Robert Foley (academic)

Robert Foley FBA
Foley in 2011
Born	Robert Andrew Foley (1953-03-18) 18 March 1953 (age 71) Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge
Spouse	Marta Mirazón Lahr
Awards	Fellow of the British Academy (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Human evolution Prehistoric archaeology
Institutions	University of Durham University of Cambridge
Thesis	Human palaeoecology: an analysis of regional artefact density in the Amboseli Basin, Southern Kenya (1975)

Robert Andrew Foley, FBA (born 18 March 1953) is a British anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in human evolution. From 1977 to 1985, he was a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham. He has been a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1987, and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge since 2003.^[1]