Raksha Dave | |
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 Dave at the British Library in 2024 | |
| Born | 22 August 1977 |
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| Alma mater | University College London |
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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 is from Lancashire. [1] Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 1999. [2]
Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit,primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service. [2] 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. [2] 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. [2]
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. [2] 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. [2]
In April 2017,Dave married Nigel Jeffries,an expert in medieval and post-medieval pottery at the Museum of London. [9]
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