Derek Pitman

Pitman received his bachelor's degree in Archaeology at Bournemouth University before studying a masters in Archaeomaterials at the University of Sheffield.[1] He researched his PhD, entitled “Craft Practice and Resource Perception in the Southern Urals During the Middle Bronze Age” at the University of Sheffield.[3]

Since 2018 Pitman has led Bournemouth University's excavations at Wytch Farm in Dorset,[4][5] and he is the survey director of the ongoing Greek-Swedish Palamas Archaeological Project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece.[6] He has also worked and published on Swedish,[7] Spanish,[8] Russian,[9] and New Zealand archaeology.[1]

Pitman is a host and co-creator (together with Lawrence Shaw) of the archaeology podcast Career in ruins.[10] He has also appeared on multiple episodes of the online revival spin off of the British Archeological TV programme Time Team, Time Team's Tea Time.[11][12]

• M. Vaïopoulou, H. Whittaker, R. Rönnlund, F. Tsiouka, J. Klange, D. Pitman, et al. (2020), "The 2016–2018 Greek-Swedish archaeological project at Thessalian Vlochos, Greece", Opuscula: The Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 13, 7–72.
• H. Manley, D. Pitman, E. Wilkes, A. Brown, C. Randall, and D. Carter (2020). "Poole Harbour: Current understanding of the Later Prehistoric to Medieval archaeology and future directions for research". Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society 141, 71–97.
• A. Brown and D. Pitman (2019). "Resource procurement and inter-regional connections in pre-contact Taranaki, New Zealand: New evidence from geochemical analysis of obsidian". Archaeology in Oceania 54(3), 149–162.
• M. Russell, P. Cheetham, K. Barrass, D. Evans, E. Hambleton, H. Manley, D. Pitman, and D. Stewart, (2019). "The Durotriges Project 2017: an interim statement". Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society 139, 127–133.