First Dogs: Hunter-Gatherers and Their Canine Companions from Prehistory to the Present

Peter Mitchell studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge and obtained his doctorate from Oxford in 1987. After teaching in Cape Town and Wales, he returned to Oxford in 1995 where he is Professor of African Archaeology and Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology at St Hugh's College. Along with a longstanding interest in the prehistory of southern African hunter-gatherers (which has involved extensive fieldwork in Lesotho) and Africa's past more generally, he has written extensively on the archaeologies of dogs, donkeys, and horses. He is a past President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists and co-editor of the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.