John Coles (historian)

John Morton Coles, FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot (25 March 1930 – 14 October 2020) was a Canadian–British archaeologist and academic.

[3] He became professor of European Prehistory in 1980[2] and was a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1963 until his death.

The couple did extensive research into the Somerset Levels which resulted in the establishment of a new branch of archaeology focusing on wetlands and in 1998, they received the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Award.

[2][6] Coles held a higher doctorate (DSc) from the University of Cambridge.

[8] He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, and was awarded the Grahame Clark Medal of the British Academy (1995), the Gold Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2002), and the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (2009).