Gary Lock

Not to be confused with Gary Locke.

Gary R. Lock is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He is noted for his contributions to computational archaeology.

Professor Gary Lock in 2012

Work in the UK

In the 1980s Lock became involved in computational archaeology, working on a database for Danebury, an iron age hillfort in Hampshire which was excavated under the direction of Barry Cunliffe. In 1987 he was co-author of Computer Archaeology in the Shire Archaeology series. Interest in computational archaeology and prehistoric hillforts are also evidenced in more recent work, for example Using computers in archaeology: towards virtual pasts (2003) and his contribution to a project to create a comprehensive database of prehistoric hillforts in the British Isles, the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland (launched online in 2017).

Lock has been a fellow of Kellogg College since 1993, serving as the secretary to its governing body from 1997 to 1998 and Dean of Degrees in 2010.

Work abroad

He was formerly the chair of Computer Applications and Quantitative Applications in Archaeology (CAA) International.

He has been involved with archaeological projects on the continent:

• Najarilla valley, Spain
• Sangro Valley Project, Italy. Together with John Lloyd, he initiated this longue durée project in 1994.

Selected publications

• Lock, Gary R.; Stančič, Zoran (1995). Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems: A European Perspective. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0208-X. OCLC 33664879.
• Lock, Gary R. (2000). Beyond the Map: Archaeology and Spatial Technologies. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 1-58603-021-3. OCLC 45238404.
• Lock, Gary R.; Brown, Kayt, eds. (2000). On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. ISBN 0-947816-51-8. OCLC 44835799.
• Lock, Gary R. (2003). Using computers in archaeology: towards virtual pasts. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-45107-4. OCLC 53886853.
• Miles, David; Palmer, Simon; Lock, Gary; Gosden, Chris; Cromarty, A. M., eds. (2003). The Uffington White Horse and its Landscape: Investigations at White Horse Hill, Uffington, 1989-95, and Tower Hill, Ashbury, 1993-4. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology. ISBN 0-947816-77-1. OCLC 53411610.
• Lock, Gary R.; Gosden, Chris; Daly, Patrick (2005). Segsbury Camp: Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology. ISBN 0-947816-68-2. OCLC 62674064.
• Fletcher, Mike; Lock, Gary (1991). Digging Numbers: Elementary Statistics for Archaeologists (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. ISBN 0-947816-33-X. OCLC 30436044.
• Lock, Gary; Molyneaux, Brian, eds. (2006). Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice. Springer. doi:10.1007/0-387-32773-8. ISBN 978-0-387-32772-3.
• Lloyd, John Alfred; Lock, Gary R., eds. (2008). Archaeology and landscape in central Italy: papers in memory of John A. Lloyd. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology. ISBN 978-1-905905-06-5. OCLC 212430814.
• Cunliffe, Barry W.; Lock, Gary R. (2010). A valley in La Rioja: the Najerilla project. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology. ISBN 978-1-905905-15-7. OCLC 609701372.
• Lock, Gary; Spicer, R. D.; Hollins, W. (2014). Excavations at King's Low and Queen's Low: two Early Bronze Age barrows in Tixall, north Staffordshire. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-905739-66-0. OCLC 1118193587.
• Gosden, Chris; Lock, Gary (2013). Histories in the making: excavations at Alfred's Castle 1998-2000. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology. ISBN 978-1-905905-32-4. OCLC 871193039.