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Pamela Jane Smith is a

specialises in the history of British and Canadian twentieth-century archaeology; working primarily as an oral historian, she investigates the creation, production and 'travel' of academic knowledge for a project called "The Personal Histories Project". After arriving in Cambridge University from Canada in 1994 taking up (Bruce Trigger's suggestion of studying there), Pamela became the first person to document the lives of numerous British prehistorians such as Grahame Clark,Dorothy Garrod and Miles Burkitt; her research was based on previously unknown sources which she herself found. This meant that she found individuals such as Yusra who worked extensively with Dorothy Garrod. This original, new research has been subsequently widely used by academic authors such as Jane Callender, and others. Pamela was the first to document the influence of Breuil on British archaeology and the interrelationships between religious beliefs, Empire and archaeology in the twentieth century. She has a wide knowledge of the history of archaeology and was often used as an academic adviser.

She was married to Thurnston Shaw, also an archaeologist

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