Paul Reilly is a pioneer of virtual archaeology and

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in archeology. He was a research scientist at the IBM UK Scientific Centre. He received his B.A. Honours degree in archaeology and history from the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

and his Ph.D in computer-based archaeological research, at the Research Centre for Computer Archaeology in

North Staffordshire Polytechnic , mottoeng = Dare to know , type = Public , endowment = £70 million (2015) , administrative_staff = 1,375 , chancellor = Francis Fitzherbert, 15th Baron Stafford , vice_chancellor = Professor Martin Jones , ...

. He has worked on many archaeological excavation and field survey projects in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. From 1986 to 1989 he was an IBM UK Scientific Centre Research Fellow and became Research Scientist in 1989. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Archaeological Computing Research Group,

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

. He has written many papers and a book, as well as editing several conference proceedings, books and journals relating to computer applications and art practice in archaeological research.

Selected publications

* Reilly, P., 1988, Computer Analysis of an Archaeological Landscape: Medieval Land Divisions on the Isle of Man. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (British Series 190). * Reilly,P., 1990, "Towards a virtual archaeology". Computer Applications in Archaeology 1990, Edited by K. Lockyear and S. Rahtz. oxford: British Archaeological reports (Int. Series 565), 133-139. * Reilly, P., 1992, "Three-Dimensional modelling and primary archaeological data". In Archaeology and the Information Age. Edited by P. Reilly and S. Rahtz. London: Routledge, 147-173 () * Reilly, P., Shennan,S., 1989, "Applying solid modeling and animated three-dimensional graphics to Archaeological problems". Computer Applications in Archaeology 1989, Edited by S. Rahtz and J.Richards. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (Int. Series 548), 157-166. * Beale, G., Reilly, P. 2015, Additive archaeology: the spirit of virtual archaeology reprinted. In: C. Papadopoulos, E. Paliou, A. Chrysanthi, E. Kotoula, and A. Sarris, eds. Archaeological research in the digital age, Crete. Rethymno: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 120–128. * Reilly, P. 2015a. Putting the materials back into virtual archaeology, In: Virtual Archaeology (Methods and Benefits), State Hermitage Publishers, Saint Petersburg, pp 12–23. * Reilly, P. 2015b. Additive Archaeology: An Alternative Framework for Recontextualising Archaeological Entities, Open Archaeology, 1 (1), ISSN (Online) 2300-6560, DOI: 10.1515/opar-2015-0013, October 2015 *Reilly, P. 2015c. Palimpsests of Immaterial Assemblages Taken out of Context: Tracing Pompeians from the Void into the Digital, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 48 (2). DOI: 10.1080/00293652.2015.1086812. * Gant, S., Reilly, P. (2017) Different expressions of the same mode: a recent dialogue between archaeological and contemporary drawing practices, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 17(1), pp 100-120. DOI: 10.1080/14702029.2017.1384974. * Dawson, I., Reilly, P. 2019. Messy Assemblages, Residuality and Recursion within a Phygital Nexus, Epoiesen, http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/epoiesen/2019.4

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reilly, Paul Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English archaeologists English computer scientists IBM employees Alumni of the University of Leeds Alumni of Staffordshire University