Richard Bradley (archaeologist)

Richard Bradley (* 1946 ) is a British prehistorian .

Life

Bradley was born in Hampshire to a metallurgist. He took part in excavations early on. Bradley earned his MA in Law from Oxford University . He published numerous articles in professional journals and was hired as an assistant in Reading in 1971 without having an academic qualification in archeology . He was a member of the English Royal Commission for Ancient Monuments . He is Professor of Prehistory at Reading University . His areas of interest include the Neolithic and the Bronze Age , megalithic buildings and settlement archeology. He dug out the Recumbent Stone Circles by Tomnaverie (1999), Cothiemuir Wood and Aikey Brae (2001) and ascribed a lunar orientation to the circles.

Richard Bradley is married to a history teacher and lives in Oxford .

Bradley is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the British Academy . He is an honorary doctorate from Lund University .

Image and audience. Rethinking prehistoric art. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-953385-5 .
The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-84811-4 .
The Moon and the Bonfire. An investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2005, ISBN 0-903903-33-4 .
Altering the earth. The origins of monuments in Britain and Continental Europe (= the Rind Lectures. 1991/1992 = Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph Series. 8, ISSN 0263-3191 ). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh 1993.
with Mark Edmonds: Interpreting the ax trade. Production and exchange in Neolithic Britain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1993, ISBN 0-521-43446-7 .
with John C. Barrett and Martin Green: Landscape, monuments and society. The prehistory of Cranborne Chase. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1991, ISBN 0-521-32128-X .