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Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator (Paperback)
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Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator (Paperback)
Series: Archaeological Lives
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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.
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