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Czech-Dutch archaeologist (1952–2011)

Marek Zvelebil, FSA (1952–2011) was a Czech-Dutcharchaeologist and prehistorian.^[1]

Biography

The son of IndologistKamil Zvelebil, Zvelebil left his birth city of Prague with his family in 1968 following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The family first lived in the United States before returning to Europe and settling in the Netherlands. Zvelebil however studied in Oxford, England, and went on to gain a BA in archaeology from the University of Sheffield and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of the last students of Grahame Clark.

Marek then taught at the University of South Carolina before returning to Sheffield in 1981 as a Research Fellow, later holding the positions of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and finally Professor of European Prehistory. Overall he spent thirty years at Sheffield, with spells as a visiting professor at several institutions across Europe and North A