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

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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 George F Lau FBA

Professor Lau specialises in the archaeology of the Central Andes; ancient peoples and arts of northern Peru; Recuay culture (AD100-800); Andean religions and material culture; World Art.

Professor George Lau FBA

Professor Marcella Frangipane FBA

Prehistory and Protohistory of the Near East, rise of inequality, early centralised political economy strategies, urbanisation, early bureaucracy and the origin of State, with particular reference to Anatolia and Mesopotamia

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