3. Between Academic Doubt and Political Involvement

Peter van Dommelen studied archaeology and classics at Leiden University (the Netherlands), where he also carried out PhD research. He is currently lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Glasgow University. Since 1991 he has co-directed the Riu Mannu regional survey project in Sardinia, now a joint project of Leiden and Glasgow Universities. He is also Co-editor of the journal Archaeological Dialogues. His research interests include postcolonial approaches to ancient and (early) modern colonialism, as well as settlement and survey archaeology in the late prehistoric and early historic western Mediterranean, in particular Sardinia and central Italy.