Mike Parker Pearson

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Full Name	Mike Parker Pearson
Occupation	Archaeologist
Date Of Birth	Jun 26, 1957(1957-06-26)
Age	67
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Cancer

Mike Parker Pearson Biography

Mike Parker Pearson is one of the most popular and richest Archaeologist who was born on June 26, 1957 in England, United Kingdom.

Michael ‘Mike’ Parker Pearson, FSA, FSA Scot, FBA (born 26 June 1957) is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Neolithic British Isles, Madagascar and the archaeology of death and burial, and is known for his catchphrase “The Dead Don’t Bury Themselves”. A professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, he previously worked for 25 years as a professor at the University of Sheffield in England, and was the director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. A prolific author, he has also written a variety of books on the subject.

Parker Pearson gained his BA in archaeology from Southampton University in

1979. Supervised by Ian Hodder as a post-graduate at Cambridge, Parker Pearson was a contemporary of Sheena Crawford, Daniel Miller, Henrietta Moore, Christopher Tilley and Alice Welbourn; these students were influenced by Hodder’s ideas, then a pioneering part of the post-processualist current within archaeological theory. He went on to gain his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1985, producing a thesis on burials and bog bodies in Iron Age Denmark.

Mike Parker Pearson Net Worth

Mike Parker Pearson is one of the richest Archaeologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Parker Pearson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Parker Pearson was born in 1957. He would later inform interviewers that he first took an interest in the past when searching for fossils in his father’s driveway gravel aged 4, extending that interest into the human past aged 6 when he read a library book entitled Fun with Archaeology. Deciding to study the subject at the undergraduate level, he attended the University of Southampton, attaining a first class BA with honours in Archaeology in 1979.

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In 2012, Parker Pearson left the University of Sheffield and began teaching at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, as Professor of British Later Prehistory.

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What is Mike Parker Pearson's theory about Stonehenge?

“The current theory is that Stonehenge was created during a time of profound social change ,” says Pearson. It was at a time when “Britain was moving away from being isolated tribal territories to being a unified county.” Unlike previous thought, its construction probably involved all the people of Britain.

Who is Mike Parker Pearson and why is he important?

Parker Pearson is an internationally renowned archaeologist with more than 10 books, seven edited or co-edited books, and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters to his credit. He has appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary “Stonehenge Decoded,” and in the NOVA episode “Secrets of Stonehenge.”

Was Stonehenge stolen?

Though the stones were moved by manpower not magic, and taken from Wales not stolen from Ireland , our new research has revealed that Stonehenge may actually have first stood on a windswept hillside near the Pembrokeshire coast, at a site called Waun Mawn, before 3000BC.

Who built Stonehenge based on archaeological evidence?

In the 17th century, archaeologist John Aubrey made the claim that Stonehenge was the work of the Celtic high priests known as the Druids , a theory widely popularized by the antiquarian William Stukeley, who had unearthed primitive graves at the site.

What is still unknown about Stonehenge?

Stonehenge Remains One of Our Greatest Mysteries Popular belief is that it was used for religious purposes and that it was constructed by the Druids or even the Romans, but the theory was disproved when it was confirmed that the beginning of Stonehenge construction started at least 2000 years before the Celts came.