Chris Gosden

Chris Gosden FBA FAHA
Gosden in 2014
Born	(1955-09-06) 6 September 1955 (age 69)
Citizenship	United Kingdom and Australia
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Sheffield
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeologist
Sub-discipline	Prehistory postcolonialism museum studies Celtic art landscape archaeology
Institutions	Australian National University La Trobe University Pitt Rivers Museum St Cross College, Oxford School of Archaeology, University of Oxford Keble College, Oxford

Christopher Hugh Gosden FBA FAHA (born 6 September 1955) is a British and Australian archaeologist specialising in archaeological theory, especially theories of materials, the archaeology of colonialism, the archaeology of technology and magic, the archaeology of identity, particularly English identity. He is Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology and was Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford.^[1] He is also a trustee of the British Museum.^[2]