Mike Parker Pearson

Michael "Mike" Parker Pearson (born 1957)^[1] is a professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield in England.^[2] His books include The Archaeology of Death and Burial, Bronze Age Britain, Architecture and Order and In Search of the Red Slave (the last in conjunction with his partner Karen Godden). He has carried out excavations in South Uist, Madagascar and at Durrington Walls as part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. Parker Pearson has appeared several times in the Channel 4 show Time Team in particular in one looking at the excavation of Durrington Walls. He also appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary Stonehenge Decoded, along with the PBS programme NOVA:Secrets of Stonehenge".

Publications

• Parker Pearson, Mike; Richards, Colin (1994). Architecture and order : approaches to social space. Routledge. ISBN 9780415067287. 
• Parker Pearson, Mike (1999). Archaeology of death and burial. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 9780890969267. 
• Parker Pearson, Mike; Godden, Karen (2002). In search of the red slave : shipwreck and captivity in Madagascar. Sutton. ISBN 9780750929387. 
• Parker Pearson, Mike (2003). Food, culture and identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Archaeopress. ISBN 9781841714950. 
• Parker Pearson, Mike (2005). Bronze Age Britain. Batsford. ISBN 9780713488494. 
• Parker Pearson, Mike; Thorpe, I J (2005). Warfare, violence and slavery in prehistory : proceedings of a Prehistoric Society conference at Sheffield University. Archaeopress. ISBN 9781841718163. 

Notes

1. ^ "Parker Pearson, Michael 1957-". WorldCat Identities. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93-14798. Retrieved 22 December 2011. 
2. ^ "Professor Michael Parker Pearson". Department of Archaeology. University of Sheffield. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/people/parker. Retrieved 22 December 2011.