N. K. Sandars
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Nancy Sandars FSA FBA |
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| Born |
Nancy Katharine Sandars 29 June 1914 |
| Died | 20 November 2015 (aged 101) |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | N. K. Sandars |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1957) Fellow of the British Academy (1984) |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Education | By governesses at home and at Wychwood School |
| Alma mater |
Institute of Archaeology St Hugh's College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline |
Archaeology Prehistory |
| Sub discipline |
Bronze Age Europe Ancient Near East |
Nancy Katharine Sandars, FSA, FBA (29 June 1914 – 20 November 2015) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian. As an independent scholar, she was never a university academic, she wrote a number of books and a popular translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Sandars was born on 29 June 1914 in The Manor House, Little Tew, Oxfordshire, England. Her parents were Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sandars and Gertrude Sandars (née Phipps): her father was a British Army officer who had served in the Boer War and during World War I, and her mother served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Through her mother, she was a descendant of James Ramsay, the 18th Century anti-slavery campaigner.
Sanders was educated at home by a governess in her early years, and then at Wychwood School, an all-girls independent school in Oxford. She was a sickly child, ill with tuberculosis; this had affected her eyes, but she was successfully treated at a sanatorium in Switzerland. As her education was interrupted by illness, she left school without any qualifications.
After the end of World War II, Sandars decided to attend university. With no school qualifications, she had to take the 'London Matric'; she passed and was therefore qualified for study at the University of London. In 1947, she entered the Institute of Archaeology to study for a postgraduate diploma in Western European archaeology. The course covered the Palaeolithic, and Iron Age periods, and also the archaeology of the Celts. The diploma took her three years to complete because of periods of illness.
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