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Peter Rowley-Conwy,

professor emeritus. He had previously taught and researched at Clare Hall, Cambridge and the Memorial University of Newfoundland
.

Early life and education

Rowley-Conwy was born in

Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford and Grete von Freiesleben.[1] He attended Marlborough College, and studied archaeology at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1973. He also studied for a doctorate at Cambridge, under Grahame Clark, which he received in 1980. His thesis was on the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Denmark.[2]

Academic career

After completing his PhD, from 1982 to 1985 Rowley-Conwy worked on the

Professor Emeritus by Durham.[4]

Research

Rowley-Conwy's research has focussed on hunter-gatherers and early farmers, in particular the nature of the transition between these cultural episodes. He also has an interest in the history of archaeological approaches to that period. A specialist on faunal remains and their contribution to archaeology, he has published widely on European material, including in Scandinavia[5] and Britain,[6] and analysed the major faunal assemblage from Arene Candide in Italy.[7] Since 2000 he has run the Durham Pig Project, which has examined pig domestication around the world by a variety of means.[8] Beyond Europe, his work on the animal bones from Tell Abu Hureyra has been published.[9] Rowley-Conwy has collaborated in a book on the anthropology and archaeology of hunter-gatherers.[10] His work on the remains of agricultural crop plants from Qasr Ibrim (in collaboration with Dr. Alan Clapham) is in course of publication.[11]

Rowley-Conwy has also written about the history of Christian Jürgensen Thomsen's three age system (Stone Age – Bronze Age – Iron Age), and its impact on archaeology in Denmark, Britain and Ireland.[12]

Honours

Rowley-Conwy was elected

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) on 2 July 2009.[13]

References

  1. ISBN 0971196621
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  2. doi:10.17863/CAM.19229
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  3. ^ "University news". The Times. 31 July 1996. p. 16.
  4. ^ "Staff Profile: Professor Emeritus Peter Rowley-Conwy, MA, PhD". Durham University. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  5. ^ Rowley-Conwy, P. 1999. 'Economic prehistory in southern Scandinavia.' In World Prehistory. Studies in Memory of Grahame Clark, eds. J. Coles, R.M. Bewley and P. Mellars, 125-159. Oxford University Press (Proceedings of the British Academy 99).
  6. ^ Legge, A.J. and Rowley-Conwy, P.A. 1988. Star Carr Revisited. A Re-Analysis of the Large Mammals. University of London, Centre for Extra-Mural Studies.
  7. ^ Rowley-Conwy, P. 1997. 'The Animal Bones from Arene Candide. Final Report.' In Arene Candide: Functional and Environmental Assessment of the Holocene Sequence, ed. R. Maggi, 153-277. Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali.
  8. ^ Albarella, A., Dobney, K., Ervynck, A. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. Pigs and Humans. 10,000 Years of Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  9. ^ Legge, A.J. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2000. 'The exploitation of animals.' In Village on the Euphrates, From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra. eds. A.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman and A.J. Legge, 475-525. Oxford University Press.
  10. ^ Panter-Brick, C., Layton, R. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2001. Hunter-Gatherers. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge University Press.
  11. ^ Clapham, A.J. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. 'New discoveries at Qasr Ibrim, Lower Nubia.' In Fields of Change. Progress in African Archaeobotany, ed. R. Cappers, 157-164. Groningen Archaeological Studies 5.
  12. ^ Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. From Genesis to Prehistory. The archaeological Three Age System and its contested Reception in Denmark, Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
  13. ^ "List of Fellows - R". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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