Christopher Hawkes
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Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, FBA, FSA was an English archaeologist specialising in European prehistory. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1946 to 1972.
Christopher Hawkes
Ashmolean Museum
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The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities tha
Christopher Hawkes
…in 1946. He was a Fellow of Keble College. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Antiquaries in 1981, now held by the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. In 1933 he was married to Jacquetta Hopkins, with whom he co-authored Prehistoric Britain (1937); they divorced in 1953. He married Sonia Chadwick…
Front façade of the museum
Wood-engraving of the Ashmolean c. 1845
The museum's renovated central atrium in 2009
Rive des Esclavons, by J. M. W. Turner, c. 1840