Barbara Adams
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Barbara Adams was a distinguished British
Egyptologist and specialist in Predynastic history, working for many years at Hierakonpolis, where she was the co-director of the expedition. Previous to this she worked at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
in London
and also excavated across Britain.
The first practical experience (dig); an excavation in Yorkshire by the University of Leeds,later in the same year (1965) assisting in cemetery digs of Winchester and elsewhere within England.Contacts with artifacts of the Mediterranean (Romano-British site at Dragonby, Lincolnshire)in excavations of 1966 were followed by a seminal encounter in the same year with Hierakonpolis artifacts,journeying to Egypt initially during 1969 (that year studying Field techniques for archaeology at the university of Cambridge).
A text of 1974 on the subject of ancient Hierakonpolis showed the catalogued findings of Quibell and Green,was complemented by a lauded explication of the F.W. Green
field-notes turning her literary attention intermittently in the proceeding years to archived documents held in museums of the United Kingdom. her knowledge of the Petrie collection allowed for her appointment as assistant curator at the Petrie museum.
re-established excavations of 1979-1980 assisting at a cemetery of a predynastic elite group continuing with this until 1986.Additionally of 1981 worked as assistant to Walter Fairservis at Nekhan in 1981 and '84. Due to the death of Hoffmann the activity of excavation fell to the hands of Friedmann and Adams (as co-director),continuing in 1996. She is credited with the discovery of the previously unknown funeral-masks and a life size statue - this the earliest.
She was editorship of the Shire Egyptology Series (numbering 25 books in total).
Her final work was based upon vase fragments from a cemetery at Abydos
.
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Egyptologist and specialist in Predynastic history, working for many years at Hierakonpolis, where she was the co-director of the expedition. Previous to this she worked at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, England, which is part of University College LondonMuseums & Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material...
in London
London
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and also excavated across Britain.
Early career and the Petrie museum
In 1962 Barbara Adams became an assistant at the Natural History museum. Having specialized in entomology early in her working-life and whilst engaged in activities at the British Museum of Natural history she became an assistant of R.B.Benson. Skills of scientific procedure utilized in museum preparations transferred to the anthropology department of Dr. K.P. Oakley during 1964.There she became acquainted with tool-artifacts, and gained knowledge of the skeletal anatomy of humans. The following year her employment with Professor Harry Smith provided impetus to her career,the position of Edward Chair in Egyptian Archaeology of the University College of London, first held by Sir W.M.F.Petrie, being held by Smith.The first practical experience (dig); an excavation in Yorkshire by the University of Leeds,later in the same year (1965) assisting in cemetery digs of Winchester and elsewhere within England.Contacts with artifacts of the Mediterranean (Romano-British site at Dragonby, Lincolnshire)in excavations of 1966 were followed by a seminal encounter in the same year with Hierakonpolis artifacts,journeying to Egypt initially during 1969 (that year studying Field techniques for archaeology at the university of Cambridge).
A text of 1974 on the subject of ancient Hierakonpolis showed the catalogued findings of Quibell and Green,was complemented by a lauded explication of the F.W. Green
field-notes turning her literary attention intermittently in the proceeding years to archived documents held in museums of the United Kingdom. her knowledge of the Petrie collection allowed for her appointment as assistant curator at the Petrie museum.
Hierakonpolis and onward
Her activities as the pottery and objects expert for Michael A.Hoffmanns'Michael A. Hoffman
Michael Allen Hoffman, Ph.D. was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and author.Michael A. Hoffman was born in Washington D.C. on October 14, 1944 and was raised in Virginia although he spent a lot of vacation time in Ohio. In 1966, he graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. He...
re-established excavations of 1979-1980 assisting at a cemetery of a predynastic elite group continuing with this until 1986.Additionally of 1981 worked as assistant to Walter Fairservis at Nekhan in 1981 and '84. Due to the death of Hoffmann the activity of excavation fell to the hands of Friedmann and Adams (as co-director),continuing in 1996. She is credited with the discovery of the previously unknown funeral-masks and a life size statue - this the earliest.
She was editorship of the Shire Egyptology Series (numbering 25 books in total).
Her final work was based upon vase fragments from a cemetery at Abydos
Abydos
Abydos may mean:*Abydos, Egypt, an Ancient Egyptian city*Abydos , an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor*Abydos , name of a fictional planet in the Stargate science fiction universeAbidos may mean:...
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