John Collis is a British prehistorian. His first dig was in Longbridge Deverill with Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes. He studied in Prague, Tübingen and Cambridge, where he studied from 1963 to 1970 and was awarded his PhD. He joined the Archaeology Department in Sheffield in 1972 and was made professor in 1990. He has acted as Head of Department and became Emeritus Professor there in October 2004.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, archaeologist, protohistorian, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- 1944, May 19, 1944
