Trevor Watkins is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor of Near Eastern prehistory at the University of Edinburgh.[1] He has worked extensively on the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Asia,[2] including translating Jacques Cauvin's seminal work The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture into English.[3][4] He excavated the site of Qermez Dere in Iraq in the 1980s.
References edit
- ^ "About our staff: Professor Trevor Watkins". School of History, Classics & Archaeology. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ Watkins, Trevor (September 2010). "New light on Neolithic revolution in south-west Asia". Antiquity. 84 (325): 621–634. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00100122. ISSN 0003-598X.
- ^ Cauvin, Jacques; Hodder, Ian; Rollefson, Gary O.; Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Watkins, Trevor (April 2001). "The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin, translated by Trevor Watkins (New Studies in Archaeology.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000; ISBN 0-521-65135-2 hardback £37.50 & $59.95 Reviewed by Ian Hodder, Gary O. Rollefson, Ofer Bar-Yosef with a response by Trevor Watkins" (PDF). Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 11 (1): 105–121. doi:10.1017/S0959774301000063. ISSN 1474-0540.
- ^ Joffe, Alexander H. (1 July 2003). "Jacques Cauvin and Trevor Watkins, The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 62 (3): 207–209. doi:10.1086/380323. ISSN 0022-2968.
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Scholia has a profile for Trevor Watkins (Q11132265).
- Trevor Watkins publications indexed by Google Scholar
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