Anthony Sinclair is a professor of archaeological theory and method in the archaeology, classics, and Egyptology department at the University of Liverpool in the U.K. He conducts research into the archaeological record of the first modern humans and their immediate ancestors, and has conducted field research in Western Europe, Southern Africa, and Arabia. Sinclair is currently working on a large-scale scientometric study of archaeology and its relationship to cognate disciplines between 1960 and 2020 using bibliometric data and science mapping.