Abercromby Professor of Archaeology

Abercromby Professorship of Archaeology is a chair at the University of Edinburgh. It was endowed in the will of John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924), who left instructions to establish a chair in prehistoric archaeology at the university. With the new post having been advertised, it was filled for the first time in 1927 by V. Gordon Childe.[1][2] Abercromby's will set out the focus of the chair and requirements of its holder: they should be knowledgeable of the prehistory of Europe and of the Near East, and that the professor would be actively involved in archaeology research.[2][3]

## List of Abercromby Professors of Archaeology

* 1927–1946: V. Gordon Childe
* 1946–1977: Stuart Piggott
* 1977–2007: Dennis Harding
* 2007–2012: vacant
* 2012–2019: Ian Ralston
* 2019–2022: vacant
* 2022–present: Manuel Fernández-Götz

## References

1. ↑ "The tradition of archaeology at Edinburgh" (in en). The University of Edinburgh. https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/archaeology/about/tradition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trigger, Bruce G. (1980). "The Abercromby Professorship". Gordon Childe, revolutions in archaeology. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-0-231-05038-8. https://archive.org/details/gordonchilderevo00trigrich.
3. ↑ "Abercromby". https://dwharding.com/WP/abercromby/.

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