Kenyon, Kathleen M. 1906-1978
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m084Digging up Jericho
Digging up JerichoBook 1957
- Summary
- Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. She was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1962 to 1973, having undertaken her own studies at Somerville College, Oxford. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1906-01-05 [2][5]
- Birth Place
- London [2][5]
- Died
- 1978-08-24 [2][5]
- Death Place
- Erbistock, GB [3]
- Wrexham [5]
- Country
- Great Britain [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- archaeologist [5]
- college head [5]
- Employer
- University of London [5]
- UCL Institute of Archaeology [5]
- St Hugh's College [5]
- Educated at
- St Paul's Girls' School [5]
- Somerville College [5]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [5]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- British Museum person-institution thesaurus
- Entry [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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