Juliet Clutton-Brock

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Juliet Clutton-Brock
Born(1933-09-06)6 September 1933
Died21 September 2015(2015-09-21) (aged 82)
EducationRunton Hill School
Alma materInstitute of Archaeology, University of London
Chelsea College of Science and Technology
Spouse
Peter Jewell
(m. 1958; died 1998)
ChildrenThree
Awards
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
Scientific career
FieldsZooarchaeology
InstitutionsNatural History Museum
Thesis (1962)
Doctoral advisorFrederick Zeuner

Juliet Clutton-Brock,

zooarchaeologist and curator, specialising in domesticated mammals. From 1969 to 1993, she worked at the Natural History Museum. Between 1999 and 2006, she was the managing editor of the Journal of Zoology
.

Early life

Clutton-Brock was born on 6 September 1933 in London. She was the daughter of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), an art critic of The Times and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge, and his first wife, Sheelah Mabel Stoney Archer.[1] In 1936, she and her brother were sent to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to live with an aunt after the death of their mother in a car-accident.[2] There, her brother died from polio. Juliet enjoyed the wildlife in her aunt's garden, but was terrified of snakes. Having returned to England after the end of the war in 1945, she was educated at Runton Hill School, an all-girls private boarding school in Norfolk described as "icy" by Caroline Grigson. There she developed an interest in paleontology and studied the fossils in the nearby sea-cliffs.[2]

In 1953, she took a course on

Gordon Childe, Kathleen Kenyon and Max Mallowan,[2] which gave her a solid background in the archaeology of Central Europe and the Middle East. Her father had inherited Chastleton House
in the Cotswolds (built in 1603) in 1955, and Clutton-Brock would spend her vacations there.

Career

Clutton-Brock obtained part-time employment at the Natural History Museum and was a full-time senior research worker in the Mammal Section at the Natural History Museum, London from 1969 until her retirement in 1993, subsequently maintaining a position there as a research associate.[1] She acted as an editor of the Journal of Zoology from 1994, and its managing editor between 1999 and 2006.[2][4] In 1976, Clutton-Brock became a member of the executive committee of the

UISPP in Nice, and in 1982 organised a meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology at the Institute of Archaeology on London together with Caroline Grigson.[2]

She published more than 90 scientific reports, papers, books and popular articles on

DK Publishing). Other works include Horse Power: A History of the Horse and the Donkey in Human Societies (Harvard University Press) and Cats: Ancient and Modern (also Harvard University Press).[5] Her "Natural History of Domesticated Mammals" became the standard text-book for most zoo-archaeology courses in the UK and abroad.[citation needed
]

Personal life

Clutton-Brock married Peter Jewell (1925-1998), also a biologist and interested in zoo-archaeology, in 1958.

Biafran war.[2] Jewell died in 1998.[2]

Honours

Clutton-Brock was elected a

Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (FZS).[9] Anneke Clason, Sebastian Payne and Hans-Peter Uerpmann published a festschrift in her honour in 1993, entitled Skeletons in Her Cupboard.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Juliet Clutton-Brock". The Times. 2 October 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Grigson, Caroline (7 October 2015). "Juliet Clutton-Brock obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Dr Juliet Clutton-Brock FSA". Society of Antiquaries of London. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Journal of Zoology". Archived from the original on 12 August 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2006.
  5. ^ List of published works at Google Books.
  6. ^ a b Hinde, Robert A. (3 June 1998). "Obituary: Professor Peter Jewell". The Independent. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  7. ^ Alderson, Lawrence; Porter, Valerie (1994). Saving the Breeds: A History of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Pica Press. p. 31.
  8. ^ Clutton-Brock, Juliet (1999). A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals. Cambridge University Press. p. ix.
  9. ^ "Our Fellows". Zoological Society of London. Retrieved 9 October 2015.