Taylor, Joan du Plat :: Archaeologist
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Joan Mabel Frederica du Plat Taylor FSA (Glasgow, 26 June 1906 – Cambridge, 21 May 1983)[1][2] was a British archaeologist and pioneer of underwater nautical archaeology.
She was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 26 June 1906. Her parents were Colonel St. John Louis Hyde du Plat Taylor and Alice Home-Purves and her grandfather was Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor CB VD (1829 – 5 March 1904). She had no formal training, but became one of the first maritime archaeologists. From 1931 until 1939 she was Assistant Curator at the Cyprus Museum. In Cyprus she excavated a Late Bronze Age mining site at Apliki and a temple of the same period in Myrtou-Pigades. Then from 1940 to 1970 she was a librarian at the Institute of Archaeology.
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