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Harold Peake
1867–1946
A British archaeologist and anthropologist, he wrote lively books that helped bring prehistory and early human cultures to a wider reading public. He is especially remembered for the influential Corridors of Time series, written with H. J. Fleure.
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The Bronze Age and the Celtic World
by Harold Peake
About the author
Born in 1867, Harold John Edward Peake was a British archaeologist, anthropologist, museum curator, and independent scholar. He served as honorary curator of the museum at Newbury, now the West Berkshire Museum, and later became president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Peake wrote widely on archaeology and early human societies. With Herbert John Fleure, he co-authored the ten-volume Corridors of Time series, a set of books that explored prehistory, migration, and the development of civilizations in a way meant to interest general readers as well as specialists.
Remembered as a learned but accessible writer, he belonged to a tradition of independent scholarship that crossed between archaeology, anthropology, and history. His work reflects an era when big, ambitious explanations of the human past were being brought to a broad audience through books as much as through museums and academic societies.