Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes

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Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes (5 June 1905 – 3 April 1992) was an English archaeologist and a professor of European prehistory at Oxford University (1946-1972).

In 1933 he was married to Jacquetta Hopkins, divorced, and then married Sonia Chadwick in 1959.


He developed the theory "Ladder of Inference" which has four rungs.


[edit] Further reading

  • Daniel, Glyn Edmund; Chippindale, Christopher. The Pastmasters: Eleven Modern Pioneers of Archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood, Gordon R. Willey, C.J. Becker, Sigfried J. De Laet, J. Desmond Clark, D.J. Mulvaney. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989 (hardcover, ISBN 0500050511).

Bonakis Webster, Diana: 'Hawkeseye' The Early Life of Christopher Hawkes. Alan Sutton 1991 (hardcover, ISBN 0-86299-882-6)


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