Keith DeVries
Keith Robert DeVries (January 2, 1937 – July 16, 2006) was a prominent
Gordium, in what is now Turkey. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
.
DeVries earned his undergraduate degree at the
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Mediterranean section.[1]
As an excavator, DeVries worked at Ischia and the excavations at Ancient Corinth. His primary work was at Gordium; there he directed the excavations from 1977 to 1987.[2][3]
In his last years, he was involved with a reassessment of the chronology of the Iron Age in Gordium and other parts of Anatolia. DeVries died of cancer in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
in 2006.
Works (incomplete)
- (Editor) From Athens to Gordion: the papers of a memorial symposium for Rodney S. Young, held at the University Museum, the third of May, 1975 (Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1980).
References
- ^ UPM archaeologist Keith DeVries asserts that enigmatic ivory statuette, uncovered in Greece in 1939, may be part of the throne of the famed Kind Midas, Phildadephia, 3 January 2002, press release Penn Museum
- ISBN 1-934536-55-5.
- ^ G.R. Sims "Keith DeVries, scholar, curator" Philadelphia Inquirer July 20, 2006 http://articles.philly.com/2006-07-20/news/25405499_1_archaeology-and-anthropology-university-of-pennsylvania-museum-king-midas
- Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Program - Alumni
- Obituary by Jeremy Pearce in The New York Times July 29, 2006.
- Gareth Darbyshire, Penn Museum obituary
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