Professor Steven Mithen FBA

Archaeology Scotland Africa
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2004
Subjects
Archaeology
Sections
Archaeology

Current post

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International and External Engagement) and Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading

Past appointments

University of Reading Professor of Early Prehistory

2000 -

University of Reading Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading

2000 -

University of Reading Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading and Dean of the Faculty of Science

2000 -

University of Reading Reader in Early Prehistory

1998 - 2000

University of Reading Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Archaeology

1992 - 1998

Trinity College University of Cambridge

1987 - 1989

Publications

After the Ice: a global human history 20,000 - 5,000 BC 2003

Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology: the Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-1998 2000

The Singing Neanderthals 2005

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen FBA

Heritage and Prehistory research on material culture, identity politics, and gender. Bronze Age regional dress cultures, change in burial rites, creativity, and tells; heritage studies of memorials and post-conflict

Marie Louise Sorensen FBA

Professor Amy Bogaard FBA

The archaeology and ecology of early farming; comparative perspectives on recent farming systems; the social implications of agriculture, including for resilience and inequality

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Professor Janet Montgomery FBA

Janet Montgomery is a bioarchaeologist specialising in the isotopic and chemical analysis of humans and animals to reconstruct ancient diets, residential mobility and exposure to pollutants from the Mesolithic to the 19th century in northwestern Europe.

Janet Montgomery FBA

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