Arthur John Evans

Career Academic / Archaeologist / Museum Professional

Biography Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1884-1908, an archaeologist most famous for his excavations in Knossos, Crete. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 15/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33032 / Who was Who 2007 / R.F. Ovenell 'The Ashmolean Museum 1683-1894' Clarendon Press Oxford 1986. / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Evans

Clubs & Societies Society of Antiquaries / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Society / Athenaeum / Hellenic Society / Folklore Society / Oxford University Anthropological Society / British Academy

County Cumbria / Hertfordshire / Suffolk / Norfolk / Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyOtherEthnography

Dates active 1851-1941

Donated around 1944

English collections Stone tools and gun-flint maker's core, Red-deer's antler pick, tinder box, tinder pistol, sulphur spunks, strike-a-lights, clay crucibles, mourning envelopes

Oxford Uni College Brasenose College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1870-1874

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1870-1874, 1884-

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33032

English collection size 43

Connections Henry Balfour / John Evans / Joan Evans / Joseph Grafton Milne / Kate Grafton Milne / Ashmolean Museum / Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Emberlin and Sons