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An accidental, mostly self-taught archaeologist, prolific writer and one of the founders of historical archaeology in North America, Ivor Noël Hume (known as Nöel) was born in London on November 4, 1927. He studied at Framlingham College and St. Lawrence College in England, spent a brief period in the British Army, and was an assistant stage manager at a London theater. In 1949, he began his archaeological career, joining the staff of London’s Guildhall Museum and studying under Adrian Oswald, a pioneer in clay tobacco pipe studies. In 1957, Noël Hume was hired as the first full-time trained archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and later became chief archaeologist and director of the expanded archaeology program at Colonial Williamsburg and subsequently the director of the Department of Archaeological Research where he remained until his retirement in 1988. He separated archaeological excavation and laboratory analyses from the Office of...
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Noël Hume, I. 1963. Here lies Virginia; an archaeologist’s view of colonial life and history. (Reprint 1994. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia). New York: Knopf.
Noël Hume, I. 1969. Historical archaeology. (Reprint 1975. New York: Norton). New York: Knopf.
Noël Hume, I. 1970. A guide to artifacts of colonial America. (Reprint 2001. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press). New York: Random House.
Noël Hume, I. 1974. All the best rubbish. (Reprint 2009. New York: Harper Paperbacks). New York: Harper & Row.
Noël Hume, I. 1982. Martin’s hundred. New York: Knopf.
Noël Hume, I. 1994. Virginia adventure, Roanoke to James Towne: An archaeological and historical odyssey. (Reprint 1997. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia). New York: Knopf.
Noël Hume, I. 2001. If these pots could talk: Collecting 2000 years of British household pottery. Hanover: Chipstone Foundation/University Press of New England.
Noël Hume, I. 2010. A passion for the past: The odyssey of a transatlantic archaeologist. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press.
Further Reading
Klinghoffer, Eric, ed. 2013. A glorious empire: Archaeology and the Tudor-Stuart world: Essays in honor of Ivor Nöel Hume. Oxford: Oxbow Books [15 contributions].
Noël Hume, I. 1953. Archaeology in Britain – Observing the past. London: W. & G. Foyle.
Noël Hume, I. 1956. Treasure in the Thames. London: Frederick Muller.
Noël Hume, I. 1957. Great moments in archaeology. London: Phoenix House.
Noël Hume, I. 1966a. Excavations at Clay Bank in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1962–1963. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Noël Hume, I. 1966b. Excavations at Tutter’s Neck in James City County, Virginia, 1960–1961. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Noël Hume, I. 1966c. Excavations at Clay Bank in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1962–1963. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Noël Hume, I. 1968. 1775; another part of the field. New York: Knopf.
Noël Hume, I. 1969a. Glass in Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological collections. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 1969b. Pottery and porcelain in Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological collections. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 1969c. Archaeology and Wetherburn’s Tavern. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 1971. Archaeology. London: Gifford.
Noël Hume, I. 1974. Digging for Carter’s Grove. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 1977. Early English delftware from London and Virginia. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 1983. Discoveries in Martin’s Hundred. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 1996. In search of this & that: Tales from an archaeologist’s quest. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 2005. Something from the cellar: More of this & that. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Noël Hume, I. 2011. Belzoni – The giant archaeologists love to hate. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press.
Noël Hume, I., and H.M. Miller. 2011. Ivor Noël Hume: Historical archaeologist. The Public Historian 33: 9–32.
Noël Hume, I., and A. Noël Hume. 2001. The archaeology of Martin’s hundred, part I: Interpretive studies; part II: Artifact catalog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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Kolb, C.C. (2018). Noël Hume, Ivor. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1749-2
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