# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mick-aston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:57:17.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mick-aston"
name: "Mick Aston"
slug: "mick-aston"
description: "Michael Antony Aston was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and published fifteen books on archaeological subjects. A keen populariser of the discipline, Aston was widely known for appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4 television series Time Team from 1994 to 2011."
tagline: "English archaeologist (1946–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MickAston_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-07-01"
deathDate: "2013-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.609808000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040074/"
    handle:    "nm0040074"
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    title: "Mick Aston"
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    title: "Mick Aston"
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    title: "Mick Aston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump