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

Professor Robert Foley FBA

Human evolution: the evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins; the evolution of human behaviour and culture; prehistory and archaeology of early human populations; evolutionary theory in archaeology and anthropology.

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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

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Professor John Gowlett FBA

The evolution of early human advanced capabilities; origins and development of design form and proportion in artefacts; investigation of early hominin fire use and its effects

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