Tania Dickinson | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Institute of Archaeology |
Thesis | The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Christopher Hawkes Sonia Chadwick Hawkes[1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Early-medieval archaeology |
Institutions | University College, Cardiff University of York |
Doctoral students | Patrick Ottaway[2] |
Tania Marguerite Dickinson FSA (born 1946) is a British archaeologist specialising in early-medieval Britain.[3] Dickinson undertook undergraduate study at St. Anne's College, Oxford and postgraduate study at the Institute of Archaeology (Oxford). Her doctoral thesis, titled The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region, and their bearing on the history of Wessex, circa AD 400-700, was supervised by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and Christopher Hawkes (for the first year).[1]
In 1973 she was appointed Lecturer in Archaeology at University College, Cardiff before moving to the University York as a lecturer in 1979. She remained at York until her retirement in 2011.[3] Dickinson was one of the lead researchers on, and chair of, the Staffordshire Hoard Research Project (2014-2015). The final report for the project was published in September 2019.[4]