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Jack Golson was born in 1926 and raised in Rochdale in northern England (Fig. 1). As a child of the Great Depression, growing up during World War II, he was attracted to join the Young Communist League in his late high school years and to join the student branch of the Communist Party at university. In 1943 he won a scholarship to study history at Cambridge University but was called up for national service at the end of his first year, 1943–1944. For his national service, he was conscripted to work in the coal mines as one of the “Bevin Boys” named after the Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin (Stewart 1998). These experiences helped to form Jack Golson’s strong sense of social justice.
Jack and Clare Golson receiving the World Archaeological Congress’ Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual meeting of the Australian Archaeological Association, Adelaide, 2009
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Further Reading
Spriggs, M., D.E. Yen, W. Ambrose, R. Jones, A.Thorne & A. Andrews. (ed.) 1993. A community of culture: the peoples and prehistory of the Pacific (Occasional Papers in Prehistory 21). Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
Stewart, P. 2008. Australian National University, Emeritus Faculty Oral History, Emeritus Professor Jack Golson. Interview conducted 17 Sep 2008, at Emeritus Faculty. Available at: www.anu.edu.au/emeritus/ohp/interviews/jack_golson.htm/.
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Jackson, G.T. (2014). Golson, Jack. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2301
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