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Anniversary Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Mortimer Wheeler
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In opening this, my second, Anniversary Address, I will ask you to lend me your imagination: for I am in fact writing it in the capital of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan a few days after the melodramatic removal of British control from the Arab Legion. The swarming population of Amman, tense and expectant, is dry tinder to any spark that blows, and sparks are not lacking. As I drove down the main street this morning, rifle-shots punctuated the uneasy flow of traffic, and hysteria waxed and waned with an ugly uncertainty. But, having said that, I turn to more relevant matter. I was on my way to the office of a Jordanian architect to discuss with him the preparation of a building in Jerusalem to house, for the first time, a resident British School of Archaeology. He received me with charm and coffee.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 3-4 , October 1956 , pp. 165 - 171
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1956

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References

page 166 note 1 Sauer, Carl O., Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (American Geographical Soc, New York, 1952), p. 81.Google Scholar

page 167 note 1 See Helbaek, Hans in Univ. of London Inst. of Archaeology, Ninth Annual Report (1953), p. 47.Google Scholar

page 167 note 2 Preliminary results announced subsequently on behalf of Professor F. E. Zenner give dates ranging from 8000 to 6000 B.C. for some part of Neolithic Jericho.

page 168 note 1 What Happened in History (Pelican Books, 1942), p. 44; New Light on the Most Ancient East (London, 1952), p. 25.Google Scholar

page 168 note 2 The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe (London, 1940), p. 71.Google Scholar

page 168 note 3 As in so many matters, the Egyptians have been credited with priority in agriculture; e.g. Cherry, T., ‘The Discovery of Agriculture’, a paper (otherwise useful) read to the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science Congress, Melbourne, 1921.Google Scholar

page 169 note 1 Since this address was delivered, the Government of Uganda has in fact created the post of Archaeology Officer, and our Fellow, Mr. Peter Shinnie, has been appointed to it.