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Parker Pearson gained his BA in archaeology from Southampton University in 1979.

Supervised by Ian Hodder, at university Parker Pearson was a contemporary of Sheena Crawford, Daniel Miller, Henrietta Moore, Christopher Tilley and Alice Welbourn ; these students adopted Hodder's structuralist ideas, then a pioneering part of the post-processualist current within archaeological theory.

He went on to gain his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1985, producing a thesis on burials and bog bodies in Iron Age Denmark.