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, an iron age
hillfort 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'' (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:
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Najarilla valley, Spain
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Sangro Valley Project, Italy. Together with
John Lloyd John Lloyd may refer to:
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, he initiated this ''
longue durée'' project in 1994.
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References
1948 births
British archaeologists
British prehistorians
Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford
Living people
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