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Dr Yvonne Marshall is an archaeologist specialising in prehistory and the development of feminist and indigenous archaeology.

Education and Career
She was educated in New Zealand and Canada, graduating with a BA from the University of Otago and an MA from Auckland University, New Zealand, before completing her PhD at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. Dr Marshall was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Southampton in 1994. She has completed major field projects at Pouerua, northern New Zealand ; Sigatoka, Fiji; Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; and the Women's Peace Camps at Greenham Common, England, and is currently working on projects in Taiwan and New Zealand.

Research
Her research focuses on feminist perspectives and indigenous approaches to prehistoric archaeology, and in particular to archaeological objects and artefacts in the Pacific and Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada. She has published work on archaeological and social theory including papers on the subject of personhood, ontology and on the interpretative value of object biographies with Chris Gosden , and has drawn attention to the potential of feminist approaches for archaeology