Derek Arthur Roe (31 August 1937 – 24 September 2014)[1] was a British archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.
[1] Educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, he undertook his National Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Intelligence Corps in Berlin.
He went on to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in 1961.
There, he set up the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre which opened in 1975.
After their divorce, he married Sarah Milliken, an archaeologist and landscape architect.