Ernst Valdemar Antevs

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Ernst Valdemar Antevs (* 1888 in Vartofta , Sweden ; † May 19, 1974 in Globe , Arizona , United States ) was a Swedish-American paleobotanist ( palynology ), archaeologist and geologist (paleoclimatology, geochronology, quaternary geology).

Life

Antevs received his doctorate from Stockholm University in 1917 and was a student of Gerard Jakob De Geer , the founder of varven chronology . It provides information about climate changes in the past. He was in Spitsbergen with De Geer in 1918 and from 1920 created Warvenprofíle in North America, thus expanding De Geer's work beyond Sweden. In 1922, at the invitation of JC Merriam for the Carnegie Institution , he investigated the history of the former lakes, Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahontan, and Mono Lake . He began to be interested in archeology and examined the Clovis culture in Clovis (New Mexico) in 1934 at the invitation of Edgar B. Howard and the Gila Pueblo culture in 1936 at the invitation of Harold S. Gladwin . He moved to Globe (Arizona) with his wife and concentrated his work (lake history, varves, archeology) on the west and south-west of North America. In 1948 he published a climate chronology that was important for North American archeology, based on varve and geomorphological studies in the Great Basin . For health reasons, he gave up field studies in the 1950s and joined the University of Arizona geochronology laboratory on Tumamoc Hill.

He became a US citizen in 1939. The Antevs Glacier in Antarctica is named in his honor .

Fonts

  • Climatic Changes and Pre-White Man. The Great Basin, with emphasis on glacial and postglacial times. University of Utah Bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 20, Salt Lake City, (1948). Pp. 168-191.
  • Postglacial Climatic History of the Great Plains and Dating the Records of Man. Proceedings of the Sixth Plains Archeological Conference, 1948. University of Utah. Published October, (1950). Pp. 46-50.
  • Cenozoic Climates of the Great Basin, Geologische Rundschau, 40, 1952, pp. 94-108
  • On the Pleistocene history of the Great Basin. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 352, (1925). Pp. 51-114.
  • The glacial Great Lakes, Home Geographic Monthly, Vol. 1, (1932). Pp. 38-43.
  • Late-Glacial Clay Chronology of North America. The Smithsonian Report for (1931). Pp. 313-324.
  • The Swedish species of Ptilozamites NATHORST. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Ny Följd, Volume 51, 10, pp. 1–19, 1914, 3 panels, Uppsala & Stockholm
  • Lepidopteris ottonis (GÖPP.) SCHIMP. and Antholithus zeilleri NATHORST. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Ny Följd, Volume 51, 1914, pp. 1-18, 3 panels, Uppsala & Stockholm
  • The genera Thinnfeldia ETT. and Dicroidium GOTH. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Ny Följd, Volume 51, 1914, pp. 1–71, 5 plates, Uppsala & Stockholm

literature

  • TH Smiley: Memorial to Ernst Valdemar Antevs, 1888–1974. Bulletin Geological Society of America 1974.
  • CV Haynes: The Antevs-Bryan years and the legacy of Paleoindian geochronology. GSA Special Paper 242, 1990.

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personal data
SURNAME Antevs, Ernst Valdemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Vartofta , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1974
Place of death Globe , Arizona , United States