Joan Oates
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Joan Louise Oates, FBA (née Lines; 6 May 1928 – 3 February 2023) was an American-British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Ancient Near East. From 1971 to 1995 she was a Fellow and tutor of Girton College, Cambridge, and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. From 1995 she was a Senior Research Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.[1] From 2004 she was director of the excavations of Tell Brak, having been co-director, with her husband, David Oates, between 1988 and 2004.[2]
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Born | Joan Louise Lines (1928-05-06)6 May 1928 Watertown, New York, U.S. |
Died | 3 February 2023(2023-02-03) (aged 94) |
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Children | Three |
Awards | Fellow of the British Academy (2004) Grahame Clark Medal for Prehistoric Archaeology (2014) |
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Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Ancient Near East |
Institutions | Girton College, Cambridge University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research |
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