Professor Sir Paul Mellars FBA

Archaeology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Archaeology
Sections
Archaeology

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Pre-History and Human Evolution, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Reader, Professor of Prehistory and Human Evolution

1991 -

University of Cambridge Lecturer/Reader in Archaeology

1981 - 1991

The University of Sheffield Lecturer/Reader in Archaeology

1970 - 1981

Publications

Excavations on Oronsay 1987

World prehistory: studies in memory of Grahame Clark (_PBA_ 99, 1999)

The Neanderthal legacy 1996

Star Carr in context 1998

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Matthew Collins FBA

Biomolecular archaeology; interdisciplinary approaches for the recovery and interpretation of molecular signals from ancient materials, with a specific focus on proteins and their breakdown products

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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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Professor Glynis Jones FBA

Evolutionary approaches to the origins and spread of agriculture; archaeobotany and biomolecular archaeology; the investigation of past cultivation practices through weed ecology and stable isotope analysis

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