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 Helena Francisca Hamerow FBA

The archaeology and rural economy of early medieval Europe, especially the North Sea zone

Helena Francisca Hamerow FBA

Professor Anne Haour FBA

Archaeology and heritage of Africa and the Indian Ocean; archaeology, material culture, anthropological notions of value and identity, medieval empires and trade

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Professor Ian Morris FBA

Long-term world history; comparative archaeology; the evolution of societies; quantitative history; history & archaeology of ancient Greece.

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