Juliet Clutton-Brock

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Juliet Clutton-Brock (born September 16, 1933 in London , † September 21, 2015 ) was a British archaeozoologist . She is regarded as a pioneer in this field, where she primarily dealt with the question of domestication .

Juliet was born to Shelagh Archer and Alan Clutton-Brock, who was a professor of fine arts at Cambridge University. The mother died in a car accident in 1936. Juliet and her brother Francis were then sent to an aunt in Southern Rhodesia . Her brother died there of polio . In 1945 she returned to England, namely to the Boarding School Runton Hill in Norfolk . According to her own statement, her interest in animals began in Africa, but in fossils on the cliffs of Norfolk. In 1953 she enrolled at the Archaeological Institute at University College London for a course in archaeological engineering. The professor of environmental archeology there, Frederick Zeuner , convinced her to study zoology at the Chelsea College of Science and Technology. After her return she received her doctorate from Zeuner with a thesis on the remains of some excavation sites in West Asia and India. She also heard with Gordon Childe , Max Mallowan and Kathleen Kenyon . During this time, archeozoology was established as a new branch of science under Zeuner.

During the holiday season, Clutton-Brock lived at Chastleton House in the Cotswolds . Her father inherited this house from 1603 in 1955. It was sold to the National Trust in 1991 by Alan's second wife, Barbara . In 1958, Clutton-Brock married Peter Jewell, a physiologist and agronomist who shared an interest in archeozoology. The couple moved to West Africa with their three daughters Sarah, Rebecca and Topsy in 1966 when Jewell was appointed to the University of Nigeria in Nsukka . However, the family had to flee across the Niger in 1967 to get to safety from the Biafra civil war . In addition to numerous personal items, she lost her data cards from the Jericho archaeological site .

In 1969, after several years of part-time employment at the Natural History Museum , she was given a permanent position in the osteology room . In the meantime, she continued her publication work on excavation sites in Great Britain, Switzerland, the Middle East and India. In total, she published over 100 scientific articles. Together with her husband, she founded the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in 1973 .

When the International Council for Archeozoology was consolidated at a conference in Nice , Juliet Clutton-Brock became a member of the Executive Committee. She took advantage of the institute's capabilities to do radiocarbon dating , dealt early with genetics and also used this for dating purposes and to establish relationships. When she retired in 1993, the Skeletons commemorative was published in Her Cupboard in her honor . In 1994 she became a co-editor of the Journal of Zoology and from 1999 to 2006 its Managing Editor. In the Zoological Society, she advocated high ethical standards in dealing with animals. During this time she also published another 25 articles, worked on the Times Literary Supplement and became Associate Editor of the Archives of Natural History . Her last monograph, Animals as Domesticates. A World View Through History , was published in 2012.

Publications (selection)

  • Domesticated Animals from Early Times , University of Texas Press, 1981 (republished as A Natural History of Domesticated Animals , Cambridge University Press, London 1999, Italian 2001).
  • (Ed.): The Walking Larder. Patterns of Domestication, Pastoralism and Predation , Conference Papers , 1986, Routledge, 2014.
  • A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals , 1st ed. 1987, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • with Stephen JG Hall: Two Hundred Years of British Farm Livestock , British Museum, 1989.
  • Horse power. A History of the Horse and Donkey in Human Societies , Harvard University Press, 1992.
  • Dog , AA Knopf, 1991, Dorling Kindersley, 2004.
  • Cat , Harper Collins, 1991, Dorling Kindersley, 2004 (German 1992, 2011).
  • Animals as Domesticates. A World View Through History , Michigan State University Press, 2012 (ital. 2017).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Storia naturale della domesticazione dei mammiferi , Turin 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Clutton-Brock, Juliet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeozoologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2015