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Robin Coningham
1965 - Present (59 years)
Robin Andrew Evelyn Coningham, FSA, FRAS is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics. He has been Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology since 2005 and UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage since 2014 at the University of Durham. From 1994 to 2005, he taught at the University of Bradford, rising to become Professor of South Asian Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeological Sciences.
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Mohammad Rafique Mughal
1936 - Present (88 years)
Muhammad Rafiq Mugal is a Pakistani archaeologist, engaged in investigating of ethnoarchaeological research in Chitral, northern Pakistan. He has been responsible for the direction, technical support and supervision for restoration and conservation of more than thirty monuments and excavated remains of the Islamic, Buddhist and Proto-historic periods, in Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan. He served as a professor of archaeology and heritage management and the director of undergraduate studies at Boston University. He is now Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Boston...
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Roger Matthews
1954 - Present (70 years)
Professor Roger Matthews is head of department in the department of archaeology at the University of Reading. Matthews was previously with the UCL Institute of Archaeology. From 1988 to 1995, Matthews was director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, and from 1996 to 2001 he was director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.
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Roger Horrocks
1941 - Present (83 years)
Roger John Horrocks is a New Zealand writer, film-maker, educator and cultural activist. Biography Horrocks was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert on 4 June 1941, the son of Jack Horrocks and Edith Barbara Horrocks . Majoring in English, he completed a BA , MA First Class Honours , and PhD from the University of Auckland. His doctoral thesis, supervised by C. K. Stead, was titled Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems. He also studied for two years with Allen Tate at the University of Minnesota and one year with Thom Gunn at the University of California, Berkeley .
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Gerhard Kubik
1934 - Present (90 years)
Gerhard Kubik is an Austrian music ethnologist from Vienna. He studied ethnology, musicology and African languages at the University of Vienna. He published his doctoral dissertation in 1971 and achieved habilitation in 1980.
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David L. Kennedy
1948 - Present (76 years)
David Leslie Kennedy is an archaeologist and historian of the Roman Near East, with a focus on Aerial Archaeology, Roman landscape studies and the Roman military. He is Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in Roman Archaeology and History at the University of Western Australia.
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Evelyn Blackwood
1950 - Present (74 years)
Evelyn Blackwood is an American anthropologist whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, identity, and kinship. She was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize in 1999, 2007 and 2011. Blackwood is an emerita professor of anthropology at Purdue University.
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Anders Andrén
1952 - Present (72 years)
Anders Andrén is professor of archaeology at the University of Stockholm. He was the holder of the Dalrymple lectureship in archaeology at the University of Glasgow in 2003 and is a member of the boards of the Danish Graduate School in Archaeology and the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology.
Go to ProfilePeter S. Rodman is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Anthropology. Rodman began teaching and conducting research at Davis in 1972, and continued until 2006. His specialty while a professor there was in the field of physical anthropology and paleontology, and the study of orangutans and their behavior and ecology in particular, although he has also authored or co-authored works on woolly monkeys, on bipedal locomotion in chimpanzeess, and reproduction in bonnet macaques . Among other positions while at UC Davis, Rodman held the Chair of the Exec...
Go to ProfileWendy Beck is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England in archaeology and cultural heritage. Biography Beck grew up in Melbourne. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BSc in microbiology and biochemistry in 1979. Beck turned her attentions to archaeology after attending the Victorian Archaeological Survey Summer School in 1978–1979 and received a PhD from La Trobe University in 1986 on the subject of Technology, Toxicity and Subsistence: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Plant Food Processing. During her postgraduate research, Beck conducted fieldwork in ...
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Robert Rosenswig
1968 - Present (56 years)
Robert M. Rosenswig is a Mesoamerican archaeologist born Oct. 30, 1968 in Montreal, Canada. He earned a B.A at McGill University in 1994, an M.A. at the University of British Columbia in 1998 and Ph.D. in 2005 from Yale University. Rosenswig currently conducts research projects Mexico, Belize, and Costa Rica. His research explores the emergence of sociopolitical complexity and the development of agriculture.
Go to ProfilePenny Bickle is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York and her research focuses on daily routine in the Neolithic period. Research Bickle's research focuses on life in the Neolithic period. She is Principal Investigator for the Counter Culture project, which investigates social diversity in central Europe across one thousand years of the Neolithic period. She is an adviser on Consuming Prehistory project, which examines food consumption at Stonehenge. She was featured on BBC Radio 3 discussing the importance that finds of pig bones could have for the site. Another area of interest for Bickle is the role that dairy played in prehistoric diet.
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Galina Pugachenkova
1915 - 2007 (92 years)
Galina Anatolevna Pugachenkova was a Soviet archaeologist and art historian, regarded as a founder of Uzbek archaeology and central to the progression of archaeology and art history under Soviet regimes. Her work has contributed greatly to the register of surviving buildings in Central Asia and in many cases was the first register of traditional surviving buildings. G. A. Pugachenkova directed a branch of the archaeological expedition of southern Turkmenistan from 1946 to 1961, and of the Uzbek historical-artistic expedition from 1959 to 1984.
Go to ProfileAndrew Garrard is a British archaeologist and Reader in Early Prehistory at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He is a former director of the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History. He has written and assisted with a large number of articles and papers. He has a BSc in Zoology and Geology from Newcastle University. Also a postgraduate certificate in prehistoric archaeology from Cambridge University and a PhD in Archaeology, also from Cambridge. He has worked on various project in Jordan and the Qadisha Valley Project in Lebanon.
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John Collis
1944 - Present (80 years)
John Collis, is a British prehistorian. His first dig was in Longbridge Deverill with Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes. He studied in Prague , Tübingen and Cambridge, where he studied from 1963 to 1970 and was awarded his PhD. He joined the Archaeology Department in Sheffield in 1972 and was made professor in 1990. He has acted as Head of Department and became Emeritus Professor there in October 2004.
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Carolyn Hamilton
1958 - Present (66 years)
Carolyn Hamilton is a South African anthropologist and historian who is a specialist in the history and uses of archives. She is National Research Foundation of South Africa chair in archive and public culture at the University of Cape Town.
Go to ProfileCristina Rocha is a Brazilian-Australian Professor of anthropology at Western Sydney University. She works at the intersection between globalisation, migration and religion. She has written on Buddhism, New Age spirituality and most recently on pentecostalism.
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Olga Najera-Ramirez
1955 - Present (69 years)
Olga Najera-Ramírez is an American anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published academic works in the field of Mexican culture. Since 1996, she has served as faculty advisor to Grupo Folklórico Los Mejicas.
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Hubert Walter
1930 - 2008 (78 years)
Hubert Walter was a German anthropologist and human biologist. Born in Berlin, he did a Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1953 and worked at various positions at the University of Münster, University of Mainz and University of Bremen. He taught anthropology at the University of Mainz from 1962 to 1974. From 1974 to until his retirement in 1995, he was a professor of anthropology and human biology at the University of Bremen. He received several honors and honorary memberships from various universities and anthropological organizations, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens in 1998 and an honorary membership from the European Anthropological Association in 2008.
Go to ProfileLina Fruzzetti is an American cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Since 1975, she has been a professor of anthropology at Brown University in the United States. Apart from having published ethnographic studies about rural communities and gender relations in East Africa, India and Tanzania, she is the author of several ethnographic films. These films were written and co-directed with her husband, Ákos Östör, cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus of anthropology at Wesleyan University. Since 2016 Fruzzetti is also a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute for ...
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Naguib Kanawati
1941 - Present (83 years)
Naguib Kanawati is an Egyptian Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Early life Kanawati was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Melkite Greek Catholic family of Syro-Lebanese descent.
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Lisa Rofel
1953 - Present (71 years)
Lisa Rofel is an American anthropologist, specialising in feminist anthropology and gender studies. She received a B.A. from Brown University, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Rofel's publications include Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, and Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism.
Go to ProfileRebecca Jones is Head of Archaeology and World Heritage at Historic Environment Scotland. Career Jones studied for an undergraduate degree in Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Newcastle. In 1999-2000 she worked at Aberystwyth University with Jeffrey Davies, which resulted in the publication of the volume Roman Camps in Wales and the Marches in 2006. Jones completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2006 entitled "The temporary encampments of the Roman army in Scotland ", supervised by Bill Hanson. Prior to her role at Historic Environment Scotland, Jones worked for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
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Jean-Michel Guilcher
1914 - 2017 (103 years)
Jean-Michel Guilcher was a French ethnologist. He was a researcher at the CNRS, and he taught ethnology at the University of Western Brittany. He was the author of eight books about traditional dances.
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Sue O'Connor
2000 - Present (24 years)
Sue O'Connor is an Australian archaeologist and Distinguished Professor in the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University. Her research focuses primarily on the evidence of Pleistocene settlement and early human migration in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Charles H. McNutt
1928 - Present (96 years)
Charles Harrison McNutt III was an American archaeologist and a scholar of the prehistoric Southeastern United States. He conducted fieldwork and published works on the archaeology of the American Southwest and the Great Plains in South Dakota. His work emphasized on a strong understanding of cultural history and statistical analysis.
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Richard Tomlinson
1932 - Present (92 years)
Richard Allan Tomlinson, FSA , publishes under R. A. Tomlinson, is a British archaeologist. He was Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham from 1971 to 1995, and then director of the British School at Athens from 1995 to 1996.
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John Blair
1955 - Present (69 years)
William John Blair, is an English historian, archaeologist, and academic, who specialises in Anglo-Saxon England. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. He gave the 2013 Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford.
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Vincent Gaffney
1950 - Present (74 years)
Vincent Gaffney is a British archaeologist and the Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bradford. Gaffney has directed research projects around the world. Most recently, he has become known for his work on Doggerland, a submerged landmass that existed in the North Sea in the early Holocene. Other recent work includes the Anglo-Austrian “Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project", The Curious Travellers Project, the Adriatic islands Project, and the pit alignment at Warren Fields He was Co-PI on the EPSRC GG-TOP Gravity Gradient Project. Other fieldwork has included a...
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James Palais
1934 - 2006 (72 years)
James B. Palais was an American historian, Koreanist, and writer. He served as Professor of Korean History at the University of Washington; and he was a key figure in establishing Korean studies in the United States.
Go to ProfileDavid Mullin is British archaeologist specialising in the study of prehistory. He has worked at the University of Worcester, Oxford Archaeology, and the University of Oxford. Education Mullin studied archaeology at the University of Bristol, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2000 and a Master of Philosophy degree in 2001. He went on to conduct research at the University of Reading where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy in 2011.
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Raiko Krauss
1973 - Present (51 years)
Raiko Krauss , born 1973 in Friedrichshain, Berlin is a German archaeologist of prehistory. Biography In 1992, Krauss submitted his Abitur at the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Gymnasium in Friedrichshain, Berlin. Between 1988 and 1990, as a high school student, he already completed summer internships between at the Berlin Antiquities Collection, and participated in excavations conducted by the Potsdam Museum of Prehistory.
Go to ProfileAnthony James Monins Whitley, FSA is a British classical archaeologist specialising in the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods of the Mediterranean world. He is currently Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology at Cardiff University. He was Director of the British School at Athens from 2002 to 2007.
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Corinne Debaine-Francfort
Corinne Debaine-Francfort is a French archaeologist and sinologist, a researcher at the CNRS specialised in the archaeology on Eastern Central Asia and in the protohistory of north-west China. Career Debaine-Francfort has been a Doctor of Far Eastern studies at Paris Diderot University since 1989 and research director at CNRS since 1995. She is a member of a team carrying out research on Central Asia. She has taken part in various archaeological expeditions in this region, and in the first Sino-foreign excavation to be authorized by China since 1949. Since 1995 she has been co-director of the Franco-Chinese archaeological mission to Sinkiang.
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Simon Stoddart
1958 - Present (66 years)
Simon Stoddart, FSA is a British archaeologist, prehistorian, and academic. He is a Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the acting Deputy Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Go to ProfileAleksandra McClain is an archaeologist who specialises in church archaeology and the study of the Middle Ages. She is editor of the journal Medieval Archaeology, and assistant editor of Church Archaeology. McClain joined the University of York, where she is a senior lecturer, in 2008; she completed her doctorate at the same university in 2005.
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Thanik Lertcharnrit
1950 - Present (74 years)
Thanik Lertcharnrit is a Thai Archeologist and Anthropologist and Professor at Silpakorn University. He specializes in southeast Asian archaeology and the public education and perception of archeology, with a focus on public Thai cultural heritage. Professor Lertcharnrit has made many contributions to the field of Cultural Resource Management , and acted as a pioneering figure and advocate for global public archaeology.
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Rosemary Cramp
1929 - 2023 (94 years)
Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp, was a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.
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Jane Grenville
1958 - Present (66 years)
Jane Clare Grenville, is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the archaeology of medieval buildings. Her early career was in field archaeology, heritage, and building conservation. In 1991, she joined the University of York as a lecturer in archaeology. She served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Students from 2007 to 2015 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2012 to 2015: she was acting Vice-Chancellor in 2013.
Go to ProfileEve MacDonald is a Canadian classicist and archaeologist who specialises in social history. She is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University. MacDonald previously worked at the Universities of Edinburgh and Reading. In 2015 she published Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life with Yale University Press.
Go to ProfileJosé Ramos Muñoz is a Spanish archaeologist and professor of prehistory at the University of Cádiz and director of the Revista Atlántica Mediterránica de Prehistoria y Arqueología Social. Ramos is an influential Spanish-speaking archaeologist with dozens of books and hundreds of published papers. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Europe and Africa. His excavations at the Benzú's Cave, north Africa, with chronologies between 250,000 and 100,000 years BP, represents the first evidence of Mousterian stone industries in Africa.
Go to ProfileDr. Cristian Popa is a Romanian archaeologist at the 1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia, Romania. He is one of the most extensively published experts on the Coţofeni culture and generally acknowledged as an authority on this prehistoric culture. He is also known for having discovered the flint mining settlement at the Piatra Tomii archaeological site.
Go to ProfilePanagiotis V. Faklaris is a Greek archaeologist, professor of classical archaeology and excavator of the acropolis and the walls of Vergina. Main fields of specialization: topography of ancient Macedonia, topography of ancient Kynouria, arms and armour, horse harnesses, ancient Greek daily life, metal finds, Greek mythology. Studied archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Cambridge UK. Born in Arcadia, Greece, April 1947. Assistant of the famous Greek archaeology professor Manolis Andronikos. Member of the Athens Archaeological Society since 1986. Member of the Greek Folklore Society since 1977.
Go to ProfileRachel Pope FSA is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Europe. She is Reader in European Prehistory at the University of Liverpool. Education Pope undertook undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Durham University. Her PhD thesis was entitled "Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c 2500 BC - AD 500", was awarded in 2003, and funded partly through support provided by the British Federation of Women Graduates and St Mary's College.
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David Wardle
1959 - Present (65 years)
David Wardle is Professor of Classics, as well as Acting Dean in the Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Cape Town. Academic career Born 23 December 1959 and educated in Nottingham, UK, Wardle took an MA and a DPhil from Oxford University in the sub-faculty of Literae Humaniores. After a brief stint working for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, he came to UCT as a lecturer in August 1990 and was appointed Professor in Classics and Ancient History in 2006.
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Negar Mottahedeh
1968 - Present (56 years)
Negar Mottahedeh is a cultural critic and film theorist specializing in interdisciplinary and feminist contributions to the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies. Early life She is known for her work on Iranian Cinema, but has also published on the history of reform and revolution, on `Abdu'l-Baha's vision of human solidarity and peace in the 20th Century, on Bábism, Qajar history, performance traditions in Iran, the history of technology, visual theory, Majid Tavakoli and the Men in Scarves Movement , and the role of social media in the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests. With th...
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Lisa Lodwick
1988 - 2022 (34 years)
Lisa Ann Lodwick was a British archaeologist who studied charred, mineralised and waterlogged macroscopic plant remains, and used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis to understand the crop husbandry practices of the ancient Romans.
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Alan Vince
1952 - 2009 (57 years)
Alan George Vince was a British archaeologist who studied Saxon, medieval and early modern ceramics through the application of petrological, geological and archaeological techniques. He was also a teacher and a pioneer in the use of computers and the internet in archaeology.
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Peter Addyman
1939 - Present (85 years)
Peter Vincent Addyman, , known as P. V. Addyman, is a British archaeologist, who was Director of the York Archaeological Trust from 1972 to 2002. Addyman obtained a degree in archaeology at Cambridge University, after which he lectured at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Southampton, while also conducting excavations. In 1972 he was offered the directorship of the newly founded York Archaeological Trust, the creation of which he had proposed; along with excavation work in York, he oversaw the development of the Jorvik Viking Centre, the Archaeological Resource Centre, and Barley Hall.
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