Robin Andrew Evelyn Coningham, FSA, FRAS (born 2 December 1965) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in

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archaeology and archaeological ethics. He has been

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of Early Medieval Archaeology since 2005 and

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in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage since 2014 at the

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. From 1994 to 2005, he taught at the

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, rising to become Professor of South Asian Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeological Sciences.'CONINGHAM, Prof. Robin Andrew Evelyn', ''

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Academic career

Coningham led the excavation of the Maya Devi Temple in

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, Nepal; an ancient Buddhist temple situated at the site traditionally considered the birthplace of Buddha. In 1994, Coningham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS). On 4 February 2016, he was elected a

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(FSA).

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coningham, Robin Andrew Evelyn 1965 births Living people British archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists 21st-century archaeologists Academics of the University of Bradford Academics of Durham University Archaeologists of South Asia Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society