Charles Lambert

Charles Lambert
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Residence	P.O. Box 437, Jerusalem PO Box 586, Jerusalem, Palestine [1927]
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1927 last listed elected_AI 1926.02.16

Notes

House Notes

1926.01.19 nominated; proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by E.N. Fallaize 19 Jan. 1926, elected 15 Feb. [A63]

lists &c say C. but am assuming it is the Charles mentioned below in notes

Notes From Elsewhere

A Department of Antiquities assistant named Charles Lambert (who was a coin specialist, not a prehistorian) ... [from Breaking ground: pioneering women archaeologists by Getzel M. Cohen et al.]

Richmond, E.T. 1928. A preliminary note describing the investigations made at the antiquity site at Wady al-Mughara in November 1928 (incorporating Charles Lambert's excavation report). British Mandate Record Files, File 193, el-Wad Mugharat, Jerusalem IAA archives

The Government Department of Antiquities had insisted on an exploratory dig during he previous winter, to be directed by the department's staff assistant, Charles Lambert. Lambert discovered a carved bone animal head of high quality in el-Wad Cave; this was the first prehistoric art object to be found in the Levant ... [also mentions] Garrod [from Archaeology and women: ancient and modern issues edited by Sue Hamilton et al.]

Prehistoric Archaeology at the Mt. Carmel: When, in 1927, the British Mandatory government’s Public Works Department initiated the Haifa Harbor Project and quarrying threatened to destroy the caves’ cliff, Mr. Charles Lambert, Assistant Director of the Mandatory Department of Antiquities of Palestine, was assigned to check the complex of caves at Wadi el-Mughara to see whether it was worth saving.

In autumn 1928 Lambert made five soundings in el-Wad Cave, three inside and two on the terrace, resulting in several important discoveries. In fact, Lambert was the first to unveil the Natufian layers at el-Wad and to establish their stratigraphy. [aggsbachs paleolithic blog]

This book is in part a biography of Charles Lambert, an enigmatic and, until now, little-known Englishman who was both the first to excavate at Mount Carmel and can now be credited with saving the caves ..... his successor at el-Wad, Dame Dorothy Garrod ... [from review of Archaeology in the Archives by Mina Weinstein-Evron]

Publications

External Publications

The Egypto-Arabian, Phoenician and other coins of the fourth century BC found in Palestine. 1932

A hoard of Byzantine coins. 1932

A hoard of Jewish bronze coins from Ophel