Professor Graeme Barker FBA

Archaeology, Prehistory, Landscape Archaeology, Neanderthals and Modern Humans, Origins of Agriculture
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1999
Honours
CBE FBA FSA FRGS
Subjects
Archaeology
Sections
Archaeology

Current post

Disney Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and Senior Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

The University of Sheffield Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology

1970 -

Unknown Unknown Director, British School at Rome

1970 -

University of Leicester Professor of Archaeology

1970 -

University of Leicester Disney Professor of Archaeology, Head of Department of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

1970 -

University of Leicester Graduate Dean and Professor of Archaeology , University of Leicester

1970 -

The University of Sheffield Pro-Vice-Chancellor

1970 -

University of Cambridge Disney Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and Senior Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

1970 -

Publications

Why Cultivate? Archaeological and Anthropological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Island Southeast Asia 2011

Prehistoric farming in Europe 1985

A Mediterranean valley: landscape archaeology and Annales history in the Biferno valley 1995

Farming the desert: the UNESCO Libyan valleys archaeological survey 1996

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory 2006

Archaeology and Desertification: the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan 2007

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Blair FBA

The society, culture and landscape of early medieval England, especially the Church and parochial organisation; historical and archaeological sources and approaches

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Professor Alison Wylie FBA

Philosophy of the social and historical sciences; evidential reasoning in archaeology; feminist philosophy of science; standpoint theory; ethics and politics of community-based collaborative research; equity, diversity, inclusion in academia

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Professor Cyprian Broodbank FBA

Comparative world archaeology and deep history; the archaeology of the Mediterranean; Aegean prehistory; the archaeology of islands; the emergence of connectivity, particularly maritime; landscape archaeology

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