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Pastmasters: Eleven Modern Pioneers of Archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood, Gordon R. Willey, C. J. Becker, Sigfried J. De Laet, J. Desmond Clark,
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Being schooled in London, Hawkes inherited his father's fascination with past societies, influenced in this by the scenery of southern
England and what he had read in the works of
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Díaz-Andreu, Margarita, Megan Price and Chris Gosden 2009. "Christopher Hawkes, his archive and networks in
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435:'Celtic Art in Ancient Europe: Five Protohistoric Centuries. Proceedings of the Colloquy held in 1972 at the Oxford Maison Francaise'
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Christopher Hawkes: his archive and networks in
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Hobbs, Richard, "The Secret
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with him, where
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broke out in August 1914, Hawkes' father volunteered to join several friends in the
Special Reserve of the
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between 1918 and 1924. Whilst at the
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with his seven children following the death of his wife; he later moved to
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Chadwick Hawkes
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Duval, Paul-Marie ; Hawkes, Christopher (edited by),
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The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe To the Mycenean Age
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