Frederick A. Peterson Papers 1701-1977

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...

University of the Americas

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Peterson, Frederick A.

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Frederick A. Peterson. Part of the Frederick A. Peterson Pictorial Collection PICT 000-518 (Box 1, Folder 6). Frederick A. Peterson, born in 1920, has an M.A. in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from the University of the Americas, 1949. Much of his professional career was spent in field excavations and expeditions in Mexico. In addition, he was an instructor at Mexico City College, a special lecturer at the University of Houston summer session in Mexico, field as...

New world archaeological foundation

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Edwin Nelson Ferdon Jr. (1913 June 14- ) is a notable ethnologist noted for his studies of the peoples of Polynesia and the Americas. He earned his bachelors degree from the University of New Mexico, and a masters from the University of Southern California. He worked as a museum curator, researcher, and associate director in Southwestern cultural heritage institutions, retiring in 1983 from the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. From the guide to the Edwin Ferdon slides and...

Castaneda, Carlos

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