Robin W. Dennell FBA (born 1947) is a British prehistoric archaeologist specialising in early hominin expansions out of Africa and the Palaeolithic of Pakistan and China.
[1] Dennell studied at the University of Cambridge, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1969 and a PhD in 1977.
His doctoral thesis was titled, Early farming in South Bulgaria: 6th to 3rd Millenium b.c.,[2] and was published as a volume in the British Archaeological Reports International Series in 1978.
[2] After taking voluntary redundancy from Sheffield in 2009, Dennell joined the University of Exeter as an honorary professor in 2013.
[2] Dennell was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012,[4] and is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites.