Barbara was born in Dresden in 1938 and spent the war years in Saxony,East Germany,[3] before crossing over to West Germany in 1947 and later studying in West Berlin.[1]
Academic career
Dendrochronological drill
After working in German research laboratories,Barbara moved to Edinburgh in the early 1960s for employment within the biochemistry research laboratories of the university.[1] While at Edinburgh,Ottaway's early research in archaeology focussed on radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology.[4][5][6] In 1979 she was awarded a PhD in archaeology focused on ancient metallurgy in the northern sub-alpine area.[7] She became a Reader in Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology,University of Sheffield in the early 1990s and developed a greater focus on early metallurgy,and specifically copper metallurgy,in central and south-eastern Europe. While at Sheffield,Ottaway's developed field projects including excavations and surveys in southern Germany and Austria,and undertook extensive research in the application of experimental archaeology in archaeometallurgical research.[8] She was a member of The Prehistoric Society's Council in the early 1990s.[9]
Socketed axe head
After taking a position at the University of Exeter,she consolidated research on socketed axes [10] and sat on the Advisory Boards at the Mining Museum in Bochum,Germany and of HiMAT (History of Mining Activities in the Tyrol and Adjacent Areas) in Austria since its inception in 2005.[11] She retired in the early 2000s.[1] In 2009 a edited value was published in her honor on archaeometallurgical research - Metals and societies:studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway.[12]
Ottaway,B.S. (ed.) 1983. Archaeology,dendrochronology and the radiocarbon calibration curve. Edinburgh:University Department of Archaeology Occasional Paper No. 9
Ottaway,B.S.,1999. Archaeological Relevance of Cs-Magnetometry. ICOMOS–Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees,33,pp.69-69.
Ottaway,B.S. 1999. A Changing Place:The Galgenberg in Lower Bavaria from the fifth to the first millennium BC,BAR International Series 752.
Heeb,J. and Ottaway,B.S. 2014. Experimental Archaeometallurgy in B.W. Roberts &C. P. Thornton (eds),Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective. Methods and Syntheses. Springer,p.161-192
Ottaway,B.S. and Mehta,R. (eds) 2015. Memories Unlocked Befreite Erinnerungen.
↑ Metals and societies: studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway. Tobias L. Kienlin, Ben W. Roberts. Bonn: R. Habelt. 2009. ISBN978-3-7749-3631-7. OCLC429980331.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ Memories unlocked: German children in World War II = Befreite Erinnerungen: Deutsche Kinder im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Barbara Ottaway, Renate Mehta. [London]. 2015. ISBN978-1-326-35647-7. OCLC934754408.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
↑ Ottaway, B.S. (1983). Archaeology, dendrochronology and the radiocarbon calibration curve. University of Edinburgh.
↑ Archaeometry 98: proceedings of the 31st Symposium, Budapest, April 26 - May 3, 1998. Erzsébet Jerem, Katalin T. Biró, Edina Rudner. Oxford, England: Archaeopress. 2002. ISBN1-84171-421-6. OCLC52203412.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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