Raksha Dave

Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1999.[1]

In April 2017, Dave married Nigel Jeffries, who is a medieval and post-medieval pottery expert at the Museum of London.[2]

Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.[1] She also excavated at the World Heritage Site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey, and sites in Texas and Puerto Rico.[3]

Dave featured regularly on Time Team between 2003 and 2013 as a field archaeologist.[4] In 2018 she was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.[1] She presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices programme on prehistory, broadcast in 2015,[5] and co-presented Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence for Channel 5.[1]

Other TV work includes The Bone Detectives (2020) and Digging Up Britain's Past (2020).

Dave is an advocate for increasing the diversity of archaeologists,[6] was a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology and is a patron of the Young Archaeologists Club.[1] She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.[7]

Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.[1]

• Raksha Dave at IMDb