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John Clegg was born on January 11th, 1935 in Nottingham, UK.
He grew up in Cambridge, England, where his mother was an academic. During World War II (aged 5–8), John and his sister were evacuated to stay with an aunt in Vancouver, Canada. During these early years began his lifelong interest in sculpture. Upon his return, John attended The Leys School in Cambridge. He graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, with a B.A. Honors and Certificate in Education in 1959. He received an M.A. Honors in 1962 from the same university. He had read Geography for two years before changing to Archaeology through which he went on several excavations and was influenced by both Eric Higgs and Charles McBurney. After working as a school teacher, he worked as a contract archaeologist between 1963 and 1964, excavating Coygan Cave in South Wales. He moved to Brisbane, Australia, in 1964, taking up a post in the Psychology Department (in which Archaeology was located),...
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References
Clegg, J. 1978. Mathesis words, Mathesis pictures. Volumes 1 and 2. MA (Hons) dissertation, University of Sydney. (Later published as Clegg, J. 1981. Notes towards Mathesis art. Balmain: 1981 Clegg Calenders).
Maynard, L. 1979. The archaeology of Australian Aboriginal art, in S.M. Mead (ed.) Exploring the visual art of Oceania: 83-110. Honolulu (HI): University Press of Hawaii.
Stanbury, P. & J. Clegg. 1990. A field guide to Aboriginal rock engravings. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Further Reading
Clegg, J.K. 1987. Style and tradition at Sturt’s Meadows. World Archaeology 19(2): 236-55.
- 2000. Callan Point engravings and landscape, in G. Nash (ed.) World perspectives in landscape and rock art: 123–28. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- 2001. Rock art studies: theory, in K. Helskog (ed.) Theoretical perspectives in rock art research: 40-67. Oslo: The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Novus Forlag.
- 2010. Towards a philosophy of rock art study: what, why, and how? Aura Newsletter 27(1).
- 2012. Life drawing and the Chauvet lions, in J. Clottes (ed.) L’art pléistocène dans le monde. Actes du Congrès IFRAO, Tarascon-sur-Ariège, september 2010. N0 special de Préhistoire, Art et Sociétés. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Ariége Pyrénées, LXV-LXV1, 2010-2011: 76-7.
Clegg, J. & S. Jamwal. 2008. Aesthetics, function and fashion in rock art: reactions to ‘aesthetics and rock art’, in T. Heyd & J. Clegg (ed.) Aesthetics and rock art. Proceedings of the XV World Congress, Lisbonne (BAR International series 1818): 23-6. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Heyd, T. & J. Clegg. (ed.) 2005a. Aesthetics and rock art. London: Ashgate.
- 2005b. Aesthetics, rock art, and changing states of consciousness, in T. Heyd & J. Clegg (ed.) Aesthetics and rock art: 159-76. London: Ashgate.
- 2008. Aesthetics and rock art. Proceedings of the XV World Congress, Lisbonne (BAR International series 1818). Oxford: Archaeopress.
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McDonald, J., Sullivan, K. (2014). Clegg, John K.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2154
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