Lorraine Copeland

Lorraine Copeland (actually Elizabeth Lorraine Adie ; * 1921 in Scotland ; † April 27, 2013 at Chateau Marouatte, Dordogne , France ) was a British prehistoric archaeologist specializing in the Paleolithic in the Middle East .

family

Her husband was former Glenn Miller trumpeter Miles Copeland junior (1913–1991), with whom she had four children:

• the music producer and label owner Miles Copeland III ,
• the "pioneer" of New Wave and music agent Ian Copeland ,
• the The-Police founder and -Schlagzeuger Stewart Copeland and
• the writer and film producer Lorraine "Lennie" Copeland.

Life

Lorraine Copeland was born Elizabeth Lorraine Adie in Scotland. She is the daughter of a neurosurgeon from the City of Westminster in London . Lorraine was educated at Wycombe Abbey boarding school in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire and served on the Special Operations Executive of the British Secret Service during World War II .

Here she met her husband Miles Copeland junior when he was stationed in London during counter-espionage operations by the Office of Strategic Services . They were married on September 25, 1942 at St Mary's Church , Great Portland Street, London. After their eldest son, Miles Ax Copeland , was born in London on May 2, 1944, the British capital had been under the bombardment of German V1 and V2 retaliatory weapons since June 1944 .

After 1945 the family moved to Washington, DC Miles Copeland was involved in several CIA operations. His work took him as a "freelance political advisor" to the Middle East , changing residence in his countries of assignment and in the USA - Stewart Copeland was born on July 16, 1952 in Alexandria , Virginia . In 1948 the Copelands moved to Damascus ( Syria ) - Ian Copeland was born here on April 25, 1949 - to Cairo in 1953 and to Beirut in the late 1950s . In the Middle East, the Copeland children spent their youth and learned the Arabic language . Lorraine Copeland developed her interest in archeology into a professional field.

field research

Copeland worked in her field for the next 50 years. It is generally associated with the Institute of Archeology at University College London and the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée .

Copeland is the author of numerous specialist books and articles on the archaeological history of the Middle East. For the excavations in Halaf-Obed (see Nineveh , Mesopotamia ) alone , Lorraine Copeland wrote in collaboration with other three writings. Other topics of her research are Abri Bergy , Hannon , the Neolithic settlements in the southern Bekaa plain , Ksar Akil ( Antelias ), the Halaf culture ( Copper Age ), Ras el-Kelb in Lebanon , and research projects in Syria , Jordan and North Africa .

Publications (selection)

• together with Peter J. Wescombe: Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon = Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph. 41, 2 and 42, 1, ISSN  0253-164X . 2 volumes. 1965-1966.
• with John Waechter: The Stone Industries of Abri Bergy, Lebanon. In: Bulletin of the Institute of Archeology. Vol. 7, ISSN  0076-0722 , 1968, pp. 15-36.
• Neolithic village sites in the South Beqaa, Lebanon (= Mélanges offerts à M. Maurice Dunand. 1, 5 = Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph. 45, 5). Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut 1969.
• with Jacques Besançon and Francis Hours: Tableaux de préhistoire libanaise. Première partie. In: Hannon. Vol. 7, 1972, ISSN  0440-2715 , pp. 61-88.
• Francis Hours and Olivier Aurenche: Les industries paléolithiques du Proche-Orient, essai de correélation. In: L'Anthropologie. Vol. 77, 1973, ISSN  0003-5521 , pp. 229-280 and pp. 437-496.
• The Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Lebanon and Syria in the Light of Recent Research. In: Fred Wendorf, Anthony E. Marks (eds.): Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant (= Southern Methodist University Contributions in Anthropology. 13). SMU Press, Dallas TX 1975, ISBN 0-87074-146-2 , pp. 317-350.
• The Paleolithic stone industries. In: Derek A. Roe (Ed.): Adlun in the Stone Age. The excavations of DAE Garrod in the Lebanon, 1958-1963 (= BAR. International series. 159). BAR, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-86054-203-3 , pp. 89-356.
• with Francis Hours: The Halafians, their Predecessors and their Contemporaries in Northern Syria and the Levant, Relative and Absolute Chronologies. In: Olivier Aurenche, Jacques Evin, Francis Hours (eds.): Chronologies du Proche Orient. Relative chronologies and absolute chronology 16,000–4,000 BP CNRS International Symposium, Lyon (France), November 24–28, 1986 (= BAR. International series. 379, 2 = Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen. Archaeological series. 3, 2). Volume 2. BAR, Oxford 1987, ISBN 0-86054-487-7 , pp. 401-425.
• with Francis Hours: L'expansion de la civilization halafienne, une interprétation de la répartition des sites. In: Jean-Louis Huot (ed.): Préhistoire de la Mésopotamie. La mésopotamie préhistorique et l'exploration récente du Djebel Hamrin. Éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-222-03854-5 , pp. 209-220.
• as editor with Francis Hours: The Hammer on the Rock. Studies in the Early Palaeolithic of Azraq, Jordan (= BAR. International series. 540 = BAR. Archaeological series. 5). 2 volumes. BAR, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-86054-686-1 .
• as editor with Paul Sanlaville, Jacques Besançon and Sultan Muhesen: Le Paléolithique de la vallée moyenne de l'Oronte (Syrie). Peuplement et environnement (= BAR. International series. 587). Tempus Reparatum, Oxford 1993, ISBN 0-86054-747-7 .
• Deeds of Darkness. Vantage Press, New York NY 1999, ISBN 0-533-12760-2 .

literature

• Olivier Aurenche, Marie Le Mière, Paul Sanlaville (Eds.): From the river to the sea. The Palaeolithic and the Neolithic on the Euphrates and in the Northern Levant. Studies in honor of Lorraine Copeland (= BAR. International series. 1263). Archaeopress, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-8417-1621-9 .
• Ian Copeland: Wild Thing. The Backstage, on the Road, in the Studio, off the Charts. Memoirs of Ian Copeland. Simon & Schuster, New York NY et al. 1995, ISBN 0-684-81508-7 .
• Miles Copeland: The Game of Nations. The Amorality of Power Politics. 2nd printing. Simon & Schuster, New York NY 1969, ISBN 671-20532-3 .
• Miles Copeland: Without Cloak or Dagger. The truth about the new espionage. Simon & Schuster, New York NY 1974, ISBN 671-21662-7 .
• Miles Copeland: The Game Player. The Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative. Aurum Press, London, 1989, ISBN 0-948149-87-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lorraine Copeland in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Literature and articles by Lorraine Copeland on Google Scholar (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ Famed Cia Widow Dies at andmagazine.com, accessed September 6, 2013
2. ↑ Lorraine (Lennie) Copeland's biographical information remains to be clarified: She has authored several books, travel guides and videos as Lennie Copeland .