Richard S. MacNeish papers, 1929-2001
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MacNeish, Richard Stockton, 1918-2001
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Richard Stockton "Scotty" MacNeish was a significant figure in American Archaeology in the second half of the 20th century. His style of interdisciplinary team archaeology focused on the origins of agriculture in the New World and resulted in major excavations in Mexico, Peru, and Belize. The projects in the Tehuacán Valley in Mexico and the Ayacucho Valley in Peru established deep cultural sequences and provided crucial insight into the process of plant and animal domestication. These oft-cited...
