John Collis, (born 1944 in
Winchester) is a British
prehistorian. His first dig was in
Longbridge Deverill
Longbridge Deverill is a village and civil parish about south of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. It is on the A350 primary route which connects the M4 motorway and west Wiltshire with Poole, Dorset.
The parish is in the Deverill valley which ...
with Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes. He studied in
Prague
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(with E. Soudská),
Tübingen
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(with W. Kimmig) and
Cambridge
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, where he studied from 1963 to 1970 and was awarded his
PhD. He joined the
Archaeology Department in
Sheffield
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in 1972 and was made professor in 1990. He has acted as Head of Department and became Emeritus Professor there in October 2004.
His speciality is the European
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...
. He has
dug in Britain, Germany, Spain and central France, and appeared in two episodes of
Channel 4
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's popular archaeology 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 ...
''.
Publications
*John Collis with contributions by Barry Ager, ''Wigber Low, Derbyshire, a Bronze Age and Anglian burial site in the White Peak'' (Sheffield, Dep. of Prehist. and Archaeol., Univ. of Sheffield 1983)
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*ed. by John Collis, Society and settlement in Iron Age Europe, actes du XVIIIe colloque de l'AFEAF, Winchester – April 1994; dedicated to the memory of Sara Champion 1946–2000 (Sheffield 2001). L' habitat et l'occupation du sol en Europe 11, 2001
References
1944 births
Living people
British archaeologists
Prehistorians
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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