Jody Joy
Curator, British and European Iron Age
Collections
Iron Age Britain and
Europe
Department: Prehistory and
Europe
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8292
Email: jjoy @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Jody Joy is responsible for the
British and European Iron Age collections. He has a
particular interest in Celtic, or La Tène, art and is in the
process of completing his University of Southampton PhD thesis
which examines Iron Age mirrors. Other research interests include
the social significance of metalworking technology, and applying
theoretical approaches to material culture, including the
biographical approach.
Current British Museum projects
The Chiselden Cauldrons Project
Previous British Museum projects
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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
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Publications
J. Joy, ‘Biography of a medal: people and the things they
value’, in J. Schofield, W. G. Johnson and C. M. Beck (eds.)
Materiel Culture: the archaeology of twentieth-century
conflict (London & New York: Routledge, 2002), pp.
132-42
J. Joy,‘ Mirrors in the British Bronze and Iron Age:
Performance, Revelation, and Power' with M, Giles, in M. Anderson
(ed.), The Book of the Mirror (Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Press, 2007), pp. 18-34
J. Joy, ‘Making mirrors: an analysis of metalwork in later Iron
Age Britain’, in E. Osborne Martin amd S. Werner (eds.)
Proceedings of the IARSS Research Conference 2005,
(Leicester: Leicester Archaeological Monographs, forthcoming)
J. Joy, Forthcoming, ‘Reflections On Celtic Art: A
Re-Examination of the Mirror Style’, in D. Garrow,C. Gosden, and J.
D. Hill, J. D., Celtic art: new approaches, (Oxford: Oxbow
Books, forthcoming)