Frederick Johnson papers, 1948-1968.

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Frederick Johnson papers, 1948-1968.

1948-1968

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Collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to Dr. Frederick Johnson, anthropologist and R.S. Peabody Foundation curator, in the development of the radiocarbon 14 dating method. Includes information on assembled samples, the progress of the study, and scholarly reaction to Johnson's work as Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14 set up by the American Anthropological Association. Also contains material related to various conferences as well as organizational materials, correspondence, and financial records relating to the subsequent Radiocarbon Dates Association, of which Johnson was president.

9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7414215

University of California, Los Angeles

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Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994

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Frederick Johnson (1904-1994) was an anthropologist and longtime curator (1936-1968) at the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, in Andover, Massachusetts. He is recognized for contributing to the development of an interdisciplinary approach to archaeology, in which scientists from a variety of fields were brought together to study archaeological problems. He organized the collaboration of fifteen scientists on the Boylston Street Fish Weir project in 1939 in Boston, and later, another ...