Dr Richard Lee is an archaeologist at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, working in the Archaeology Data Service, with a particular interest in prehistoric landscapes in upland and desert zones.
His first excavation was at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Boxgrove, in West Sussex (1995) and his most recent in Tigray, Ethiopia, and the depts 2024 field school at Skipsea, East Yorkshire. Over the last 25 years he has undertaken fieldwork in Yemen, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Benin, and Qatar. He also spent ten years working in the British commercial archaeology sector excavating across all chronological periods, from Cumbria to Kent, and Norfolk to the Welsh borders. He has a specific interest in the Neolithic interconnectivity between Cumbria and Yorkshire and the archaeology of natural places. Richard was also Project Officer at the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) as part of their English Heritage funded Engaging with the Historic Environment project. This researched the relationship between higher education archaeological provision and regional community archaeology & heritage groups across England.
Richard received his BA and MA, both at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His PhD, awarded in 2023, was undertaken at the University of York, Dept of Archaeology, exploring the first millennium BC of obsidian between Ethiopia and Yemen. He has taught modules on Field Archaeology raining, the Prehistory of the Middle East, and Medieval Africa amongst others.
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