Professor Peter Mitchell

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Associate Professor of African Prehistory
Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology
+44 (0)1865 274951
peter.mitchell@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

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

Research Profile

Research Activities

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

Publications
Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

Undergraduate course convenor for:

  • Honour Moderations Paper 1  - Introduction to World Archaeology
  • FHS Option paper: Archaeology of Southern African Hunter-Gatherers
  • FHS Option paper: Farming & Early States in Sub-Saharan Africa

Undergraduate course lecturer for:

  • FHS Core Paper 3  - Landscape and Ecology
  • FHS Core Paper 4 - Urbanisation and Change in Complex Societies

Director of Studies for undergraduates at St Hugh's College

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate taught course options in: