Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator (Paperback)

Winifred Lamb was a pioneering archaeologist in the Aegean and Anatolia. She studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and subsequently served in naval intelligence alongside J. D. Beazley during the final stages of the First World War. As war drew to a close, Sydney Cockerell, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, invited Lamb to be the honorary keeper of Greek antiquities. Over the next 40 years she created a prehistoric gallery, marking the university's contribution to excavations in the Aegean, and developed the museum's holdings of classical bronzes and Athenian figure-decorated pottery. Lamb formed a parallel career excavating in the Aegean. She was admitted as a student of the British School at Athens and served as assistant director on the Mycenae excavations under Alan Wace and Carl Blegen. After further work at Sparta and on prehistoric mounds in Macedonia, Lamb identified and excavated a major Bronze Age site at Thermi on Lesbos. She conducted a brief excavation on Chios before directing a major project at Kusura in Turkey. She was recruited for the Turkish language section of the BBC during the Second World War, and after the cessation of hostilities took an active part in the creation of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

General

Imprint:	Archaeopress Archaeology
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Archaeological Lives
Release date:	September 2018
Authors:	David W.J. Gill
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - A5: Tankobon
Pages:	284
ISBN-13:	978-1-78491-879-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	1-78491-879-2
Barcode:	9781784918798

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