John Vincent Stanley Megaw, (born 1934)The Flying Dutchman reaches port Vincent Megaw ''Antiquity'' 86 (2012): 546–557
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, pp 4769-4772, 2014, , Subscription required for full article is a British-born Australian archaeologist with research interests focusing on the archaeology and anthropology of art and musical instruments, and Australasian pre-contact and historical archaeology. He is a specialist in early

Celtic art Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period, as well as the art of ancient peoples whose language is uncertain, but have cultural and styli ...

and contemporary Australian Indigenous art. Megaw was educated at University College School, Hampstead and the

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, and worked on a number key sites in Europe as well as carrying out pioneering work in the South Sydney region of Australia. He undertook extensive research with his wife, Ruth Megaw, on the art of the European pre-Roman

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...

; they wrote several publications together. In 1961, after working as an editor at Thames and Hudson, he accepted a position at the

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as Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer in European Iron Age Archaeology. From 1971 to 1982 he held the Chair of Archaeology and Head of Department at Leicester University. His first appointment at Flinders University, Adelaide, was in 1979. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Visual Arts and Archaeology at Flinders, retiring in 2003. His other appointments have included Visiting Professorship at the

and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the

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(from 1998 with his wife). Ruth Megaw died in 2013. He was elected to the

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in 1985 and in 2004 was made a Member of the Order of Australia.The Academy Fellows

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*Megaw, Ruth and Vincent, ''Celtic Art'', 1989, Thames and Hudson,

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Australian archaeologists Living people Alumni of the UCL Institute of Archaeology Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 1934 births British archaeologists Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Members of the Order of Australia University of Sydney faculty Academics of the University of Leicester {{Archaeologist-stub