Nicolas Coldstream

Nicolas Coldstream
FBA FSA
Nicolas Coldstream FBA FSA
Academic background
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Classical archaeology; Ancient Greece; Geometric Period; Ancient Greek pottery;
Institutions	Shrewsbury School; British Museum; British School at Athens; Bedford College, University of London; University College London;

John Nicolas Coldstream, FBA, FSA, (30 March 1927 – 21 March 2008) was an English archaeologist and academic specialising in the Ancient Greek pottery of the Geometric Period. He lectured at Bedford College, rising to become Professor of Aegean Archaeology, and then lectured at University College London as Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology. His best known excavation sites are Kythera and Knossos.