Miles Russell
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Dr Miles Russell FSA |
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| Born |
Miles Anton Russell 8 April 1967 Brighton, Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for |
Time Team Duropolis Piltdown hoax resolution |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
UCL Institute of Archaeology Bournemouth University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub discipline |
Prehistoric archaeology Roman archaeology |
| Institutions |
UCL Field Archaeology Unit Oxford Archaeological Unit Bournemouth University |
Miles Russell, FSA (born 8 April 1967) is a British archaeologist best known for his work and publications on the prehistoric and Roman periods and for his appearances in television programmes such as Time Team and Harry Hill's TV Burp.
Russell was born and educated in Brighton, England, and moved to Bournemouth in 1993 where he has lectured at Bournemouth University and, since 2009, has worked on the Duropolis "Big Dig" with co-directors Paul Cheetham and Harry Manley. He has written 13 books, covering the Neolithic and Roman periods and has appeared numerous times on television, most notably, the Channel 4 television series Time Team alongside Dr Alice Roberts and presenter Tony Robinson.
As a graduate of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, he subsequently worked as a field officer for UCL's Field Archaeology Unit and a Project Manager for the Oxford Archaeological Unit. In 1993 he joined the staff of Bournemouth University, where he is a senior lecturer, subsequently conducting fieldwork on various projects across southern England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Sicily, Germany and Russia. He obtained his PhD from Bournemouth University, on the Neolithic monumental architecture of the South Downs in 2000 and became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. He is director of Regnum and co-director of the Durotriges Project, both investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period.
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