Neil Price (archaeologist)

Neil Stuppel Price
Born1965 (age 58–59)
Alma materUCL Institute of Archaeology (BA)
Uppsala University (PhD)
Known forThe Viking Way (book)
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology (especially the Viking Age)
ThesisThe Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (2002)
Websitewww.arkeologi.uu.se/Research/Presentations/neil-price/

Neil Stuppel Price is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of Viking Age Scandinavia and the archaeology of shamanism. He is currently a professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Born in south-west London, Price went on to gain a BA in Archaeology at the University of London, before writing his first book, The Vikings in Brittany, which was published in 1989. He undertook his doctoral research from 1988 through to 1992 at the University of York, before moving to Sweden, where he completed his PhD at the University of Uppsala in 2002. In 2001, he edited an anthology entitled The Archaeology of Shamanism for Routledge, and the following year published and defended his doctoral thesis, The Viking Way. The Viking Way would be critically appraised as one of the most important studies of the Viking Age and pre-Christian religion by other archaeologists like Matthew Townend and Martin Carver.[1] In 2017 Price was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (CorrFRSE).[2]

  1. ^ Townend 2003 and Carver 2010. p. 1.
  2. ^ "RSE Welcomes 60 New Fellows" (Press release). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.