Professor Douglas Baird MA, Ph.D.
Garstang Chair of Archaeology Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
- +44 (0)151 794 4392
- Work email D.Baird@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
Research Interest 1
Principal research interests include 1) the development and nature of the world's earliest sedentary, farming and pastoral communities which appeared in the Near East between 20,000 and 6000 BC. 2) The development of the earliest complex, urban and state societies which appeared between 8000 and 2000 BC in the Near East. Research has involved the development of large scale multi-investigator field projects to address specific issues in the emergence and character of these societies (projects listed under personal statement). In addition his research has involved study of ancient ceramics and chipped stone to gain insights into past human behaviour.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
Boncuklu; the first farmers of central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2020 - March 2021
Boncuklu; the first farmers of central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2021 - March 2022
The Boncuklu Project; first farmers of central Anatolia
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
June 2021 - May 2022
The Boncuklu Project; first farmers of central Anatolia
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
June 2018 - May 2019
Boncuklu project
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
June 2018 - March 2022
Boncuklu; the first farmers of central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2017 - March 2018
Eastern fertile crescent prehistory Project
BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF IRAQ (UK)
May 2018 - July 2019
Boncuklu project; first farmers of central anatolia
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
June 2017 - May 2018
Eastern fertile crescent prehistory Project
BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF IRAQ (UK)
April 2017 - March 2018
Boncuklu project; first farmers of central anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2018 - March 2019
Boncuklu project; first farmers of central anatolia
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
June 2016 - June 2017
Protecting and recording Yazidi heritage
BRITISH COUNCIL (UK)
June 2017 - September 2018
Boncuklu; the first farmers of central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2016 - March 2017
Boncuklu; first farmers
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (USA)
August 2011 - September 2012
Konya Plain Survey.
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
January 1997 - March 2003
Boncuklu project
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (USA)
July 2013 - June 2014
Pinarbasi: the origins of sedentary and agricultural communities in Central Anatolia.
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
July 2003 - December 2004
Boncuklu research project
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (USA)
August 2011 - January 2012
Pinarbasi; the origins of sedentary and agricultural communities in central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
January 2009 - December 2010
Boncuklu, first farmers in Anatolia
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (USA)
July 2012 - June 2013
Boncuklu project: first farmers of central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2014 - March 2016
Eastern Fertile Crescent (EFEC) Prehistory Project
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
March 2014 - April 2015
Boncuklu project; the first farmers of central Anatolia.
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2013 - March 2014
"Unfamiliar Landscapes": from foraging to farming in Central Anatolia, Turkey
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
May 2013 - July 2015
First farmers of central Anatolia; the Boncuklu project
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
July 2010 - December 2011
Eastern Fertile Crescent (EFEC) Prehistory Project: environmental change, resource management strategies and community interactions in NE Iraq 20,000-8000 cal BC
BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF IRAQ (UK)
May 2014 - April 2015
Pinarbasi: the origins of sedentary and agricultural communities in central Anatolia.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
July 2003 - June 2005
BA Small Grant
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
August 2007 - July 2008
The settlement history of Konya Plain and the Anatolian plateau, 12000 BC-1800 AD.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2004 - June 2004
Pinarbasi: The origins of sedentary and agricultural communities in Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
July 2006 - July 2008
Pınarbaşı; the origins of sedentary and agricultural communities in central Anatolia
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
September 2007 - August 2008
Boncuklu; the first farmers
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
April 2012 - March 2013
The origins of sedentism, agriculture and herding in central Anatolia: excavations at Boncuklu
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA (UK)
July 2006 - June 2007
Boncuklu; first farmers in central Anatolia
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
July 2011 - July 2012
Konya Plain Survey.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 1999 - June 2002
Boncuklu project; first farmers in Anatolia
THE GERALD AVERY WAINWRIGHT (UK)
July 2012 - June 2013
Research Collaborations
Fairbairn
External: University of Queensland
Joint application to Australian research Council
Martin Richards
External: University of Leeds
Collaboration on archaeogenetics project
Dr Graham Philip
External: The University of Durham
Joint Directors of major project studying development of complex societies and urbanism in the Levant funded by Council for British Research in the Levant and British Academy
Prof Neil Roberts
External: The University of Plymouth
Study of palaeoenvironments, landscape development and settlement development in central Anatolia
Dr A Garrard
External: University College London
Collaborating on publication of project looking at development of hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers and nomadic pastoralism in the deserts of Jordan