Nels C. Nelson
Nels Christian Nelson (April 9, 1875 – March 5, 1964) was a
Biography
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The Daxi culture, a Neolithic culture, located in the Qutang Gorge around Wushan, Chongqing, in China was discovered by Nels C. Nelson in the 1920s. The Nelsons joined Roy Chapman Andrews on his third expedition to Mongolia in 1925.[6]
Nelson served as president of the American Anthropological Association, president of the Society for American Archaeology, president of the American Ethnological Society, and vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Nelson served in a number of curatorial positions at American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), ultimately as Curator of Prehistoric Archeology. He retired from AMNH in 1943, and died in 1964 in New York City, at age 89.[7]
Notable publications
- Shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Region (University of California publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. v. 7, no. 4. Berkeley: University Press. 1909)
- Pueblo ruins of the Galisteo basin, New Mexico (Anthropological papers of the American museum of Natural History. Vol. XV, pt. I. The Trustees. 1914)
- Chronology of the TanoRuins, New Mexico (American Anthropologist, vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 159–180. 1916)
- Flint Working By Ishi (Holmes Anniversary Volume. Anthropological Essays Presented to Wm. Henry Holmes. Washington D.C.:397–402. 1916)
- Contributions to the Archaeology of Mammoth Cave and Vicinity, Kentucky (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. vol. 22, pt. 1. 1917)
- The New Conquest of Central Asia; A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921–1930 (with Roy Chapman Andrews, Walter W. Granger and Clifford H. Pope. New York: The American Museum of Natural History. 1932)
- The antiquity of man in America in the light of archaeology (University of Toronto Press. 1933)
- Notes on the Santa Barbara culture (Essays in anthropology in honor of Alfred Louis Kroeberpp. 199–209. Univ. of California Press. 1936)
- South African rock pictures (American Museum of Natural History. 1937)
References
- ^ Nels Nelson biography by Nancy L. Solberg, Edited by Marcy L. Voelker, 2007
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8263-2036-0
- ^ Snead, James (2017). "Nels Nelson in Southern California: The Context and Culture of Archaeology". Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 37 (2): 210-219. – via JSTOR.
- ISBN 978-0-8165-2138-8.
- ^ Nels C. Nelson and Chronological Archaeology Richard B. Woodbury, American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 400–401. 1960
- ISBN 978-0-300-09382-7
- ^ Nels Nelson obituary (Nels Christian Nelson, 1875–1964, by J. Alden Mason. Society for American Archaeology. 1966) [1]