Clive Gamble

Professor Clive Gamble FSA FRAI FBA
Born	1951 (age 65–66)
Nationality	British
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology and anthropology
Sub discipline	Human origin Neanderthals Prehistory Palaeolithic Era Cognitive archaeology
Institutions	University of Essex University of Southampton Royal Holloway, University of London

Clive S. Gamble, FSA, FRAI, FBA (born 1951) is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He has been described as the "UK’s foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors."

From 1973 to 1979, Gamble was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex. In 1979, he moved to the University of Southampton as a lecturer in archaeology. He was promoted to Professor in 1996. In 1999 he founded the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at Southampton.

In 2004 Gamble was appointed to a Research Professorship in the Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway College, in the University of London. He subsequently returned to Southampton as a Professor in the Department of Archaeology in 2011. In 2015 he was a Trustee of the British Museum.

Gamble's main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.

Gamble is a Trustee of the British Museum (August 2010-August 2014), Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow and Vice President of the Society of Antiquaries and Fellow and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He received the Rivers Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2005. In 2002 he presented Where Do We Come From?, a six-part documentary screened on Channel Five. In 2000 his book The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe won the Society for American Archaeology Book Award.

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