Background
He was born in Queenstown, Ireland, in 1917, the son of a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy.
(A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves d...)
A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves during a period of some 5000 years after the end of the Bronze Age (circa 1100 BC), and before the rise of Greek art. Work produced in the ambience of the palaces of Crete (including the palace of Minos at Knossos) and of Mycenae on the mainland is fully described and illustrated. For purposes of clarity the arts are considered by function and material rather than by geographical region or chronological period; but the main political upheavals affecting them are kept in mind. Little wall-painting has survived, and the so-called minor arts are examined for the light they thow on it, as well as to assess artistic development in the Aegean as a whole.
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He was born in Queenstown, Ireland, in 1917, the son of a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy.
Magdalen College.
He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led the excavations at Knossos from 1957 to 1961. He received a Master of Arts degree from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1939. During World World War II he was a conscientious objector serving with Civil Defence.
After the War, in 1947, he received a Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of London.
He then attended the British School of Archaeology, Athens, and the British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara. He was assistant director of the British School of Archaeology, Athens, from 1949 to 1951, and served as director 1954-1962.
His work has been done mostly in Greece and Turkey, but also in then Mandatory Palestine and Crete.
(A survey of how the Aegean peoples expressed themselves d...)