Staff Profile:Professor Bob Chapman

Name:

Professor Bob Chapman

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Programme Director MA & MRes

Areas of Interest:

• The later prehistory of the Mediterranean
• Burial archaeology
• The development of social political and economic inequalities

Research groups / Centres:

Social Archaeology Research Group

Publications:

Qualifications:

MA PhD (Cambridge) FSA

Bob has excavated on Mallorca, Menorca, and in south-east Spain, where in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona he is currently working on the Bronze Age settlement of Gatas in its regional context. Among his published monographs are Emerging Complexity: the later prehistory of S.E. Spain, Iberia and the west Mediterranean and Archaeologies of complexity He also co-edited The Archaeology of Death. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Journal of World Prehistory, Trabajos de Prehistoria and the Journal of Iberian Archaeology. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College.

His most recent research grants have been from the AHRC (to support leave in 2006/7) and the Leverhulme Trust (to support the six-month visit of Professor Alison Wylie to the Department in 2010).