Graeme Barker

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Graeme William Walter Barker (born October 23, 1946 ) is a British prehistorian .

Life

Barker studied prehistoric archeology in Cambridge and did his doctorate on prehistoric subsistence economies in central Italy . He taught at the University of Sheffield and was then director of the British School at Rome from 1984 to 1988 before he was appointed to the University of Leicester , where he became Head of the School of Archeology and Ancient History . In Leicester , he was also involved in university administration and was a pro-vice chancellor . Barker has been Disney Professor of Archeology at Cambridge since 2004 .

Barker's research interests lie in the area of environmental archeology , where he primarily investigated human-environment relationships under various natural spatial conditions. He has worked in the UK, Italy, Libya, Jordan, Mozambique and Borneo.

Barker is President of the Prehistoric Society in London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2013 .

Publications (selection)

  • A tale of two deserts: contrasting desertification histories on Rome's desert frontiers. In: World Archeology. Vol. 33, No. 3 = Ancient Ecodisasters , 2002, ISSN  0043-8243 , pp. 488-507, JSTOR 827881 .
  • Prehistoric Farming in Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1985, ISBN 0-521-22810-7 .
  • The archeology of Samnite settlement in Molise. In: Antiquity. Vol. 51, No. 201, 1977, ISSN  0003-598X , pp. 20-24, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00100547 .
  • as editor with Richard Hodges : Archeology and Italian society. Prehistoric, Roman and medieval studies (= British Archaeological Reports. International Series. 102 = Papers in Italian Archeology. 2). BAR, Oxford 1981, ISBN 0-86054-120-7 .
  • as editor: Companion encyclopedia of archeology. 2 volumes. Routledge, London et al. 1999, ISBN 0-415-06448-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Graeme William Walter Barker. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 25, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
personal data
SURNAME Barker, Graeme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barker, Graeme William Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1946