Philip Piper

Biography

Philip Piper is a Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University (ANU). He has over four decades of experience working on numerous archaeological projects in Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. He started his career as a professional archaeologist in the United Kingdom and EU, contributing to numerous excavation projects and heritage assessments. Phil completed an undergraduate degree in Archaeological Science at the University of Bradford in 1999, and a Ph.D in Archaeology at York University in 2004. Following two post-doctoral research fellowships at York and Cambridge, Phil joined the Archaeological Studies Program (now the School of Archaeology) at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, in 2007. In 2011, Phil was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and joined the ANU. He specialises in zooarchaeology and palaeoecology, and the investigation of social and economic change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherer archaeological record. In recent years his research has focused on developing a greater understanding of the emergence of sedentary lifeways and the arrival of cereal agriculture and animal management in Southeast Asia. Phil serves as Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA), an international non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting archaeology and other related fields in the Indo-Pacific region.