Joan Oates
Joan Oates | |
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| Born | Joan Louise Lines 6 May 1928 Watertown, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 3 February 2023 (aged 94) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Three |
| Awards | Fellow of the British Academy (2004) Grahame Clark Medal for Prehistoric Archaeology (2014) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Ancient Near East |
| Institutions | Girton College, Cambridge University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research |
Joan Louise Oates, FBA (née Lines; 6 May 1928 – 3 February 2023) was an American-British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Ancient Near East. From 1971 to 1995 she was a Fellow and tutor of Girton College, Cambridge, and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. From 1995 she was a Senior Research Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. From 2004 she was director of the excavations of Tell Brak, having been co-director, with her husband, David Oates, between 1988 and 2004.