Astley John Hilary Goodwin

Astley John Hilary Goodwin MA
Born	1900
Died	1959
Residence	Dept. of African Life and Languages, The University, Cape Town [and] Sherwood, Sherwood Avenue, Kenilworth, Cape [census]
Occupation	academic museum work
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1959 deceased elected_AI 1926.01.19 societies Royal Society (South Africa) International Institute of African Languages and Culture Prehistoric Society

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1925.12.15 proposed by A. Radcliffe-Brown, seconded by E.N. Fallaize

1960.01.07 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Astley John Hilary Goodwin was born in Natal (now Kwazulu Natal). He went to study at St. John’s College in Johannesburg and became the first professionally trained archaeologist to be appointed in 1923. He went on to teach the first archaeology course and head the department at the University of Cape Town.
Goodwin made a great contribution to the discipline of archaeology including developing the standard terminology of South African archaeology. He founded the South African Archaeological Society and wrote books like The stone age cultures of South Africa and Method in prehistory.
He died on 5 December 1959.

Publications

External Publications

The loom of prehistory, 1946, etc.;
editor of the South African bulletin of archaeology

House Publications

1937.11.02 read Recent archaeological developments in South Africa illustrated by lantern slides

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