Janette Deacon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Janette Deacon

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Profession: archaeologist

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Janette Deacon (née Buckland, born 25 November 1939) is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation.
She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climate change over the past 20,000 years.
From 1985, she located rock engravings at places where the /Xam informants of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd lived in the nineteenth century.
She served as a member of the SAHRA Council and was first chairperson of Heritage Western Cape.