European Archæology at Oxford: C. F. C. Hawkes

Abstract

Mr. Christopher F. C. Hawkes the first holder of the new Char of European archaeology at Oxford, is one of the most active among the younger pre-historiats. H was a scholar of Winchester and of New Coflejge, and entered the British Museum shortly afifewEaMig his degree in the Honour School of Litere Humaniores. While still an undergraduate, he took part in the excavation of the entrenched camp on St. Catharine's Hill, and later conducted a series of excavations at Colchester (Roman Camulodunum), the results of which have been published recently. In 1932 he was a secretary of the International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences in London, and published with W. TV D. Kendrick a retrospect of "Archæology in England and Wales, 1914-1931". Mr. Hawkes is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an active member of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Archaeological Institute. His principal publication is "The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe"(Methuen, 1940). In his excavations and other field work, Mr. Hawkes has shown himself an inspiring leader and teacher, and at Oxford he will have every encouragement to build up a strong school of prehistoric archæology.