Gosden was born on 6 September 1955.[3] His biological mother was Jean Weddell (1928–2013), a physician, academic, and bell-ringer.[4] She gave him up for adoption soon after birth,[5] and he was subsequently adopted by Hugh and Margaret Gosden.[6] The family emigrated to Australia, but later returned to the United Kingdom:[5] he holds both Australian and British citizenship.[7] He reconnected with his birth mother in 1987.[8]
In 1992, Gosden married
Jane Kaye.[6] She is a legal scholar and Director of the Centre for Law, Health and Emerging Technologies at the University of Oxford.[16][17] They have two children.[6]
Gosden, Chris (2020). The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN978-0374717902.
Gosden, Chris (2003). Prehistory: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN978-0192803436.
Gosden, Chris (2004). Archaeology and colonialism: cultural contact from 5000 B.C. to the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0521787956.
Gosden, Chris; Larson, Frances (2007). Knowing things: exploring the collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1884-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN978-0199225897.
Garrow, Duncan; Gosden, Chris (2012). Technologies of enchantment? Exploring Celtic art: 400 BC to AD 100. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
References
^"Chris Gosden". School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Archived from
the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.