Prof David Harris, FSA, FBA

Career: Nat Serv RAF 1949-50; teaching asst and instr Univ of Calif 1956-58, lectr Queen Mary Coll London 1958-64; UCL: lectr and reader 1964-79, prof of human environment Inst of Archaeology 1979-98, dir Inst of Archaeology 1989-96, prof emeritus 1998-; memb: Archaeology Ctee Museum of London 1984-93, Science and Conservation Panel English Heritage 1985-99; chm Science-Based Archaeology Ctee SERC 1989-92; pres: Prehistoric Soc 1990-94, UK Chapter Soc for Economic Botany 1995-97, Anthropology and Archaeology Section BAAS 2000-; hon fell UCL 2000; FSA 1982, FBA 2004

Books and Publications: Plants, Animals and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands (1965), Africa in Transition (with B W Hodder, 1967), Human Ecology in Savanna Environments (1980), Foraging and Farming (with G C Hillman, 1989), Modelling Ecological Change (with K D Thomas, 1991), The Archaeology of V Gordon Childe (1994), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia (1996), Plants for Food and Medicine (with H Prendergast, N Etkin and P Houghton, 1998), Origins of Argriculture in Western Central Asia (2010)