Linda and histarchers,

Yes, you are correct. Noel Hume attended St. Lawrence College, in Kent, and
worked in the theatre before becoming an archaeologist. He began in
archaeology as a collector who walked the banks of the Thames and would
occasional sell his finds to the Guildhall Museum. Here he met Adrian
Oswald and became a volunteer and later a curator. He also appears to have
met his wife Audrey at the Guildhall, she indeed had a degree in classical
archaeology.  For more on Noel you can check out Current Biography
Yearbook, 1997.

Don Linebaugh


At 05:21 PM 10/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
All true, but (if I have my stories At 05:21 PM 10/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>All true, but (if I have my stories straight) there is more to this story.
>I seem to remember  (from my Colonial Williamsburg days) that it was Audrey
>Noel Hume, Noel's wife,  who actually had been trained in archaeology.  The
>accepted story was that Noel was a theatre major. -- which may explain his
>charming ability to bring archaeology to the public.
>
>
>Linda Derry, Director
>Old Cahawba - AHC
>719 Tremont St.
>Selma, AL 36701 - 5446
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of paul
> > courtney
> > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:43 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: good books
> >
> >
> > Yes it is very funny but to be fair to Ivor one should remember that he
> > comes from a generation who took such views for granted; but the
> > reverse was
> > if you were on the sinking Titanic you really did let the women
> > and children
> > go first and showed good grace about it as well. The degree of
> > social change
> > from the early 1960s  to the 1980s was probably about as much as in the
> > previous couple of centuries.
> >
> > paul courtney
> > (Another dammed limey)
> > Leicester
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rick Affleck" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: good books
> >
> >
> > > The original edition had a wonderfully misogynist couple of paragraphs
> > > about women doing fieldwork, and how men would be constantly
> > jumping up to
> > > help them with their wheelbarrows, and how men couldn't be men
> > 'cause they
> > > might hurt themselves and feel the need to swear, but couldn't
> > because the
> > > words might fall upon a woman's delicate ear...etc, etc. Women
> > volunteers
> > > come in for particularly rough treatment...something about high
> > heels and
> > > low decolletage.
> > >
> > > R
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard M. Affleck, RPA
> > > Senior Archaeologist
> > > URS Corporation
> > > 561 Cedar Lane
> > > Florence, NJ  08518-2511
> > > 609-499-3447 (phone)
> > > 609-499-3516 (fax)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                       "Grover, Margan A POA02"
> > >                       <[log in to unmask]         To:
> > [log in to unmask]
> > >                       E.ARMY.MIL>                         cc:
> > >                       Sent by: HISTORICAL                 Subject: Re:
> > good books
> > >                       ARCHAEOLOGY
> > >                       <[log in to unmask]>
> > >
> > >
> > >                       10/21/02 04:29 PM
> > >                       Please respond to
> > >                       HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Didn't Ivor Noel-Hume believe that women did not belong in the field
> > > because they were the weaker sex?
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ned Heite [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:42 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: good books
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 12:56 PM -0400 10/20/02, georgejmyersjr wrote:
> > > >"Historical Archaeology" by Ivor Noel-Hume.Alfred E.Knopf 1968,
> > > republished
> > > >1974.
> > > >
> > > >George Myers
> > >
> > >
> > > Oxbow had it on sale in paperback recently.  I gave copies to the
> > > staff, made me look generous til they figured out how cheap the books
> > > were.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ***************************  Ned Heite  ([log in to unmask])
> > >
> > >
> > > For Ned's latest conference papers, go to the drafts
> > > in Adobe Acrobat format, on our web page: www.heite.org
> >