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Thomas Dowson Founder & CEO

After matriculating in 1981 I trained as an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. In 1994 I took up a position at the University of Southampton in England, where I set up the world’s first postgraduate degree programme in rock art studies. My research on prehistoric rock art was featured in a BBC documentary marking the new millennium that explored human evolution and what it means to be human.

In 2005 I moved to France, opened a B&B and offered archaeology tours. It was not until 2011 that I launched Archaeology Travel, providing information about archaeology for people who wanted to go beyond the iconic sites. Because of the global pandemic, and the time I had during lockdown, I began to think about the mission of Archaeology Travel in relation to the increasingly pressing and unavoidable discussions about sustainable development.

Thomas Dowson Carcassonne
Explaining the history of Carcassonne.
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Presenting at the Tourism Innovation Summit in 2023. © A. Gräf.

My Background in Archaeology

Ape-Man - BBC 2000

Archaeology Travel Over a Decade Later

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