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This section contains some of the sordid details about the person behind this website.
David Platt is an ex-patriate British archaeologist with a shockingly varied archaeological past. He has:
- tried to wrap his head around archaeological theory in Lampeter in the early '90s (variously taught by Michael Shanks, Chris Tilley, and Julian Thomas),
- counted land snails for Martin Bell (in a lab with a microscope, no less),
- learned all about human skeletal remains at the Institute of Archaeology in London (established by Mortimer Wheeler!) and UCL's Department of Anatomy,
- helped excavate a mediaeval Welsh castle (Carew), a mesolithic camp site on the Severn Estuary, various rescue excavations around the south of England for three professional field units, a small town on a remote hilltop in western Sicily, and the middle of the Forum in Rome,
- taught a class on Roman archaeology at Stanford University, in California. Unlike his students, David Platt knows who the Stone Roses were, having missed the chance to see them at Spike Island and spent many years cursing this fact.
He doesn't usually talk about himself in the third person.
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