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Janette Deacon
Dr Janette Deacon
49 Van Riebeeck St
Stellenbosch
7600Tel/Fax 887 1540
Author of books on African archaeology
Archaeologist at the National Monuments Council until 2000
Janette Deacon (neé Buckland) was born in 1939 in Cape Town, where she attended school and
went on to study Archaeology at the University of
Cape Town.
1962 and 1972-1975: lectured in Archaeology at the University of Cape Town
1976 - 1993: Editor of the South African Archaeological Bulletin
1992-1994: Chairman and Secretary / Treasurer of the Southern African
Association of Archaeologists
Janette was a member of the Arts and Culture Task Group (ACTAG) and secretary of
its Heritage Subcommittee in 1994/95, was a member of the writing team for the
White Paper on Arts and Culture in 1995, and of the writing team for the new
National Heritage Resources Act and the National Heritage Council Act.
After her retirement, she was appointed to the council of the South African
Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and she is also a member of the Western Cape
Cultural Commission.
When employed at the National Monuments Council, she was a member of the
South African World Heritage Convention Committee. She is a member of the board
of trustees of the Trust for African Rock Art and Secretary of the Southern
African Rock Art Project. She was Secretary
and member of council of the Southern African Society for Quaternary
Research, has been a member of council of the South African Museums Association
and is a Member of the Board of the SAMA School of Conservation.
She was a Vice President of the Pan-African Association for Prehistory and
Related Studies.
Janette Deacon is Honorary Secretary of the South African Archaeological
Society and was awarded the President's Medal by the Society in 1997. She retired in 2000 as Archaeologist at the National Monuments Council.Janette Deacon was married to the archaeologist Hilary Deacon who died in 2010. Their children: Andrew, Harriet, and Melissa. Harriet is the author of A History of Robben Island
Books:
The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa. British Archaeological Reports,
1984
Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments
of Southern Africa (with Lancaster, N.), Oxford University Press,1988
Some views on rock paintings in the Cederberg, National Monuments Council, 1998
Human beginnings in South Africa (with H. J. Deacon), David Philip, 1999
Rainbow Reading Level 4 - Archaeology: Rock Art Box D: Level 4 Cambridge University Press
Rainbow Reading Level 4 - Archaeology: The Most Interesting Job in the World Box D: Level 4 (with Lesley Beake), Cambridge University Press
Text by Janette Deacon
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