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Giselle Király | |
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| Born | Giselle Réka Ibolya Király 27 September 1995 California, USA |
| Citizenship | American, Hungarian |
| Education | Columbia River High School |
| Alma mater | Western Washington University (BA) University College London (MSc) |
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| Partner | Tom Bell |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | PCAS Archaeology Ltd. |
| Website | www |
Giselle Réka Ibolya Király (born 27 September 1995) is an American-Hungarian fieldwork archaeologist and osteoarchaeologist. She works for the commercial archaeology company PCAS Archaeology Ltd. [1] and has been a member of the revived archaeology series Time Team since 2023.
Early life and education
[edit]Király was born in Pleasanton in 1995 but grew up in Washington state where she attended Columbia River High School. After receiving her BA in bio-cultural anthropology from Western Washington University, she worked with the Lummi Nation, repatriating sacred objects.
In 2017, Király was the coxswain for the DII National Championship 8+ Women’s Rowing Team, winning the National Championship.[2] She then worked with teams from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency[3] to recover missing American military members from WWII before beginning her Master of Science in Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology at the University College London.
Career
[edit]After university she worked as a commercial archaeologist for Museum of London Archaeology and Wessex Archaeology before joining PCAS Archaeology Ltd, first as a fieldwork supervisor, then as a fieldwork project officer and a human osteoarchaeologist. She has worked on excavations such as Romano-British and Iron Age Settlements [4] prior to quarrying, house building, and prior to building High Speed 2.
In 2022, Király represented the United Kingdom as the fieldwork supervisor and osteoarchaeologist for the Anglo-Georgian Expedition to Nokalakevi in Georgia.[5]
Király is a member of the Council for British Archaeology and the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO)[6], and is an active leader for the Sheffield Young Archaeologists Club. She was a BABAO Trustee from 2020-2023.
Television
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She first was found in the background of shows like Britain’s Most Historic Towns and Digging for Britain, before taking part in programmes as a specialist. In 2022, Király appeared as a specialist in a two part series by History Hit TV about an ongoing excavation of an area used by the Band of Brothers in Aldbourne, Wiltshire.[7] After appearing as an expert in 2023, Király joined the team of archaeologists and presenters for the revived Time Team. She has since appeared in episodes about the Band of Brothers in Wiltshire, WWI training trenches in Sherwood Forest, Time Team News, with an episode about Sutton Hoo premiering in 2025. Király has co-presented an episode about a fallen B-17 plane from The Mighty Eighth with Helen Geake, premiering in 2025.
Volunteer Work
[edit]Király is an archaeologist with Operation Nightingale[8], an initiative by the Department of Defence to assist in the mental and physical recovery of military personnel by taking part in archaeological excavations.
Personal life
[edit]Király lives with her partner, Tom Bell, who discovered the Star Carr Pendant in 2015.[9] They live in Sheffield.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key Staff". PCAS Archaeology Ltd. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Western Washington earns its eight national title". ncaa.com. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project". facebook.com. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Time Team News". youtube.com. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ "Linkedin". linkedin.com. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ "BABAO". babao.org.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Uncovering the Band of Brothers". HistoryHit.com. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Operation Nightingale". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ "Former archaeology student from Widnes discovers 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant". liverpoolecho.co.uk.
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Category:DII Women’s Rowing Champion
Category:Women archaeologists