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 Koji Mizoguchi FBA

The archaeological study of social relations and their transformation by investigating communication as the minimum basic unit of social phenomena; investigating the linkage between archaeological practices and contemporary society

Koji Mizoguchi FBA

Professor Nancy Edwards FBA

The archaeology of Wales and Ireland c. AD400-1150; early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture and the archaeology of the church; antiquarians and Welsh archaeology

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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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