Derek Roe
Derek Arthur Roe (31 August 1937 – 24 September 2014)Palaeolithic period.
Roe was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and grew up in Kent.[1]
Educated at St Edward's School in
Oxford University. There, he set up the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre which opened in 1975. In 1997, he became Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Oxford.[1]
He excavated at many seminal Palaeolithic sites including Kalambo Falls and Olduvai Gorge as well as producing a gazetteer of British Middle and Lower Palaeolithic sites. He also played a key role in the autobiography of Mary Leakey.
He married Fiona Greig, a fellow archaeologist, and had two children. After their divorce, he married Sarah Milliken, an archaeologist and landscape architect.[1]
Roe died of cancer on 24 September 2014 after a short illness.[1][2]
References
Sources
- Milliken, S, and J Cook (eds) (2001). A Very Remote Period Indeed. Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe, Oxford: Oxbow. ISBN 978-1-84217-056-4.
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