Professor David HARRIS - B.A., B.Litt., Ph.D., FSA

• Professor of Human Environment
  

Research Interests:

• The ecology and evolution of agricultural and other subsistence systems.
• Plant and animal domestication.
• Origins and spread of agriculture.
  

Recent Publications:

Harris, D R, 1994. Pathways to world prehistory, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 60, 1-13.

Harris, D R (ed), 1994. The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives, London: UCL Press.

Harris, D R, 1995. Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide, in J Allen and J F O'Connell (eds), Transitions, Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea, 848-854. (Antiquity Special Number 265(69))

Harris, D R, (ed), 1996. The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, London: UCL Press and Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press

Harris, D R, 1996. Domesticatory relationships of people, plants and animals, in R Ellen and K Fukiu (eds), Redefining nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Oxford and Washington DC: Berg

Collaborations

The Turkmenistan project. The beginnings of agriculture and sedentary settlement in western Central Asia.

Educational Background:

• BA, BLitt: Oxford University:
• PhD: University of California at Berkeley
• Reader in Geography: University College London

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