Gill, David (2018) Winifred Lamb: Aegean prehistorian and museum curator. Archaeological Lives . Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, England. ISBN 9781784918798

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Abstract

Winifred Lamb was a pioneering archaeologist in the Aegean and Anatolia. She studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and subsequently served in naval intelligence alongside J. D. Beazley during the final stages of the First World War. As war drew to a close, Sydney Cockerell, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, invited Lamb to be the honorary keeper of Greek antiquities. Over the next 40 years she created a prehistoric gallery, marking the university's contribution to excavations in the Aegean, and developed the museum's holdings of classical bronzes and Athenian figure-decorated pottery. Lamb formed a parallel career excavating in the Aegean. She was admitted as a student of the British School at Athens and served as assistant director on the Mycenae excavations under Alan Wace and Carl Blegen. After further work at Sparta and on prehistoric mounds in Macedonia, Lamb identified and excavated a major Bronze Age site at Thermi on Lesbos. She conducted a brief excavation on Chios before directing a major project at Kusura in Turkey. She was recruited for the Turkish language section of the BBC during the Second World War, and after the cessation of hostilities took an active part in the creation of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Winfred Lamb, Archaeology, Fitzwilliam Museum, Greek antiquities
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Business & Applied Social Science > Department of Arts & Humanities
Depositing User:	David Upson-Dale
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2018 11:11
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2018 12:25
URI:	https://oars.uos.ac.uk/id/eprint/728

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