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.