Gary R. Lock is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.^[1] He is noted for his contributions to computational archaeology.

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.^[2] 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).^[3]

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.^[4]

Work abroad

He was formerly the chair of Computer Applications and Quantitative Applications in Archaeology (CAA) International.^[5]

He has been involved with archaeological projects on the continent:

• Najarilla valley, Spain^[6]
• Sangro Valley Project, Italy. Together with John Lloyd, he initiated this longue durée project in 1994.^[7][8]

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.((cite book)): CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• 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.