Lawrence Shaw 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 the lead historic environment advisor for

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. Shaw has worked and published on archaeological sites in Britain,

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, the

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, and

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Media appearances

Shaw is a host and co-creator (together with

Derek Pitman Derek Pitman is a British archaeologist, lecturer, presenter, and deputy head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Bournemouth University, specialised in ancient metallurgy and geophysical prospection. Education and career Pit ...

) of the archaeology podcast ''

Career in Ruins The career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work and other aspects of life. There are a number of ways to define career and the term is used in a variety of ways. Definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defin ...

''. 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''. Shaw also appeared on the

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

programme Gardeners’ Question Time. In 2021 Shaw 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

Selected publications

*Shaw, Lawrence and K. Challis. “"There's an App For That": Building Smartphone Applications to Improve the Ergonomics of Landscape Study, Analysis and Interpretation.” Visual Heritage in the Digital Age (2013). *Welham, K., Shaw, L., Dover, M., Manley, H., Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J. and Tilley, C. 2015 Google Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge using Google Earth - a Tool for Public Engagement and the Dissemination of Archaeological Data, Internet Archaeology 40. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.40.5 *M. Vaïopoulou, H. Whittaker, R. Rönnlund, F. Tsiouka, J. Klange, D. Pitman, L. Shaw et al. (2020), "The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece", ''Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome'' 13, 7–72.

References

Living people 1986 births Academics of Bournemouth University Academics of the University of Winchester Alumni of the University of Birmingham English archaeologists English podcasters Writers from Sussex {{UK-archaeologist-stub