Derek Pitman is a British

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

, lecturer, presenter, and deputy head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at

Bournemouth University Bournemouth University is a public university in Bournemouth, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole. The university was founded in 1992; however, the origins of its predecessor date back to the early 1900s. The univer ...

, specialised in ancient

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

and geophysical prospection.

Education and career

Pitman received his bachelor's degree in Archaeology at Bournemouth University before studying a masters in Archaeomaterials at the University of Sheffield. He researched his PhD, entitled “Craft Practice and Resource Perception in the Southern Urals During the Middle Bronze Age” at the University of Sheffield. Since 2018 Pitman has led Bournemouth University's excavations at

Wytch Farm Wytch Farm is an oil field and processing facility in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. It is the largest onshore oil field in western Europe. The facility, taken over by Perenco in 2011, was previously operated by BP. It is located in ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

, and he is the survey director of the ongoing Greek-Swedish ''Palamas Archaeological Project'' at

Thessalian Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thess ...

Vlochos,

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

. He has also worked and published on Swedish, Spanish, Russian, and New Zealand archaeology.

Media appearances

Pitman is a host and co-creator (together with Lawrence Shaw) of the archaeology podcast '' Career in ruins''. He has also appeared on multiple episodes of the online revival spin off of the British Archeological TV programme ''

Time Team ''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned online in 2022 for two episodes released on YouTube. Created by television producer Tim ...

'', ''Time Team's Tea Time''. In 2021 Pitman was announced as a member of

for their crowd funded revival. In addition to being part of the team he presents the companion programme “Dig Watch” that gives behind the scenes access to the production of the new episodes alongside Career in Ruins co-host Lawrence Shaw.

Selected publications

* * *H. Manley, D. Pitman, E. Wilkes, A. Brown, C. Randall, and D. Carter (2020). "Poole Harbour: Current understanding of the Later Prehistoric to Medieval archaeology and future directions for research". ''Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society'' 141, 71–97. *A. Brown and D. Pitman (2019). "Resource procurement and inter-regional connections in pre-contact Taranaki, New Zealand: New evidence from geochemical analysis of obsidian". ''Archaeology in Oceania'' 54(3), 149–162. * M. Russell, P. Cheetham, K. Barrass, D. Evans, E. Hambleton, H. Manley, D. Pitman, and D. Stewart, (2019). "The Durotriges Project 2017: an interim statement". ''Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society'' 139, 127–133.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pitman, Derek Living people 1983 births British archaeologists English archaeologists Academics of Bournemouth University Fellows of the Higher Education Academy