Richard John Harrison (born August 1949) is an archaeologist and Professor in the University of Bristol, England.
His first employment was in the Department of Prehistoric and Roman-British Antiquities at the British Museum, from where he moved to the University of Bristol as a lecturer in 1976.
He has conducted excavations in Spain on the remains of four Bronze Age villages (dated 2600–1000 BC) in the region of Aragón and published his findings (see the selected publications below).
[4] A collaborative project for a three-year study of Beaker cemeteries in Bavaria is supported by a grant from the Von Thyssen Stiftung.
Its aim is to use the DNA preserved in ancient skeletons to determine patterns of kinship, immigration and residence.