Professor Alasdair Whittle FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1998
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Sections
- Archaeology
Summary
Alasdair Whittle specialises in the Neolithic period in Britain and Europe, and has researched across a wide range of themes and questions. He has excavated in Britain, Hungary and Germany. He has written major syntheses at a continental scale, but also numerous regional and site-based studies. Over the last 15 years, he has increasingly been concerned with the construction of robust and precise chronologies, through the application of formal chronological modelling to radiocarbon dates. Currently, with Alex Bayliss of Historic England, he leads the major ERC-funded project, The Times of Their Lives, which has numerous case studies in precise chronologies and their implications, across several regions and phases of Neolithic Europe.
Current post
Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University
Past appointments
Cardiff University Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University
2002 -
Cardiff University Professor of Archaeology, Cardiff University
1997 -
Cardiff University Lecturer, Professor, Distinguished Research Professor
1978 -
Publications
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