Joy, J.,
2026 (Accepted for publication).
Assessing the Impacts of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme on Collecting in English Museums: A Case Study from Cambridge
Public Archaeology,
Biography
Jody Joy has worked as a curator at MAA since May 2014. Prior to that he was Curator of European Iron Age Collections at the British Museum for 8 years.
His main interests concern art and technology and he is currently involved in research projects examining: the technology of Iron Age cauldrons and their role as feasting vessels; Iron Age torcs and their relationship with the human body; and the role of so-called Celtic art in Iron Age society. He is also interested in human remains, particularly exploring issues surrounding display and storage in museums.
Research
The archaeology of northwest Europe during the first millennium BC
Iron Age art
Material culture studies
Human remains in museum collections
Key Publications
Key publications
Books:
2017. (with A. Baldwin). A Celtic Feast: The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire. London, British Museum Press. (Finalist for the Current Archaeology Book Awards)
2016. (with I. Gunn, S.-J. Harknett and E. Wilkinson). Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past. Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
2010. Reflections on the Iron Age: biographies of mirrors. Oxford, BAR British Series 518.
2009. Lindow Man. London, British Museum Press (reprinted 2013)
Books in preparation:
(with J. Farley) The Snettisham Treasure. London, British Museum Press.
Journal Articles:
2016. Hoards as Collections: re-examining the Snettisham Iron Age hoards from the perspective of collecting practice. World Archaeology 48(2): 239-53.
2014. ‘Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble’: Iron Age and Early Roman Cauldrons of Britain and Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 80: 327-62.
2011. Fancy objects in the British Iron Age: why decorate? Proceedings of Prehistoric Society 77: 205-29.
2009. Reinvigorating object biography: reproducing the drama of object lives. World Archaeology 41(4): 540-56.
Book Chapters:
2018. Feasting and Commensal Rituals in the Iron Age. In C. Haselgrove, P. Wells and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2016. Approaching Celtic Art. In J. Farley and F. Hunter (eds.), Celts: art and identity, pp. 36-51. London, British Museum Press
2016. (with F. Hunter). A Connected Europe, c. 500-150 BC. In J. Farley and F. Hunter (eds.), Celts: art and identity, pp. 52-79. London, British Museum Press.
2016. Stylistic Variations in Early Celtic Art. In J. Farley and F. Hunter (eds.), Celts: art and identity, pp. 56-7. London, British Museum Press.
2015. Things in Process: Biographies of British Iron Age Pits. In D. Böschung, P.-A. Kreuz and T. Kienlin (eds.), Biography of Objects: Aspekte eines kulturhistorischen Konzepts, pp. 125-41. Cologne, Morphomata.
2015. Connections and separation? Narratives of Iron Age art in Britain and its relationship with the Continent. In H. Anderson-Whymark, D. Garrow and F. Sturt (eds.), Continental Connections: Exploring cross-Channel relationships from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age, pp. 145-65. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
2014. Brit-art: Celtic Art in Roman Britain and on its Frontiers. In C. Gosden, S. Crawford and K. Ulmschneider (eds.), Celtic Art in Europe: Making Connections, pp. 315-24. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
2014. Looking death in the face: different attitudes towards bog bodies and their display with a focus on Lindow Man. In A. Fletcher, D. Antoine and JD Hill (eds.), Regarding the Dead: human remains in the British Museum, pp. 10-19. London, British Museum Research Publication no. 197.
2014. (with A. Mongiatti and N. Meeks). Precious metal torcs from the Iron Age Snettisham Treasure: metallurgy and analysis. In E. Pernicka and R. Schwab (eds.), Under the Volcano: Proceedings of the SMEIA held in Mannheim, Germany, 20-22 April 2010, pp. 135-56. Rahden, Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH.
2012. Kunst in der Provinz Britannia. In R. Röber, M. Jansen, S. Rau and C. von Nicolai (eds), Die Welt der Kelten: Zentren der Macht – Kostbarkeiten der Kunst, pp. 489-97. Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag.
2012. (with C. Cartwright, N. Meek, D. Hook and A. Mongiatti). Organic cores from the Iron Age Snettisham torc hoard; technological insights revealed by scanning electron microscopy. Proceedings of SEM and microanalysis in the study of historical technology, materials and conservation, London, September 2010.
2011. Exploring status and identity in later Iron Age Britain: re-interpreting mirror burials. In T. Moore and X.-L. Armada (eds), Atlantic Europe in the first millennium BC: crossing the divide, pp. 468-487. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2011. The Iron Age. In T. Insoll (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, pp. 405-424. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2008. Reflections on Celtic Art: a re-examination of mirror decoration. In D. Garrow, C. Gosden & J.D. Hill (eds) Rethinking Celtic art, pp. 78-99. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
2007. (with M. Giles). Mirrors in the British Iron Age. In M. Anderson (ed.), The book of the mirror: an interdisciplinary collection exploring the cultural story of the mirror, pp. 16-31. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2002. Biography of a medal: people and the things they value. In Material Culture: the archaeology of twentieth-century conflict, J. Schofield, W. G. Johnson & C. M. Beck (eds), pp. 132-42. London, Routledge. Reviewed: Historical Archaeology 2004 38(2): 135-6
Other publications
2016. Hide and Seek: What happened to ancient children? British Archaeology (May/June): 42-7.
2013. (with A. Baldwin and J. Hood). The cauldrons from Chiseldon. British Archaeology (January/February): 36-41.
2009. Lindow Man. British Archaeology 107: 23.
Publication
Journal articles
2026 (Accepted for publication)
2024 (Published online)
Negro, M. and Joy, J.,
2024 (Published online).
Re-assemblage and Dispersal: Exploring the Agency of Etruscan Votive Bronze Figurines in Museum Collections
Aristonothos Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico,
v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.54103/2037-4488/27614
2024
Joy, J.,
2024.
A Landscape of Well-Being Bridging the “Nature–Culture Divide” at Trumpington Meadows Country Park, Cambridge
Museum Worlds,
v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3167/armw.2024.120110
2022 (Accepted for publication)
Doğan, E., Thys-Şenocak, L. and Joy, J.,
2022 (Accepted for publication).
Who owns the dead?: Legal and professional challenges facing human remains management in Turkey
Public Archaeology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2022.2070209
2020 (Accepted for publication)
Joy, J. and Farley, J.,
2020 (Accepted for publication).
The curation and display of Lindow Man
Journal of Wetland Archaeology,
2019 (Accepted for publication)
Joy, J.,
2019 (Accepted for publication).
A POWER TO INTRIGUE? EXPLORING THE ‘TIMELESS’ QUALITIES OF THE SO-CALLED ‘GROTESQUE’ IRON AGE TORC FROM SNETTISHAM, NORFOLK
Oxford Journal of Archaeology,
v. 38
2019
Joy, J.,
2019.
Dea Senuna: treasure, cult and ritual at Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Archaeological Journal,
v. 176
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2019.1590948
2018
Joy, JP.,
2018.
Snettisham: shining new light on an old treasure
Jewellery History Today (31),
2016
Joy, J.,
2016.
Hoards as collections: re-examining the Snettisham Iron Age hoards from the perspective of collecting practice
World Archaeology,
v. 48
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2016.1152197
2014
Joy, J.,
2014.
‘Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble’: Iron Age and Early Roman Cauldrons of Britain and Ireland
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society,
v. 80
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2014.7
2013
Joy, JP.,
2013.
Cauldrons from Chiseldon
British Archaeology,
2011
Joy, J.,
2011.
‘Fancy Objects’ in the British Iron Age: Why Decorate?
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society,
v. 77
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00000670
2009
Joy, J.,
2009.
Reinvigorating object biography: reproducing the drama of object lives
World Archaeology,
v. 41
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00438240903345530
2008
Joy, J.,
2008.
Llyn Cerrig Bach: A Study of the Copper Alloy Artefacts from the Insular La Tène Assemblage. By P. Macdonald. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2007. Pp. xvi + 295, col. pls 4, pls 6, figs 26, tables 19. Price: £60.00. ISBN 978 0 7083 2041 9.
Britannia,
v. 39
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3815/006811308785916926
2007
Joy, J.,
2007.
The Sedgeford Hoard. By M. Dennis and N. Faulkner. Tempus, Stroud, 2005. Pp. 95, pls 28, illus. Price: £12.99. ISBN 978 0 7524 3438 4.
Britannia,
v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x00001550
Theses / dissertations
2024 (No publication date)
Doğan, E.,
2024 (No publication date).
Politics, Identity and Ethics in Heritage Preservation: Managing Archaeological Human Remains in Turkey
Daly, L.,
2024 (No publication date).
Home from Away: Challenging Extinction Discourse through the Repatriation of Indigenous Beothuk Human Remains
Books
2024
2024.
The Snettisham Hoards
v. 225
2017
Baldwin, A. and Joy, J.,
2017.
A Celtic Feast The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire
2016
Joy, JP., Gunn, I., Harknett, S-J. and Wilkinson, E.,
2016.
Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past
2010
Joy, J.,
2010.
Iron Age Mirrors A Biographical Approach
2009
Joy, J.,
2009.
Lindow Man
Book chapters
2023
Joy, J.,
2023.
More (or Less) Than Meets the Eye? Torcs of the European Iron Age
2020
Joy, J.,
2020.
How can Celtic art styles and motifs act? A case study from later Iron Age Norfolk
Joy, J.,
2020.
Variations on a theme? Examining the repetition of patterns on British Iron Age art
Joy, J. and Harknett, S-J.,
2020.
Isn't there an App for that yet? Evaluating the 'Wall of Cambridge' iPad App as a means of public engagement
2018
Joy, JP. and Elliott, M.,
2018.
Cast aside or cast in a new light? The Maudslay replica Maya casts at the
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
Joy, JP.,
2018.
Feasting and commensal rituals
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.27
Joy, JP., La Niece, S., Farley, J. and Meeks, N.,
2018.
Gold in Iron Age Britain
v. Band 6, 1
2015
Joy, JP.,
2015.
Connections and separation? Narratives of Iron Age art in Britain and its relationship with the Continent
Joy, JP.,
2015.
Approaching Celtic Arts
Joy, JP. and Hunter, F.,
2015.
A Connected Europe, c. 500-150 BC
Joy, JP.,
2015.
'Things in Process: Biographies of British Iron Age Pits
Joy, JP.,
2015.
Stylistic Variation in Early Celtic Art
2014
Joy, JP.,
2014.
Brit-art: Celtic art in Roman Britain and on its frontiers
Joy, JP.,
2014.
Looking death in the face: Different attitudes towards bog bodies and their display with a focus on Lindow Man
Joy, JP., Meeks, N. and Mongiatti, A.,
2014.
Precious metal torcs from the Iron Age Snettisham Treasure: metallurgy and analysis
2012
Joy, J.,
2012.
Exploring Status and Identity in Later Iron Age Britain
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199567959.003.0021
Joy, JP.,
2012.
Kunst in der Provinz Britannia
Joy, JP., Cartwright, C., Meeks, N., Hook, D. and Mongiatti, A.,
2012.
Organic cores from the Iron Age Snettisham torc hoards: technological insights revealed by scanning electron microscopy
2011
Joy, JP.,
2011.
The Iron Age
2008
Joy, JP.,
2008.
Reflections on Celtic Art: a re-examination of mirror decoration
2007
Giles, M. and Joy, J.,
2007.
Mirrors in the British Bronze and Iron Age: Performance, Revelation, and Power
2002
Joy, JP.,
2002.
Biography of a medal: people and the things they value
Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching
I am involved in teaching of the following courses:
G30 Museums: History, Theory and Practice
Research supervision
I am interested in supervising students who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD in the following topics:
The Archaeology of northwest Europe during the first millennium BC
Museum & Heritage Studies
