Janette Deacon

Janette Deacon
Born 25 November 1939
Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality South African
Fields Archaeology, rock art management
Institutions formerly at National Monuments Council, now South African Heritage Resources Agency, Honorary Professor of Archaeology at the University of South Africa, Research Associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Alma mater University of Cape Town
Thesis The Later Stone Age in the southern Cape, South Africa.[1] (1982)
Doctoral advisor John Parkington
Notable awards Honorary Doctorate from University of Cape Town
Spouse Hilary John Deacon
Children Andrew, Harriet and Melissa

Janette Deacon (née Buckland, born 25 November 1939) is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation. She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climate change over the past 20,000 years.[2] From 1985, she located the rock engravings at places where the /Xam informants of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd lived in the nineteenth century. She served as a member of the SAHRA council and was first chairperson of Heritage Western Cape (HWC) from 2001 to 2005.

Biography

Deacon was born in Cape Town in 1939.[3] She graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1960, after which she worked as W.J. Talbot's research assistant.[4] She lectured at UCT in 1962 and from 1972 to 1975.[3] From 1976 to 1988 she was a research assistant in the Department of Archaeology at Stellenbosch University.[4] Deacon was the editor of the South African Archaeological Bulletin from 1976 to 1993.[5] In 1989 she was appointed as Archaeologist at the National Monuments Council, until she retired in 1999. During this time she represented the NMC at the Arts and Culture Task Group and the writing team for the National Heritage Resources Act Number 25 passed in 2000.

After her retirement she became the first chairperson for Heritage Western Cape (HWC) in 2001.[6] As secretary for the Southern African Rock Art Project, she arranged courses and workshops for the nomination of rock art on the World Heritage Sites list.

In 2016, she earned an honorary doctorate in literature from UCT for her writing and scholarship on human origins in South Africa.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ http://aleph20.calico.ac.za/F/6YFTTA76MBHM24PF3P3YRKJ1M5CKRNMGQY5J74XHT2DDNNDRGB-05905?func=full-set-set&set_number=026289&set_entry=000012&format=999
  2. ↑ Vilakazi, Nonhlanhla; Inglis, John (18 April 2010). "The Fossil Hunters: Time and Tides". Times Live. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Janette Deacon". Stellenbosch Writers. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Janette Deacon". The African Rock Art Digital Archive. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "UCT to Honour Leading Academics in African Art, Archaeology and Economics". University of Cape Town. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Heritage Western Cape Celebrates 10th Anniversary". Western Cape Government. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Janette Deacon - The Xainki, or Mother, of Archival Research". University of Cape Town. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.


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