Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Archaeological Joint Committee
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
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Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1918-
History
The Archaeological Joint Committee was set up by the British Academy in 1918, at the request of the Foreign Office, with the object of securing proper organisation of the control of antiquities. Its intention was to represent British archaeology as a whole.