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Harriet Crawford (née Browne) is an English archaeologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East, and an Emeritus Reader at University College London. She is known for her excavations in Bahrain and Kuwait

Life

Harriet Elizabeth Walston Browne was born to Sir Patrick Browne, a

Charity Organization Society. The Anglo-American archaeologist Charles Waldstein was her maternal grandfather.[2]

Browne was one of the last debutantes presented to Queen Elizabeth before the monarch abolished the practice in 1958.[3] In 1960, she married Iain Crawford.[1] In 1963, their daughter was born.[4]

In 1983, Browne married Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, a mathematician.[5][6]

Career

Udal

In 1963, Iain and Harriet Crawford began excavations on the Udal peninsula in

Beaker culture existed here.[8] Harriet wrote up some of the archaeological notes in 1974.[9]

Bahrain

Kuwait

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b Times 1960, p. 12.
  2. ^ Barker 1996.
  3. ^ Connah 2019, p. 50.
  4. ^ Times 1963, p. 1.
  5. ^ Reid 2018.
  6. ^ Times Obit 2019.
  7. ^ Smith 2018, p. 6.
  8. ^ Ballin Smith 2018, p. 6.
  9. ^ Ballin Smith 2018, p. 15.

Bibliography