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Harriet Crawford (née Browne) is an English archaeologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East, and an Emeritus Reader at University College London. She is known for her excavations in Bahrain and Kuwait
Life
[edit]Harriet Elizabeth Walston Browne was born to Sir Patrick Browne, a Queen's Counsel, and Evelyn Walston,[1] a member of the Charity Organization Society. The Anglo-American archaeologist Charles Waldstein was her maternal grandfather.[2]
Browne was one of the last debutantes presented to Queen Elizabeth before the monarch abolished the practice in 1958.[3] In 1960, she married Iain Crawford.[1] In 1963, their daughter was born.[4]
In 1983, Browne married Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, a mathematician.[5][6]
Career
[edit]Udal
[edit]In 1963, Iain and Harriet Crawford began excavations on the Udal peninsula in North Uist, in the area Iain named Coileagan an Udail. It comprised two large and two small dunes. In 1964, they found structures in the nearby headland.[7] In 1970, they established that a Beaker culture existed here.[8] Harriet wrote up some of the archaeological notes in 1974.[9]
Bahrain
[edit]Kuwait
[edit]Selected publications
[edit]- Ur: The City of the Moon God. Bloomsbury. 2015. ISBN 9781472531698.
- Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge University. 2012. ISBN 9780521533386.
- (ed.} Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein. Oxford University. 2007. ISBN 9780197263907.
- (ed.) Traces of Paradise: The Archaeology of Bahrain, 2500BC - 300AD. I.B. Tauris. 2002. ISBN 9781860647420.
- Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbours. Cambridge University. 1998.
- The Architecture of Iraq in the Third Millennium BC. 1977.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Times 1960, p. 12.
- ^ Barker 1996.
- ^ Connah 2019, p. 50.
- ^ Times 1963, p. 1.
- ^ Reid 2018.
- ^ Times Obit 2019.
- ^ Smith 2018, p. 6.
- ^ Ballin Smith 2018, p. 6.
- ^ Ballin Smith 2018, p. 15.
Bibliography
[edit]- "Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, Bt obituary". The Times. 11 January 2019.
- Reid, Miles (2018). "Peter Swinnerton-Dyer" (PDF). University of Warwick.
- "Emeritus". University College London. 2019.
- Ballin Smith, B. (2018). "Introduction". Life on the Edge: the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Iain Crawford's Udal, North Uist. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Barker, Nicolas (29 October 1996). "Obituary: Sir Patrick Browne". The Independent.
- Connah, Graham (2019). From Cambridge to Lake Chad: Life in archaeology 1956–1971. Archaeopress. ISBN 9781784919597.
- "Births". The Times. 29 August 1963.
- "Marriages". The Times. 25 July 1960.
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