D.G. Beresford-Jones is an Affiliated Scholar of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. He has previously held positions at the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig. For the past two decades he has directed fieldwork on the south coast of Peru using various archives to investigate the transition to agriculture and its role in determining past human impacts on ecosystems and landscapes. He has particular interests in archaeobotany, hunter-gatherer archaeology, the European Upper Palaeolithic, ancient fabric and textile technologies, dryland geoarchaeology and the synthesis between archaeology and other disciplines, especially with historical linguistics.
