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Simon Stoddart

Simon Stoddart, FSA is a British archaeologist, prehistorian, and academic. He is Professor in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the acting deputy director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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Simon Stoddart, FSA is a British archaeologist, prehistorian, and academic. He is Professor in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the acting deputy director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.12

Stoddart was editor of journal Antiquity, 2001–2002. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.2

Early life and education

Simon Stoddart earned his BA (1980) in archaeology and anthropology and PhD (1987) from the University of Cambridge.1 In 1983, he earned his MA in anthropology from the University of Michigan.1 While a student at Cambridge he was a member of the University of Cambridge Archaeological Field Club (AFC).3 He currently serves as the Senior Treasurer of the AFC.

Selected publications

  • Popa, Cătălin Nicolae; Stoddart, Simon (2014), Fingerprinting the Iron Age : approaches to identity in the European Iron Age : integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate, Oxbow Books, ISBN 978-1782976783
  • Popa, Cătălin Nicolae; Stoddart, Simon (2012), Opening the Frontier: The Gubbio-Perugia Frontier in the Course of History, Oxbow Books, ISBN 9781782976783, OCLC 855738843
  • Stoddart, Simon (2005), Power and place in Etruria, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521380751
  • Malone, Caroline; Stoddart, Simon; Bonanno, Anthony; Gouder, Tancred (1995), "Mortuary Ritual of 4th Millennium bc Malta: the Zebbug Period Chambered Tomb from the Brochtorff Circle at Xaghra (Gozo)", Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 61: 303–345, doi:10.1017/S0079497X0000311X, ISSN 0079-497X, S2CID 192949302
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  1. "Dr Simon Stoddart — Division of Archaeology". Arch.cam.ac.uk. 17 May 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. "Dr Simon Stoddart". Magd.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  3. The Archaeological Field Club. "Alumni". archaeology.uk.com.
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