Joan Pilsbury Alcock FSA is an
archeologist
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and
historian
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and an
Honorary Fellow
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of
London South Bank University
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. She was elected as a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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on 3 March 1977, and is a member of the
Guild of Food Writers.
She was principal lecturer at the School of Hospitality, Food and Product Management, now the School of Applied Sciences, at
London South Bank University
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.
As of 2003, she had become an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the same institution.
Selected publications
* Alcock, Joan Pilsbury. ''Food in the ancient world''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.
* Alcock, Joan P. ''Food in Roman Britain''. Tempus, 2001.
* Alcock, Joan P. "The health of the nation campaign: practical plan or farcical information?." Nutrition & Food Science 95.3 (1995): 11-15.
* Alcock, Joan P. "Classical religious belief and burial practice in Roman Britain."
Archaeological Journal
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137.1 (1980): 50-85.
* Alcock, Joan P. "Celtic water cults in Roman Britain." Archaeological journal 122.1 (1965): 1-12.
* Alcock, Joan P. "Three bronze figurines in the British Museum."
The Antiquaries Journal 43.01 (1963): 118-123.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Swedish women archaeologists