For other people named Mike Pearson, see Mike Pearson (disambiguation).
Mike Parker Pearson
FSA FSA Scot FBA
Born
Michael Parker Pearson
(1957-06-26) 26 June 1957 (age 66)
Nationality
British
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Known for
Stonehenge Riverside Project
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Southampton King's College, Cambridge
Thesis
Death, society and social change: the Iron Age of southern Jutland 200 B.C.-600 A.D. (1985)
Academic work
Discipline
Archaeologist
Sub-discipline
Prehistory
funerary archaeology
School or tradition
Post-processual archaeology
Institutions
English Heritage
University of Sheffield
Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Doctoral students
Melanie Giles
Michael Parker Pearson, FSA, FSA Scot, FBA (born 26 June 1957)[1] is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Neolithic British Isles, Madagascar and the archaeology of death and burial. A professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, he previously worked for 25 years as a professor at the University of Sheffield in England, and was the director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project.[2] A prolific author, he has also written a variety of books on the subject.
A media personality, Parker Pearson has appeared several times in the Channel 4 show Time Team in particular in one looking at the excavation of Durrington Walls in Wiltshire. He also appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary Stonehenge Decoded, along with the PBS programme Nova: Secrets of Stonehenge.[3]
^"PARKER PEARSON, Prof. Michael George". Who's Who 2014 (online ed.). A & C Black, Oxford University Press. 2014. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258069.
^"Professor Michael Parker Pearson". Department of Archaeology. University of Sheffield. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
^"'Secrets of Stonehenge' from PBS's Nova Television Series (2010)". Retrieved 2 July 2012.
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