G. Grant McCurdy
| Dr G. Grant McCurdy | |||||
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| Born | 1863 | ||||
| Died | 1947 | ||||
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museum work anthropologist | ||||
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1947.12.02 The death was announced of Dr Clark Wissler, and Hon. Fellow of the Institute, and of Dr G. Grant McCurdy. It was resolved that a message of sympathy be sent to the family of Dr Wissler, and that Miss Blackwood be requested to convey to Dr McCurdy’s family an expression of sympathy.
Notes From Elsewhere
photo: Dr. George Grant McCurdy at the International Symposium on Early Man 1937 in Philadelphia
Dr. MacCurdy, director, The School of Prehistoric Research, Yale University...Dr. MacCurdy presided at a round table discussion on European and African Chronology at the International Symposium on Early Man
George Grant McCurdy, Curator of Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
George Grant MacCurdy, A.M., Ph.D. (April 17, 1863 – November 15, 1947) was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard (A.B., 1893; A.M., 1894); then studied in Europe at Vienna, Paris (School of Anthropology), and at Berlin (1894–98; and at Yale (Ph.D., 1905).[1] He was employed at Yale from 1902 onwards as instructor, lecturer, curator of the anthropological collections (1902–10), and assistant professor of archæology after 1910.[2] He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Publications
External Publications
Obsidian razor of the Aztecs (1900)
The Eolithic Problem (1905)
Some Phases of Prehistoric Archœology (1907) Recent Discoveries Bearing on the Antiquity of Man in Europe (1910)
A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities (1911) Review of Mayan Art (1913)
Human Skulls from Gazelle Peninsula (1914) Human Origins (1924)
The Coming of Man, USA: The University Society, 1935 [1932], retrieved 10 October 2011