Robert Wauchope (archaeologist)

Robert Wauchope (archaeologist)

Robert Wauchope (December 10, 1909 – January 20, 1979) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, whose academic research specialized in the prehistory and archaeology of Latin America, Mesoamerica, and the Southwestern United States.

Wauchope was born to George Armstrong Wauchope and Elizabeth Bostedo Wauchope in Columbia, South Carolina on December 10, 1909. His interest in archaeology developed early as an Eagle ScoutFact|date=January 2008, and upon graduating high school, he wrote Alfred V. Kidder in order to join him on excavations at Pecos, New Mexico. Kidder accepted Robert’s request and invited him to join him as an assistant at the Forked Lightning Ruin site. [Andrews and Harrison (1981, pp.113–115).]

Robert attended the First Pecos Conference in 1927 where he met H.S. and C.B. Cosgrove, who invited him to their 1928–1929 excavations at Stallings Island, Georgia. After leaving Stallings Island, he attended the University of South Carolina where he received a bachelor’s degree in English in 1931.

He enrolled at Harvard University in 1931 with his interests focused on archaeology. During 1932, Wauchope accompanied Alfred V. Kidder during excavations at Uaxactun, Guatemala. In 1938, he graduated from Harvard with a Ph.D. in anthropology, and took a job at the University of Georgia teaching anthropology courses and Southeastern prehistory.

Throughout his tenure at Georgia, Wauchope surveyed over 200 sites north of Macon, and excavated 23 sites in Macon, Savannah, Stallings Island, and at Etowah. Wauchope developed and ran an archaeology laboratory at the University of Georgia, in addition to setting up the states first detailed archaeological site file. He played a large part in developing the ceramic sequence for north Georgia during the two years he was there.

In 1940, Wauchope got a job as associate professor of anthropology and director of the Laboratory of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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References

: cite journal |author=aut|Andrews, E. Wyllys, V |coauthors=and aut|Margaret A.L. Harrison |year=1981 |month=January |title=Obituary: Robert Wauchope, 1909-1979 |journal=American Antiquity |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=pp.113–127 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Society for American Archaeology |issn=0002-7316 |oclc=49976423

External links

* [http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/index.htm Middle American Research Institute] , Tulane University


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