Mike Pitts (archaeologist)

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Mike Pitts
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Pitts (left) with Mike Heyworth, Director of the Council for British Archaeology
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Alma mater Institute of Archaeology
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Michael W. Pitts, FSA , is an English freelance journalist and archaeologist who specialises in the study of British prehistory. [1] He is the author of several books on the subject, and is the editor of British Archaeology, the publication of the Council for British Archaeology. [2]

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Biography

He first studied archaeology at school, at Ardingly College in Sussex. He gained a degree in archaeology from the then-independent Institute of Archaeology in Bloomsbury, London before moving to Avebury, Wiltshire, as the Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum. [3] His first book, Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove (1998), which was co-written with fellow English archaeologist Mark Roberts, dealt with the excavations that had been undertaken at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Boxgrove Quarry by Roberts' team.

He directed excavations at Stonehenge 1979–80, and co-directed the excavation there of one of the Aubrey Holes in 2008. He regularly broadcasts on BBC radio as archaeologist and critic. In 2000 the British Archaeological Press Award was given "to the Guardian and their reporters Mike Pitts and Maev Kennedy for the consistent high standard of articles which appear in that paper". [4] On 15 May 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). [5]

Bibliography

Academic

Books

  • Later stone implements. Aylesbury: Shire Publications. 1980. ISBN   9780852635186.
  • Footprints through Avebury. Avebury: Stones Print. 1985. ASIN   B0058DCOUI.
  • Stonehenge & Avebury: the greatest stone circles in the world. Avebury: Stones Print. 1994. ISBN   9780951407615.
  • Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove. London: Arrow. 1997. ISBN   9780712676861. (with Mark Roberts)
  • Hengeworld: Life in Britain 2000 BC as revealed by the latest discoveries at Stonehenge, Avebury and Stanton Drew. London: Century. 2000. ISBN   9780712679541.
  • A Year at Stonehenge. London: Frances Lincoln. 2013. ISBN   9780711234833. (with James O. Davies, photographer)
  • Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King. London: Thames and Hudson. 2014. ISBN   9780500252000.
  • How to build Stonehenge. New York: Thames and Hudson. 2022. ISBN 9780500024195.

Articles

Journalistic

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References

Footnotes

  1. "Archaeology award". The Guardian . London. 16 November 2000. p. 8.
  2. de Bruxelles, Simon (12 May 2007). "Archaeologists try again to find secret of Silbury Hill". The Times . London. p. 42.
  3. "'Lost' Stonehenge bones found". Evening Mail . Birmingham. 9 June 2000. p. 6.
  4. British Archaeological Awards 2000
  5. "Fellows Directory - Pitts". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

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