Joan J. Taylor FSA[1] (1940 – 24 October 2019) was an American archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of the British Isles. She was known for her work on Bronze Age gold working, especially her 1980 monograph Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles.[2][3][4][5]

Born in the United States,[6] Taylor completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge in 1973.[3] She was appointed the Rankin Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Liverpool in 1976.[6] A festschrift in her honour, Of Things Gone but not Forgotten: essays in archaeology for Joan Taylor, was published in 2012.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Trigg, J. R., ed. (2012). Of Things Gone but not Forgotten: essays in archaeology for Joan Taylor. BAR International Series 2434. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 9781407310336. OCLC 818952987.
  2. ↑ Kinnes, Ian (1981). "Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles. By Joan J. Taylor". The Archaeological Journal. 138: 272–273. doi:10.1080/00665983.1981.11078678.
  3. 1 2 Tylecote, R. F. (1981). "Joan J. Taylor: Bronze age goldwork of the British Isles". Antiquity. 55 (215): 229. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0004432X. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 162853208.
  4. ↑ Eogan, George (1981). "Review of Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 111: 124–127. ISSN 0035-9106. JSTOR 25508806.
  5. ↑ Murgia, Alessia; Melkonian, Martina; Roberts, Benjamin W. "Introduction". European Bronze Age Gold in the British Museum. British Museum. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  6. 1 2 Clark, Grahame (1989). Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 145. ISBN 9780521350310.


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