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Professor Andrew Sherratt was born in 1946 and died suddenly of a heart attack on 24 February 2006, in Witney, near Oxford, England. Sherratt was one of the most influential archaeologists of his generation. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...
Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...
Sherratt studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, completing his degree in 1968. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1976, writing on 'The Beginning of the Bronze Age in south-east Europe' . By then he had already moved to Oxford, having been appointed Assistant Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in 1973. At Oxford University he received the title of Reader in 1997 and Professor in 2002. Oxford remained his academic home until 2005 when he took up a professorship at the University of Sheffield. Sherratt travelled widely and received international recognition for his work. He was invited to give the prestigious Human Context and Society Lectures at Boston University in 1998 and his topic was 'Between Evolution and History: long-term change in human societies' . Anthropology (from the Greek word , human or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...
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The Ashmolean Museum (in full the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) in Oxford, England is the worlds first university museum. ...
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Perhaps Sherratt's most cited publication was 'Plough and pastoralism: aspects of the secondary products revolution' , published in 1981 in 'Pattern of the Past: Studies in Honour of David Clarke' , the first article in which he described his idea of a 'Secondary products revolution' . David Clarke was an American Broadway and motion picture actor. ...
He regularly contributed outside of his main field, for instance through a position on the editorial board of the historical journal Past and Present.[1] His ability to work at a continental, even global, scale of analysis has invited comparisons with V. Gordon Childe. Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892 - October 19, 1957) was an Australian archaeologist, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory. ...
Analysis at the continental scale led him into adaptation of world-systems theory to questions of change on the large scale in archaeology, notably in the first volume of the Journal of European Archaeology ( 'What would a Bronze Age world system look like? Relations between temperate Europe and the Mediterranean in later prehistory' ) and in his 1995 David Clarke Memorial Lecture, also published in JEA: 'Reviving the grand narrative: Archaeology and long-term change' . Such interests in linking across continents meant that Andrew maintained an interest in all the major shifts in humanity from global colonisation, through the spread of agriculture to the development of metallurgy and urbanism, including the Indo-European question and the development of new forms of consumption. A collection of his most significant publications in many of these areas appeared in 1996 as Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe: changing perspectives.
Sherratt's interest in broad scale patterns in history (really pre-history) attracted perhaps his most prestigious accolades, such as when University of Chicago historian William McNeill conferred a portion of the prestigious Erasmus Prize he won in 1996 upon Sherratt. The Erasmus Prize, awarded annually by the Dutch Praemium Erasmianum Foundation 'for exceptionally important contributions to European culture', requires the winner to pass on his prize-money to chosen nominees. [2] [3] The Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch non-profit organization, to individuals or institutions that have made notable contributions to European culture, society, or social science. ...
Sherratt recognized the importance of psychoactive drugs and medicine to early culture, and he wrote Consuming Habits, Drugs in History and Anthropology. Sherratt was invited to present the four part television series, Sacred Weeds, which aired to critical acclaim in 1998. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury. ...
Sherratt was always a stimulating and inspirational teacher. He had a significant hand in designing Oxford's undergraduate course in Archaeology and Anthropology, playing a key role as an interlocutor in the development of a new generation of archaeologists who drew from social anthropology as well as archaeology. However, presenting his ideas at the appropriate scale has been a constant challenge, as is reflected in an early edited work, the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, published in 1980 and subsequently translated into German, French, Italian, Dutch and Swedish.
Shortly before his death, Andrew had initiated a project, ArchAtlas, that uses modern remote sensing technology, combined with image and text, to graphically communicate complex patterns of change and interaction across time and space. [4]
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Video [edit] Footnotes - ^ Past and Present Society
- ^ Erasmus Prize
- ^ Erasmus success for prehistorian
- ^ ArchAtlas
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