Graeme Barker

Graeme Barker ( born October 23, 1946) is a British prehistorians.

He studied prehistoric archeology at Cambridge and his doctorate on ' prehistoric subsistence economies in central Italy ". He taught at the University of Sheffield and was followed from 1984 to 1988 director of the British School at Rome, before he received a professorship at the University of Leicester and there Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History was. In Leicester he became involved with the university administration and was Pro- Vice-Chancellor. Since 2004, Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge.

Barker's research interests lie in the field of environmental archeology, where he studied mainly the human-environment relationships under different natural conditions. He worked in the UK, Italy, Libya, Jordan, Mozambique and Borneo.

Barker is president of the Prehistoric Society in London.

Publications (selection )

  • A tale of two deserts: contrasting desertification histories on Rome 's desert frontiers, in: World Archaeology 33, 2001, 488-507.
  • Prehistoric Farming in Europe. New Studies in Archaeology ( Cambridge 1985)
  • The archeology of Samnite settlement in Molise, in: Antiquity 51, 1977, 20-24
  • Annie Grant ( Ed.), Companion encyclopedia of archeology. London / New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Richard Hodges (ed.), Archaeology and Italian society: prehistoric, Roman and medieval studies. Oxford, BAR 1981.
  • Prehistorians
  • University teachers (Cambridge)
  • University teachers ( Leicester)
  • University teachers (Sheffield )
  • Man
  • Briton
  • Born in 1946
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