Professor Lloyd Weeks
Professor of Archaeology - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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Lloyd Weeks, BA(Hons), PhD, is a Professor of Archaeology. He studies the late prehistoric societies of Iran and the Arabian Peninsula from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. His research involves multi-disciplinary, collaborative approaches incorporating field survey, excavation, archaeometric studies, and palaeo-environmental reconstructions to understand past human adaptation and resilience. Lloyd is particularly interested in the development of metal production and exchange systems in the ancient Near East, a region that was one of the heartlands of early metal technology, and where we can trace the evolution of complex metal extraction systems and the increasing significance of metals in ancient society from the Neolithic period onwards.
