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Robert Fleming Heizer
Robert Fleming Heizer
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He was a pioneer in the field of scientific applications to archaeology, principally in research dealing with radiocarbon dating in its early phases in the 1950s en c! then with trace element analysis of obsidian (volcanic glass)
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insights into cultural evolution of the Olmec civilization, en c! collaborative efforts with geologists en c!
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During registration an important event took place: Along the line, when someone noted that I wanted to be an archaeologist, I was pulled out of line and escorted to meet the president of the institution, Jeremiah Beverley Lilliard a sweet and dear person who had worked his way up through the city school system until he achieved the presidency of the junior college. From that time on, I became a special ward of his, and I can say that his interest was an important determinant in my life yet to come.
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, he worker! with sociologist Edwin Lemert at the tank site in Topanga Canyon.
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my share of Great Basin research, we began to work more in the area of obsidian analysis, lithic use-wear en c! functional studies, typology, en c!
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publication. He received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, en c!
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Also figuring largely are works on Mesoamerican archaeology, especially on the Olmec, stimulated initially by his research with Philip Drucker at La yenta in 1955. Interclisciplinary research (much of what wouIc!
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States, rock art, historical archaeology, prehistoric technology en c! material culture studies, archaeological bibliography, history of archaeology, ciating techniques, cultural ecology, especially as learned through coprolite analysis, general archaeological issues and theoretical concerns, and, experi .
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Trace element analysis using the techniques of nuclear chemistry was employoc! to determine the quarry origins, then the aim was to stucly the attendant problems of transport en c!
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This was expressed in several books, the Archaeological Survey Reports, most of the Archaeological Research Facility Contributions up to 1976, en c! as one of several editors for the University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (as well as in the Anthropolog~cal Records also publisher!
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worker! harcler, as I well remember in two quite different environs: recording southern Nevada rock art in a snow flurry and documenting the Colossi of Memnon in 122° heat!
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with archaeology. Lunches on Telegraph Avenue, airplane journeys, sitting in a bar in the Winter Palace Hotel at Luxor, all were locales for Heizer to take pen in hancI, get out one of his ubiquitous yellow note pacts, en c!
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Giancarlo Ligabue, who first met Heizer through a mutual interest in duck decoys (Nevadan and Venetian) , encouraged him in many projects and insured that an Italian version of Heizer's ancient heavy transport book was published.
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D., 1980. Memorial to Robert Fleming Heizer (1915-1979~.
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Cook. The physical analysis of nine Indian mounds of the lower Sacramento Valley.
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Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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The Natural World of the California Indians. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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