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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

 

About

The Museum holds archaeological finds from every part of the inhabited world. They range from some of the very oldest – early hominid tools discovered by Louis Leakey in Olduvai Gorge, east Africa – to medieval and post-medieval finds from sites within Cambridge. They include finds from major excavations crucial to the development of archaeological science, such as those conducted by Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho in the Jordan valley, one of the oldest continually occupied cities in the world, and material from Star Carr in Yorkshire, excavated by Grahame Clark over 1949-51. MAA holds one of the finest pre-Columbian collections in Britain, including remarkably preserved early textiles; important prehistoric Arctic materials; wide-ranging collections relating to early research in southern Africa, on rock art among other topics; and – of special interest to Cambridge communities – finds from major Roman cemeteries at Great Chesterford and Litlington, as well as many other prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds from the city and region.


 

 

 

One of a pair of oak roundels, depicting the head of a woman. 

Post Medieval; c. 1530-1540. Old Court, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK.

MAA 1883.692 G.2. Photography by Mike Jones.

 

 


The staff working in the Archaeology section of the museum are:

 

Dr Jody Joy, Senior Curator (European Archaeology)

Dr Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas, Senior Curator (World Archaeology)

Eleanor Wilkinson, Acting Collections Manager for Archaeology

Lily Stancliffe, Teaching and Collections Assistant

Mary Hill Harris, Honorary Assistant Curator (Americas)


Contact the Archaeology Team

If you have questions about the Archaeology collections at MAA, please contact the Acting Collections Manager, Eleanor Wilkinson.

We are currently experiencing issues with the email contact links across our website. Should you wish to contact us please email admin@maa.cam.ac.uk


 

Moche pottery on display in the Andrews Gallery at MAA   

Two million years of human history. One million artefacts. Countless astonishing stories.