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Julian Daryl Richards FSA is a British archaeologist and academic. He works at the University of York, and is co-director of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), and Internet Archaeology. He is also the director of the Centre for Digital Heritage at the university, and contributed to the founding of The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. His work focuses on the archaeological applications of information technology. He has participated in excavations at Cottam, Cowlam, Burdale, Wharram Percy, and Heath Wood barrow cemetery.
Richards studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, after switching from history. He began his Ph.D. in 1980, researching burial rituals among pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons. In the 1970s or 1980s Richards was a volunteer in the excavations of Viking Age settlements around the Coppergate Shopping Centre in York. He then spent time at the University of Leeds, before returning to York in 1986 to lecture about Anglo-Saxon and Viking archaeology at the University of York.