David Oates (archaeologist)
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Professor David Oates FSA FBA |
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| Born |
Edward Ernest David Michael Oates 25 February 1927 Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, England |
| Died | 22 March 2004 (aged 77) Cambridge. Cambridgeshire, England |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Oates (m. 1956–2004) |
| Children | Three |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1954) Fellow of the British Academy (1974) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub discipline | Ancient Near East |
| Institutions |
Trinity College, Cambridge University of Cambridge British School of Archaeology in Iraq Institute of Archaeology, University of London McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research |
Edward Ernest David Michael Oates, FSA, FBA (25 February 1927 – 22 March 2004), known as David Oates, was a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Ancient Near East. He was director of the excavations at Nimrud from 1958 to 1962, Tell al-Rimah from 1964 to 1971 and at Tell Brak from 1976 to 2004. He was Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology from 1969 to 1982 and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from 1997 to 2004.
Oates was born on 25 February 1927 in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, England. He was educated at Callington County School, a state secondary school in Callington, Cornwall, and Oundle School, an independent boarding school in Oundle, Northamptonshire. He studied classics and archaeology at Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated in 1949 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He was awarded the Rome Scholarship to study at the British School at Rome from 1949 to 1951. During his studies in Rome, he took part in his first archaeological survey; an investigation of Roman olive farms in Libya.
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