Robert Foley (academic)

Robert Foley
Foley in 2011
Born
Robert Andrew Foley

(1953-03-18) 18 March 1953
Sussex, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
SpouseMarta Mirazón Lahr
AwardsFellow of the British Academy (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman evolution
Prehistoric archaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Durham
University of Cambridge
ThesisHuman palaeoecology: an analysis of regional artefact density in the Amboseli Basin, Southern Kenya (1975)

Robert Andrew Foley, FBA (born 18 March 1953) is a British anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in human evolution. From 1977 to 1985, he was a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham. He has been a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1987, and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge since 2003.