biography
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Heizer, Robert F(leming)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–79)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and anthropologist, born in Denver, Colorado, USA. A pioneer in ecologically oriented archaeology, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1946–75). He was a leading authority on pre-Columbian Californian archaeology and Mexican and Central American prehistory. He reported (with JA Graham, 1976) revolutionary evidence of Maya civilization originating on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. |
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