Gustav Milne is a British Archaeologist, writer and TV contributor who is the current project lead for Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network (CITiZAN) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the

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History

Gustav Milne studied archaeology at

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and completed his

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at the

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, where he wrote a thesis on ancient harbor installations. Gustav started his career as a volunteer for the Guildhall Museum at the site of

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in the City of London. Between 1973 and 1991 Gustav worked for the

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as a professional rescue archaeologist, working on various archaeological digs including

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and the

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. During this time he wrote many reports on his findings. In 1991 Gustav joined

as a Senior Lecturer (in London Archaeology and Maritime Archaeology). In 1992 Gustav became the secretary of the newly formed London Archaeological Research facility. In 1993 he founded the Thames Archaeology Survey, a project to compile an inventory of archaeological and palaeo-environmental sites exposed between

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and

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, before going onto form the

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in 2008. In 2013, Gustav was nominated as one of Current Archaeology's "Archaeologists of the Year" and the Thames Discovery Programme won the Archaeology Training Forum's Training Award, which was presented at the IfA Conference in Birmingham. In 2015 he helped create the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network (CITiZAN) which he currently holds the position of Project Leader, and the founder and co-ordinator for UCL 'Evolutionary Determinants of Health' programme. Gustav has also set up the

's Centre for Human Bioarchaeology with a grant from the

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Television Work

Gustav has appeared as an archaeology expert on several television programme since the 1990s, with many appearances on

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amongst those. He has also appeared as a contributor to ''Digging for Britain - The Tudors'' and TV documentaries ''The Bridges That Built London'' and ''Fire, Plague, War and Treason''. Through his project leadership at CITiZAN, in 2016 he assisted Tern TV in setting up the archaeology program Britain at Low Tide. In 2018 he became a regular contributor for the

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program.

Bibliography

*1981 - Waterfront Archaeology in Britain and Northern Europe (CBA Research Report No 41) *1983 - Medieval Waterfront Development at Trig Lane, London: An account of the excavations at Trig Lane, London, 1974-6 and related research (with C. Milne) *1985 - Port Roman London *1986 - The Great Fire of London *1989 - Aspects of Saxo-Norman London:1 - Building and Street Development Near Billingsgate and Cheapside (Special paper/London and Middlesex Archaeological Society) (with V. Horsman and C. Milne) *1992 - From Roman Basilica to Medieval Market: Archaeology in Action in the City of London *1992 - Wharram: Two Anglo-Saxon Buildings and Associated Finds v. 7: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds (York University Archaeology Publications) (with J.D. Richards) *1992 - Timber Building Techniques In London C.900-1400: an Archaeological Study Of Waterfront Installations and Related Material *1995 - Roman London *1999 - St Brides Church, London (Archaeological Report / English Heritage) *2002 - Excavations At Medieval Cripplegate, London - Archaeology After The Blitz, 1946 - 48 *2003 - The Port of Medieval London *2017 - Uncivilised Genes: Human evolution and the urban paradox

References

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