Landscape Section - Conference and AGM 2006
'The Peoples of Britain and Ireland:
Where do we come from? Some recent ideas. '
David Miles is currently Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage.
Abstract
David Miles will begin his talk with some general observations concerning certain clichés related to
immigration and will then consider recent work on genetics. The main body of the
presentation will look at immigration during the Neolithic Period.
He was previously the Director of Oxford Archaeological Unit, he was an Associate Professor of Stanford University and is a
Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford and a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
His particular interests are the history of the English landscape and the archaeology of the first
millennium AD. He has worked in many areas of England and also France, Greece, Israel, Africa
and the Americas.
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