A. Mark Pollard

Alan Mark Pollard (born 5 July 1954) is a British archaeological scientist, who has been the Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford since 2005. He is director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Member of the Oriental Ceramic Society. He has significantly contributed to many areas of archaeological science, most notably materials analysis, with hundreds of well-cited papers.

In 2018 he was awarded the Pomerance Medal for scientific contributions to archaeology by the Archaeological Institute of America.

He has co-authored several key textbooks on archaeological science: ''Archaeological Chemistry'' (now in 3rd edition), ''Handbook of Archaeological Science'', and ''Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology''.

Pollard is a Fellow of Linacre College and has been the vice-principal since October 2020. Provided by Wikipedia