Don Brothwell

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Don Reginald Brothwell (* 1933 in Nottingham ; † 2016 ) was a British archaeozoologist .

Life

Don R. Brothwell grew up in Nottingham as the only child of electrician George Brothwell and his wife Charlotte in a middle class family. Already as a child he was interested in bones, cooked the corpses of guinea pigs on the domestic stove and later began to take part in excavations, e.g. B. in the Saxon cemetery at Breedon-on-the-Hill in north-west Leicestershire . Brothwell planned a career as a teacher and began studying at an art school, which he dropped out, however, in order to acquire the university entrance qualification (A-Levels).

In 1952/53 he began studying anthropology and archeology at the Institute of Archeology at the University of London , from which he graduated with a BA , and completed a master’s degree in anthropology at Cambridge University before obtaining a doctorate in physical anthropology in Stockholm .

From 1958 to 1961 he worked as a demonstrator in the Department of Archeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. Between 1961 and 1974 he worked in the natural history department of the British Museum , whose bureaucratic structures he found increasingly restrictive. He therefore moved to the London Institute of Archeology in 1974 as the successor to Ian Cornwall , first as a lecturer , then as a reader in Zooarchaeology . From 1993 to 1999 he was Professor of Human Palaeoecology at York University , where he was retired in 1999. In 2006 he was made an honorary professor by Durham University . From 2009 to 2014 he was Director of InterArChive at the University of York. In 1974 he founded the Journal of Archaeological Science , of which he was editor until 1993. Since 1984 he has been editor of the "Cambridge Manuals in Archeology" and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology , of "Ossa" (from 1991) and of the Journal of Paleopathology (from 1992).

Brothwell was a staunch pacifist and spent two months in 1952 as a conscientious objector in Lincoln Prison , an experience that shaped him. He continued to collect animal bones while in prison. His hobby was painting.

Keith Dobney and Terry O'Connor published a commemorative publication in 2002 in his honor.

Honors, prizes and awards

Publications (selection)

  • Evidence of leprosy in British archaeological material. Medical History 2, 1958, 287-291.
  • Cannibalism in early Britain. Antiquity 35, 1961, 304-307.
  • The palaeopathology of early British man: an essay on the problems of diagnosis and analysis. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 91, 1961, 318-344.
  • Digging up bones . London, British Museum, 1972.
  • The bog man and the archeology of people . London, British Museum Publications 1986. ISBN 0714113840
  • On zoonoses and their relevance to paleopathology. In Ortner, DJ, Aufderheide, A. C (Ed.), Human Paleopathology: Current Syntheses and future Options . Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press 1988, 18-22.
  • Malocclusion and methodology: The problem and relevance of dental malalignment in animals. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 1, 1999, 27-37.
  • Avian osteopathology and its evaluation. Archaeofauna 2, 1993, 33-43.
  • On the complex nature of microbial ecodynamics in relation to earlier human palaeoecology. In G. Bailey, R. Charles and N. Winder (Eds.), Human ecodynamics 2000.
  • Studies on skeletal and dental variation: a view across two centuries. In Margaret Cox, Simon Mays (Ed.) Human osteology in archeology and forensic science . London, Greenwich Medical Media 2000. ISBN 1841100463
  • Ancient avian osteopetrosis: the current state of knowledge. Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group Kraków, Poland, 11. – 15. September 2001. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 45, 2002, 31.
  • with J. Baker: Animal Diseases in Archeology. New York, Academic Press 1980.
  • with Patricia Brothwell: Food in antiquity: a survey of the diet of early peoples . London, Thames and Hudson 1969. ISBN 0500020639 (extended new edition 1998, German: Manna und Hirse. Mainz, Philipp von Zabern 1969, ISBN 3805305362 )
  • with Eric Higgs : Science in archeology: a comprehensive survey of progress and research . London, Thames & Hudson 1963.
  • Edited with Andrew Tawse Sandison: Diseases in Antiquity: a survey of the diseases, injuries, and surgery of early populations. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. 1967.
  • with RK Chhem, RK: Palaeoradiology: imagining mummies and fossils . Berlin, Springer, 2007.
  • with KP Oakley, Winifred MA Brooke, and A. Roger Akester: Contributions on Trepanning or Trephination in Ancient and Modern Times. Man 59, 1959, 93-96.

literature

  • Ecklund, Scott; Scott D. Haddow et al., An interview with Don Brothwell, emeritus Professur, Department of archeology, University of York. Papers from the Institute of Archeology 14, 2003, 24-41.
  • Keith Dobney, Don Brothwell (1933-). In: Jane Buikstra, Charlotte Roberts (eds.), The Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects, Chapter 3 Oxford University Press 2012. doi : 10.1093 / acprof: osobl / 9780195389807.003.0003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Keith Dobney, Don Brothwell (1933-). In: Jane Buikstra, Charlotte Roberts (eds.), The Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects , Chapter 3, Oxford University Press 2012. doi : 10.1093 / acprof: osobl / 9780195389807.003.0003
  2. ↑ Keith Dobney, Terry O'Connor (Ed.), Bones and the man: studies in honor of Don Brothwell . Oxford, Oxbow. ISBN 1842170600
personal data
SURNAME Brothwell, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brothwell, Don Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeozoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham
DATE OF DEATH 2016