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Archaeology in Africa and in Museums: An Inaugural Lecture given in the University of Cambridge, 22 October 2002. By David W. Phillipson . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, July 2003, 30 pp., ISBN 0-521-53722-3 (paperback). Price: £ 7.95, US$ 11.00.

Archaeology in Africa and in Museums: An Inaugural Lecture given in the University of Cambridge,... BOOK REVIEW The creation of the first chair in African Archaeology at a British university is a milestone worthy of celebration. David Phillipson with field experience in Zambia, East Africa and for the past 10 years at Aksum in Ethiopia is Britains most experienced and distinguished Africanist archaeologist with scholarly works covering East and Central Africa, rock art and the standard text on African Archaeology. He is President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa , a former senior official of the Society of Antiquaries of London and from 1986-1994 was editor of the African Archaeological Review published by Cambridge University Press. For the past 22 years he has been an innovative director of the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Phillipsons Chair came 39 years later than the election of Professors Roland Oliver and John Fage to the first British Chairs in African History. Though there have been lecturerships in African archaeology in London, it is fitting that Cambridge has led the way in creating the first chair in African archaeology as Camridge, through the teaching of Miles Burkitt, was responsible in the 1920s for the first serious attention to African prehistory. Cambridge also led http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Archaeology Brill

Archaeology in Africa and in Museums: An Inaugural Lecture given in the University of Cambridge, 22 October 2002. By David W. Phillipson . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, July 2003, 30 pp., ISBN 0-521-53722-3 (paperback). Price: £ 7.95, US$ 11.00.

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Journal of African Archaeology , Volume 1 (2): 247 – Oct 25, 2003
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BOOK REVIEW The creation of the first chair in African Archaeology at a British university is a milestone worthy of celebration. David Phillipson with field experience in Zambia, East Africa and for the past 10 years at Aksum in Ethiopia is Britains most experienced and distinguished Africanist archaeologist with scholarly works covering East and Central Africa, rock art and the standard text on African Archaeology. He is President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa , a former senior official of the Society of Antiquaries of London and from 1986-1994 was editor of the African Archaeological Review published by Cambridge University Press. For the past 22 years he has been an innovative director of the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Phillipsons Chair came 39 years later than the election of Professors Roland Oliver and John Fage to the first British Chairs in African History. Though there have been lecturerships in African archaeology in London, it is fitting that Cambridge has led the way in creating the first chair in African archaeology as Camridge, through the teaching of Miles Burkitt, was responsible in the 1920s for the first serious attention to African prehistory. Cambridge also led

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