Archaeology
Preacher: Professor Graeme BarkerGraeme Barker studied archaeology at St John’s College and remained here for his PhD. After holding academic posts in Sheffield, Rome and Leicester, in 2004 he returned to Cambridge as the Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (posts he retired from in 2014), and Fellow of St John’s College. His research interests have focussed on the relations, both short- and long-term, between people and environment in the past, involving him in leading large inter-disciplinary field projects in Italy, Jordan, Libya and Sarawak. His current project in Iraqi Kurdistan is investigating the demise of the Neanderthals.He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1979, a Fellow of the British Academy in 1999, and CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours for 2015 for his services to archaeology.