Dr Graeme Martin Warren BA, MA, PhD,
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Biography:
I am currently a College Lecturer in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, having been appointed in 2002 to expand the School's practical teaching skills and provide a specialism in early prehistory. I am delighted to be part of the School and to have been here through the exciting changes taking place at UCD.
Before arriving in Dublin I was based in Edinburgh, where I had completed (2001) my PhD - a synthetic study of the mesolithic in eastern Scotland under the supervision of Bill Finlayson and Ian Ralston. Before then, I had studied for an MA in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Sheffield (1995-1996) - a degree that served as a transition from an undergraduate focus on Classics and Ancient History (Univ. of Warwick, 1991-1994).
I was born in the south of England - and lived in Newbury, Berkshire for most of my childhood years. Oddly, my dad ran a youth club directly across the road from many of the Thatcham mesolithic sites, and my secondary school chemistry teacher, Mr Froom, is a very well respected 'amateur' mesolithic archaeologist (e.g. Froom, R. 2005 Late Glacial Long Blade Sites in the Kennet Valley British Museum Press). I didn't really get on with Chemistry, and at the time had little interest in Archaeology: in fact, Roy Froom taught a class on Archaeology as part of Friday afternoon range of extra-curricular activities (for those of us that objected to joining the Cadet Forces). I elected to do the class on bricklaying instead. If only I had known then...