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Joseph Ralston Caldwell (June 14, 1916 – December 23, 1973) was an American archaeologist. In the late 1930s he conducted major excavations in the Savannah, Georgia area at the Irene site as part of Depression - era archaeology program .
A Thriving Environment. In 1999, the Institute of Archaeology honored the longtime support of Lloyd E. Cotsen by changing its name to the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. With the $7 million endowment, the Cotsen Institute developed many programs for graduate education and faculty research. Today, as an interdisciplinary research unit, the ...
Joseph Ralston Caldwell (1916-1973) was an archeologist best known for conducting Works Projects Administration (WPA) excavations in Chatham county, Georgia, circa 1937-1941. Caldwell then served as scientific aide to the National Museum's Director of Anthropology (1943-1945) and as an archeologist for the Smithsonian's River Basin Surveys ...
Cite this Record. New American Archaeology. Joseph R. Caldwell. 1958 ( tDAR id: 175252)
ON DECEMBER 23, 1973, Joseph Ralson Caldwell died of a massive coronary in Athens, Georgia. From his early archaeological experiences in the southeastern United States, through his final days as professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia, he was always immersed in the humanistic approach to prehistoric anthropology. Although most widely known among American archaeologists for his ...
Papers in Archeology: New Roads to Yesterday: Essays in Archaeology.Joseph R. Caldwell, Ed. Basic Books, New York, 1966. 556 pp., illus. $12.50.
recommended and so seldom employed. .. " [Caldwell 1971:412]), his preoccupation with the humanistic approach is understandable when one recalls his eclectic educational background. Upon re-entering the University of Chicago in 1942, Joe Caldwell and Richard "Scottie" MacNeish as roommates became engrossed in discussions of the "Buzzard Cult."
