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Stone downplays the difficulties she faced as a woman in archaeology, she has been a significant benefactor of women in academia, endowing a tenured position at Harvard and supporting Radcliffe’s research centers, and thus ensuring others opportunities she did not have herself.
References
Andrews V.E. W., ed. 1986. Research and Reflections in Archaeology and History: Essays in Honor of Doris Stone. Middle American Research Institute Publication no. 57. New Orleans: Tulane University.
Levine, M.A. 1994. “Creating Their Own Niches: Alternative Career Styles among Women in Americanist Archaeology between the Wars.” In Women In Archaeology. Ed. C. Claassen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Stone, Doris Z. 1938. Masters in Marble. Middle American Research Institute Publication, no. 8. New Orleans: Tulane University.
———. 1941. Archaeology of the North Coast of Honduras. Memoirs 9, 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
———. 1957. The Archaeology of Southern and Central Honduras. Papers 49, 3. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
———. 1972. Pre-Columbian Man Finds Central America. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press.
———. 1977. Pre-Columbian Man in Costa Rica. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press.
Stone, Doris E., ed. 1984. Pre-Columbian Plant Migration. Papers 76. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Stone, Doris E., and F.W. Lange, eds. 1984. The Archaeology of Lower Central America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Williams, S. 1986. “Doris Stone: The Pathways of a Middle American Scholar.” In Research and Reflections in Archaeology and History: Essays in Honor of Doris Stone, pp. 199–202. Ed. E.W. Andrews. Middle American Research Institute Publication 57. New Orleans: Tulane University.
(1899–1962)
Born in Portland, Oregon, William Duncan Strong became a major figure in U.S. anthropology, distinguished in archaeological research as a theorist and as a teacher. After serving in the U.S. Navy in World War I, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, and received his B.A. in 1923. From an early interest in natural history he turned to anthropology as a result of the influence of Alfred A. Kroeber, with whom he worked on material excavated in peru many years earlier by max uhle. Strong’s 1926 Ph.D. dissertation, “An Analysis of Southwestern Society,” combined archaeological and ethnological data on the house-lineage-fetish complex.
He joined the staff of the Field Museum of Natural History in 1926 and took part in a fifteen-month expedition to Labrador where he spent a winter living with and studying the Naskapi Indians. In 1929, he moved to the University of Nebraska and began two years of archaeological research that completely revised the prehistory of the Great Plains. Instead of the mounted bison hunters of historic times being preceded only by nomads hunting and foraging on foot, he showed that there had been a long period of settled farming villages. Strong also excelled as a teacher, especially in informal, work-related settings, and several of his students at Nebraska went on to have distinguished careers in anthropology.
From 1931 to 1937, Strong was a member of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the smithsonian institution and began archaeological research in Honduras. Like the Great Plains, this was a relatively neglected area, and he quickly identified key problems and laid the foundations for answers, particularly by establishing a firmer chronology of past occupations.
After Strong was appointed to the anthropology faculty of Columbia University in 1937, he turned again to Peruvian archaeology. In 1941, he headed one of ten field parties, under the sponsorship of the Institute for Andean Research, in a program of survey and stratigraphic excavation in lesser-known areas of Latin America. He worked at Pachacamac on the coast of Peru with gordon willey and John Corbett as student assistants. When he published the results
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