DR GEOFFREY J. TASSIE
Key Qualifications
G. J. Tassie has over 17 years experience in the field of archaeology, focussing on the areas of
Predynastic Egyptian archaeology and social theory, particularly how the rise of state is reflected in the
body. He is the Managing Director and co-founder of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation
(ECHO). This charity was founded to disseminate knowledge about Egyptian cultural heritage,
publishing Managing Egypt’s Cultural Heritage in 2009. In early 2013 he will complete his project
Prehistoric Egypt: Socioeconomic Transformations in North-east Africa from the Last Glacial
Maximum to the Neolithic, 24,000 to 6,000 Cal BP - to be published as a book by Golden House
Publications. Later in 2013 he will undertake the final analysis and publication of the important
Predynastic to Early Dynastic site of Kafr Hassan Dawood with other members of the team, such as
Fekri A. Hassan, Joris van Wetering, Aloisia De Trafford and Bram Calcoen. From 2005 until the
present he has been the assistant director of the EES Delta Survey of the Minufiyeh Governorate,
which is surveying and evaluating sites in the Central Delta. In addition to writing over 60 publications,
he has devoted his time over the last 10 years to tackling issues of cultural heritage management. In
2001, he contributed to A Strategic Approach to Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management – the
report sponsored by UNESCO WHC and UNDP - and participated in the development of an action plan
for the management of the sites of the St. Katherine Monastery area, recently declared a World
Heritage Site. From 2003 to 2008 he undertook a survey and compilation of SMRs for the Faiyum as
part of the UCL Holocene Environmental Change and History of Water Management in the
Faiyum Depression. Dr Tassie was also a Neolithic consultant working on the Sais Archaeological
Project, recording and analysing the Neolithic material from this critical early site in the West Delta.
From 2007 until the present he has have been a director of North Cornwall Heritage, a company
heavily involved in community out reach programmes and the running of university fieldschools. Dr
Tassie is also very concerned with the accurate media portrayal of ancient Egypt and has been a
consultant for the BBC on Timewatch programmes focusing on ancient Egypt and the BBC/Discovery
production – Pyramid.
Dr Tassie is a keen fieldworker who has participated in, and is still engaged in, numerous expeditions
in Europe (Beddingham Roman Villa, Sussex; Slaughterbridge Medieval Village, Cornwall), the
Levant (Tell Jezreel), Arabian Peninsula (Qatar) and Egypt, (Kafr Hassan Dawood, East Delta;
Faiyum; Quesna and Kom el-Ahmar, Central Delta; Sais, West Delta; Alexandria and the South Sinai).
He has a wide scope of knowledge of archaeological fieldwork including excavation methodology,
surveying techniques, environmental and biological archaeology, archaeological draughting, epigraphy
and photography. This concern with standards of archaeological fieldwork is shown with the
publication of the benchmark book Standards of Archaeological Excavation: A Fieldguide to
Methodology, Recording Techniques, and Conventions, a book written to help young Egyptian
archaeologists understand modern field archaeology.
Educational Qualifications
2009
1997
1995
1992
PhD in Egyptian Archaeology
University College London, Institute of Archaeology, UK.
Thesis: The Social and Ritual Contextualisation of Ancient Egyptian Hair and Hairstyles
from the Protodynastic to the End of the Old Kingdom
MA in World Archaeological Method and Theory
University College London, Institute of Archaeology, UK.
BA Honours in Egyptian Archaeology
University College London, Institute of Archaeology, UK.
Diploma in Archaeology
Birkbeck College, University of London.
Appointments
2008
2003
1997
1995
Researcher on the multi-disciplinary UCL Geography/Archaeology Project, up-dating the
bibliographic data on all the sites in the Faiyum Database.
Researcher on the multi-disciplinary UCL Geography/Archaeology Project, researching
bibliographic information on all the sites in the Faiyum, which range from 9,000 BP to
1,000 BP. Fieldwork included visiting all these sites, locating new ones and recording the
data in a database, which was linked to a GIS application to model multi-period spatial
patterning.
Student post-grad representative on the Student Archaeological Society in the Institute of
Archaeology, UCL.
Student Egyptology representative on the Student Archaeological Society in the Institute of
Archaeology, UCL.
Current Positions
Honorary Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Winchester
Managing Director of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation
Director of North Cornwall Heritage
Teaching
2010 to Present
December 2009
September 2007
to June 2008
June 2008-2012
September 2006
to June 2007
June 2007
As Associate Lecturer delivers lectures on body decoration in the undergraduate
BA course Artefact Studies, and world cultural heritage management on the MA
course, Cultural Heritage Management, University of Winchester.
Lectured on body decoration in the undergraduate BA course Artefact Studies,
University of Winchester.
Part-time lecturer in Theory and Method in the Study of Asian and African Art &
Archaeology, an undergraduate course run by the School of Oriental and African
Studies, London University.
Taught jointly with Dr Niall Finneran on the Winchester University undergraduate
summer fieldschool held at the Medieval village of Old Melorne, Slaughterbridge,
Cornwall.
Course co-ordinator and lecturer on: Applied Archaeology, an HND course run at
David Game College. This course was a more advanced course on world
archaeological method and theory.
Taught jointly with Dr Niall Finneran on the School of African and Oriental
Studies fieldschool held at the Medieval village of Old Melorne, Slaughterbridge,
May 2007
March 2006
September 2005
to June 2006
February 2005
September 2001
to June 2002
December 1998
to January 1999
Cornwall.
Taught field excavation and survey methodology and practice with Dr Niall
Finneran on the fieldschool component of the David Game College Applied
Archaeology course, held at the Medieval village located at Slaughterbridge.
Designed and with Dr Niall Finneran co-hosted and lectured on the Study Day –
Alexandria: Past, Present and Future, The Egyptian Educational and Cultural
Bureau (London).
Course co-ordinator and lecturer on: Introduction to Archaeology and Introduction
to Museum Studies, an HND course run at David Game College. The first of these
courses taught students about both practical and theoretical archaeology, and the
second covered many aspects of museum studies and had many fieldtrips to
museums to show how they are run.
Designed, hosted and lectured on the Study Day – Styling the Body in Ancient
Egypt, The Egyptian Educational and Cultural Bureau (London).
Part-time tutor for Theory and Method in the Study of Asian and African Art &
Archaeology, an undergraduate course run by the School of Oriental and African
Studies, London University.
Taught field methodology, particularly excavation of burials and the use of single
context recording. Designed a field manual for use on the fieldschool that was
given to the students, both Egyptian and international, on the UNESCO sponsored
fieldschool held at Kafr Hassan Dawood Field and Research Centre.
Expertise
 Socioeconomic transformations in prehistoric North-east Africa, especially the Epipalaeolithic to
Early Bronze Age
 Environmental change and human adaptations
 The archaeology of the Nile Delta from the Neolithic to the Roman era
 The body in ancient Egypt: gender, hair, clothing and cosmetics.
 Cultural dynamics of Egyptian civilization
 Egyptian inter-regional relations
 Cultural Heritage Management (CHM)
 Archaeological method, theory and practice
 Artefact studies and analysis
Research Projects
Supreme Council for Antiquities/Winchester University/Egypt Exploration Society Mission to Kafr
Hassan Dawood (Predynastic to Early Dynastic Cemetery Site and Late Period to Ptolemaic
Settlement and Cemetery) and Wadi Tumilat Survey
Director: Dr G. J. Tassie, Winchester University.
2010 to Present
This project includes research of all the archival material from the excavations
undertaken from 1989-1999. The first stage of the project – locating and collating
all the material - has been completed. This material will be processed and all the
plans, sections and drawings of artefacts will be inked-in. All the photographs and
drawings from KHD will then be digitised. The analysis of the pottery, stone
vessels, small finds, potmarks and graves, along with building a site typology of all
the artefacts will be undertaken prior to visits to the magazine in Zagazig and
various museums around the world. The scientific analysis of various aspects of the
KHD material, including geological, metallurgical, tephra and phytolith will be
completed and will be included in the site monograph. Nine volumes of the final
monograph are planned for the final publication of the site.
Socioeconomic Transformations in North-east Africa from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Neolithic,
24,000 to 6,000 Cal BP
Principal Investigator: Dr Geoffrey Tassie, Winchester University.
2010 to Present
This project investigates the socioeconomic changes that occurred after the glacial
maximum in north-east Africa. This project uses a supra-regional approach to gain
insights into the processes at work in this formative period of history. Using a
holistic interpretive approach, combining both environmental and cultural data the
changes from hunting and gathering through pastoralism to the introduction of
domesticated cereals are explored.
Egypt Exploration Society Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey, Central Delta, Egypt
Director: Dr Joanne Rowland, Freie Universität Berlin, Assistant Director Dr. Geoffrey Tassie,
Winchester University.
2005 to Present
This project has surveyed over 45 sites in the province of Minufiyeh. At one of the
sites discovered in this survey - Kom el-Ahmar - further evaluation methods were
used, including the use of magnetometry, ground penetrating radar (GPR), drill
coring and test pitting. Epigraphy of various inscribed blocks found at this site has
also been undertaken. As part of this pedestrian survey the desert edge around the
modern village of Khatatba was also surveyed, locating Middle Palaeolithic,
Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites. Full-scale excavations have been conducted at
the Old Kingdom to Roman era site of Quesna, excavating over 70 burials, a
sacred falcon necropolis and one of the few Third to Fourth Dynasty mud-brick
mastabas in the Nile Delta. This project has entailed not just surveying and
excavating, but recording all the artefacts through the written, drawn and
photographic media.
The Naqada Regional Survey, Excavation and Cataloguing Project, London, England
Project Directors: Prof. Fekri A. Hassan, Dr. G. J. Tassie, Prof. S. Shennan and Mr Ian Carroll, UCL,
Institute of Archaeology.
2006 to 2010
The first stage entailed collating all the paperwork for the 1970s-1980s survey and
excavation project of the Naqada region undertaken by Prof. F. A. Hassan. The
second stage comprised the recording and re-packaging of all of the artefacts and
environmental samples collected and taken to the USA and from there to the UK
for further scientific examination. A large report was then produced before these
objects were repatriated to Egypt in March 2010.
Slaughterbridge Medieval Excavation Project, Camelford, Cornwall, UK
Directors: by Dr. N. P. Finneran, Dr. Geoffrey Tassie, Mr Nick Hanks and Mr Joe Parsons, North
Cornwall Heritage.
2007 to Present
Helped run and co-ordinate the archaeological fieldschool and research project.
Trained students from Winchester University and SOAS in methods of
archaeological survey and excavation, covering the use of dumpy levels, laying
out of a site grid, the use of single context recording through planning and
photography to the analysis of finds. Excavation has concentrated on the second
medieval long house.
Cultural Heritage Management of Qatar
Project Directors: Dr G. J. Tassie, Institute of Archaeology, University College London and School of
African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London and Dr. G. R. D. King, SOAS.
2006 to 2007
As consultant to the Emir of Qatar and archaeological director of the integrated
cultural heritage management programme of Qatar I organised a survey of Qatar’s
archaeological sites and monuments and assessed how best to protect, investigate
and manage Qatar’s heritage; producing two volumes of recommendations. This
resulted in an evaluation through test trenching at the Islamic settlements of Wakra
and Al-Wusail. I also coordinated the assessment of Qatar’s cultural heritage by
instigating the condition surveys undertaken by C. Cleere and K. Kraus of various
sites and monuments. This project then led to further proposals and
recommendations to the Emir, such as the instigation of a remote sensing
programme, the establishment of a digital heritage environment record and pilot
excavations at a number of sites, as well as executing the pedestrian and satellite
survey of the northwest of the country in the area of Zubara.
University of Durham/Egypt Exploration Society Mission to Sa el-Hagar (Sais), Central Delta, Egypt
Field Director: Dr Penelope Wilson, University of Durham.
2006 to 2007
Analysed, drew, and photographed the stone tools, decorated pottery and small
finds from the Neolithic excavations at Sa el-Hagar (Sais), in the West Delta,
Egypt. These analyses resulted in a database and report to be incorporated along
with the photographs and drawings in the monograph of the Neolithic and MaadiButo levels at Sais.
The Alexandria Mapping Project, West Delta, Egypt
Directors: Dr Geoffrey Tassie, Institute of Archaeology, University College London and Dr Niall
Finneran, Southampton University.
2005
Co-Directed the Alexandria Mapping Project, which made an evaluation survey of
the Palace Quarter of Alexandria. The initial phase of this project involved the
evaluation of promising areas of Alexandria to conduct geophysical and
topographic survey. This survey located four promising open-areas in which to
conduct the ground penetrating radar and topographic survey.
Environmental Change and History of Water Management in the Faiyum Depression, Egypt
Directors: Prof. Fekri Hassan, Institute of Archaeology, University College London and Dr Roger
Flowers Geography Department, University College London.
2003 to 2004
Supervised and conducted landscape and settlement survey of the Faiyum, Egypt,
locating sites on satellite images, historic and modern maps and site reports. Over
240 sites from the Epi-Palaeolithic to the Byzantine Period were re-assessed. A
geological drill-coring programme was also conducted throughout the Faiyum,
including Lake Qarun, to obtain new evidence for the geological history of the
region. The data from this survey was then entered into a database (Access) for
further interrogation and to be attached to a GIS depicting the changing water
regimes and settlement patterning of the Faiyum.
Southern Sinai Regional Survey
Field Director: Prof. Fekri Hassan, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
2001
Team member for reconnaissance survey; a joint initiative by Dr John Grainger
(EU Funded team leader) of Saint Katherine’s Protectorate, Egypt, and Prof. Fekri
Hassan. The survey recorded the presence of and assessed the preservation of
Palaeolithic, Desert PPNB, Timnian, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age sites
within the Saint Katherine’s Protectorate of the National Parks of Egypt. The final
report that resulted made recommendations on site management procedures for the
various sites visited.
Supreme Council of Antiquities/University College London Mission to Kafr Hassan Dawood
(Predynastic to Early Dynastic Cemetery site and Late Period to Ptolemaic Settlement and Cemetery)
Director: Prof. Fekri Hassan, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
1995 to 2002
Site Supervisor, where my duties entailed overseeing the excavation of the site and
ensuring all the records of the excavation were correct and completed, and
compiling the preliminary reports. Analysed the archaeological material from Kafr
Hassan Dawood and wrote reports on the small finds, stone vessels, pottery, and
graves. I was also one of the tutors at the 1998-9 UNESCO fieldschool where I
taught excavation methodology to SCA inspectors and international students,
covering areas such as recording of burials, surveying, draughting, flotation, and
small finds recording and analysis.
British School of Archaeology Jerusalem/Tel Aviv University mission to Tell Jezreel (Iron Age city,
Byzantine city, Crusader settlement and church and Chalcolithic settlement), Israel
Field Directors: Mr. John Woodhead, BSAJ and Prof. David Usiskin Tell Aviv University.
1993 to 1995
Excavation Assistant, where my duties included small finds analysis, flotation,
archaeobotanical remains analysis, draughting, excavating, surveying, and also
held the post of Entertainment's Officer.
Sussex Archaeological Unit Excavations at Beddingham Roman Villa Sussex, England
Field Director: Mr David Rudling, UCL, Institute of Archaeology.
1992
Attended courses in excavation techniques and others on surveying techniques.
Membership of Organisations and Professional Services
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO)
North Cornwall Heritage
Per Nefer (Hair, Beauty and Clothing Consultants)
Egypt Exploration Society
American Research Center Egypt
Potmarks Research Group
- Managing Director
- Director
- Director
- Ordinary Member
- Member, Boston Chapter
- Founding Member
Publications
Books Authored
Tassie, G. J. & Owens, L. S.
2010.
Standards of Archaeological Excavation; A Fieldguide to the Methodology, Recording
Techniques, and Conventions. London: Golden House Publications.
Tassie, G. J.
In Press.
Prehistoric Egypt: Socioeconomic Transformations in North-east Africa from the Last
Glacial Maximum to the Neolithic, 24,000 to 6,000 Cal BP. London: Golden House
Publications.
Volumes Edited
Hassan, F. A., Tassie, G. J., De Trafford, A., Owens, L. S. & van Wetering, J. (eds.)
2009.
Managing Egypt’s Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the First Egyptian Cultural
Heritage Organisation Conference on Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management.
London: Golden House Publications.
Hassan, F. A., Tassie, G. J., De Trafford, A., Owens, L. S. & van Wetering, J. (eds.)
In Prep.
The Management of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage, Vol. 2. London: Golden House
Publications.
De Trafford, A., Tassie, G. J., van Wetering, J. & El Daly, O. (eds.)
In Prep.
A River Runs Through It: Essays in Honour of Fekri A. Hassan. Cairo: SCA
Publications, ASAE.
Edited Works: Contributions
Tassie, G. J.
In Prep.
The Sinai connection, in A. De Trafford, G. J. Tassie, J. van Wetering & O. El Daly
(eds.) A River Runs Through It: Essays in Honour of Fekri A. Hassan. Cairo: SCA
Publications, ASAE.
Tassie, G. J.
In Prep.
Single-Context Recording in the context of archaeological fieldwork in Egypt, part one,
in F. A. Hassan, G. J. Tassie, A De Trafford, L. S. Owens & J. van Wetering (eds.) The
Management of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage, Vol. 2. London: Golden House Publications.
Tassie, G. J., van Wetering, J. & De Trafford, A.
In Prep.
The Nile Delta in peril: the need for rescue archaeology and CHM in Lower Egypt, in F.
A. Hassan, G. J. Tassie, A De Trafford, L. S. Owens & J. van Wetering (eds.) The
Management of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage, Vol. 2. London: Golden House Publications.
Tassie, G. J.
In Press.
I’m Osiris, no I’m Osiris, no I’m Osiris: hairstyles and the afterlife, in P. Kousoulis (ed.)
Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes 22-29 May
2008. Leuven/Paris/Dudley: Peeters.
Hassan, F. A., Hamden, M., Flower, R. & Tassie, G.
In Press
Holocene geoarchaeology and water history of the Faiyum, Egypt, in Pirelli (ed)
Tassie, G. J.
2011.
What your hair says about you: changes in hairstyles as an indicator of state formation
processes, in R. F. Friedman and P. N. Fiske (eds.) Egypt at its Origins 3: Proceedings
of the Third International Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic to Early
Dynastic Egypt”, London (UK), 27th July-1st August 2008. Leuven/Paris/Dudley:
Peeters, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 205: 605-645.
Tassie, G. J.
2009.
The hairstyles represented on the Salakhana Stelae, in T. DuQuesne (ed.) The Salakhana
Trove: Votive Stelae and Other Objects from Asyut. London: Da'th Scholarly Services,
Oxfordshire Publications in Egyptology 7, Darengo Publications: 459-536.
Tassie, G. J. & Hassan, F. A.
2009.
Sites and monuments records (SMRs) and cultural heritage management (CHM), in F.
A. Hassan, G. J. Tassie, A De Trafford, L. S. Owens & J. van Wetering (eds.)
Managing Egypt’s Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the First Egyptian Cultural
Heritage Organisation Conference on: Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management.
London: Golden House and ECHO Publications: 191-205.
Johnstone, J. & Tassie, G. J.
2009.
Egyptian baladi dance – a contested tradition, in F. A. Hassan, G. J. Tassie, A De
Trafford, L. S. Owens & J. van Wetering (eds.) Managing Egypt’s Cultural Heritage:
Proceedings of the First Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation Conference on:
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management. London: Golden House and ECHO
Publications: 105-122.
De Trafford, A. & Tassie, G. J.
2009.
Eroticism and sexuality in Old Kingdom Egypt, in L. M. de Araüjo & J. des Candeas
Sales (eds.) Erotica, Eroticism and Sexuality in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the
International Congress for Young Egyptologists, Lisbon, Oct. 2006. Lisbon: University
of Lisbon, CD.
Tassie, G. J., Hassan, F. A., van Wetering, J. & Calcoen, B.
2008.
Potmarks from the Protodynastic to Early Dynastic cemetery at Kafr Hassan Dawood,
Wadi Tumilat, East Delta, Egypt, in B. Midant-Reynes, Y. Tristant, S. Hendrickx & J.
Rowland
(eds.),
Egypt
at
its
Origins 2:
Proceedings
of
the
International Conference “Origin of The State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”,
Toulouse (France), 5th-8th September 2005. Leuven/Paris/Dudley: Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 172, Peeters: 203-236.
Hassan, F. A. Tassie, G. J., El-Senoussi, A., Kjølby, A., van Wetering, J., Sharp, D. & Calcoen, B.
2008.
Corpus of pottery from the Protodynastic to Early Dynastic cemetery at Kafr Hassan
Dawood, Wadi Tumilat, East Delta, Egypt, in B. Midant-Reynes, Y. Tristant, S.
Hendrickx & J. Rowland (eds.), Egypt at its Origins 2: Proceedings of the
International Conference “Origin of The State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”,
Toulouse (France), 5th-8th September 2005. Leuven/Paris/Dudley: Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 172, Peeters: 41-60.
Tassie, G. J.
2007.
Have we dug ourselves into a hole? Reappraising excavation methodology and
approaches in Egyptian archaeology (part two): Kafr Hassan Dawood, a case study, in JC. Goyon & C. Cardin (eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of
Egyptologists. Leuven/Paris/Dudley: Peeters, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150:
1769-1782.
Hassan, F. A., Jiménez Serrano, A. & Tassie, G. J.
2006.
The sequence and chronology of the Protodynastic and Dynasty I rulers, in M.
Chlodnicki, K. Kroeper & M. Kobusiewicz (eds.) Archaeology of Northeast Africa:
Studies in Memory of Lech Krzyżaniak. Poznań: Archaeological Museum: 687-722.
van Wetering, J. & Tassie, G. J.
2006.
Considering the archaeology of early Northeast Africa: interpretation & methodology, in
M. Chlodnicki, K. Kroeper & M. Kobusiewicz (eds.) Archaeology of Northeast Africa:
Studies in Memory of Lech Krzyżaniak. Poznań: Archaeological Museum: 827-892.
Tassie, G. J.
2005.
Egyptian cultural heritage: let's work together, in N. Finneran (ed.) Safeguarding
Africa’s Archaeological Past: Selected Papers from a Workshop Held at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001. Oxford: Cambridge
Monographs in African Archaeology 65, BAR International Series, Vol. 1454, Tempus
Reparatsm: 47-54.
2005.
Single mother goddesses and divine kingship: the sidelock of youth and the maternal
bond, in A. Cooke & F. Simpson (eds.) Current Research in Egyptology II. Oxford:
BAR: 65-74.
Tassie, G. J. & van Wetering, J. F. L.
2003.
Early cemeteries of the East Delta: Kafr Hassan Dawood, Minshat Abu Omar, and Tell
Ibrahim Awad, in Z, Hawass & L. Pinch Brook (eds.) Egyptology at the Dawn of the
Twenty-First Century: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists,
Cairo 2000, Volume 1 Archaeology. Cairo, Supreme Council of Antiquities / American
University in Cairo Press: 499-507.
van Wetering, J. & Tassie, G. J.
2003.
Socio-political hierarchy of First Dynasty sites: A ranking of East Delta cemeteries
based on grave architecture, in A. K. Eyma & C. J. Bennett (eds.) A Delta-Man in Yebu.
Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum, No. 1. USA, Universal
Publishers: 123-146.
Tassie, G. J.
2002.
Ancient Egyptian wigs in the Cairo and other museums, in M. Eldamaty & M. Trad
(eds.) Egyptian Museum Collections around the World. Studies for the Centennial of the
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Volume Two. Cairo, Supreme Council of Antiquities / AUC
Press: 1141-1153.
Tassie, G. J.
2001.
The documentation of cultural heritage in Egypt and other countries, in F. A. Hassan
(ed.) A Strategic Approach to Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management. Cairo, (report
sponsored by UNESCO WHC and UNDP): 26-42.
2001.
Toward a strategy for documentation and registration of Egyptian cultural heritage, in F.
A. Hassan (ed.) A Strategic Approach to Egyptian Cultural Heritage Management.
Cairo, (report sponsored by UNESCO WHC and UNDP): 43-58.
Journal Papers: Academic
Tassie, G. J. & van Wetering, J.
2011.
‘Re-excavating’ Predynastic sites in London, Ancient Egypt Magazine Vol. 11 (4), Issue
64: 24-28.
Tassie, G. J.
2010.
Funerary feasts and the function of early offering-dishes, Cahiers Caribéens
d’Egyptologie 13-14: 61-72.
Tassie, G. J., van Wetering, J. & Carroll, I.
2010.
Repatriating prehistoric artefacts to Egypt: Prof. Hassan’s Naqada and Siwa study
collections, Archaeology International 12: 52-57.
Finneran, N., Hanks, N., Parsons, J. & Tassie, G. J.
2008.
‘(Middle) East meets (South) West. Reflections on the Abu Dhabi archaeological
training programme, Slaughterbridge, Cornwall, May 2007’ The Archaeologist: Journal
of the Institute of Field Archaeologists 67 Spring 2008: 20-22.
Keatings, K., Tassie, G. J., Flower, R. J., Hassan, F. A., Hamden, M. A. R., Hughes M. & Arrowsmith, C.
2007.
An examination of groundwater within the Hawara Pyramid, Egypt,
Geoarchaeology 22(5): 533-554.
Hassan, F. A., Tassie, G. J., Flower, R., Hughes, M., & Hamden, M.
2006.
Modelling environmental and settlement change in the Fayum, Egyptian Archaeology
29: 37-40.
Tassie, G. J.
2005.
Petrie lived here, Friends of the Petrie Museum Magazine 30: 5.
Tassie, G. J.
2004.
Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation, Discoverer 1: 9-14.
Tassie, G. J. & Hassan, F. A.
2004.
Cultural Heritage Management in Egypt: Who needs it? Discoverer 1: 4-8.
Tassie, G. J. & Owens, L. S.
2004.
Nefertiti, lost found and lost, Ancient Egypt 4(4): 11-13.
Hassan, F. A. & Tassie, G. J.
2004.
The ‘lost’ pyramid of the Faiyum, Friends of the Petrie Museum Magazine 29: 6.
Tassie, G. J.
2003.
Identifying the practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt and Nubia, Papers from the
Institute of Archaeology (PIA) 14: 85-101.
Hassan, F. A., Tassie, G. J., Tucker, T. L., Rowland, J. M. & van Wetering J. F. L.
2003.
Social dynamics at the late Predynastic to Early Dynastic site of Kafr Hassan Dawood,
East Delta, Egypt, Archeo-Nil 13: 37-45.
Tassie, G. J.
2000.
Bulls, hair and the teknu: An enigmatic Egyptian custom revisited (burial of the black
hairs), PIA 11: 27-46.
Hassan, F. A. et. al.
2000.
Kafr Hassan Dawood: A late Predynastic to Early Dynastic site in the East Delta, Egypt,
Egyptian Archaeology 16: 37-9.
Tassie, G. J.
1996.
Hair-offerings: an enigmatic Egyptian custom, PIA 7: 59-67.
Reviews and Reports
Tassie, G. J.
In Press.
Book Review: Noriyuki Shirai, The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt:
New Insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic, AZANIA.
Tassie, G. J. et al.
2010.
Report and Inventory of Professor Fekri A. Hassan’s Collection Held by UCL, Institute
of Archaeology. Unpublished report submitted to UCL, Institute of Archaeology and the
Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cairo.
Finneran, N., Hanks, N., Parsons, J. & Tassie, G. J.
2009.
Archaeological Research at Slaughterbridge, Camelford, Cornwall 2003-8: An Interim
Report. Cornwall.
Tassie, G. J. et al.
2008.
Excavations at al-Wakra, Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies 13: 17-18.
Tassie, G. J.
2005.
Book Review: Donald B. Redford, From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of
Egypt, African Archaeological Review 22: 175-6.
2005.
Review: Origines 2, Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: Origin of the State,
Toulouse: 5th – 8th September 2005, in F. Raffaele Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic
Egypt, http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/Toulouse.htm
2005.
The view from the field: Egypt, Current World Archaeology 13: 33-4.
Tassie, G. J.
2004.
Egyptian treasures returned to Cairo, Current World Archaeology 4: 8-9.
2004.
Review of R. Skeates (2000) Debating the Archaeological Heritage, Discoverer 1: 31-2.
Monson, A, Tassie, G. J. & Piquette, K.
2001.
‘Encounters with ancient Egypt,’ Institute of Archaeology, UCL, 16-18 December 2000,
PIA 12: 133-8.
Tassie, G. J., Rowland, J. M. & De Trafford, A.
2000.
Review of the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists, PIA 11: 98-109.
Mower, J. & Tassie, G. J.
2000.
Egyptian Human Remains: Retrieval, Conservation and Analysis: A Conference held at
Qantara, Egypt, 25th-27th April 2000, PIA 11: 116-24.
Tassie, G. J.
1997.
Digging Diary: Kafr Hassan Dawood, Egypt, PIA 8: 73-4.
Encyclopaedia Contributions
Tassie, G. J.
2012
Ancient Egyptian hair and hairstyling, in R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion,
A. Erskine and S. R. Huebner (eds.) Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: WileyBlackwell.
Tassie, G. J. & Hassan, F. A.
2012
Kafr Hassan Dawood, in R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine and
S. R. Huebner (eds.) Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Tassie, G. J. & van Wetering, J.
2012
The Wadi Tumilat, in R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine and S.
R. Huebner (eds.) Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Tassie, G. J.
2008.
People and technology used in creating ancient Egyptian hairstyles and wigs, in H. Selin
(ed.) The Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in NonWestern Cultures. New York: Springer-Verlag: 1047-1052.
2008.
Hairstyling technology and techniques used in ancient Egypt, in H. Selin (ed.) The
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western
Cultures. New York: Springer-Verlag: 1052-1059.
2008.
The alchemy used by ancient Egyptian hairstylists, in H. Selin (ed.) The Encyclopaedia
of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. New
York: Springer-Verlag: 1043-1047.
Radio and Television Work
Expert concerning the origins of the ancient Egyptians on the Today Programme, aired BBC Radio 4
7th October 2000.
Egyptological and hair consultant for the BBC's Timewatch: 'Nefertiti & Akhenaten', screened BBC2
6th September 2002 (3.2 million viewers).
Egyptological consultant, actor for the BBC/Discovery Channel's The Pyramids, screened BBC1 28th
October 2002 (11 million viewers, the largest audience for a factual programme in 2002).
Egyptological and hair consultant for the BBC's Timewatch: 'Ramesses III - The Harem Conspiracy',
screened BBC2 31st January 2003 Consultant for hair and clothing for Wall-to-Wall for their
programme 'Cleopatra and Antony', screened Channel 4 2003.
Appeared in Champollion, third part of the BBC1 Egypt series, screened 11th December 2005.
Appeared in the GRB Entertainment / Discovery Channel programme The Bone Detectives on its
Egyptian leg as one of the experts. Screened on Discovery Channel in the USA 14th January 2008.
Early Egypt and climate change consultant on the Channel 4 programme Man on Earth. Screened on
Channel 4 14th December 2009.
Contact Information
E-mail: gtassie@hotmail.com