David Randall-MacIver
| David Randall-MacIver MA DSc FSA FRGS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1873 | ||||||||
| Died | 1945 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Wolverton House, Clifton, near Bristol [and Worcester College, Oxford in 1903 list] [and The University Museum, Philadelphia in 1906 list] Wolverton House; Museum Philadelphia and c/o Congdon and Co., Cairo [1907] The Berkeley, 25th Avenue, New York [1911] The Geographical Society, Broadway, at 156th Street, New York, USA [1913] 131 East 66th Street, New York [1915] c/o Brown, Shipley & Co., 123 Pall Mall, SW1 [1921] [and] British School at Rome, Via Giula, Rome 51 [1925] [and] 25 Corso d'Italia, Rome 51 [1927] c/o Brown, Shipley & Co., 123 Pall Mall, SW1; Museo Preistorico, via Collegio Romano, Rome [1933] | ||||||||
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archaeologist museum work | ||||||||
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AI Council 1904 Member
AI Council 1905 Member
AI Council 1906 Member
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1899.11.07 proposed
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David Randall-MacIver FBA (31 October 1873 – 30 April 1945) was a British-born archaeologist,[1] who later became an American citizen. He is most famous for his excavations at Great Zimbabwe which provided the first solid evidence that the site was built by Shona peoples.
Randall-MacIver began his career working with Flinders Petrie in Egypt, uncovering the mortuary temple of Senwosret III. He moved to America when he was appointed as Egyptology curator at the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, in 1905.[2]
He initiated research into the relationship between Egypt and Nubia, uncovering some of the earliest evidence of ancient Nubian culture, dating back to 3100BCE. Between 1905 and 1906 Randall-MacIver conducted the first detailed study of Great Zimbabwe. The absence of any artefacts of non-African origin led him to conclude that the structure was built by local people. Earlier scholars had speculated that the structure had been built by Arab or Phoenician traders.
Randall-MacIver left Penn museum in 1911, becoming librarian of the American Geographical Society up to 1914, when he left to work as an intelligence officer in the First World War. In 1921 he moved to Italy to study Etruscan archaeology. He remained in Italy during World War II, later assisting the US army to preserve historical monuments.
Born London; died New York.
Laycock Student of Egyptology, Worcester College, Oxford 1900-6. Carried out research in Mexico, Egypt, Rhodesia and in the Mediterranean region. Numerous publications.
Publications
External Publications
Thomson, Arthur; David Randall-MacIver (1905). The Ancient Races of the Thebaid. Clarendon Press.
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