biography
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Meggers, Betty J(ane)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. After earning a PhD at Columbia University she joined the staff of the Smithsonian Institution (1954). She did extensive fieldwork in South America, focusing particularly on prehistoric lowlands cultures, cultural ecology, and trans-Pacific contracts, and she published widely. |
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