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Raksha Dave (born 22 August 1977) is an archaeologist,TV presenter and the current president of the Council for British Archaeology.
Dave obtained a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1999. [1]
In April 2017,Dave married Nigel Jeffries,an expert in medieval and post-medieval pottery at the Museum of London. [2]
Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit,primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service. [1] She also excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey,and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico. [3]
Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist. [4] She was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain ,broadcast in 2018. [1] She presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices programme on prehistory,broadcast in 2015, [5] and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours:New Evidence for Channel 5. [1]
Other TV work includes The Bone Detectives (2020) and Digging Up Britain's Past (2020).
Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists, [6] was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) and is a patron of its Young Archaeologists Club. [1] In July 2021 CBA announced that Dave had taken up the three-year presidency of the organisation. [7]
She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures. [8]
Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum,University of Oxford. [1]
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon,was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan,the site of ancient Jericho,from 1952 to 1958,and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. She was Principal of St Hugh's College,Oxford,from 1962 to 1973,having undertaken her own studies at Somerville College,Oxford.
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