Mike Parker Pearson

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 67)
Wantage, Berkshire, UK
Known forStonehenge Riverside Project
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Southampton
King's College, Cambridge
ThesisDeath, society and social change: the Iron Age of southern Jutland 200 B.C.-600 A.D. (1985)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeologist
Sub-discipline
School or traditionPost-processual archaeology
Institutions
Doctoral studentsMelanie 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]

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Professor Michael Parker Pearson". Department of Archaeology. University of Sheffield. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  3. ^ "'Secrets of Stonehenge' from PBS's Nova Television Series (2010)". Retrieved 2 July 2012.