Raksha Dave
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Raksha Dave (born 1977) is an archaeologist and TV presenter.
Early life and education
Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1999.[1]
Personal life
In April 2017, Dave married Nigel Jeffries, who is a medieval and post-medieval pottery expert at the Museum of London.[2]
Career
Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.[1] She also excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey, and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico.[3]
Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist.[4] In 2018 she was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.[1] She presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices programme on prehistory, broadcast in 2015,[5] and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5.[1]
Other TV work includes The Bone Detectives (2020) and Digging Up Britain's Past (2020).
Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists,[6] was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology and is a patron of the Young Archaeologists Club.[1] She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.[7]
Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Raksha Dave | Pitt Rivers Museum". www.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ "Raksha Dave". Marathi TV. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Raksha Dave | Pitt Rivers Museum". www.prm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ "Inside the Mind of… Raksha Dave". The Heritage Journal. 2012-04-12. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ "BBC Two - Ancient Voices". BBC. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
- ^ Dave, Raksha (2016-05-23). "Archaeology must open up to become more diverse". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ "Raksha Dave". DigVentures. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
External links
- Raksha Dave at IMDb