About Vronwy Hankey
Lived 1916 – 1998 (aged 81). Vronwy Hankey was a British anthropologist and archaeologist.
Vronwy Hankey, FSA ( Vronwy Mary Fisher; 15 September 1916 – 11 May 1998) was an archaeologist and academic, specialising in Near Eastern archaeology, the Minoan civilization, and Mycenaean Greece. She had an Honorary Fellowship at University College London and an attachment to the university's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Vronwy continued her interest in archaeology alongside her duties as a diplomat's wife, and was the archaeologist "who identified Cyprus as the crucial link between East Mediterranean shipping in the Late Bronze Age."
A scholarship, the Vronwy Hankey Memorial Fund for Aegean Studies, is available from the British School at Athens.
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British archaeologist (1916-1998)
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Vronwy Hankey was born on 5 September 1916.
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Vronwy Hankey was an anthropologist and archaeologist.
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