Hallam L. Movius
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hallam Leonard Movius was an American archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period. Career He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Harvard College, graduating in 1930. After receiving his PhD from Harvard and serving in the 12th Air Force in North Africa and Italy during World War II, he returned to Harvard and became a professor of archaeology there. Eventually he also became curator of Paleolithic Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Hallam L. Movius's Published Works
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- Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (172)
- Early man and Pleistocene stratigraphy in southern and eastern Asia (1947) (102)
- Excavation of the Abri Pataud, Les Eyzies (Dordogne). Stratigraphy (1975) (85)
- A Wooden Spear of Third Interglacial Age from Lower Saxony (1950) (81)
- The Stone Age Cultures Of Northern Rhodesia (1950) (77)
- Radiocarbon Dates and Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology in Central and Western Europe (1960) (72)
- The Irish Stone Age (1943) (47)
- The Châtelperronian in French Archaeology: the Evidence of Arcy-sur-Cure (1969) (45)
- Toward a New Outline of the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (40)
- The Analysis of Certain Major Classes of Upper Palaeolithic Tools: Aurignacian Scrapers (1971) (33)
- Excavation of the Abri Pataud, Les Eyzies (Dordogne). The Noaillian (Level 4) Assemblages and the Noaillian Culture in Western Europe. (1985) (27)
- Olduvai Gorge: A Report on the Evolution of the Hand-Axe Culture in Beds I-IV (1953) (26)
- Research on Early Man in Burma (1944) (18)
- The abrí de Cro-Magnon, les Eyzies (Dordogne), and the probable Age of the contained burials on the basis of the evidence of the nearby Abrí Pataud (1969) (18)
- Villafranchian Stratigraphy in Southern and Southwestern Europe (1949) (17)
- Age Determination by Radiocarbon Content (1950) (15)
- Transition From Mousterian to Perigordian: Skeletal and Industrial [and Comments and Replies] (1966) (13)
- The Cemetery-Cairn at Knockast (1933) (10)
- Flint-Working Techniques of the American Indians: An Experimental Study. H. Holmes Ellis. (The Lithic Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, The Ohio State University, Columbus. April, 1940.) (1941) (10)
- Graphic representation of postglacial changes of level in northeast Ireland (1953) (8)
- REFERENCES CITED IN THE TEXT (1942) (8)
- Old World Prehistory: Palaeolithic (1954) (8)
- Geological and Archæological Aspects of South-Eastern Asia (1938) (8)
- More on Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology (1961) (8)
- The Irish stone age;: Its chronology, development & relationships, (1969) (6)
- Southern and Eastern Asia: Conclusions (1978) (5)
- Asian perspectives : the bulletin of the Far-Eastern Prehistory Association (1960) (4)
- The rock-shelter of La Colombière : archaeological and geological investigations of an upper Périgordian site near Poncin (Ain) (1957) (4)
- OLD-WORLD PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY (1949) (4)
- The Lascaux cave (1951) (3)
- Recent Research on Early Man in China (1955) (2)
- Upper Périgordian and Aurignacian hearts [i.e. hearths] at the Abri Pataud, Les Eyzies (Dordogne) (1965) (1)
- Book Reviews: Contributions to the Anthropology of the Soviet Union (1949) (1)
- Archaeology and the Earliest Art (1953) (1)
- A bibliography of early man, Pleistocene studies and palaeolithic archaeology in southern, equitorial, and eastern Africa (1954) (1)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Paleoanthropologist. (1956) (0)
- Palaeolithic Cave Art. PETER J. UCKO and ANDRÉE ROSENFELD (1968) (0)
- Post-Larnian Developments (1942) (0)
- PREHISTORY. Background to Evolution in Africa. Walter W. Bishop and J. Desmond Clark (1969) (0)
- Cave-Man in France (1949) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa. J. Desmond Clark (1957) (0)
- The Raised Beach of the Third Interglacial Period (1942) (0)
- Archeology: The Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia. J. Desmond Clark, with a chapter on geology by F. Dixey and appendices by H. B. S. Cooke, L. H. Wells, and Geoffrey Bond (1952) (0)
- Early Post-Glacial Chronology in Britain and Ireland (1942) (0)
- EUROPE AND ASIA: The Law and the Prophets. Harold Peake and Herbert John Fleure (1939) (0)
- The Loom of Prehistory, a Commentary and a Select Bibliography of the Prehistory of Southern Africa@@@Primitive Pottery, an Introduction to South African Ceramics Prehistoric and Protohistoric@@@The Bored Stones of South Africa (1951) (0)
- The Chronology of Northern Europe (1942) (0)
- Archeology: Excavations at the Njoro River Cave: Stone Age Cremated Burials in Kenya Colony. M. D. Leakey and L. S. B. Leakey. Foreword by W. E. Le Gros Clark (1952) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Asian Perspectives. [Bulletin of the Far‐Eastern Prehistory Association (1959) (0)
- The Origin and Affinities of the Larnian Culture (1942) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: The Stone Age in Scotland. A. D. Lacaille (1957) (0)
- Deposits of the Interstadial Period between the Old and the New Drift Glaciations (W1/W2) in England and Scotland (1942) (0)
- The Recession of the Last Ice-Sheets (1942) (0)
- Research on Early Man in Burma@@@Supplementary Reports upon the Pleistocene Vertebrates and Mollusks of the Region@@@Pleistocene Geology and Early Man in Java (1944) (0)
- Studies in Prehistory: Robert Bruce Foote Memorial Volume. D. Sen and A. K. Ghosh (1968) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Prehistoric Research in Northwestern Punjab. Anthropological Research in Chitral. PAOLO GRAZIOSI (1966) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Prehistoric Men. Robert J. Braidwood (1949) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Kharga Oasis in Prehistory. G. Caton‐Thompson (1954) (0)
- The Mesolithic Culture of the Irish Raised Beaches (1942) (0)
- CLASSIFIED LIST OF REFERENCES TO CAVE RESEARCH AND STONE AGE ARCHAEOLOGY IN IRELAND (1942) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Man and Culture in the Late Pleistocene: A Case Study. Richard G. Klein. Foreword by F. Clark Howell. Chandler publications in Anthropology and Sociology (1970) (0)
- Submerged Forests and Raised Beaches in Britain and Ireland (1942) (0)
- Deposits of the Late-Glacial Sea (1942) (0)
- The New Drift Glaciation (1942) (0)
- The Antiquity of Man in Ireland (1942) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Soils for the Archaeologist. I. W. Cornwall (1960) (0)
- The Late-Glacial Sequence in Britain and Ireland (1942) (0)
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