Current & Historical Anthropologists

Current Anthropologists

Historical Anthropologists

Other Biographical Resources

See Also: Archaeologists

Current Anthropologists

Colson, Elizabeth
Biographical overview of the University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Professor

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Historical Anthropologists

Baker, William Ellmore (1877-1957)
One of the pioneer avocational archaeologists of the U.S. Plains, with work spanning thirty years (late 1920’s-1950’s) in the Oklahoma panhandle and surrounding region

Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)
Anthropologist Hiram Bingham who discovered the Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu

Caywood, Louis Richard (1906-1997)
Archaeological work on Hudson Bay forts in the Northwest, mission sites in the Southwest, Meductic site in Canada, and Jamestown. An early practitioner of North American historical archaeology

Fenenga, Franklin (1917 - 1994)
Noted California archaeologist

Harrington, Jean Carl (1901-1998)
"The father of historical archaeology" in North America

Kelley, John Charles (1913-1997)
An authority on northwest Mexico, Mesoamerican and southwestern archaeological and ethnohistoric literature

Kroeber, Alfred (1876-1960)
Influential Anthropologist and prolific writer during the first half of the 20th century

Mead, Margaret 1901-1978
Mead's education, work experience and intellectual contribution to the field of anthropology

Franz Boas
Early camera studies of behavior, extended career

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Other Biographical Resources

Anthropology Biography Web
Developed by Anthropology students at Minnesota State University, Mankato as a part of their EMuseum

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