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Thomas Dale Stewart
Thomas Dale Stewart
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Institution. Smithsonian Archives, Anthropological National of Courtesy Photograph
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His quiet and modest demeanor and meticulous approach to problem-oriented research made him one of the most respected and accomplished physical anthropologists on record. Although his interests touched many areas of anthropology and medical science, he is widely regarded as a champion of accurate, detailed scholarship and remarkable career productivity.
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His primary school teacher Mary Arnold doubled as his Sunday school teacher and continued to assist him later in his career. Following graduation from high school in 1920, Stewart accepted a position with the First National Bank of Delta as a runner; Dale had to open the bank in the mornings, maintain the furnace, and complete other mundane tasks needed to keep the facility operational.
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Baer held a temporary position with the Smithsonian Institution as a substitute for archeologist Neil Merton Judd and physical anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka when they were on travel. Through Baer, Stewart agreed to share his room with a young man who had just arrived to work at the Smithsonian, Henry B
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With a leave of absence from Hrdlicka and his guarantee that he would return to the Smithsonian after receiving the degree, Stewart enrolled in medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He had previously met Johns Hopkins professors Adolph Hans Schultz and William Louis Straus of the anatomy department.
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Two of Dale's stories relating to this medical experience reveal the delicate road he walked in his relationship with Hrdlicka. Apparently Hrdlicka main tained in his office a supply of citrine ointment that he would dispense to colleagues at the Smithsonian for a wide variety of minor ailments.
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Stewart would define a specific problem that needed a solution, assemble all the relevant literature, and then craft a research design, frequently including the Smithsonian's collections. Early in his career, research topics complemented those of Hrdlicka and his work at the Smithsonian: dental caries in Peru, separate neural arch and spondylolisthesis in Eskimo and other samples from the Americas, ossuary excavation and analysis in eastern North America, cranial deformation, dental alterations, anthropometry, and detailed analysis of specific skeletal samples recovered from archeological excavations.
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This concern led him not only to publish extensively on forensic issues but also to gather data from identified individuals, examined in a forensic context, to improve methodology. In 1954 he accepted an invitation from the secretary of the U.S.
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Free from administration and other Smithsonian duties, Dale came to the office regularly and continued productivity for another two decades. Although he always modestly cited Hrdlicka as a model of career research accomplishment, the number of his own publications surpassed that of Hrdlicka, totaling at least 394 contributions, including five edited volumes and four books or monographs.
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Stewart received the Viking Fund Medal in 1953 and the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. In 1974 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and he regularly attended their annual meetings.
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In the academic environment of the Smithsonian he flourished. With a work ethic that had been well established early in his life and honed during his long years working with Ales Hrdlicka, Stewart became a prodigious researcher who focused on accuracy and detail.
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A frequent international traveler, he was a diplomat for the Smithsonian Institution and American physical anthropology. His scientific contributions include original, detailed, and interpretive analyses of such diverse topics and conditions as treponemal disease, trephination, dental alterations, vertebral osteophytosis, anterior femoral curvature, Neanderthal morphology, and the complexity of skeletal aging.
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J Bone Joint Surg.
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1958 Rate of development of vertebral osteoarthritis in American whites and its significance in skeletal age identification. Leech 28(3 5)
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1977 The Neanderthal skeletal remains from Shanidar cave, Iraq: A sum mary of findings to date.
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