BSc (Hons) Archaeology 1988 PhD (Traditions of construction and use of the Neolithic pottery of Wales) 1999 Rick joined UCLan in 2004 from the University of Newport and so has been here almost from the beginning of the archaeology degree. He did his PhD at the University of Southampton, graduating in 2000, and prior to this had a chequered career in commercial and museum archaeology. He studied for his first degree at Cardiff, graduating in 1989, which is where his interest in the Neolithic and Bronze Age was first encouraged.

Peterson, Richard (2013) Social Memory and Ritual Performance. Journal of Social Archaeology, 13 (2). pp. 266-283. ISSN 1469-6053 Peterson, Richard and Robinson, David Wayne (2012) Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football. World Archaeology, 44 (2). pp. 263-279. ISSN 0043-8243 Aldhouse-Green, Stephen, Peterson, Rick and Walker, Elizabeth (2012) Neanderthals in Wales: Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves. Oxbow Books, Oxford. ISBN 9781842174609