Michael Parker Pearson

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Michael Parker Pearson (born June 26, 1957 ) is a British prehistorian .

Life

Parker Pearson received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southampton in 1979 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1985 . From 1984 to 1990 he was the Inspector of Monuments for English Heritage . From 1990 to 2012 he was a member of the Archeology Department at the University of Sheffield , and since 2012 he has taught at University College London as Professor of British Later Prehistory.

Parker Pearson lectures on Late European Prehistory , European Iron Age , Funeral Culture, Osteology and Paleoanthropology . He also conducts educational excavations at excavation sites in England, Scotland, the Outer Hebrides , in Stonehenge but also in the area around Sheffield.

research

He is one of the pioneers of the "grave ideology in archeology".

Madagascar

In 1995 and 1996 Parker Pearson led an archaeological research project in Madagascar . In addition to the archaeologists, anthropologists, a geomorphologist and a botanist were also involved in the research. Madagascar is one of the last land masses to be settled by humans. The team identified some of the oldest headstones in Androy and placed them in the scenic, social, and genealogical context. So the history of the first settlement and the rise and fall of the stone settlements was examined. The research also extended to the extinction of megafauna , such as the elephant bird . Finally it was possible to prove the authenticity of the report by Robert Drury , who had reported in his book Robert Drury's Journal about his stay on the island between 1703 and 1709.

Bluestonehenge

Bluestonehenge, also known as Bluehenge , is a monumental stone circle near Stonehenge in England. It was discovered during the Stonehenge Riverside Project in the summer of 2009 by archaeologists led by Parker Pearson. This was preceded by several excavations between 2003 and 2009 in and around Stonehenge. A large village with the remains of houses was uncovered. The stone circle of Bluestonehenge has a diameter of 10 meters, consisted of 27 stones and is dated between 3000 and 2400 BC. Dated.

Publications

Partly with co-authors

Books

  • 1978 New Approaches to Our Past: an archaeological forum.
  • 1993 Bronze Age Britain. Batsford and English Heritage.
  • 1994 Architecture and Order: approaches to social space.
  • 1994 Looking at the Land. Archaeological landscapes in eastern England: recent work and future directions.
  • 1999 Between Land and Sea: excavations at the broch of Dun Vulan, South Uist.
  • 1999 The Archeology of Death and Burial.
  • 2001 Earthly Remains: the history and science of preserved bodies.
  • 2002 In Search of the Red Slave: shipwreck and captivity in Madagascar.
  • 2003 Food, Identity and Culture in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
  • 2004 Fiskerton: an Iron Age timber causeway with Iron Age and Roman votive offerings. The 1981 excavations.
  • 2004 South Uist: archeology and history of a Hebridean island. Tense.
  • 2005 Warfare, Violence and Slavery in Prehistory. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
  • 2007 From Stonehenge to the Baltic: living with cultural diversity in the 3rd millennium BC.
  • 2010 Pastoralists, Warriors and Colonists: the archeology of southern Madagascar.
  • 2012 Stonehenge: exploring the greatest Stone Age mystery.

Professional article (selection)

  • 2007 The age of Stonehenge. In: Antiquity 81, 2007, pp. 617-639.
  • 2008 Chieftains and pastoralists in Neolithic and Bronze Age Wessex: a review. In: P. Rainbird (Ed.): Monuments in the Landscape . Tempus, Stroud 2008, pp. 34-53
  • 2008 New Discoveries at Stonehenge. Published keynote lecture. Reuvensdagen. 38th Annual Conference on Dutch Archeology. Amsterdam: Erfgoed Nederland.
  • 2009 Who was buried at Stonehenge? In: Antiquity 83, 2009, pp. 23-39.
  • 2009 The date of the Stonehenge course. In: Antiquity 83, 2009, pp. 40-53.
  • 2010 with others: Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society . 277, 2010

Memberships and honors

Parker Pearson has been a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists since 1989 , was Vice President of the Prehistoric Society from 2006 to 2009 , has been a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 1991 and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland since 1996 . In 2015 he was elected a member of the British Academy .

Parker Pearson was named Archaeologist of the Year 2010. His Stonehenge Riverside project received the Archaeological Research Project of the Year award in 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Parker Pearson: Tombs, Landscape and Society in Southern Madagascar. Tombs, Landscape and Society in Southern Madagascar - Part I - University of Sheffield
  2. ↑ Michael Pearson Parker and Karen Godden , "In Search of the Red Slave," 1996, ISBN 0750929383
  3. ↑ National Geographic, October 5, 2009.
  4. ↑ Abstract .

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personal data
SURNAME Parker Pearson, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parker Pearson, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1957