biography
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Ford, James A(lfred)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–68)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in Water Valley, Mississippi, USA. He was curator of North American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History (1947–63). A specialist in prehistoric culture of the Americas, he did fieldwork in Alaska, the lower Mississippi Valley, and the Andes, and pioneered the seriation method of dating artifacts. |
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