Clive Gamble

Clive Stephen Gamble, (born 1951) is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He has been described as the "UK’s foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors."

Early life and education Gamble was born in 1951. He was educated at Brighton College, a private school in Brighton, England. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1972: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1975. Remaining at Jesus College, he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree which he completed in 1978. His doctoral thesis was titled "Animal Communities and their Relationship to Prehistoric Economies in Western Europe".

Academic career From 1975 to 1979, Gamble was an experimental officer in archaeology at the University of Southampton. He subsequently returned to Southampton as a professor in the Department of Archaeology in 2011. He retired from Southampton in 2017 and was appointed an emeritus professor.

Research and Positions Gamble's main research interests are the archaeology of human origins, the social life of the earliest humans and the timing of their global colonisation.

Gamble is a Trustee of the British Museum (August 2010-August 2014), In 2002 he presented Where Do We Come From?, a six-part documentary screened on Channel Five. In 2000 his book The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe won the Society for American Archaeology Book Award. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI).

Selected works Gamble, C. 2021 Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859. Oxford University Press. Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. and Gowlett, J. 2014 Lucy to Language: The Benchmark Papers. Oxford University Press. Gamble, C. 2013 Settling the earth: the archaeology of deep human history. Cambridge University Press. Boismier, W. A., Gamble, C. and Coward, F. (eds.) 2012 Neanderthals among mammoths: excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk UK, English Heritage Monographs. Dunbar, R., Gamble, C. and Gowlett, J. (eds.) 2010 Social brain, distributed mind, Oxford University Press. Proceedings of the British Academy 158. Gamble, C. S. 2007. Origins and revolutions: human identity in earliest prehistory. Cambridge University Press. Gamble, C. 2007 Archaeology: the basics. 2nd edition. Routledge. Gamble, C. S., and M. Porr. (eds.) 2005. The individual hominid in context: archaeological investigations of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts. Routledge. Gamble, C. 2003 Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization. The History Press. Gamble, C. 1999 The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe. Cambridge University Press. Gamble, C. 1986 The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe. Cambridge University Press.