Professor David Peacock

Emeritus Professor

Professor David Peacock is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

Professor David Peacock was internationally known for his work on pottery and stone analysis.  He was particularly interested in later prehistoric and the classical worlds, and the ways that a study of modern societies can help us understand them better.  In 2013 he completed a book entitled The stone of life: the archaeology of querns, mills and flour production in Europe up to 500AD.

David directed excavations at Quseir al-Qadim (Myos Hormos), on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and previously worked at Mons Porphyrites and Mons Claudianus also in Egypt. He has published many books including Pottery in the Roman World: an Ethnoarchaeological Approach; Amphorae and the Roman Economy (with DF Williams); Survey and Excavations at Mons Claudianus (two vols with VA Maxfield); Bread for the people: the archaeology of mills and milling. Proceedings of the Rome conference(edited, with DF Williams 2011); Myos Hormos - Quseir al-Qadim, Roman and Islamic ports on the Red Sea. Survey and Excavation 1999-2003, Volume 1 Survey and excavation ; Myos Hormos - Quseir al-Qadim, Roman and Islamic ports on the Red Sea. Survey and Excavation 1999-2003, Volume 2 The finds (edited with LK Blue 2011).

David Peacock died on 15 March 2015.