Graeme William Walter Barker#
| Membership Number: | 3612 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
- 2004 - present Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
- 2004 - present Professorial fellow, St Johns College, Cambridge
- 2003 - 2004 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Resources), University of Leicester
- 2000 - 2003 Graduate Dean, University of Leicester
- 1999 Senior Research Fellow,, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 1988 - 2000 Professor of Archaeology and Head of School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester
- 1984 - 1988 Director, British School at Rome
- 1972 - 1988 Lecturer and (from 1981) Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Sheffield
- 1969 - 1972 PhD research student, St Johns College, University of Cambridge
- 1965 - 1969 BA University of Cambridge (Part I Classics, Part II Archaeology)
Fields of Scholarship
- European prehistory, especially transitions to farming
- North African prehistory
- Origins of agriculture
- Landscape archaeology
- Archaeology of pastoralism
- Archaeology and desertification
- Dispersal of Modern Humans, and the development of 'modern' behaviour
Honours and Awards
- 2014 - 2016 Leverhulme Trust £470,805 (How resilient were Neanderthals and modern humans to climate change in SW Asia: Reinvestigating Shanidar Cave
- 2009 - 2014 Advanced Investigator Grant, European Research Council 2.5 million euros (North African prehistory)
- 2007 - 2010 Leverhulme Trust £469,000 ('From chariotry to equestrian pastoral nomadism')
- 2006 - 2010 Arts and Humanities Research Council £480,000 ('The Cultured Rainforest, Borneo')
- 2005 Dan David Prize (Past Dimension), 450,000 US dollars
- 2000 - 2004 Arts and Humanities Research Council £320,000 ('The Niah Caves Project, Borneo')
- 2000 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America
- 1999 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1999-1999 Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 1997 Corresponding Member, Unione Internazionale di Preistoria e Protostoria
- 1995 Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- 1979 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
