Archaeology: School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Dr. Magdalena S. Midgley, FSA Scot.

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Senior Lecturer Address Archaeology School of History, Classics and Archaeology The University of Edinburgh Old High School Infirmary Street Edinburgh  EH1 1LT Fax:  0131 650 2378 Tel.: +44 131 650 2504 Magda.Midgley@ed.ac.uk

Dr. Midgley studied archaeology at the University of Edinburgh (MA Hons. 1978, Ph.D. 1985) and has been teaching at Edinburgh since 1989.  Her teaching and research interests are centred on continental Europe, and include transition from hunter-gathering to farming, early farming communities of Central and North-West Europe, emergence of monumentality in funerary and ceremonial contexts.  She is also interested in archaeological theory and the history of archaeology as a discipline.

Research projects:

The First Farmers of North-West Europe

Monumental Cemeteries in Europe

Bylany, Soudský and the European Neolithic

The North European Megaliths 

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