James B. Griffin
Affiliations: | 1939-1976 | Anthropology | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI |
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"James Griffin"Bio:
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James ("Jimmy") Bennett Griffin was one of the major forces in the development of North American archaeology. In his long, productive, and highly distinguished career spanning nearly seven decades, he played a pivotal role in transforming American archaeology into a fully scientific discipline.
James B. Griffin was born in Atchison, Kansas on January 12, 1905. His father's occupation as a railroad man moved his family from Kansas to Denver to Oak Park, Illinois during Griffin's childhood. Griffin entered the University of Chicago in 1923 for undergraduate study. He initially pursued a course in business administration, then law, but eventually settled on a social science major. His studies exposed him to introductory anthropology and ethnology courses, including one taught by Fay-Cooper Cole, and engendered a lifelong fascination with human origins and cultural development.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Fay-Cooper Cole | grad student | 1928-1932 | Chicago | |
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| Carl E. Guthe | grad student | 1933-1936 | University of Michigan | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Lewis R. Binford | grad student | ||
| Arthur J. Jelinek | grad student | University of Michigan | |
| Jeffrey R. Parsons | grad student | University of Michigan | |
| Bruce D. Smith | grad student | 1970-1973 | University of Michigan |
Publications
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| Griffin JB. (1990) Portraits in American Archaeology: Remembrances of Some Distinguished Americanists. Gordon Randolph Willey. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1989. xiii + 426 pp., biblio. $35.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). American Antiquity. 55: 637-638 |
| Griffin JB, Meltzer DJ, Smith BD, et al. (1988) A Mammoth Fraud in Science American Antiquity. 53: 578-582 |
| Griffin JB. (1985) The Formation of the Society for American Archaeology American Antiquity. 50: 261-271 |
| Griffin JB, Gordus AA, Wright GA. (1969) Identification of the Sources of Hopewellian Obsidian in the Middle West American Antiquity. 34: 1-14 |
| Crane HR, Griffin JB. (1968) University of Michigan radiocarbon dates XIII. Radiocarbon. 10: 161-180 |
| Crane HR, Griffin JB. (1964) University of Michigan radiocarbon dates IX. Radiocarbon. 6: 1-24 |
| Griffin JB, Yarnell RA. (1963) New Radiocarbon Date On Corn from the Davis Site, Cherokee County, Texas American Antiquity. 28: 396-397 |
| Crane HR, Griffin JB. (1963) University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates VIII Radiocarbon. 5: 228-253 |
| Crane HR, Griffin JB. (1962) University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates VII Radiocarbon. 4: 183-203 |
| Griffin JB. (1961) Some Correlations Of Climatic And Cultural Change In Eastern North American Prehistory Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 95: 710-717 |