Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr.
| Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 3, 1937[1][2] Wilmington, Delaware[1] |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[1][3] Hockessin, Delaware[3] |
| Residence | Berkeley, California[3] |
| Citizenship | United States[1] |
| Fields | Classical archaeology[1][3] |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley[1][3] |
| Alma mater | B.A. Harvard University (1959)[1] Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1966)[1] |
| Thesis | Lydian Pottery of the Sixth-century B.C.: The Lydion and Marbled Ware[4] (1966) |
| Doctoral students | Nicholas Cahill[1] |
| Known for | Archaeology at Sardis[1][3] |
| Notable awards | Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities (1993)[1] Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology (2012)[5] |
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr. (June 3, 1937 – May 4, 2012) was a classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis.[1][3]
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Personal life
Greenewalt was the son of Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a chemical engineer and later president of the DuPont, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt.[2] He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick.[2] He attended the Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from Harvard in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966.[1] Greenwalt died of a brain tumor in 2012.[1]
Archaeology
Greenewalt first showed in interest in archaeology at age eight.[1] While an undergraduate at Harvard, Greenewalt worked at the Sardis excavation, where he became known for his ability to crawl through the narrow tunnels constructed by earlier tomb robbers.[3] After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer.[1][3] Greenewalt's Ph.D. thesis was on the Lydian pottery, like those recovered at the Sardis excavation.[3] Greenewalt worked on the Sardis excavation every summer from 1959 to 2011.[1][3] In 1976 he was made the field director of the excavation, a position he held until 2007 when he turned it over to Nicholas Cahill.[1][3]
Awards and honors
Greenewalt was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member the German Archaeological Institute and Austrian Archaeological Institute.[1] In 1993 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society for his paper When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed and for his work on reconstructing the history of Lydia.[1] In 2012 he was awarded Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology for his work at Sardis.[5]
The research library of archaeology at Ege University, Izmir, to which Greenewalt had left his private library, was named "Greenewalt Library" in 2015.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 Maclay 2012b
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 San Francisco Chronicle Obituary
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Fox 2012
- ↑ Pennsylvania Thesis Repository
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Maclay 2012a
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External Links
- 2007 Video Interview with Crawford Greenewalt, Jr. by Atomic Heritage Foundation Voices of the Manhattan Project
Bibliography
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