Oates, David, 1927-
- Summary
- Edward Ernest David Michael Oates,, known as David Oates, was a British archaeologist and academic specializing in the Ancient Near East. He was director of the excavations at Nimrud from 1958 to 1962, Tell al-Rimah from 1964 to 1971 and at Tell Brak from 1976 to 2004. He was Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology from 1969 to 1982 and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from 1997 to 2004. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1927-02-25 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- Stoke Climsland (Royaume-Uni) [3]
- Stoke Climsland [4]
- Died
- 2004-03-22 [2][4]
- Death Place
- Cambridge [2][4]
- Country
- Great Britain [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- archaeologist [4]
- Employer
- UCL Institute of Archaeology [4]
- Educated at
- Trinity College [4]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [4]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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