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Timau a rolau for Vicki Cummings
Athro Archaeoleg Neolithig
Trosolwyg
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n Gyd-Bennaeth Ysgol y Dyniaethau Byd-eang (gyda Mark Llewellyn). Cyn hynny roeddwn yn Bennaeth yr Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd am dair blynedd.
Rwyf hefyd yn archeolegydd sy'n arbenigo yn Neolithig Prydain ac Iwerddon o fewn cyd-destun ehangach gogledd-orllewin Ewrop. Mae gennyf ddiddordeb arbennig mewn henebion ac rwyf wedi arwain prosiectau ymchwil sy'n archwilio pensaernïaeth beddrodau siambr yng Nghymru, yr Alban ac Iwerddon. Mae gen i ddiddordeb hirdymor hefyd mewn addysgu ac ymchwilio i gymunedau hela a chasglu ar raddfa fyd-eang.
Uchafbwyntiau cyhoeddiadau diweddar:
Cummings, V. et al. 2026. Adeiladu beddrodau a chladdu'r meirw fel technolegau disgyniad a chysylltiad yng ngogledd Neolithig yr Alban. Henfyd 100, 324-39.
Cummings, V. 2025. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland (ail argraffiad). Llundain: Routledge.
Richards, C. a Cummings, V. 2024. Cylchoedd cerrig Prydain ac Iwerddon. Yale: Gwasg Prifysgol Yale.
Cummings, V. a Fowler, C. 2023. Disgyniad gwireddol: ffurfio llinach yn ne Prydain Neolithig cynnar. Trafodion y Gymdeithas Gynhanesyddol, 1-21.
Fowler, C., Olalde, I., Cummings, V. et al. 2022. Arferion perthnasol cymhleth a ddatgelwyd mewn teulu pum cenhedlaeth o Brydain Neolithig. Natur 601, 584-87.
Cummings, V. a Richards, C. 2021. Henebion ar y gweill: codi'r dolmenau mawr yng ngogledd Ewrop Neolithig cynnar. Rhydychen: Windgather.
Gellir dod o hyd i'r rhestr gyhoeddiadau lawn ar fy nhudalen Academia.
Fy mhrosiectau ymchwil cyfredol yw:
-Deep histories of migration: exploring the early Neolithic around the North Sea (with Dr Rune Iversen at Copenhagen University and Professor Dani Hofmann at Bergen University). Mae'r prosiect hwn yn ymchwilio i ddechrau a lledaeniad y Neolithig mewn ardaloedd o amgylch Môr y Gogledd. Rydym eisoes wedi cynhyrchu un llyfr o'r prosiect hwn (Hofmann, D., Cummings, V., Bjornvad-Aldqvist, M. ac Iversen, R. (gol.), The early Neolithic of northern Europe: new approaches to migration, movement and social connection. Leiden: Sidestone.). Mae'r monograff terfynol ar y prosiect yn cael ei baratoi ar hyn o bryd.
-Beddrodau siambr Orkney (gyda Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark yn Amgueddfeydd Cenedlaethol yr Alban). Mae'r prosiect hwn wedi cynnal cloddiadau yn y beddrod siambr yn Tresness, Sanday a Blomuir, Mainland. Mae'r safleoedd hyn sy'n darparu deunydd newydd i ddeall adeiladu a defnyddio'r safleoedd hyn yn ogystal â gweddillion dynol ar gyfer dadansoddi aDNA. Mae'r cloddiadau hyn yn ôl-ex, a byddant yn cael eu hysgrifennu fel monograff.
-DNA hynafol a pherthynas ym Mhrydain Neolithig gynnar (gyda'r Athro Chris Fowler ym Mhrifysgol Newcastle a'r Athro David Reich yn Harvard). Gan adeiladu ar y canlyniadau cyffrous o'r astudiaeth o aDNA o Hazleton North, rydym yn archwilio perthynas a phensaernïaeth henebion mewn safleoedd eraill ym Mhrydain. Mae disgwyl i bapur yn Antiquity gael ei gyhoeddi yn 2026 ac mae gwaith/cyhoeddiadau eraill ar y gweill.
-Neolithig Ynysoedd y Gogledd (gyda'r Athro Jane Downes a'r Athro Colin Richards yn UHI). Trwy gloddio safleoedd anheddu ar Orkney a Shetland, rydym yn archwilio anheddiad cynnar yr ynysoedd hyn (mae'r safleoedd ar ôl cloddio).
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Cummings, V. et al. 2026. Building tombs and entombing the dead as technologies of descent and affinity in Neolithic northern Scotland. Antiquity 100 (410), pp.324-339. (10.15184/aqy.2026.10291)
2025
- Cummings, V. , Iversen, R. and Hofmann, D. 2025. The early Neolithic of northern Europe. In: Hofmann, D. et al., The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe. Sidestone. , pp.11-20.
- Cummings, V. and Driscoll, S. eds. 2025. The archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429445521)
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2025. The early Neolithic. In: Driscoll, S. and Cummings, V. eds. The Archaeology of Britain. Routledge. , pp.60-80. (10.4324/9780429445521-4)
- Cummings, V. and Driscoll, S. 2025. British Archaeology in the 21st century: an introduction. In: Cummings, V. and Driscoll, S. eds. The Archaeology of Britain. Routledge. , pp.1-11. (10.4324/9780429445521-1)
- Cummings, V. 2025. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland (2nd edition). Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe Routledge. (10.4324/9781003387329)
- Cummings, V. et al. 2025. The early Neolithic of northern Europe: new approaches to migration, movement and social connection. Sidestone.
- Anderson-Whymark, H. and Cummings, V. 2025. A lost passage tomb found: the excavation of the Neolithic chambered tomb at Blomuir, Holm, Orkney in 2024. Orkney Archaeology Review 10 , pp.30-37.
- Anderson-Whymark, H. and Cummings, V. 2025. Blomuir: a lost passage tomb found. Orkney Archaeology Review 9 , pp.110-119.
2024
- Richards, C. and Cummings, V. 2024. Stone circles: a field guide. New Haven: Yale University Press.
2023
- Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. 2023. Materialising descent: lineage formation in early Neolithic southern Britain.. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , pp.1-21. (10.1017/ppr.2023.2)
2022
- Cummings, V. et al. 2022. Muddying the waters: reconsidering migration in the Neolithic of Britain, Ireland and Denmark. Danish Journal of Archaeology 11 , pp.1-25. (10.7146/dja.v11i.129698)
- Fowler, C. et al., 2022. A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb. Nature 601 (7894), pp.584-587. (10.1038/s41586-021-04241-4)
2021
- Cummings, V. and Richards, C. 2021. Monuments in the making: raising the great Dolmens in early neolithic northern Europe. Windgather Press. (10.2307/j.ctv13gvgn9)
2020
- Bradley, S. , Cummings, V. and Baker, M. J. 2020. Sources of flint in Britain and Ireland: A quantitative assessment of geochemical characterisation using acid digestion inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31 102281. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102281)
2019
- Cummings, V. 2019. Excavations at Knowth volume 6: the passage tomb archaeology of the great mound at Knowth. Archaeological Journal 176 (2), pp.369-372. (10.1080/00665983.2019.1590956)
2018
- Cummings, V. and Morris, J. 2018. Neolithic explanations revisited: modelling the arrival and spread of domesticated cattle into Neolithic Britain. Environmental Archaeology 27 (1), pp.20-30. (10.1080/14614103.2018.1536498)
2017
- Bickle, P. et al. 2017. Europe in the Neolithic: essays in honour of Professor Alasdair Whittle. Oxbow.
- Cummings, V. 2017. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315718866)
- Cummings, V. and Harris, O. 2017. Animals, people and places: The continuity of hunting and gathering practices across the mesolithic-neolithic transition in Britain. European Journal of Archaeology 14 (3), pp.361-393. (10.1179/146195711798356700)
2016
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2016. Places of special virtue: Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxbow Books. (10.2307/j.ctvh1djh5)
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2016. Places of special virtue: megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxbow.
- Cummings, V. 2016. Virtual reality, visual envelopes, and characterizing landscape. In: David, B. and Thomas, J. eds. Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. New York: Routledge. , pp.285-290. (10.4324/9781315427737-41)
- Cummings, V. 2016. 'Very real shared traditions'? Thinking about similarity and difference in the construction and use of clyde cairns in the Western Scottish Neolithic. In: Brophy, K. , MacGregor, G. and Ralston, I. B. M. eds. The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. , pp.41-56. (10.3366/edinburgh/9780748685721.003.0003)
2015
- Cummings, V. and Robinson, G. eds. 2015. The Southern Kintyre Project: Exploring interactions across the Irish Sea from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. BAR British Series British Archaeological Reports. (10.30861/9781407313948)
- Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. eds. 2015. The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxbow. (10.2307/j.ctvh1dq1n)
- Cummings, V. and Robinson, G. 2015. The life and times of a chambered tomb: the results of survey and excavation at Blasthill Chambered Tomb, Kintyre, Western Scotland. Archaeological Journal 172 (1), pp.1-29. (10.1080/00665983.2014.985014)
2014
- Cummings, V. , Jordan, P. and Zvelebil, M. eds. 2014. Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter gatherers. Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199551224.001.0001)
- Cummings, V. 2014. Between mountains and sea: a reconsideration of the neolithic monuments of south-west Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 68 , pp.125-146. (10.1017/S0079497X0000147X)
2013
- Cummings, V. 2013. The maritime identities of communities colonizing Norway. Norwegian Archaeological Review 46 (1), pp.90-92. (10.1080/00293652.2013.777096)
- Cummings, V. 2013. The anthropology of hunter-gatherers: Key themes for archaeologists. Debates in Archaeology London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003086833)
2012
- Cummings, V. 2012. What lies beneath: Thinking about the qualities and essences of stone and wood in the chambered tomb architecture of neolithic Britain and Ireland. Journal of Social Archaeology 12 (1), pp.29-50. (10.1177/1469605311428117)
- Cummings, V. 2012. From midden to megalith? The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Britain. In: Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. British Academy Scholarship Online. , pp.493–510. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.003.0024)
2009
- Cummings, V. 2009. A view from the west: The neolithic of the Irish Sea. Oxbow Books.
2007
- Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. 2007. From Cairn to cemetery: An archaeological investigation of the chambered Cairns and early Bronze Age mortuary ceposits at Cairnderry and Bargrennan White Cairn, south-west Scotland. British Archaeological Reports: British Series Oxford: BAR Publishing.
- Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. eds. 2007. Going over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in North-West Europe. British Academy. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.001.0001)
- Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. 2007. Introduction: transitions and transformations. In: Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. eds. Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. OUP/British Academy. , pp.1-4. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.003.0001)
- Cummings, V. and Johnson, R. 2007. Prehistoric journeys. Oxbow.
2005
- Cummings, V. and Pannett, A. eds. 2005. Set in stone: current research on Neolithic monumentality in Scotland. Oxbow.
2003
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2003. Tombs with a view: Landscape, monuments and trees. Antiquity 77 (296), pp.255-266. (10.1017/S0003598X00092255)
2002
- Cummings, V. 2002. Experiencing texture and transformation in the British Neolithic. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21 (3), pp.249-261. (10.1111/1468-0092.00161)
- Cummings, V. , Jones, A. and Watson, A. 2002. Divided places: Phenomenology and asymmetry in the monuments of the Black Mountains, Southeast Wales. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12 (1), pp.57-70. (10.1017/S0959774302000033)
Adrannau llyfrau
- Cummings, V. , Iversen, R. and Hofmann, D. 2025. The early Neolithic of northern Europe. In: Hofmann, D. et al., The Early Neolithic of Northern Europe. Sidestone. , pp.11-20.
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2025. The early Neolithic. In: Driscoll, S. and Cummings, V. eds. The Archaeology of Britain. Routledge. , pp.60-80. (10.4324/9780429445521-4)
- Cummings, V. and Driscoll, S. 2025. British Archaeology in the 21st century: an introduction. In: Cummings, V. and Driscoll, S. eds. The Archaeology of Britain. Routledge. , pp.1-11. (10.4324/9780429445521-1)
- Cummings, V. 2016. Virtual reality, visual envelopes, and characterizing landscape. In: David, B. and Thomas, J. eds. Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. New York: Routledge. , pp.285-290. (10.4324/9781315427737-41)
- Cummings, V. 2016. 'Very real shared traditions'? Thinking about similarity and difference in the construction and use of clyde cairns in the Western Scottish Neolithic. In: Brophy, K. , MacGregor, G. and Ralston, I. B. M. eds. The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. , pp.41-56. (10.3366/edinburgh/9780748685721.003.0003)
- Cummings, V. 2012. From midden to megalith? The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Britain. In: Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. British Academy Scholarship Online. , pp.493–510. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.003.0024)
- Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. 2007. Introduction: transitions and transformations. In: Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. eds. Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. OUP/British Academy. , pp.1-4. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.003.0001)
Erthyglau
- Cummings, V. et al. 2026. Building tombs and entombing the dead as technologies of descent and affinity in Neolithic northern Scotland. Antiquity 100 (410), pp.324-339. (10.15184/aqy.2026.10291)
- Anderson-Whymark, H. and Cummings, V. 2025. A lost passage tomb found: the excavation of the Neolithic chambered tomb at Blomuir, Holm, Orkney in 2024. Orkney Archaeology Review 10 , pp.30-37.
- Anderson-Whymark, H. and Cummings, V. 2025. Blomuir: a lost passage tomb found. Orkney Archaeology Review 9 , pp.110-119.
- Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. 2023. Materialising descent: lineage formation in early Neolithic southern Britain.. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , pp.1-21. (10.1017/ppr.2023.2)
- Cummings, V. et al. 2022. Muddying the waters: reconsidering migration in the Neolithic of Britain, Ireland and Denmark. Danish Journal of Archaeology 11 , pp.1-25. (10.7146/dja.v11i.129698)
- Fowler, C. et al., 2022. A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb. Nature 601 (7894), pp.584-587. (10.1038/s41586-021-04241-4)
- Bradley, S. , Cummings, V. and Baker, M. J. 2020. Sources of flint in Britain and Ireland: A quantitative assessment of geochemical characterisation using acid digestion inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31 102281. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102281)
- Cummings, V. 2019. Excavations at Knowth volume 6: the passage tomb archaeology of the great mound at Knowth. Archaeological Journal 176 (2), pp.369-372. (10.1080/00665983.2019.1590956)
- Cummings, V. and Morris, J. 2018. Neolithic explanations revisited: modelling the arrival and spread of domesticated cattle into Neolithic Britain. Environmental Archaeology 27 (1), pp.20-30. (10.1080/14614103.2018.1536498)
- Cummings, V. and Harris, O. 2017. Animals, people and places: The continuity of hunting and gathering practices across the mesolithic-neolithic transition in Britain. European Journal of Archaeology 14 (3), pp.361-393. (10.1179/146195711798356700)
- Cummings, V. and Robinson, G. 2015. The life and times of a chambered tomb: the results of survey and excavation at Blasthill Chambered Tomb, Kintyre, Western Scotland. Archaeological Journal 172 (1), pp.1-29. (10.1080/00665983.2014.985014)
- Cummings, V. 2014. Between mountains and sea: a reconsideration of the neolithic monuments of south-west Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 68 , pp.125-146. (10.1017/S0079497X0000147X)
- Cummings, V. 2013. The maritime identities of communities colonizing Norway. Norwegian Archaeological Review 46 (1), pp.90-92. (10.1080/00293652.2013.777096)
- Cummings, V. 2012. What lies beneath: Thinking about the qualities and essences of stone and wood in the chambered tomb architecture of neolithic Britain and Ireland. Journal of Social Archaeology 12 (1), pp.29-50. (10.1177/1469605311428117)
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2003. Tombs with a view: Landscape, monuments and trees. Antiquity 77 (296), pp.255-266. (10.1017/S0003598X00092255)
- Cummings, V. 2002. Experiencing texture and transformation in the British Neolithic. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21 (3), pp.249-261. (10.1111/1468-0092.00161)
- Cummings, V. , Jones, A. and Watson, A. 2002. Divided places: Phenomenology and asymmetry in the monuments of the Black Mountains, Southeast Wales. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12 (1), pp.57-70. (10.1017/S0959774302000033)
Llyfrau
- Cummings, V. and Driscoll, S. eds. 2025. The archaeology of Britain: an introduction from earliest times to the twenty-first century. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429445521)
- Cummings, V. 2025. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland (2nd edition). Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe Routledge. (10.4324/9781003387329)
- Cummings, V. et al. 2025. The early Neolithic of northern Europe: new approaches to migration, movement and social connection. Sidestone.
- Richards, C. and Cummings, V. 2024. Stone circles: a field guide. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Cummings, V. and Richards, C. 2021. Monuments in the making: raising the great Dolmens in early neolithic northern Europe. Windgather Press. (10.2307/j.ctv13gvgn9)
- Bickle, P. et al. 2017. Europe in the Neolithic: essays in honour of Professor Alasdair Whittle. Oxbow.
- Cummings, V. 2017. The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. Routledge Archaeology of Northern Europe London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315718866)
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2016. Places of special virtue: Megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxbow Books. (10.2307/j.ctvh1djh5)
- Cummings, V. and Whittle, A. 2016. Places of special virtue: megaliths in the Neolithic landscapes of Wales. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxbow.
- Cummings, V. and Robinson, G. eds. 2015. The Southern Kintyre Project: Exploring interactions across the Irish Sea from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. BAR British Series British Archaeological Reports. (10.30861/9781407313948)
- Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. eds. 2015. The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxbow. (10.2307/j.ctvh1dq1n)
- Cummings, V. , Jordan, P. and Zvelebil, M. eds. 2014. Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter gatherers. Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199551224.001.0001)
- Cummings, V. 2013. The anthropology of hunter-gatherers: Key themes for archaeologists. Debates in Archaeology London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003086833)
- Cummings, V. 2009. A view from the west: The neolithic of the Irish Sea. Oxbow Books.
- Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. 2007. From Cairn to cemetery: An archaeological investigation of the chambered Cairns and early Bronze Age mortuary ceposits at Cairnderry and Bargrennan White Cairn, south-west Scotland. British Archaeological Reports: British Series Oxford: BAR Publishing.
- Whittle, A. and Cummings, V. eds. 2007. Going over: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in North-West Europe. British Academy. (10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.001.0001)
- Cummings, V. and Johnson, R. 2007. Prehistoric journeys. Oxbow.
- Cummings, V. and Pannett, A. eds. 2005. Set in stone: current research on Neolithic monumentality in Scotland. Oxbow.
Ymchwil
Prosiectau ymchwil cyfredol
-Deep histories of migration: exploring the early Neolithic around the North Sea (with Dr Rune Iversen at Copenhagen University and Professor Dani Hofmann at Bergen University). Mae'r prosiect hwn yn ymchwilio i ddechrau a lledaeniad y Neolithig mewn ardaloedd o amgylch Môr y Gogledd. Rydym eisoes wedi cynhyrchu un llyfr o'r prosiect hwn (Hofmann, D., Cummings, V., Bjornvad-Aldqvist, M. ac Iversen, R. (gol.), The early Neolithic of northern Europe: new approaches to migration, movement and social connection. Leiden: Sidestone.). Mae'r monograff terfynol ar y prosiect yn cael ei baratoi ar hyn o bryd. Ariannwyd y prosiect hwn gan y Gronfa Ymchwil Annibynnol Denmarc.
-Beddrodau siambr Orkney (gyda Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark yn Amgueddfeydd Cenedlaethol yr Alban). Mae'r prosiect hwn wedi cynnal cloddiadau yn y beddrod siambr yn Tresness, Sanday a Blomuir, Mainland. Mae'r safleoedd hyn sy'n darparu deunydd newydd i ddeall adeiladu a defnyddio'r safleoedd hyn yn ogystal â gweddillion dynol ar gyfer dadansoddi aDNA. Mae'r cloddiadau hyn yn ôl-ex, a byddant yn cael eu hysgrifennu fel monograff. Rydym wedi derbyn cyllid gan yr Academi Brydeinig, y Sefydliad Archaeolegol Brenhinol, Cyngor Ynysoedd Orkney a Chymdeithas Hynafiaethwyr Llundain ar gyfer y prosiect hwn. Mae cloddiadau ar y ddau safle wedi ymddangos ar benodau Digging for Britain .
-DNA hynafol a pherthynas ym Mhrydain Neolithig gynnar (gyda'r Athro Chris Fowler ym Mhrifysgol Newcastle a'r Athro David Reich yn Harvard). Gan adeiladu ar y canlyniadau cyffrous o'r astudiaeth o aDNA o Hazleton North, rydym yn archwilio perthynas a phensaernïaeth henebion mewn safleoedd eraill ym Mhrydain. Mae disgwyl i bapur yn Antiquity gael ei gyhoeddi yn 2026 ac mae gwaith/cyhoeddiadau eraill ar y gweill.
-Neolithig Ynysoedd y Gogledd (gyda'r Athro Jane Downes a'r Athro Colin Richards yn UHI). Trwy gloddio safleoedd anheddu ar Orkney a Shetland, rydym yn archwilio anheddiad cynnar yr ynysoedd hyn (mae'r safleoedd ar ôl cloddio). Mae'r prosiect hwn wedi'i gefnogi gyda chyllid gan Gyngor Ynysoedd Orkney.
Prosiectau ymchwil wedi'u cwblhau
-Adeiladu dolmenau mawr gogledd-orllewin Ewrop (gyda'r Athro Colin Richards yn UHI). Ymchwiliodd y prosiect hwn i bensaernïaeth dolmen Prydain, Iwerddon a Denmarc mewn cyd-destun ehangach yng ngogledd Ewrop. Cafodd y prosiect elwa o gyllid gan y Sefydliad Archaeolegol Brenhinol a'r Academi Brydeinig (cymrodoriaeth ganol gyrfa). Fe'i cyhoeddir fel monograff gan Windgather: Cummings, V. a Richards, C. 2021. Henebion ar y gweill: codi'r dolmenau mawr yng ngogledd Ewrop Neolithig cynnar. Rhydychen: Windgather.
-Prosiect Southern Kintyre (gyda Dr Gary Robinson ym Mhrifysgol Bangor). Ymchwiliodd y prosiect hwn i'r tirweddau Mesolithig a Neolithig o amgylch beddrod siambr Blasthill, ochr yn ochr â chloddio'r heneb hon. Fe'i hariannwyd gan yr Academi Brydeinig, Ymddiriedolaeth Elusennol Robert Kiln, y Sefydliad Archaeolegol Brenhinol a'r Gymdeithas Gynhanesyddol. Fe'i cyhoeddir fel monograff Archaeopress: Cummings, V. and Robinson, G. 2015. Prosiect Southern Kintyre. Rhydychen: BAR.
-Cymunedau hela a chasglu a'u perthnasedd i astudio'r pas. Yn gysylltiedig â diddordeb ehangach yn anthropoleg helwyr-gasglwyr, golygais gyhoeddiad OUP mawr o'r pwnc hwn (Cummings, V. Jordan, P. a Zvelebil, M. (gol.) 2014. T the Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthopology of Hunter-Gatherers. Rhydychen: Gwasg Prifysgol Rhydychen. Mae gwerslyfr rhagarweiniol llai wedi'i anelu at israddedigion: Cummings, V. The anthropology of hunter-gatherers: key themes for archaeologists. Llundain: Bloomsbury.
-Henebion Neolithig cynnar parth Môr Iwerddon. Wedi'i ariannu gan yr Academi Brydeinig ac Ymddiriedolaeth Leverhulme, ystyriodd y prosiect hwn leoliad tirwedd y beddrodau siambr a ddarganfuwyd o amgylch Môr Iwerddon. Fe'i cyhoeddir fel monograff Oxbow: Cummings, V. 2009. Golygfa o'r gorllewin: Neolithig parth Môr Iwerddon. Rhydychen: Oxbow. Ceir hefyd gyfrol olygedig ar yr un pwnc: Cummings, V. a Fowler, C. (gol.), 2004. Neolithig parth môr Iwerddon: materoldeb a thraddodiadau ymarfer. Rhydychen: Oxbow.
-Henebion Bargrennan yn ne-orllewin yr Alban (gyda'r Athro Chris Fowler ym Mhrifysgol Newcastle). Cloddiwyd beddrodau siambr Cairnderry a Bargrennan a ddatgelodd ddilyniant diddorol o ddigwyddiadau ar y safleoedd hyn, gan gynnwys dyddodiad nodedig o'r Oes Efydd gynnar. Elwodd y prosiect o gyllid gan yr Academi Brydeinig, Cymdeithas Hynafiaethwyr Llundain a'r Gymdeithas Gynhanesyddol. Cyhoeddwyd y cloddiadau fel monogragh British Archaeological Reports: Cummings, V. and Fowler, C. 2007. O'r garnedd i'r fynwent: ymchwiliad archeolegol o'r carneddau siambr a'r dyddodion marwdy o'r Oes Efydd gynnar yn Cairnderry a Charnedd Wen Bargrennan. Rhydychen: BAR.
-Bedrodau siambr Cymru. Wedi'i ariannu gan y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd, ymchwiliodd y prosiect hwn i feddrodau siambr Cymru ac fe'i cyhoeddwyd fel monograff: Cummings, V. a Whittle, A. 2004. Lleoedd o rinwedd arbennig: megaliths yn nhirweddau Neolithig Cymru. Rhydychen: Oxbow.
Addysgu
Rwy'n gynullydd modiwl ar gyfer HS7203: Esboniad a dehongli mewn Archaeoleg
Cyfraniadau i: HS2206: Cyflwyniad i Ewrop Gynhanesyddol
HS2130: Archaeoleg Prydain
Bywgraffiad
Fe wnes i fy BA, MA a PhD ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, gan astudio o dan yr Athro Alasdair Whittle. Wedi hynny, roeddwn yn Gynorthwyydd Ymchwil i'r Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd gan gwblhau prosiect ar megalithau Cymru. Yna dechreuais fy ngyrfa addysgu fel Cydymaith Ymchwil mewn Archaeoleg Neolithig ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Yn 2004 symudais i Brifysgol Canol Swydd Gaerhirfryn (UCLan) lle dyluniais a sefydlais radd newydd mewn Archaeoleg yn ogystal â dod yn Gymrawd yr Academi Addysg Uwch. Dros y blynyddoedd canlynol gweithiais gyda thîm anhygoel o gydweithwyr lle gwnaethom dyfu'r ddarpariaeth archaeoleg yn UCLan yn ogystal â chreu diwylliant ymchwil unigryw sy'n canolbwyntio ar archaeoleg maes. Yn 2018 cefais gadair bersonol, yr athro archaeoleg cyntaf erioed yn UCLan. Trwy gydol fy amser yn y sefydliad roeddwn yn arweinydd ymchwil ar gyfer Archaeoleg, ac roeddwn hefyd yn Ddirprwy Bennaeth (Ymchwil) ac yn rhan o Uwch Dîm Rheoli'r Ysgol am chwe blynedd. Yn 2023 dychwelais i Gaerdydd ar ôl bron i ugain mlynedd i ffwrdd i ymgymryd â rôl Pennaeth yr Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd. Ym mis Awst 2026, byddaf yn Gyd-Bennaeth Ysgol newydd y Dyniaethau Byd-eang yng Nghaerdydd.
Trwy gydol fy ngyrfa rwyf hefyd wedi gweithio gyda sefydliadau allanol. Roeddwn yn aelod, yna'n is-gadeirydd ac yna yn gyd-gadeirydd University Archaeology UK sy'n cynrychioli ac yn eiriolwr dros bob adran Archaeoleg yn y DU. Rwyf hefyd wedi bod yn arholwr allanol mewn nifer o sefydliadau gan gynnwys Manceinion, Glasgow, Durham, Bangor, Sligo a Rhydychen. Cefais fy ethol yn Gymrawd Cymdeithas Hynafiaethwyr Llundain yn 2013.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Gall Vicki oruchwylio pynciau o gwmpas:
Prydain Neolithig ac Iwerddon
- Beddrodau Siambr
-Mesolithig / Pontio Neolithig yng ngogledd-orllewin Ewrop
