Barry Cunliffe

Barry Cunliffe, 2008

Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe CBE , known as Barry Cunliffe (born December 10, 1939 ), is a British archaeologist .

Life

After Cunliffe had studied archeology and anthropology at Cambridge University , he became a lecturer at Bristol University in 1963 . In 1966, unusually young, he became professor of archeology at the University of Southampton . From 1972 to 2007 he was Professor of European Archeology at Oxford University .

Well known are his excavations of the Roman Palace at Fishbourne , Sussex . He is also a recognized authority in the field of Celtic research.

From 1976 to 1979 he was President of the Council for British Archeology . In 1979 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . He has been a member of the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee ( English Heritage ) since 1984 and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Discovery Program (Ireland) since 1991. In 1989 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 1995 he became an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy . In June 2006 he was beaten to the Knight Bachelor .

Fonts (selection)

• Excavations at Fishbourne. 1961-1969 (= Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 26-27, ISSN  0953-7163 ). 2 volumes (Vol. 1: The site. Vol. 2: The finds. ). Thames and Hudson, London 1971.
• Fishbourne. Rome in Britain. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1971, ISBN 3-7857-0070-9 .
• The Celtic World. Bodley Head, London et al. 1979, ISBN 0-370-30235-4 (In German: The Celts and their history. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1980, ISBN 3-7857-0260-4 (meanwhile: 8th edition. Ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-7857-0506-9 )).
• Wessex to AD 1000. Longman, London et al. 1993, ISBN 0-582-49279-3 .
• as editor: The Oxford illustrated Prehistory of Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1994, ISBN 0-19-814385-0 (In German: Illustrated pre- and early history of Europe. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-593-35562-0 ).
• The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek. Allen Lane, London 2001, ISBN 0-7139-9509-2 .
• Facing the ocean. The Atlantic and its peoples. 8000 BC - AD 1500. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2001, ISBN 0-19-924019-1 .
• Europe between the oceans. 9000 BC - AD 1000. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-11923-7 .
• Druids. A very short introduction , Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-953940-6 .
• Britain begins , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-967945-4 .
• 10,000 years. Birth and history of Eurasia. Theiss, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-3376-6 (approx. 10,000 BC to 1400 AD; numerous illustrations).
• On the ocean. The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500 , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-875789-4 .
• The ancient Celts, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-875292-9 .

Festschrift

• Chris Gosden (Ed.): Communities and connections. Essays in honor of Barry Cunliffe , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 0-19-923034-X .

Web links

• Barry Cunliffe: Profile from the Institute of Archeology, Oxford.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fellows: Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. British Academy, accessed November 2, 2017 . 
2. ^ Membership directory: Barrington Cunliffe. Academia Europaea, accessed November 2, 2017 .