Jacquetta Hawkes

Jacquetta Hawkes (birth name: Jacquetta Hopkins; * August 5, 1910 in Cambridge, † 18 March 1996) was a British archaeologist and author.

Biography

After attending school at the Perse School, the daughter of the biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Frederick Gowland Hopkins studied the first woman Archaeology and Anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge University. Your first excavation, she took on the side of the archaeologist Christopher Hawkes, whom she married in 1933 and with whom she released her archaeological experiences in the book " Prehistoric Britain". In 1939, she won the passage tomb of Harristown, County Waterford unearthed in Ireland.

In addition, she has written books on Egypt, a biography of the archaeologist and main researcher of the Indus Valley Civilization Mortimer Wheeler in 1948 and a book of poetry entitled " Symbols and Speculations ".

In 1953 she married after her divorce from Christopher Hawkes writer, journalist John Boynton Priestley literary critic and wrote this in 1955 "Journey Down the Rainbow," a jovial indictment of the American way of life in the form of letters.

Hawkes was also involved in sociopolitical and 1957 was one of the founders of the Peace Movement Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She was also from 1966 to 1979 Member of the Central Committee of UNESCO.

Her other publications include:

  • The Archeology of Jersey, 1939
  • Early Britain, 1945
  • A country, 1951
  • The World of the Past, 1963
  • Shell Guide to British Archaeology, 1986

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