Hallam L. Movius

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Hallam L. Movius

Hallam Leonard Movius, Jr. (born November 28, 1907 in Newton , Massachusetts , † May 30, 1987 in Cambridge , Massachusetts) was an American archaeologist .

Movius was considered the leading American expert on the Paleolithic . He made a special contribution to the excavations at Abri Pataud and the Movius line , an archaeological find frontier in Asia, is named after him . He evaluated the radiocarbon method for stone age archeology and, together with Henri-Victor Vallois, compiled a catalog of human fossils .

Life

Movius was the son of the landscape architect Hallam Leonard Movius of the same name. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1930 and a master's degree there in 1932, and a Ph.D. in 1937. , both in anthropology . Before and after the war he took part in numerous excavations at Paleolithic sites in Europe, near Jerusalem and in Southeast Asia. In Jerusalem he was assistant to Theodore D. McCown . He worked for the Harvard Irish Survey under Hugh Hencken and for the Harvard-Carnegie Expedition under Helmut de Terra . In 1939 he got a position at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology .

Movius served in the United States Army Air Forces in Italy during World War II . He left the armed forces in 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . In 1948 he received a position as a lecturer (lecturer) at Harvard University, in 1950 he became an associate professor , in 1957 he was given a full professorship. During this time he did field research at various sites in France, particularly in the Abri Pataud .

In 1951 Movius was elected as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science , in 1952 as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1957 of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1954 Movius received a Guggenheim grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , and in 1970 he was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.

Movius had been married to the Australian archaeologist Nancy Champion de Crespigny since 1936. The couple had two children. In 1970 Hallam Movius suffered a stroke , but was still able to work in science for a few years. In 1974 he retired from teaching and in 1976 from his work as curator of the Peabody Museum . His last monographs were published in 1984 and 1985.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Hallam L. Movius, Jr. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed December 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Hallam Movius Jr. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , accessed December 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Movius, Hallam L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Movius, Hallam; Movius, Hallam Leonard; Movius, Hallam Leonard, Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Newton , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1987
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts