Alison Sheridan
Archaeologist and museum curator
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Sheridan was President of The Prehistoric Society from 2010 to 2014 and is Projet JADE Co-ordinator for Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as well as being the Chair of the Implement Petrology Group and a member of several Editorial Boards. Research topics include the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition and prehistoric jewellery of jet and jet-like materials, faience and amber.
Sheridan was elected to the Council of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2021 (re-elected in 2024) and is Vice President of Archaeology Scotland.
In 2026, Oxbow books published 'The Sheridan Collection' in their new Oxbow Reflections series, the third title in a series and the first of a female archaeologist.
Education
Alison Sheridan studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where she also completed her doctoral degree in 1985. Her work focused on ceramic production, exchange and social organisation in Neolithic Ireland.
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Awards and prizes
Sheridan was awarded the 2018 British Academy Grahame Clark Medal for outstanding work in prehistoric archaeology. In July 2019 she was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
In 2020 she was voted Archaeologist of the Year by Current Archaeology readers and presented the prestigious Rhind Lectures hosted by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on the topic of "Neolithic Scotland: the Big Picture and Detailed Narratives in 2020"