Dr Alison Sheridan FBA

Prehistorian, focusing on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and specialising in ceramics, stone axeheads and jewellery of jet and jet-like materials, gold, amber and faience

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Subjects: Archaeology
Sections: Archaeology
Website: https://nms.academia.edu/AlisonSheridan

Current post

Research Associate, National Museums Scotland

Past appointments

National Museums Scotland Principal Archaeological Research Curator

2017 - 2020

National Museums Scotland Principal Curator of Early Prehistory

2006 - 2017

National Museums Scotland Assistant Keeper

1991 - 2006

National Museums Scotland Curator

1987 - 1991

Publications

The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain

Edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Mike Richards and Jane Evans - Published in 2018 by Oxbow

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Martin Bell FBA

Prehistoric environmental archaeology with a particular emphasis on coastal wetland and intertidal environments especially in the Severn Estuary. Wider interests in archaeological science including geoarchaeology and experimental archaeology

Professor Michael Parker Pearson FBA

The prehistory of Britain and western Europe from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The archaeology of death and burial. The archaeology of Madagascar. Stonehenge and its landscape

Professor John Ray FBA

Egyptology