Harriet Crawford
British archaeologist
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Harriet Elizabeth Walston Crawford, Lady Swinnerton-Dyer (1937[1]-2026) was a British archaeologist. She was reader emerita at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and a senior fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
Harriet Crawford | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 May 1937 |
| Died | 7 May 2026 (aged 88) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Cambridge; UCL Institute of Archaeology |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Institutions | UCL Institute of Archaeology |
Life
Harriet Crawford Browne was born in 1937,[1] the elder daughter of the judge Sir Patrick Browne[2] and Evelyn Sophie Alexandra Walston.[3]
In 1983 she married the mathematician Peter Swinnerton-Dyer.[4][5]
Career
Crawford studied at the University of Cambridge and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, where she completed her PhD in 1962.[6][7] In 1990, she was appointed to the Institute of Archaeology.[6] She was director of the London Bahrain Archaeological Expedition (SAAR) alongside Jane Moon and Robert Killick from 1990 until 1995.[8]
Crawford was chair of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq from 2000 until 2006.[6]
Ruth Whitehouse, the Institute of Archaeology's first woman professor, has commented that Crawford "definitely should have been" made professor there.[9] After Crawford's retirement, the UCL Institute of Archaeology gave her the title of reader emerita,[10] and subsequently honorary visiting professor.[11]
Works
- The architecture of Iraq in the third millennium B.C.. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1977
- (ed. 1979) Subterranean Britain: aspects of underground archaeology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
- Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- (ed. with Robert Killick and Jane Moon) The Dilmun Temple at Saar : Bahrain and its archaeological inheritance. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, 1997.
- Dilmun and its Gulf neighbours. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Regime change in the ancient Near East and Egypt : from Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007. Proceedings of the British Academy, 136.
- (ed. with Augusta McMahon) Preludes to urbanism : the late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2014. In honour of Joan Oates.
- The Sumerian World. London; New York: Routledge, 2013.
- Ur: city of the moon god. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.