Michael Dames (born 1938) is a British artist, art historian, archaeologist and geographer, who has written several books on megaliths and neolithic culture. He has focused much of his research on the prehistoric man-made earthwork from the Neolithic period, Silbury Hill, the second largest earthen mound in Europe, on a similar scale and volume as the pyramids in Egypt.

Dames has written extensively on the subject of the Neolithic-era human-made earthwork, Silbury Hill in his books, The Avebury Circle; Silbury: Resolving the Enigma; and The Silbury Treasure: The Great Goddess Rediscovered; and Roman Silbury and the harvest goddess.

Dames has taught Prehistoric Design at the Sheffield Polytechnic from 1964 to 1968, and Art History at Birmingham Polytechnic from 1971 to 1976.

His public sculpture, The Mothers, is held in the collections of the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.