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N. K. Sandars

N. K. Sandars studied, soon after World War II, with Professor Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, and earned a diploma. She continued to work at Oxford, earning a BLitt degree in the prehistory of Europe, and thereafter she worked on the prehistory of the Aegean, receiving a studentship at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, a scholarship from Oxford University, and a traveling prize from the University of Liverpool. She traveled extensively in Europe and in the Near and Middle East, and took part in excavations in the British Isles and overseas. She contributed articles to various journals, and she is the author of Bronze Age Cultures in FrancePrehistoric Art in EuropePoems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, and The Sea Peoples. She was a fellow the British Academy and of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

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