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Dr Joan Oates FBA

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Archaeology Mesopotamia & Babylon

Elected 2004

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year of birth
1928
Year of death
2023
Year elected
2004
Sections
Archaeology

Last post

Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

1995 -

University of Cambridge Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge

1995 -

University of Cambridge Lecturer in History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

1989 - 1995

Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow, Tutor and Lecturer

1971 - 1995

Other Foreign Institutions Metropolitan Musem of Art, NYC

1954 - 1956

Archaeologist working in Iraq and Syria

1951 -

Publications

Babylon 1979, 1986, 2005

Nimrud, an Assyrian City Revealed 2001

Excavations at Tell Brak (4 volumes) 1997, 2001, and in preparation

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Gowlett FBA

The evolution of early human advanced capabilities; origins and development of design form and proportion in artefacts; investigation of early hominin fire use and its effects

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Professor Koji Mizoguchi FBA

The archaeological study of social relations and their transformation by investigating communication as the minimum basic unit of social phenomena; investigating the linkage between archaeological practices and contemporary society

Koji Mizoguchi FBA

Professor David W Phillipson FBA

Archaeology East Africa esp. Ethiopia

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