Robin Dennell#
| Membership Number: | 3897 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.exeter.ac.uk/staff |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Honorary Research Professor, University of Exeter
- 2014 Chinese Academy of Sciences/Senior Visiting Research Professor, Institute of Geosciences, Guangzhou
- 2009 - 2014 Emeritus Professor of Human Origins, University of Sheffield
- 1994 Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology and (1995-2009) Professor in Human Origins, University of Sheffield
- 1973 Lecturer and (from 1983) Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Sheffield
- 1969 - 1973 Ph.D. student, University of Cambridge
- 1966 - 1969 BA University of Cambridge (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Fields of Scholarship
- Human evolution in Asia
- Pleistocene climate and environment in Asia
- Palaeolithic Asia
- Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of China
- Palaeodemography of Europe and Asia
- World heritage
- Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of Pakistan and south Asia
- Archaeobotany
- Archaeozoology
- Origins and early development of agriculture
- Desertification
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2003 - 2006 British Academy Research Professor
- 1989 - 1992 Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow/Field Director of the British Archaeological Mission to Pakistan, on secondment to the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge
