Juliet Clutton-Brock, FSA, FZS was an English zooarchaeologist and curator, specialising in domesticated mammals.
14 Facts About Juliet Clutton-Brock
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Juliet Clutton-Brock was the daughter of Alan Clutton-Brock, an art critic of The Times and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge, and his first wife, Sheelah Mabel Stoney Archer.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock therefore studied zoology at the Chelsea College of Science and Technology and graduated with a first class Bachelor of Science degree.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock returned to the Institute of Archaeology to undertake post-graduate study in zooarchaeology under Zeuner.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1962 with a thesis on "mammalian faunas from sites in India and western Asia".
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Juliet Clutton-Brock attended lectures by Gordon Childe, Kathleen Kenyon and Max Mallowan, which gave her a solid background in the archaeology of Central Europe and the Middle East.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock's father had inherited Chastleton House in the Cotswolds in 1955, and Clutton-Brock would spend her vacations there.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock obtained part-time employment at the Natural History Museum and was a full-time senior research worker in the Mammal Section at the Natural History Museum, London from 1969 until her retirement in 1993, subsequently maintaining a position there as a research associate.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock acted as an editor of the Journal of Zoology from 1994, and its managing editor between 1999 and 2006.
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In 1976, Juliet Clutton-Brock became a member of the executive committee of the International Council for Archaeozoology during a meeting of the UISPP in Nice, and in 1982 organised a meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology at the Institute of Archaeology on London together with Caroline Grigson.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock published more than 90 scientific reports, papers, books and popular articles on zooarchaeology and the history of domesticated mammals.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock married Peter Jewell, a biologist and interested in zoo-archaeology, in 1958.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 3 May 1979.
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Juliet Clutton-Brock was an elected Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.