Caroline Malone

Caroline Malone (born 1957) is a British academic and archaeologist currently Director of Education and Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at Queen's University, Belfast School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/, and formerly Senior Tutor of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, UK. Prior to this she was editor of Antiquity and Keeper of the Department of Prehistory and Early Europe at the British Museum. She began her career as curator at the Alexander Keillor Museum at Avebury.

Her research interests include fieldwork in peninsular Italy (since 1983), Malta (since 1987), and Troina in Sicily (since 1997), and currently in Britain. Specific topics include archaeological theory and practice; Neolithic and Copper Age societies of Britain, Europe, Mediterranean, and Italy; island societies and island archaeology; landscape and settlement archaeology: cultural resource management: artefacts and technology: fieldwork and survey.

Malone graduated BA at the University of Cambridge in 1980, holds an MA in Archaeology and Anthropology, and was awarded a Ph.D in Archaeology by Cambridge University in 1986. She is married to Cambridge Archaeologist Dr Simon Stoddart with whom she has directed fieldwork since 1983 and has two children.