biography
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Kidder, Alfred V(incent)
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| (1885–1963)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and pioneer of stratigraphic methods in the USA, born in Marquette, Michigan. He studied at Harvard, then did fieldwork in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (1907–14). His extensive excavations (1915–29) at Pecos, New Mexico, revolutionized American settlement archaeology, and allowed him to develop a chronological sequence for the cultures of the region. From 1929 he undertook major work in Guatemala on Maya archaeology. He later joined the faculty of the Peabody Museum at Harvard (1939–50). |
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