Prof Peter Mitchell

University Lecturer in African Prehistory
Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology

St Hugh's College, Oxford, OX2 6LE

phone: 01865 274951

fax: 01865 274912

email: peter.mitchell@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

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

  • 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)