Paul Mellars
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Sir Paul Anthony Mellars .
Early life and academic career
Paul Mellars was born in 1939 in the village of
MA, PhD and ScD degrees at the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Fitzwilliam College.[3][4] He married his wife Anny in 1969, having first met in an archaeological field trip in the Dordogne in 1964.[5]
After his PhD, Mellars taught for ten years in the Archaeology Department at
master of the college in 2007, following the resignation of Sir Alan Wilson, but six months later lost the election to become the formal successor to Wilson to Oliver Rackham.[6] He has held visiting positions at the Binghamton University and the Australian National University
.
He served as president of the
Prehistoric Society. He was also a trustee of the ACE Foundation
.
Research
Mellars' recent research concentrated on the behaviour and archaeology of Neanderthal populations in Europe, and their replacement by Homo sapiens 40,000 years ago. Mellars contributed to the three-part BBC mini-series "Dawn of Man – The Story of Human Evolution" (2000).
He also studied the way in which
Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland and published the results from work at Star Carr in North Yorkshire
.
Honours
Mellars was elected a
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) in 1977,[7] a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1990 and a member of the Academia Europaea in 1999. In 2004, he was appointed an Officier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Government.[4] In 2006, he was awarded the Grahame Clark Medal by the British Academy.[8]
He was
Selected publications
- Mellars, Paul (2006). "Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago?". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (25): 9381–6. PMID 16772383.
- Mellars, Paul (2006). "Archeology and the Dispersal of Modern Humans in Europe: Deconstructing the "Aurignacian"" (PDF). Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 15 (5): 167–182. S2CID 85316570. Archived from the original(PDF) on 17 December 2008.
- Mellars, Paul; Dark, Petra (1998). Star Carr in Context: New Archaeological and Palaeoecological Investigations at the Early Mesolithic Site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. ISBN 0-9519420-4-2.
- Mellars, Paul (1996). The Neanderthal Legacy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03493-1.
- Mellars, Paul (1990). The Emergence of Modern Humans. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2614-6.
- Mellars, Paul; Andrews, Martha V. (1987). Excavations on Oronsay: Prehistoric Human Ecology on a Small Island. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-85224-544-0.
References
- ^ Atta, Fareid (10 May 2022). "Cambridge University mourns passing of 'giant figure' archaeologist Professor Sir Paul Mellars". Cambridge News. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Professor Sir Paul Mellars obituary". The Times. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.(subscription required)
- ISBN 9781902937533. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ a b Mellars, Paul (Easter 2005). "Emergence of new Homo-Sapiens" (PDF). Pelican, the Newsletter of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. 8. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: 12–13. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ a b "Sir Paul Mellars" (PDF). The Elsworth Chronicle. Issue 27. Elsworth. April 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
{{cite journal}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Varsity report on Corpus Christi College
- ^ "Sir Paul Mellars". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Grahame Clark Medal". The British Academy. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 1.
External links
- Bonner, Laure (9 May 2022). "Prof Sir Paul Mellars FBA (1939–2022)". Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- Project description of excavations at Starr Carr
- University of Cambridge home page
- Corpus Christi College home page
- Entry for Paul Mellars, British Academy
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