Open AccessHistory of Historical Archaeology
Author(s) -
Robert Livingston Schuyler
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.08203
Subject(s) - historical archaeology , archaeology , history
On Sunday April 19, 1998 Jean Carl Harrington (known to theprofession as J.C. or "Pinky" Harrington) passed away at his home in Richmond, Virginia.At 96 Harrington's life almost spanned the 20th century and did encompass the rise andestablishment of professional Historical Archaeology in North America. Many considerHarrington to be the founder or "father" of Americanist Historical Archaeology. In 1936he took over the newly created NPS-CCC project at Jamestown, Virginia and that event isarguably the inception of Historical Archaeology as an organized, scholarlydiscipline