Vincent Megaw

Vincent Megaw (born 1934)[1] is a British-born Australian archaeologist with research interests focusing on the archaeology and anthropology of art and musical instruments, Australasian prehistory and protohistory. He is a specialist in early Celtic art, contemporary Australian Indigenous art, and museology.[2]

Megaw was educated at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and Edinburgh University, and worked on a number key sites in Europe. He undertook extensive research with his wife, Ruth Megaw, on the art of the European pre-Roman Iron Age; they wrote several publications together. In 1961, he accepted a position at the University of Sydney as lecturer in European Iron Age Archaeology. His other appointments have included Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow (from 1998 with his wife).[1] Ruth Megaw died in 2013.[3]

He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1985.[4]

Select publications

References

  1. 1 2 The Flying Dutchman reaches port Vincent Megaw Antiquity 86 (2012): 546–557
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia of Australian Science 2010
  3. ↑ Ruth Megaw obituary by Vincent Megaw, The Guardian Wednesday 31 July 2013
  4. ↑ The Academy Fellows Australian Academy of the Humanities
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