Lorraine Copeland (born Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, 1921April 2013) was a British

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

specialising in the

Palaeolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός '' palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

period of the

Near East The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...

. She was a secret agent with the

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during

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Early life

In 1921, Copeland was born as Elizabeth Lorraine Adie in

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, Scotland. Her father was a neurosurgeon on

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in London, and she was privately educated at

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girls' school in Buckinghamshire.

Special Operations Executive

Copeland worked for British Intelligence during the

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, in the

. She met her American husband, Miles Copeland, Jr., during this period, when he was based in the UK undertaking counter-intelligence for the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps. They married on 25 September 1942 and soon afterwards Miles' work took them to the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, and it was whilst in this area that Copeland first developed her interest in archaeology.

Archaeology

Copeland worked in the field of Palaeolithic archaeology for over fifty years, and was associated with the

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Institute of Archaeology. She was an adviser to the Stone Age Institute. In 2004 the ''

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'' "From the River to the Sea: The Palaeolithic and the Neolithic on the Euphrates and in the Northern Levant " was published in her honour.

Family

Copeland married Miles on 25 September 1942 at St Mary's Church,

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, London. The couple had four children, all of whom went on to have notable careers; their eldest son

Miles Copeland III Miles Axe Copeland III (born May 2, 1944) is an American music and entertainment executive and former manager of The Police. Copeland later managed Sting's musical and acting career. In 1979, Copeland founded the I.R.S. Records label, producing ...

(born 2 May 1944) as an executive in the entertainment industry,

Ian Copeland Ian Adie Copeland (April 25, 1949 – May 23, 2006) was an American music promoter and booking agent who helped launch the new wave movement in the United States. Early life Copeland was born in Rif Dimashq near Damascus, Syria, the second of fo ...

(born 25 April 1949) as a music promoter and booking agent, Lorraine "Lennie" Copeland as a writer and film producer, and

Stewart Copeland Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and composer. He is best known for his work as the drummer of the English rock band the Police from 1977 to 1986, and again from 2007 to 2008. Before playing with th ...

(born 16 July 1952) as a musician best known as the drummer for the band

The Police The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For most of their history the line-up consisted of primary songwriter Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion). The Polic ...

. Her husband Miles died on 14 January 1991, and her son Ian predeceased her in May 2006. Lorraine Copeland died at Chateau Marouatte in

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, France, on 27 April 2013. She is buried next to her husband Miles in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire.

Partial bibliography

*Copeland, Lorraine and Waechter, John (1968) "The Stone Industries of Abri Bergy, Lebanon" ''Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London'' 7, 15–36. *Copeland, Lorraine (1975) "The Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Lebanon and Syria in the Light of Recent Research" in Fred Wendorf and Anthony E. Marks, eds., ''Problems in Prehistory: North Africa and the Levant'' Dallas. *Copeland, Lorraine and Hours, Francis (eds) (1989) ''The Hammer on the Rock: Studies in the Early Palaeolithic of Azraq, Jordan''. Maison de L'Orient Méditerranéen C.N.R.S.-Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon, France, Archaeological Series No. 5 BAR S540. . *Sanlaville, Paul; Besançon, Jacques; Copeland, Lorraine and Muhesen, Sultan (1993) ''Le Paléolithique de la vallée moyenne de l'Oronte (Syrie): peuplement et environment'' BAR S587. . *Copeland, Lorraine and Moloney, Norah (eds) (1998) ''The Mousterian Site of Ras el-Kelb, Lebanon'' BAR IS 706. .

Related publications

*Aurenche, Olivier; Le Mière, Marie and Sanlaville, Paul (eds) (2004) ''From the River to the Sea: The Paleolithic and the Neolithic on the Euphrates and in the Northern Levant. Studies in honour of Lorraine Copeland'' Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen BAR S1263 . A full bibliography of Lorraine Copeland's work is provided in this volume.

References

Sources

* "In Memoriam. Lorraine Copeland (1921-2013)", Andrew N. Garrard, and Olivier Aurenche and Paul Sanlaville, 2014, Paléorient 40:1, pp 5–8. Online a
Lorraine Copeland (1921-2013)
* Copeland, Miles (1989) ''The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative'' London {{DEFAULTSORT:Copeland, Lorraine 1921 births 2013 deaths British archaeologists British women archaeologists People associated with the UCL Institute of Archaeology British Special Operations Executive personnel People educated at Wycombe Abbey Members of the Order of the British Empire The Police Copeland family