Mike Seager Thomas
Mike Seager Thomas is a British archaeologist, author and Honorary Research Fellow of the UCL Institute of Archaeology specialising in the study of stone in prehistoric archaeology and landscape archaeology. Career. Mike Seager Thomas first studied archaeology at Brighton Technical College, later gaining a first class honours degree in General Archaeology from the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been a full time professional archaeologist since 1996. Between 1996 and 2020, he worked in the commercial sector as an excavator/excavation supervisor (for Archaeology South-East, BUFAU and C.G. Archaeology) and as a freelance prehistoric pottery specialist . Mike Seager Thomas is also a long-term participant in UCL Institute of Archaeology research projects, including the well-known Leskernick Project, the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project, and—most recently—the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project. Out of his involvement in the Leskernick Project, he became the principal butt of project sociologist Mike Willmore's very funny "The Book and the Trowel," published in the Leskernick project book "Stone Worlds," and the perceived victim of a "top-down interpersonal project hierarchy," which challenged the egalitarian pretensions of what is otherwise considered a theoretically seminal archaeological project. He  has directed and co-directed archaeological excavations for the Sussex Wildlife Trust and the Sussex Archaeological Society and set up and directed independent projects, involving the rescue excavation of prehistoric features exposed in the Selsey Raised Beach, West Sussex, and the analysis of later prehistoric stone finds from southeast England. He has ongoing academic interests in stone in prehistoric archaeology and landscape archaeology, recording strategies for Rapa Nui archaeology, Polynesian architecture, the faking of military antiques, and the use of period photographs in archaeological and historical research. Books by Mike Seager Thomas include "Excavating Stone Worlds", co-written with Sue  Hamilton and Phillip Thomas and published in 2007, the "Afrikamütze Database", published online in 2019, and "Neolithic Spaces, Volume 2: The Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs", published in 2020.