Gary R. Lock 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 ...

and emeritus professor at the

School of Archaeology, University of Oxford The School of Archaeology is an academic department of the University of Oxford comprising the Institute of Archaeology and the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), and is part of Oxford's Social Sciences Division ...

. He is noted for his contributions to

computational archaeology Computational archaeology describes computer-based analytical methods for the study of long-term human behaviour and behavioural evolution. As with other sub-disciplines that have prefixed 'computational' to their name (e.g., computational biol ...

Work in the UK

In the 1980s Lock became involved in computational archaeology, working on a database for

Danebury Danebury is an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire, England, about north-west of Winchester (). Retrieved on 23 July 2008. The site, covering , was excavated by Barry Cunliffe in the 1970s. Danebury is considered a type-site for hill forts, a ...

, an iron age

hillfort A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ...

in Hampshire which was excavated under the direction of

Barry Cunliffe Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...

. In 1987 he was co-author of ''Computer Archaeology'' in the Shire Archaeology series. Interest in computational archaeology and prehistoric hillforts are also evidenced in more recent work, for example ''Using computers in archaeology: towards virtual pasts'' (2003) and his contribution to a project to create a comprehensive database of prehistoric hillforts in the British Isles, the ''

Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland The ''Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland'' is an online database of hillforts―fortified settlements built in the Bronze Age and Iron Age―in the British Isles. It was compiled by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the Univers ...

'' (launched online in 2017). Lock has been a fellow of

Kellogg College Kellogg College is a graduate-only constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1990 as Rewley House, Kellogg is the university's 36th college and the largest by number of students. It hosts research centres including ...

since 1993, serving as the secretary to its governing body from 1997 to 1998 and Dean of Degrees in 2010.

Work abroad

He was formerly the chair of Computer Applications and Quantitative Applications in Archaeology (CAA) International. He has been involved with archaeological projects on the continent: * Najarilla valley, Spain *

Sangro Valley Project The Sangro Valley Project is an Anglo-American ongoing archaeological excavation in Abruzzo, Italy. It is notable for its revolutionary interpretation of Samnium as a dynamic participant in the history of the Adriatic as well as its early adoption ...

, Italy. Together with John Lloyd, he initiated this ''

longue durée The ''longue durée'' (; en, the long term) is the French Annales School approach to the study of history. It gives priority to long-term historical structures over what François Simiand called ''histoire événementielle'' ("evental history", ...

'' project in 1994.

Selected publications

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References

1948 births British archaeologists Prehistorians Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford Living people {{Archaeologist-stub