Open AccessThe Remarkable History of Edgar Lee Hewett's Ph.D. Dissertation
Author(s) -
Richard B. Woodbury
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.04102
Subject(s) - anthropology , state (computer science) , history , archaeology , head (geology) , sociology , geology , algorithm , geomorphology , computer science
Hewett's career was notable for many things. including effectivesupport of the 1906 Antiquities Act [United States], first director of the School ofAmerican Archaeology (later, School of American Research) in Santa Fe in 1907, firstdirector of the Museum of New Mexico in 1909, professor of anthropology at StateTeachers College, San Diego, in 1922, head of the new department of archaeology andanthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1927, and head of the anthropologydepartment at the University of Southern California. 1932. Douglas W. Schwartz hasdescribed Hewett's career as "characterized by great energy and intelligence directed toa series of activities, but each to be superseded by the next as new interestarose..