Peter Rowley-Conwy

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Peter Rowley-Conwy

FSA
Born1951 (age 71–72)
Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Education Marlborough College
Alma mater Magdalene College, Cambridge
Thesis Continuity and change in the prehistoric economics of Denmark 3700 BC to 2300 BC (1980)
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Peter Rowley-Conwy, FSA (born 1951) is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of Archaeology at Durham University from 2007 to 2020, having joined the university as a lecturer in 1990: he is now professor emeritus. He had previously taught and researched at Clare Hall, Cambridge and the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Early life and education

Rowley-Conwy was born in Copenhagen in 1951. He is the son of Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford and Grete von Freiesleben. [1] He attended Marlborough College, and studied archaeology at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1973. He also studied for a doctorate at Cambridge, under Grahame Clark, which he received in 1980. His thesis was on the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Denmark. [2]

Academic career

After completing his PhD, from 1982 to 1985 Rowley-Conwy worked on the Tell Abu Hureyra project, directed by Anthony Legge, and later held the position of research fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (1986–88, 1989–90). He spent the year 1988–89 as an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 1990, Rowley-Conwy was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, where he was promoted to Reader in 1996 [3] and professor in 2007. He retired in 2020, and was appointed Professor Emeritus by Durham. [4]

Research

Rowley-Conwy's research has focussed on hunter-gatherers and early farmers, in particular the nature of the transition between these cultural episodes. He also has an interest in the history of archaeological approaches to that period. A specialist on faunal remains and their contribution to archaeology, he has published widely on European material, including in Scandinavia [5] and Britain, [6] and analysed the major faunal assemblage from Arene Candide in Italy. [7] Since 2000 he has run the Durham Pig Project, which has examined pig domestication around the world by a variety of means. [8] Beyond Europe, his work on the animal bones from Tell Abu Hureyra has been published. [9] Rowley-Conwy has collaborated in a book on the anthropology and archaeology of hunter-gatherers. [10] His work on the remains of agricultural crop plants from Qasr Ibrim (in collaboration with Dr. Alan Clapham) is in course of publication. [11]

Rowley-Conwy has also written about the history of Christian Jürgensen Thomsen's three age system (Stone Age – Bronze Age – Iron Age), and its impact on archaeology in Denmark, Britain and Ireland. [12]

Honours

Rowley-Conwy was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) on 2 July 2009. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's peerage, baronetage & knightage, clan chiefs, Scottish feudal barons (107th ed.). Wilmington: Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN   0971196621.
  2. ↑ Rowley-Conwy, P. A. (2018). Continuity and change in the prehistoric economics of Denmark 3700 BC to 2300 BC. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). British Library. doi:10.17863/CAM.19229.
  3. ↑ "University news". The Times. 31 July 1996. p. 16.
  4. ↑ "Staff Profile: Professor Emeritus Peter Rowley-Conwy, MA, PhD". Durham University. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  5. ↑ Rowley-Conwy, P. 1999. 'Economic prehistory in southern Scandinavia.' In World Prehistory. Studies in Memory of Grahame Clark, eds. J. Coles, R.M. Bewley and P. Mellars, 125-159. Oxford University Press (Proceedings of the British Academy 99).
  6. ↑ Legge, A.J. and Rowley-Conwy, P.A. 1988. Star Carr Revisited. A Re-Analysis of the Large Mammals. University of London, Centre for Extra-Mural Studies.
  7. ↑ Rowley-Conwy, P. 1997. 'The Animal Bones from Arene Candide. Final Report.' In Arene Candide: Functional and Environmental Assessment of the Holocene Sequence, ed. R. Maggi, 153-277. Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali.
  8. ↑ Albarella, A., Dobney, K., Ervynck, A. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. Pigs and Humans. 10,000 Years of Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  9. ↑ Legge, A.J. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2000. 'The exploitation of animals.' In Village on the Euphrates, From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra. eds. A.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman and A.J. Legge, 475-525. Oxford University Press.
  10. ↑ Panter-Brick, C., Layton, R. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2001. Hunter-Gatherers. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge University Press.
  11. ↑ Clapham, A.J. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. 'New discoveries at Qasr Ibrim, Lower Nubia.' In Fields of Change. Progress in African Archaeobotany, ed. R. Cappers, 157-164. Groningen Archaeological Studies 5.
  12. ↑ Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. From Genesis to Prehistory. The archaeological Three Age System and its contested Reception in Denmark, Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
  13. ↑ "List of Fellows - R". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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