About Trevor Watkins
Born 1938. Trevor Watkins is a British archaeologist.
Trevor Watkins is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor of Near Eastern prehistory at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked extensively on the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Asia, including translating Jacques Cauvin's seminal work The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture into English. He excavated the site of Qermez Dere in Iraq in the 1980s.
Publications
Books Trevor Watkins (2023), Becoming Neolithic: The Pivot of Human History, Routledge,
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British archaeologist
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Trevor Watkins was born in 1938.
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