schools and Universities in Jordan.

Working Paper

• Skeates, R. (2013). Neolithic Italy at 4004 BC: people and places. Accordia Research Papers 13: 1-29.