Ruth Young (archaeologist)

Ruth Lorraine Young FSA FHEA is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester.

Ruth Young FSA
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Bradford
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology
Institutions	University of Leicester

Career

Young completed undergraduate, MPhIl, and PhD studies at the University of Bradford. She was first appointed at the University of Leicester in 2000. She is a specialist in the archaeology of South Asia and the Middle East. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2010.

She has taken as interest in preserving the archaeology of Pakistan.

Select publications

• Young, R. 2019. Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East. London: Routledge.
• Young, R. & Fazeli, H. 2018. "Landlord Villages of Iran as Examples of Political Economy and Materiality". Post-medieval Archaeology 52,1: 34–48.
• Newson, P. & Young, R. 2017. Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Rebuilding Knowledge, Memory and community from War-Damaged Material Culture. London: Routledge.
• Brooks. A. & Young, R. 2016. "Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East: A Preliminary Overview". Historical Archaeology 50(4):22–35.
• Newson, P. & Young, R. 2015. "The archaeology of conflict damaged sites: Hosn Niha in the Biq'a Valley, Lebanon". Antiquity 89, 344: 449–463.
• Coningham, R. & Young, R. 2015. The Archaeology of South Asia. From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE to 200 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Young, R. 2003. Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Oxford: BAR. S1124.