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Ivor Noël Hume
Ivor Noël Hume, OBE (30 September – 4 February ) was a British-born archaeologist who did research in the United States. A former director of Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological research program and the author of more than 20 books, he was heralded by his peers as the "father of historical archaeology".[1]
Biography
Born in London, Noël Hume studied at Framlingham College, Suffolk and St.
Lawrence College, Kent.
Ivor noel hume biography
He spent a short stint in the British Army during World War II, and as an assistant stage manager for a London theatre, before deciding to pursue archaeology as a career and joining the staff of Guildhall Museum in London where he worked from to His early speciality was 17th and 18th century wine bottles.
He became chief archaeologist and director of the expanded Colonial Williamsburg archaeology program in [2] and served in that capacity for the next three decades.
Noël Hume discovered and excavated the 17th century site of W