Raksha Dave was born on 22 August 1977 and is an archaeologist, TV presenter and the current president of the Council for British Archaeology.
10 Facts About Raksha Dave
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Raksha Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.
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Raksha Dave excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey, and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico.
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Raksha Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist.
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Raksha Dave was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.
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Raksha Dave presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices programme on prehistory, broadcast in 2015, and co-presented Pompeii's Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5.
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Raksha Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists, was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology and is a patron of its Young Archaeologists Club.
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In July 2021 CBA announced that Raksha Dave had taken up the three-year presidency of the organisation.
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Raksha Dave is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.
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Raksha Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.