Prof Peter Mitchell

Research Interests

African archaeology (especially southern African and the Later Stone Age); archaeology of hunter-gatherers; history of archaeological collections.

Current Activities

Hunter-gatherer settlement-subsistence systems and reconstruction of late Quaternary environments in the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa. Early archaeological research and history of collections in southern Africa.

Publications

• Late Holocene neoglacial conditions from the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa: phytolith and stable carbon isotope evidence from the archaeological site of Likoaeng. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 122, 201–11 (with Parker, A.G. and Lee-Thorp, J.A., 2011)
• Making history at Sehonghong: Soai and the last Bushman occupants of his shelter. Southern African Humanities 22, 149–70. (2010)
• The archaeology of the Metolong Dam, Lesotho: a preliminary assessment. Antiquity 84  (with Arthur, C., 2010)
• Archaeological fieldwork in the Metolong Dam Catchment, Lesotho, 2008–10. Nyame Akuma 74, 51–62.(with Arthur, C., 2010)
• The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, with Barham, L.S., 2008)
• African Connections: Archaeological Perspectives on Africa and the Wider World.(AltaMira Press, 2005)
• Researching Africa’s Past: New Contributions from British Archaeologists (ed. with A. Haour and J. Hobart, Oxford School of Archaeology, 2003)
• The Archaeology of Southern Africa (CUP, 2002)
• Catalogue of Stone Age Artefacts from Southern Africa in the British Museum (British Museum, 2002)