Philip Phillips (archaeologist)

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This article is about the American archaeologist. For other people with the same name, see Philip Phillips (disambiguation).

Philip Phillips (11 August 1900 – 11 December 1994) was an influential

Alfred Marston Tozzer. His first archaeological experiences were on Iroquois sites, but he specialized in the Mississippian culture
, especially its Lower Mississippi Valley incarnation.

Career

In 1937, he was appointed assistant curator of Southeastern Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. In 1949, he became its curator; and remained an honorary curator from his 1967 retirement until his death.

His professional collaborations with James A. Ford, James Bennett Griffin, and Gordon Willey have become some of the standard works of American archaeology.

His professional obituary, including a summary of his life's accomplishments, was written by his lifelong colleague and collaborator Gordon R. Willey. It was published in 1996 by the Society for American Archaeology. "

Personal life

Phillips married Ruth Wilma Schoellkopf (daughter of

V. R. Lang (1924–1956).[3]

Phillips died at his home in Bolton, Massachusetts in 1994.[4] Phillips had restored the Whitcomb Inn and Farm, the oldest house in Bolton, and had donated land to preserve for public use in the town.[5]

Published works

Phillips' published works include:

  • Brain, Jeffrey P. and Philip Phillips. 1996. Shell Gorgets: Styles of the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Southeast. Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Phillips, Philip. 1970. Archaeological Survey in the Lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Peabody Museum Papers, vol. 60. Harvard University, Cambridge.[6]
  • Phillips, Philip and J. A. Brown. 1975-83. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. (6 volumes) Cambridge, Peabody Museum Press.
  • Phillips, Philip and J. A. Brown. 1984. Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. (2-volume softbound edition) Cambridge, Peabody Museum Press.[7]
  • Phillips, Philip, James A. Ford, and James B. Griffin. 1951. Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947. Peabody Museum Papers, vol. 25. Harvard University, Cambridge.
  • Willey, Gordon R. and Philip Phillips. 1958. Method and Theory in American Archaeology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 2001 pbk edition, with a new foreword by Gordon R. Willey and an introduction by the editors R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien. University of Alabama Press. 2001-02-14.
    ISBN 9780817310882
    .

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780817350222
    . Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Schoellkopf Will Leaves $50,000 to Boy Scouts" (PDF). Lockport N.Y. - Union-Sun & Journal. September 16, 1942. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ISBN 978-1-60699-384-2
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  4. ^ PHILIP PHILLIPS, PROMINENT ARCHAEOLOGIST" Dec. 13, 1994 The Buffalo News https://buffalonews.com/news/philip-phillips-prominent-archaeologist/article_4a57ff67-0f6b-534a-8c0f-98218390187e.html Dec 13, 1994
  5. ^ "NRHP nomination for Whitcomb Inn and Farm". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  6. doi:10.1126/science.176.4032.272
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  7. ^ Knight, Vernon James (1985). "Book Review: Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma by Phillips and Brown". Southeastern Archaeology. 4 (2): 152.
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