Michael Shanks (archaeologist)

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Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks in 2008
Born	Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Nationality	British
Scientific career
Fields	Classical archaeology, Archaeological theory and Media archaeology

Michael Shanks (born 1959, Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British archaeologist specialising in classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the U.S. in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University.^[1]