Raksha Dave

Raksha Dave
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Academic background
Alma materUniversity College London

Raksha Dave is an archaeologist and TV presenter

Early life and education

Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1999.[1]

Archaeological excavation

Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.[1] She also excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey, and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico.[2]

Television work

Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a Senior Archaeologist and Presenter.[3] In 2018 she was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.[1] She presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices programme on prehistory, broadcast in 2015,[4] and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5.[1]

Public archaeology

Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists,[5] was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology and is a patron of the Young Archaeologists Club.[1] She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.[6]

Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.[1]

References
  1. "Raksha Dave | Pitt Rivers Museum". www.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  2. "Raksha Dave | Pitt Rivers Museum". www.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  3. "Inside the Mind of… Raksha Dave". The Heritage Journal. 2012-04-12. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  4. "BBC Two - Ancient Voices". BBC. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  5. Dave, Raksha (2016-05-23). "Archaeology must open up to become more diverse". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  6. "Raksha Dave". DigVentures. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
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