Raksha Dave
Archaeologist and television presenter
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Raksha Dave is an archaeologist, TV presenter and the current president of the Council for British Archaeology.
- Archaeologist
- TV presenter
- author
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Early life and education
Dave is from Lancashire.[1] Dave graduated with a degree in Archaeology from the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 1999.[2]
Career
Dave worked with a commercial archaeological unit, primarily excavating in London with the Museum of London Archaeology Service.[2] 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] She was a presenter on season 7 of Digging for Britain, broadcast in 2018.[2] 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.[2]
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 (CBA) and is a patron of its Young Archaeologists Club.[2] In July 2021 CBA announced that Dave had taken up the three-year presidency of the organisation.[7]
She is a co-founder of the archaeological social-enterprise DigVentures.[8]
Dave is a research affiliate of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.[2]
Personal life
In April 2017, Dave married Nigel Jeffries, an expert in medieval and post-medieval pottery at the Museum of London.[9]