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Timothy Darvill is Professor of Archaeology in Bournemouth University. He researches and lectures on prehistoric Europe and the role of archaeology in contemporary society. He is well known as the world’s leading expert on Stonehenge and excavated at the site in 2008. After completing a PhD at Southampton University on the Neolithic of Wales and the west of England, he worked for the Western Archaeological Trust and the Council for British Archaeology before establishing a private practice offering consultancy services in the field of archaeological resource management. The author of over a dozen books, including Ancient Monuments in the Countryside (English Heritage. 1987), Prehistoric Britain from the air (Cambridge University Press. 1996), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (Oxford University Press. 2002), Stonehenge World Heritage Site: An archaeological research framework (English Heritage. 2005), and Prehistoric Britain (Routledge. 2010), he has served as Chairman of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and was a Member of the Council of the National Trust. He has excavated at archaeological sites in England, Wales, Russia, Greece, Germany, and the Isle of Man. Professor Darvill is a Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and chairman of Cotswold Archaeology. His book Stonehenge: the biography of a landscape (Tempus. 2006) presents a number of new theories explaining the origin and use of Stonehenge. He was appointed OBE in 2010 for services to archaeology.​