Prof Graeme Barker, FBA

Career: sr lectr in prehistoric archaeology Univ of Sheffield 1981-84 (lectr 1972-81), dir British Sch in Rome 1984-88; Univ of Leicester: prof and head Sch of Archaeological Studies 1988-2000, grad dean 2000-03, pro-vice-chllr 2003-04; Disney prof of archaeology and dir McDonald Inst for Archaeological Research Univ of Cambridge 2004-; chm Soc for Libyan Studies 1988-94, pres Prehistoric Soc 2001-05, memb Arts and Humanities Research Cncl 2005-09; memb Ed Bds: CUP, Manuals in Archaeology, Jl of Mediterranean Archaeology, The Holocene, Antiquity; major field projects incl: Biferno Valley Survey 1974-80, UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey 1979-89, Tuscania Survey 1986-91, Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey 1996-2000, Niah Cave Project 2000-05, Cultured Rainforest 2006-, Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2007-; FSA 1979, FBA 1999

Books and Publications: Landscape and Society: Prehistoric Central Italy (1981), Archaeology and Italian Society (co-ed with R Hodges, 1981), Prehistoric Farming in Europe (1985), Beyond Domestication in Prehistoric Europe (co-ed with C Gamble, 1985), Cyrenaica in Antiquity (co-ed with J Lloyd and J Reynolds, 1985), Roman Landscapes (co-ed with J Lloyd, 1991), A Mediterranean Valley: Landscape Archaeology and Annales History in the Biferno Valley (1995), The Biferno Valley Survey: the Archaeological and Geomorphological Record (1995), Farming the Desert: the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey (with D Gilbertson, B Jones and D Mattingly, vol 1 1996, vol 2 1997), The Etruscans (with T Rasmussen, 1998), Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology (ed, 1999), The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at the Margin (co-ed with D Gilbertson, 2000), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes (gen ed with D Mattingly, 5 vols, 2000), The Human Use of Caves in Peninsular and Island Southeast Asia (ed with D Gilbertson, 2005), The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did foragers become farmers? (2006), Archaeology and Desertification: the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Jordan (with D Gilbertson and D Mattingly, 2007), Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia (with M Janowski, 2011)