Author Biography
DR ROBERT CARTER took a first-class degree in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, before obtaining his Ph.D. at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL), where he began his archaeological career. He has since worked on excavations throughout the Gulf. He has lectured at various British universities and from 2003 to 2006 was G. A. Wainwright Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at Oxford University. Since then he has worked as a consultant on rescue excavations in the Gulf, both independently and as leader of Oxford Brookes Archaeology and Heritage. He has been awarded various scholarships, grants and prizes, was chairman of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 2005-11, and sits on the committee of the recently formed (2010) British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA). He is currently Senior Lecturer at UCL-Qatar, UCL's new campus in Doha, where he now lives with his wife and two daughters.
