David Walter Phillipson
FBA FSA (born 17 October 1942) is a British archaeologist specializing in
African archaeology
Africa has the longest record of human habitation in the world. The first hominins emerged 6-7 million years ago, and among the earliest anatomically modern human skulls found so far were discovered at Omo Kibish, Jebel Irhoud, and Florisbad.
Eur ...
. His most notable work has been in
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, particularly on the archaeology of
Aksumite
The Kingdom of Aksum ( gez, መንግሥተ አክሱም, ), also known as the Kingdom of Axum or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom centered in Northeast Africa and South Arabia from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. Based primarily in wha ...
sites. He was curator of the
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge from 1981 to 2006, and Fellow of
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
, 1988–2006.
Selected publications
* ''African Archaeology''
* ''Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300''
* ''Ancient Churches of Ethiopia''. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009.
References
* 'PHILLIPSON, Prof. David Walter', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 5 March 2013
External links
* https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/david-phillipson
1942 births
Living people
Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
20th-century British archaeologists
21st-century British archaeologists
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