Scholar · Cataloguer · Excavator
R. W. Hutchinson
fl. 1929–1954 · United Kingdom
British scholar and cataloguer, active 1929–1954. Excavated with Dunbabin.
Life and work
- 1929Excavated an object ('prism', reg. 1929,1012.1); now in the British Museum.
- 1934Attributed three vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum to Cyprus in 1934, proposed the Late Helladic IIIa–c terms adopted for Cypriot material, and published the Khaniale Tekke tombs, where an askos was first thought Cypriot.
American Journal of Archaeology October-December 1934: Vol 38 Iss 4
- 1934Wrote the article 'Three Vases in Cambridge: an Attribution to Cyprus' in this 1934 volume of the Annals.
Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 1934: Vol 21 Contents (1934)
- 1939–1954Dug Geometric tombs at Tekke and Ayios Ioannis near Knossos with Dunbabin in 1939 and published the Khaniale Tekke tholos finds in 1954.
- 1950Authored a survey of prehistoric town planning in Crete, illustrated with plans, in Town Planning Review, 1950.
- 1954Published The Khaniale Tekke Tombs (1954), where the Tekke Grab 2 askos was first thought to be Cypriot.
- 1954Published the Khaniale Tekkes tholos finds in BSA 49 (1954).
- UndatedProposed the terminology dividing Late Mycenaean pottery into L.H. IIIa, b, c, which the author adopted for Cypriote material.
American Journal of Archaeology January-March 1937: Vol 41 Iss 1 (1937)
- UndatedBelieved that the Minoans brought domesticated cats from Egypt.
In the field
1 recordKnossos
1935
Found · 1935Hutchinson recorded a lead slingshot in a mixed Middle Minoan stratum at Knossos in 1935.
No. cat. no. 38Kelly 2012, p. 278
Mentioned in
4 mentionsDocuments · 4
- The Cretan Slinger at War - A Weighty Exchange
1935 · p. 278
Hutchinson recorded a lead slingshot in a mixed Middle Minoan stratum at Knossos in 1935.
Kelly 2012
- "Sein Zum Tode..." Untersuchungen zu den gesellschaftlichen Strukturen anhand der Nekropolen und Gräber der protogeometrischen und geometrischen Epoche aus Mittel-und Ostkreta
Rizzotto 2015
- The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs
Long 1974
- The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera: A Study in Aegean Culture and Iconography
Morgan 1988
Sources
- 1.Amanda Kelly (2012). “The Cretan Slinger at War - A Weighty Exchange”. The Annual of the British School at Athens 107, 273-311. British School at Athens. Online
- 2.American Journal of Archaeology October-December 1934: Vol 38 Iss 4.
- 3.Antiquity, Vol-25, Issue no.-97-100.
- 4.Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 1934: Vol 21 Contents (1934).
- 5.American Journal of Archaeology January-March 1937: Vol 41 Iss 1 (1937).
- 6.Laura-Concetta Rizzotto, "Sein Zum Tode..." Untersuchungen zu den gesellschaftlichen Strukturen anhand der Nekropolen und Gräber der protogeometrischen und geometrischen Epoche aus Mitt (2015).
- 7.Archaeology in Greece, 1939–45 (1944).
- 8.Lyvia Morgan, The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera: A Study in Aegean Culture and Iconography (1988).
- 9.Charlotte R. Long, The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus: A Study of Late Minoan and Mycenaean Funerary Practices and Beliefs (1974).
- 10.British Museum collection online, 'prism'.
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