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Janette Deacon
Born25 November 1939
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
SpouseHilary John Deacon
Children3
AwardsHonorary Doctorate from University of Cape Town
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology, rock art management
Institutionsformerly at National Monuments Council, now South African Heritage Resources Agency, Honorary Professor of Archaeology at the University of South Africa, Honorary Research Associate at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Thesis The Later Stone Age in the southern Cape, South Africa.[1]  (1982)
Doctoral advisorJohn Parkington

Janette Deacon (née Buckland, born 25 November 1939) is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation. She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climate change over the past 20,000 years.[2][3] From 1985, she located rock engravings at places where the /Xam informants of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd lived in the nineteenth century.[4] She served as a member of the SAHRA Council and was first chairperson of Heritage Western Cape.

  1. ^ Deacon, J. 1982. The later stone age in the southern Cape, South Africa. Archived 13 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine PhD Dissertation, University of Cape Town.
  2. ^ Deacon, H.J., Deacon, J. 1999. Human beginnings in South Africa: uncovering the secrets of the Stone Age. Altamira Press. ISBN 978-0-7619-9086-4
  3. ^ Vilakazi, Nonhlanhla; Inglis, John (18 April 2010). "The Fossil Hunters: Time and Tides". Times Live. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  4. ^ Deacon, J., Foster, C. 2005. My heart stands in the hill.[permanent dead link] Struik. ISBN 1770071253

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