Paul Mellars#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1896 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Paul Mellars passed away May 7, 2022.
Positions Held
- 1997 Professor in Prehistory and Human Evolution
- Life Fellow and former President of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- 1981 University Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Reader (1991)
- 1970 University Lecturer in Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Sheffield
- 1968 - 1970 the Sir James Knott Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle
- 1965 - 1968 Research Fellow in Arts at the University of Sheffield
- Visiting positions at the Binghamton University and the Australian National University
Fields of Scholarship
- Behaviour and archaeology of Neanderthal populations
- Early European modern humans
- Mesolithic
- Prehistory
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA)
- 1990 Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
- 2004 Appointed an Officier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Government
- 2006 Awarded the Grahame Clark Medal by the British Academy
- 2008 British Academy’s Grahame Clarke medal ‘for academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology’
- 2010 Knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to scholarship
- 1998 - 2000 President of the Prehistoric Society
- Trustee of the ACE Foundation
