Harold John Edward Peake
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| Born | 1867 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1946 | ||||||||||
| Residence | Westbrooke House, Boxford, Newbury, Berks. | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
archaeologist museum work literary | ||||||||||
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Office Notes
AI Council 1916 Member
AI Council 1917 Member
AI Council 1918 Member
AI Council 1920 Member
AI Council 1921 Member
AI Council 1922 Member
AI Council 1923 Member
AI Council 1924 Vice President
AI Council 1925 Vice President
AI Council 1926 President
AI Council 1927 President
House Notes
1911.10.31 nominated; proposed by T.C. Hodson, seconded by T.A. Joyce
1940 HML The study of prehistoric times Delivered 26th Nov. at 21 Bedford Square
1946.15.10 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
Harold John Edward Peake or Harold Peake F.S.A (1867–1946) was a British archaeologist and curator for the West Berkshire Museum.[1] With Herbert John Fleure he wrote ten books in the Corridors of Time series covering aspects of archaeology and anthropology as well as several works on his own "Prospector Theory" and other archaeological themes.
Peake is most remembered for his "Prospector Theory" of the diffusionism school within anthropology which argues that a group of sea-voyagers from the Eastern Mediterranean sea colonised Europe from c. 2800 BC, introducing the Dolmen.[2] Unlike Grafton Elliot Smith, who believed these maritime colonists were Egyptian, Peake argued that they were descendants of the Sumerians.[3] Peake named this group of sea-voyagers the "Prospectors" based on the fact they were believed to be merchants or traders seeking for ores and metals. This identification was strengthened in Peake's opinion by the fact Bronze Age deposits of metal in Britain were always close by dolmens, an argument also put forward by William James Perry. Peake further maintained that the "Prospectors" were brachycephalic (broad-headed) and racially an intermediate Alpine-Mediterranean people.
Publications
External Publications
The Corridors of Time: Apes and men (1927, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: Peasants and Potters (1927, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: Priests and Kings (1927, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: Hunters and artists (1927, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: The steppe and the sown (1927, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: The Way of the Sea (1929, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: Merchant Venturers in Bronze (1929, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: The Horse and the Sword (1933, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: The Law and the Prophets (1936, with Herbert John Fleure)
The Corridors of Time: Times and Places (1956, with Herbert John Fleure)[4]
The Bronze Age and the Celtic World (1922) The English village: the Origin and Decay of its Community (1922)
The Origins of Agriculture (1928)
The Flood: New Light on an Old Story (1930) The Archaeology of Berkshire (1931)
The Early Steps in Human Progress (1933)
House Publications
JRAI Vol. 46 (Jan. - Jun., 1916), pp. 154-172 (23 pages) Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy.
Saxon Graveyard at East Shefford, Berks.; Harold Peake and E. A. Hooton JRAI Vol. 45 (Jan. - Jun., 1915)
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