Published 1996-05-01
“…Faculty Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of
Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1935-46, University Lecturer
1946-52, Disney Professor of Archaeology 1952-74, Head of the Department of Archaeology
and Anthropology 1956-61 and 1968-71, Fellow of
Peterhouse, Cambridge 1950-73, Master of
Peterhouse 1973-80, he was a visiting lecturer at diverse universities; appointed CBE in
1971, he received many awards including the prestigious Erasmus Prize for 1990,
presented by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, for his "long and inspiring devotion to
prehistory" (Scarre 1991:10); and in June 1992, he was knighted. …”
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