Professor David W Phillipson FBA

Archaeology East Africa esp. Ethiopia
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2002
Subjects
Archaeology
Sections
Archaeology

Current post

Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Past appointments

Gonville & Caius College University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

2006 -

University of Cambridge Professor of African Archaeology

2001 - 2006

Gonville & Caius College University of Cambridge Professor of African Archaeology

2001 -

Gonville & Caius College University of Cambridge Professor of African Archaeology and Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

2001 -

University of Cambridge Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

1981 - 2006

University of Cambridge Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

1981 -

Other Foreign Institutions Zambia National Monuments Commission

1964 - 1973

Publications

African archaeology 1985

Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia 1993-7 2000

Ancient Churches of Ethiopia 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Dr Leonardo López Luján FBA

The politics, religion, and art of Pre-Columbian urban societies in Central Mexico; the history and development of Mesoamerican archaeology

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Professor Janet Montgomery FBA

Janet Montgomery is a bioarchaeologist specialising in the isotopic and chemical analysis of humans and animals to reconstruct ancient diets, residential mobility and exposure to pollutants from the Mesolithic to the 19th century in northwestern Europe.

Janet Montgomery FBA

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