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Mark Patton (b. 7th January 1965 in Jersey)is a British Archaeologist known for his work on the prehistory of the Channel Islands and North-Western France, particularly the archaeology of megaliths, as well as the prehistory of the Mediterranean islands, the theory of island biogeography and the history of European archaeology.

Biography
Patton was educated at Hautlieu School, Jersey, and went up to Clare College, Cambridge in 1983 to read Archaeology & Anthropology. He completed his PhD thesis at University College London in 1990 on Neolithic Communities of the Channel Islands. He has lectured at Trinity College Carmarthen, and at the Universities of Greenwich and Westminster. Between 1991 and 1995 he led the excavations at La Hougue Bie, Jersey. In 1997, Patton unsuccessfully contested the Lewes Parliamentary Constituency for the Labour Party. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was the following year appointed as a member of the governing body of the Museum of London.

Books
Patton, M.A. 1987 Jersey In Prehistory. Jersey, La Haule Books. ISBN 13: 978-08612000160 Patton, M.A. 1994 Statements in Stone: Monuments and Society in Neolithic Brittany. London, Routledge. ISBN 13: 978-0415067294 Patton, M.A. 1995 Neolithic Communities of the Channel Islands. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports. Patton, M.A. 1997 Islands in Time: Island Sociogeography and Mediterranean Prehistory. London, Routledge. ISBN 13: 978-0415126595 Patton, M.A., Rodwell, W. & Finch, O. 1999 La Hougue Bie, Jersey: A Study of the Neolithic Tomb, Medieval Chapels and Prince's Tower, Including a Report on the 1991-1994 Excavation. Jersey, Societe Jersiaise. Patton, M.A. & Finlaison, M. 2001 Patterns in a Prehistoric Landscape: The Archaeology of Les Mielles, Jersey. Jersey, Societe Jersiaise. Patton, M.A. 2007 Science, Politics & Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind. Aldershot, Ashgate. ISBN 13: 978-0754653219.