Bullen, Ripley Pierce, 1902–1976

Ripley Pierce Bullen; also known as Rip Bullen; born September 21, 1902, Winthrop, Massachusetts; died December 25, 1976, Gainesville, Florida; buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; mother: Bessie Louise Bullen; child: Dana Ripley Bullen; Ripley Pierce Bullen was Curator Emeritus at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, where he was the Department Chair of Social Sciences for a period of seventeen years (1956–1973). He was an archaeologist primarily associated with the Southeastern United States and Florida.

Ripley Pierce Bullen (1902–1976) was Curator Emeritus at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, where he was the Department Chair of Social Sciences for a period of seventeen years (1956–1973). He was an archaeologist primarily associated with the Southeastern United States and Florida, and in his later years he was known as the "dean of Floridian archaeology".[1] He also completed fieldwork in the American Southwest, the New England states, Central America, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles ...

Ripley P. Bullen, past Florida Museum curator of Florida Archaeology, collected information about Florida projectile points from both avocational and professional archaeologists for decades.

Timeline:

1957 – Museum records suggest this is when Bullen first gathered data for the projectile point classification.
1967 – Bullen presented first rendition of projectile point typology at a Florida Anthropological Society meeting.
1968 – First edition of the projectile point guide describing 43 types was published by the Florida State Museum (now Florida Museum of Natural History).
1975 – Second edition, basically a revision of original types and chronological distinctions as well as additions depicting 54 types was published by Kendall Books™