George Grant MacCurdy
George Grant MacCurdy (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 (AB, 1893; AM, 1894); then studied in Europe at Vienna, Paris (School of Anthropology), and at Berlin (1894–1898; and at Yale (PhD, 1905).[1] He was employed at Yale from 1902 onward as instructor, lecturer, curator of the anthropological collections (1902–1910), and assistant professor of archaeology after 1910.[2] He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
European hypothesis
MacCurdy argued for Europe as the origin of the first humans, in his 1924 book Human Origins, he said: “The beginnings of things human, so far as we have been able to discover them, have their fullest exemplification in Europe”.[3]
Works
He was the author of:
- 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
References
- (Minnesota State University (Biography) Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- THEODORE D. McCOWN (University of California) Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- George Grant MacCurdy, Human Origins, p. 311
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