Joe Caldwell (archaeologist)

Joseph Ralston Caldwell (4 June, 1916 – December, 1973) Archaeologist was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He conducted major excavations in the Savannah, Georgia area in the late 1930s at the Irene site as part of Depression era archaeology program.

Biography

Joe Caldwell received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1957 based upon his work in Georgia. Before that he worked as a scientific aid to the Director of Anthropology of the United States National Museum from 1943 to 1945. Afterwards, he became an archaeologist for the River Basin Survey, Bureau of Ethnology, and Smithsonian Institution. His supervisor was Frank H. H. Roberts. He worked on locating and excavating hundred of archaeological sites in Georgia that were destined to be destroyed under the waters of many man-made lakes. He published the article, “On the Rim of the Oikumene” and the book, “Trend and tradition in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States” in 1958. He believed that cultures should be viewed through time as a unified whole. From 1963 to 1964 he moved to Iran to be a Fulbright professor of Archaeology at the University of Tehran and professor of Anthropology at the Medical school of the National University of Iran. In 1967, he became a professor of Anthropology and Director of Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia.

References

* Joseph Ralston Caldwell, 1916–1973, by Kent A. Schneider; Donald L. CrusoeAmerican Antiquity © 1976 Society for American Archaeology
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/caldwell_joseph.html mnsu.edu] Accessed August 1, 2007

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