A Life in African Archaeology: Autobiographical Notes

IF 2 3区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

African Archaeological Review Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1007/s10437-023-09515-y

David W. Phillipson

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Abstract

This account is intentionally selective. After a brief background note, it covers eight years as an employee in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) during the final months of British rule and the early years of independence. This was followed by six years with a UK-sponsored but Kenya-based research organization. The next two years were spent in Scotland at a large municipal museum and finally a full quarter-century at the University of Cambridge in a sequence of positions concerned with museum curatorship and with teaching and research on African archaeology. At that stage in my career, I initiated large-scale excavations at Aksum in Ethiopia and was involved with UNESCO affairs such as the designation of World Heritage sites.

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非洲考古学的生活:自传笔记

这种叙述是有意选择性的。在简短的背景说明之后，它涵盖了英国统治的最后几个月和独立初期在北罗得西亚（赞比亚）工作的八年。随后，在一家由英国赞助但总部位于肯尼亚的研究组织工作了六年。接下来的两年在苏格兰的一家大型市政博物馆度过，最后在剑桥大学度过了整整四分之一个世纪，担任一系列与博物馆馆长以及非洲考古教学和研究有关的职位。在我职业生涯的那个阶段，我在埃塞俄比亚的阿克苏姆发起了大规模发掘，并参与了联合国教科文组织的事务，如世界遗产的指定。

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African Archaeological Review Multiple-

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2.90

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期刊介绍： African Archaeological Review publishes original research articles, review essays, reports, book/media reviews, and forums/commentaries on African archaeology, highlighting the contributions of the African continent to critical global issues in the past and present. Relevant topics include the emergence of modern humans and earliest manifestations of human culture; subsistence, agricultural, and technological innovations; and social complexity, as well as topical issues on heritage. The journal features timely continental and subcontinental studies covering cultural and historical processes; interregional interactions; biocultural evolution; cultural dynamics and ecology; the role of cultural materials in politics, ideology, and religion; different dimensions of economic life; the application of historical, textual, ethnoarchaeological, and archaeometric data in archaeological interpretation; and the intersections of cultural heritage, information technology, and community/public archaeology.