Robert John Braidwood
Robert John Braidwood | |
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Chicago, Illinois | |
Spouse | Linda Braidwood |
Academic background | |
Education |
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Thesis | The comparative archaeology of early Syria: from the time of the earliest known village cultures through the Akkadian period. (1943) |
Doctoral advisor | James Henry Breasted |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Doctoral students | Robert McCormick Adams Jr. Patty Jo Watson |
Notable students |
Robert John Braidwood (29 July 1907 – 15 January 2003) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory.
Life
Braidwood was born July 29, 1907, in Detroit, Michigan, the first child of Walter John Braidwood (ca. 1876) and Reay Nimmo (1881), and was educated at the University of Michigan, from where he graduated with an M.A. in architecture in 1933. Within a year he had joined the University of Chicago Oriental Institute's expedition to the Amuq Plain with the archaeologist James Henry Breasted. He worked with the expedition until 1938, during which time he married fellow Michigan graduate Linda Schreiber, who became his partner in the field and in his research.
Braidwood spent World War II working for the Army Air Corps, in charge of a meteorological mapping program. In 1943 he gained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, who immediately employed him, and at whose Oriental Institute and Department of Anthropology he was a professor until he retired.
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Robert John Braidwood died January 15, 2003, in Chicago. His wife Linda died the same day.
Work
The expedition to the Amuq Plain (in the state of Hatay, Turkey) was one of the first scientific archaeological surveys, involving the rigorous dating of artifacts through careful mapping and record-keeping.
In 1947, Braidwood had learned about
Together with researchers from Istanbul University, Braidwood worked at a site in southern Turkey called Çayönü, and provided extensive and significance evidence for the theory that between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago there was a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural society in southern Turkey.
Braidwood is the author of "Prehistoric Men," a 181-page booklet in a series on popular topics published in 1967 by the Field Museum.[3]
Braidwood was elected to the
Works
- [1]Robert J. Braidwood, "Mounds in the Plain of Antioch: An Archeological Survey", Oriental Institute Publications 48, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937
- Robert J. Braidwood and Gordon R. Willey, ed. (1966). Courses Toward Urban Life. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company – via Internet Archive.
References
- ^ "Obituary: Robert and Linda Braidwood". Archived from the original on 2004-12-22. Retrieved 2006-09-21.
- ^ "College Admissions - The University of Chicago". phoenix.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Popular / Leaflet Series". Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Robert John Braidwood". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ^ "Robert J. Braidwood". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-500-05051-1).
Sources and external links
- ISBN 0-7619-3029-9)
- University of Chicago obituary
- Photograph of the Amuq Plain expedition, 1936
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
External links
- Works by Robert John Braidwood at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)