Welcome

Iain Morley is Fellow and Tutor in Archaeology and Anthropology, and teaches Palaeolithic archaeology and human evolution, world archaeology and archaeological theory. He is also a lecturer for the Faculty of Human Sciences.

Research Interests

His research focuses on the early archaeological evidence and evolution of modern human behaviour, in particular the origins of music, early ritual and religion, and their roots in social interaction. This involves evidence from a wide variety of fields including archaeology, cultural and evolutionary anthropology, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

He has worked as a field archaeologist with Cambridge Archaeological Unit on a variety of British sites, and participated in prehistoric and classical excavations in Libya, Croatia, Italy and the Czech Republic.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Morley, I. and Renfrew, C. (in press 2010) The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

de Rond, M. and Morley, I. (in press 2010) Serendipity: Fortune and the Prepared Mind. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Renfrew, C. and Morley, I. (2009) Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Renfrew, C. and Morley, I. (2007) Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation. McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Morley, I. (in press 2010) Conceptualising quantification before settlement: issues and activities underlying the conception and use of measurement, in I. Morley and C. Renfrew (eds.) The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Renfrew, C. and Morley, I. (in press 2010) Measure: towards the construction of our world, in I. Morley and C. Renfrew (eds.) The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Morley, I. (in press 2010) A Grand Gesture: vocal and corporeal control in melody, rhythm and emotion, in P. Rebuschat, P. Rohrmeier, J. Hawkins and I. Cross (eds.) Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Morley, I. (in press 2010) Rocks, rhombes and racleurs – beyond piped music in the Palaeolithic, in P. Pettitt and B. Gravina (eds.) Title tbc. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Morley, I. and de Rond,, M. (in press 2010) Fortune and the Prepared Mind, in M. de Rond and I. Morley (eds.) Serendipity: Fortune and the Prepared Mind. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Barker, G., Antoniadou, A., Barton, H., Brooks, I., Candy, I., Drake, N., Farr, L., Hunt, C., Ibrahim, A., Inglis, R., Jones, S., Morales, J., Morley, I., Mutri, G., Rabett, R., Reynolds, T., Simpson, D., Twati, M. and White, T. (2009) The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2009: the third season of excavations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007-2008 fieldwork. Libyan Studies 40, 55-94.

Morley, I. (2009) Ritual and music – parallels and practice, and the Palaeolithic, in C. Renfrew and I. Morley (eds.) Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Cross, I. and Morley, I., (2008) The evolution of music: theories, definitions and the nature of the evidence, in S. Malloch and C. Trevarthen (eds.), Communicative Musicality. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 61-82

Barker, G, Basell, L. Brooks, I., Cartwright, C., Cole, F., Davison, J., Farr, L., Grün, R., Hamilton, R., Hunt, C., Inglis, R., Jacobs, Z., Legge, T., Leitch, V., Morales, J., Morley, I., Morley, M., Pawley, S., Pryor, A., Roberts, B., Reynolds, T., el-Rishi, H., Simpson, D., Twati, M. and van der Veen, M. (2008) The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork. Libyan Studies 39.

Morley, I. (2007) New questions of old hands: outlines of human representation in the Palaeolithic, in C. Renfrew and I. Morley (eds.) Image and Imagination: a Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation. McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 69-81.

Morley, I. (2007) Material Beginnings: Introducing Image and Imagination, in C. Renfrew and I. Morley (eds.) Image and Imagination: a Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation. McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, xvii-xxii.

Morley, I. (2007) Early Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers, in A. Cremin (ed.) Archaeologica. Frances Lincoln, London, 76-83.

Morley, I. (2007) Time, cycles and ritual behaviour, in D. Barrowclough and C. Malone (eds.), Cult in Context: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 205-209.

Morley, I. (2006) Mousterian musicianship? The case of the Middle Palaeolithic Divje babe I bone, Oxford Journal of Archaeology Vol. 25, No. 4, 317-333.

Morley, I. (2006) Archaeological implications of intentionality in hunter-gatherer music, in C. Scarre, & G. Lawson (eds.) Archaeoacoustics. McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 95-105.

Morley, I. (2005) The long-forgotten melody? Music in the Mesolithic, in N. Milner and P. Woodman (eds.), Mesolithic Studies at the beginning of the 21^st Century. Oxbow, Oxford, 212-224.

Morley, I. (2002). Evolution of the physiological and neurological capacities for music, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Vol.12, No. 2, 195-216.

Morley, I. (2002). A cross-continental chorus: commonalities in the music of hunters and gatherers, in Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference On Hunting and Gathering Societies. Also available online at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/chags9/1morley.htm

Cross, I. and Morley, I. (2002). Music and evolution: the nature of the evidence, in Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference On Music Perception and Cognition, eds. C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert, & J. Renwick. Adelaide: Causal Productions, 416-419.

Feature articles and reviews

Morley, I. (2008) Materialising the Transcendent: the “Roots of Spirituality” project, Material Religion: the Journal of Objects, Art and Belief Vol. 4, No. 1, 117-118.

Morley, I. (2006) Name that tune: a review of The Singing Neanderthals by Steven Mithen, Cambridge Archaeological Journal Vol. 16, No. 1, 101-103.

Morley, I. (2005) A review of Braindance by Dean Falk, Archaeological Review from Cambridge Vol. 20, No. 1, 153-155.

Professional archaeological reports

Morley, I. and Murrel, K. (2009). Padholme Flood Protection: An Archaeological Watching Brief – Bronze Age and Iron Age at the Fen Edge. Cambridge Archaeological Unit Report.

Armour, N. and Morley, I. (2009). Knobbs Farm, Somersham, Phase 5A Investigations – A Romano-British Settlement and Cemetery. Cambridge Archaeological Unit Report.

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

Morley, I. The Prehistory of Music: The evolutionary origins and archaeology of human musical behaviours. Oxford University Press, Oxford.