Robin Andrew Evelyn Coningham,FSA,FRAS (born 2 December 1965) is a Britisharchaeologist and academic, specialising inSouth Asian archaeology andarchaeological ethics. He has beenProfessor of Early Medieval Archaeology since 2005 andUNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage since 2014 at theUniversity of Durham. From 1994 to 2005, he taught at theUniversity of Bradford, rising to become Professor of South Asian Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeological Sciences.^[1][2][3]

Coningham led the excavation of theMaya Devi Temple inLumbini, Nepal; an ancient Buddhist temple situated at the site traditionally considered the birthplace of Buddha.^[4]

In 1994, Coningham was elected aFellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS).^[5] On 4 February 2016, he was elected aFellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[6]

Coningham is a member of the Antiquity Trust, which supports the publication of the archaeology journalAntiquity.^[7]

• Scarre, Geoffrey; Coningham, Robin, eds. (2013).Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0521196062.
• Coningham, Robin; Young, Ruth (2015).The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0521846974.

• 1965 births
• Living people
• 20th-century British archaeologists
• 21st-century British 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

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