Jean Sassoon

Jean Brown Sassoon is an archaeologist and anthropologist.

Education Sassoon was educated at the University of Edinburgh in 1949. While there, she excavated . She later studied at UCL under V. Gordon Childe, Mortimer Wheeler and Kathleen Kenyon. She began work with Louis Leakey at the Coryndon Museum in the 1950s, following her husband to Kenya.

Selected publications Sassoon's publications include books and papers. Hunting, Raiding and Warfare: Traditional practices of the Eastern Pastoral Pokot Livestock & Traditional Veterinary Medicine of the Eastern Pastoral Pokot (Kenya) TIME, SPACE and MEASUREMENT: Beliefs and practices of the Eastern Pastoral Pokot of Kenya

Personal life She was married to a veterinary virologist, with whom she moved to Kenya.

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