# David Phillipson

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'''David Walter Phillipson''' [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) [FSA](/source/Fellow_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London) (born 17 October 1942) is a British archaeologist specializing in [African archaeology](/source/African_archaeology). His most notable work has been in [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia), particularly on the archaeology of [Aksumite](/source/Kingdom_of_Aksum) sites. He was curator of the [Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge](/source/Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Anthropology%2C_University_of_Cambridge) from 1981 to 2006, and Fellow of [Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge](/source/Gonville_and_Caius_College%2C_Cambridge), 1988–2006.

==Selected publications==
* ''African Archaeology''
* ''Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300''
* ''Ancient Churches of Ethiopia''. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009. {{ISBN|9780300141566}}

==References ==
* 'PHILLIPSON, Prof. David Walter', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U43615, accessed 5 March 2013]

== External links ==

* https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/david-phillipson

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