TIMOTHY TAYLOR teaches in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, UK, and conducts research on the later prehistoric societies of southeastern Europe.

He regularly publishes in international journals, including Scientific American, Nature, The American Journal of Archaeology, Antiquity, World Archaeology, and Current Anthropology. He is the author of The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture, and The Buried Soul.

He has been instrumental in popularizing archaeology on television, acting as a researcher on several BBC programs including "The Blood of the British" and presenting his work on "Down to Earth" in an episode that won the British Archaeological Award for best popular archaeology on TV. He is currently conducting the excavation of a Bronze Age burial site — Barney's Hole — in a newly discovered cave in the Yorkshire Dales.