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13 Facts About Clive Gamble

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Clive Gamble was educated at Brighton College, a private school in Brighton, England.

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Clive Gamble studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972: as per tradition, bi BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1975.

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From 1975 to 1979, Gamble was an experimental officer in archaeology at the University of Southampton.

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In 2004 Clive Gamble was appointed to a Research Professorship in the Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway College, in the University of London.

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Clive Gamble subsequently returned to Southampton as a professor in the Department of Archaeology in 2011.

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Clive Gamble retired from Southampton in 2017 and was appointed an emeritus professor.

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Clive Gamble is a Trustee of the British Museum, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow and Vice President of the Society of Antiquaries and Fellow and, from 2011 to 2014, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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Clive Gamble received the Rivers Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2005.

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Clive Gamble is currently part of the NERC-sponsored team that is looking to date key evolutionary events in Europe over the last 60,000 years by dating deposits of volcanic ash.

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Clive Gamble was a co-director on the British Academy Centenary project Lucy to language: The archaeology of the social brain.

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Clive Gamble led a fieldwork programme in Greece, which recorded and published all the evidence from field surveys for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement undertaken there in the last 50 years.

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On 26 November 1981, Clive Gamble was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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Clive Gamble is an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.