Dr James Cole
Visiting Fellow
Dr James Cole is a Visiting Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
I read for my BA at the University of Southampton where I was interested in Human Origins and Maritime Archaeology. After my BA I went on to do an MA (Part-time) in Human Origins at Southampton and joined CAHO as a Postgraduate student in 2004. Having graduated from my MA I spent eight months working in commercial archaeology with the Field-Unit of UCL (Archaeology South-East), before starting my Ph.D research back at Southampton under a full studentship grant from the British Academy Centenary Project "Lucy to Language: the archaeology of the Social Brain."
Since successfully defending my Ph.D in August 2011 I have taught a number of Human Origins modules based at Southampton, Bournemouth, Reading, Royal Holloway and Oxford Universities. I also am heavily engaged in fieldwork, running and co-directing projects most recently in Britain specifically mapping the archaeology of Hengistbury Head with Dr William Davies, Lesvos with Greek colleagues from the University of Crete and Dr John McNabb and Albania with Dr Dustin White and other colleagues from Edinburgh and Albania.