Humphrey Case

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Humphrey Case , also Humphrey John Case (born May 26, 1918 in Frome , Somerset , † June 13, 2009 ), was a prehistorian and archaeologist who had specialized in the bell beaker culture .

Case was educated in the Charterhouse School and St John's College of Cambridge , where he read history. At the beginning of the Second World War he served in the Somerset Light Infantry and was stationed in Gibraltar , where he was used in guard duty, especially against Italian submarines.

After demobilization in 1946, he earned a postgraduate diploma in Prehistoric Archeology at the Institute of Archeology at the University of London . Under Mortimer Wheeler , he dug in St Albans , Hertfordshire . In September 1949 - the same year he married Jean Orr - he became Assistant Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford . There he rose to the position of Keeper of Antiquities , a position he held from 1973 to 1982.

He also took part in a number of excavations in England, Ireland and France. In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . From 1969 to 1973 he was Vice President of the Prehistoric Society .

Case published almost exclusively in specialist journals, which he considered to be the given forum for such publications. In 1955 he wrote about Abingdon Ware , the Neolithic Causewayed Camp at Abingdon, Berkshire , then about Neolithic Explanations (1969).

The bell beaker culture was, however, the focus of his work. In 1954 he wrote about Irish and British early copper artifacts of this culture, then in 1965 about tin bronze. He concluded that the bell-beaker people brought metallurgy to Ireland. He dealt with Neolithic Settlement Patterns in the Northern Irish Neolithic (1969), had already written the article Irish Neolithic Pottery: Distribution and Sequence in 1961 , which was followed by Foreign Connections in the Irish Neolithic in 1963 .

In 1979, after separating from his first wife, with whom he had two sons, he married Jocelyn Herickx, who had a son and two daughters.

In 1993 he wrote an overview work entitled Beakers: Deconstruction and After and in 1998 he took part in a colloquium on his main topic in order to write a contribution.

Fonts (selection)

  • Irish Neolithic Pottery: Distribution and Sequence. In: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol. 27, 1961, ISSN  0079-497X , pp. 174-233, doi : 10.1017 / S0079497X00016042 .
  • with Alasdair WR Whittle: Settlement patterns in the Oxford region. Excavations at the Abingdon causewayed enclosure and other sites (= CBA research report. 44). Council for British Archeology, London 1982, ISBN 0-906780-14-4 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/sep/17/humphrey-case-obituary
  2. ^ The neolithic causewayed camp at Abingdon, Berks. In: Antiquaries Journal. Vol. 36, 1956, ISSN  0003-5815 , pp. 11-30, doi : 10.1017 / S0003581500060339 .
  3. ^ Neolithic Explanations. In: Antiquity. Vol. 43, 1969, ISSN  0003-598X , pp. 176-186, doi : 10.1017 / S0003598X00040448 .
  4. ^ Studies of Irish and British Early Copper Artifacts. In: Man. Vol. 54, February 1954, ISSN  0025-1496 , pp. 18-27, doi : 10.2307 / 2795224 .
  5. ^ Were Beaker people the first Metallurgists in Ireland. In: Palaeohistoria. Vol. 12, 1966, ISSN  0552-9344 , pp. 141-177, ( online ).
  6. ^ Irish Neolithic Pottery: Distribution and Sequence. In: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol. 27, 1961, ISSN  0079-497X , pp. 174-233, doi : 10.1017 / S0079497X00016042 .
  7. ^ Foreign Connections in the Irish Neolithic. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. Vol. 26, 1963, ISSN  0082-7355 , pp. 3-18, JSTOR 20567579 .
  8. ↑ Beakers: Deconstruction and After. In: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol. 59, 1993, pp. 241-268, doi : 10.1017 / S0079497X00003807 .
personal data
SURNAME Case, Humphrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British prehistorian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Frome (Somerset)
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2009