Edgar Peltenburg PhD, FSA, FRSE
Professor Emeritus in Archaeology
Room 1M.30, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 4140Biography
I graduated with a degree in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Birmingham. I was Lecturer in Archaeology and Adult Education in Argyll and the Isles before joining the University of Edinburgh. Research interests include small-scale society dynamics, archaic states and early technology, especially vitreous materials. I have carried out fieldwork in Canada, several parts of the Middle East and Cyprus where I am director of the Lemba Archaeological Research Centre. I am Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and among my publications are Early Society in Cyprus (ed. 1989), The Burrell Collection: Western Asiatic Antiquities (1991) and The Colonisation and Settlement of Cyprus. Investigations at Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, 1976-1996 (ed. 2003).
Reconstruction of New Kingdom faience bowl, c. 1300 BC, from Gurob, Egypt
External appointments
Editorial committee of Astrom Publications, and the journals Antiquity and Syria Revue d’Art et Archéologie;
Member of the British Academy’s Board of Academy-Sponsored Institutes and Societies (BASIS);
Chair, Cyprus Regional group, European Science Foundation’s Associated Regional Chronologies of the Ancient Near East;