Caroline Ann Tuke Malone (born 1957) is a British academic and archaeologist. She was Professor of Prehistory at Queen's University, Belfast from 2013 and is now emeritus professor.

Education

Malone graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 1980 (promoted to MA (Cantab)), and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in archaeology by Cambridge in 1986. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Exchange systems and style in the central Mediterranean".

Career

She began her career as a curator at the Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury from 1985 to 1987. She then worked as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage from 1987 to 1990. She moved into academia, and was a lecturer then senior lecturer at the University of Bristol from 1990 to 1997. In 1997, she returned to her alma mater, the University of Cambridge, as a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and a tutor in archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education. She was additionally made an affiliated lecturer of the Department of Archaeology in 1998. She was editor of Antiquity (2000–2002), Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Early Europe at the British Museum (2000–2003), and senior tutor of Hughes Hall, Cambridge (2003–2007).

Research

Her research interests include fieldwork in peninsular Italy (since 1983), Malta (since 1987), and Troina in Sicily (since 1997), and currently in Britain. Specific topics include archaeological theory and practice; Neolithic and Copper Age societies of Britain, Europe, Mediterranean, and Italy; island societies and island archaeology; landscape and settlement archaeology: cultural resource management: artefacts and technology: fieldwork and survey. Malone headed a successful European Research Council bid for an Advanced Research Project entitled FRAGSUS which commenced in 2013. This project is a collaboration between the University of Malta, the University of Cambridge, Heritage Malta and Queen’s University Belfast. It investigates the environmental impact of early colonists in Malta, and excavated at the Neolithic temple sites of Ggantija, Santa Verna, Kordin III and Skorba as well as Tac Cawla and the Bronze Age site of In Nuffara in an attempt to explored chronology, economy and landscape.

Personal life

Malone is married to Cambridge archaeologist Simon Stoddart, with whom she has directed fieldwork since 1983, and together they have two children.

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