Ailsa Mainman | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology History |
Sub-discipline | Early-medieval archaeology Ceramics |
Institutions | University of York York Archaeological Trust |
Ailsa Jean Mainman FSA is a British archaeologist and pottery specialist.
Mainman completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is now a research associate at the University of York. She is a former assistant director of York Archaeological Trust. [1]
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 January 1989.
In 1991 Mainman married fellow archaeologist Richard Hall (1949–2011). [2] In 2014 Mainman fulfilled her late husband's "last wish" by helping to publish the final volume in a progressive series of publications about York Archaeological Trust's excavations of Jorvik. [3]
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