James Bennett Griffin

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According to Wikipedia, James Bennett Griffin or Jimmy Griffin was an American archaeologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential archaeologists in North America in the 20th century. Personal life Born in Atchison, Kansas, the son of Charles and Maude Griffin, Jimmy and his family subsequently moved to Denver, Colorado. His father was a supplier for railroad equipment. Griffin's interest in archaeology was born through reading as a child and his love for visiting museums. When Jimmy was eleven his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, where he lived until he enrolled in college. He attended Oak Park schools and was a cheerleader at Oak Park and River Forest High School. At school in Oak Park he met Fred Eggan and Wendell Bennett. His friendship with these two schoolmates would last into graduate school and his professional career in anthropology. In 1933, he married Ruby Fletcher. They had three children: John, David, and James. Griffin retired in 1976 and remained in Ann Arbor for several years. His wife died in 1979, and in 1984, he moved to Washington D.C. He met Mary Dewitt there and soon married her. They spent twelve years together living in Washington before Griffin’s death in Bethesda, Maryland aged 92.

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Eastern North American Archaeology: A Summary (1967) (190)
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley 1940-1947 (1953) (147)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates X (1956) (132)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XIV (1958) (107)
Identification of the Sources of Hopewellian Obsidian in the Middle West (1969) (88)
The Fort Ancient aspect : its cultural and chronological position in Mississippi Valley archaeology (1943) (78)
Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley : comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations (1973) (63)
An introduction to the archaeology of Alberta, Canada (1965) (58)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XII (1958) (56)
The American Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Isolation (1955) (52)
Obsidian Sources Characterized by Neutron-Activation Analysis (1968) (47)
The Burial Complexes of the Knight and Norton Mounds in Illinois and Michigan (1970) (41)
The Fort Ancient Aspect (1966) (39)
Traumatic posterior fracture-dislocation of the lumbosacral joint. (1980) (38)
A Mammoth Fraud in Science (1988) (33)
Some Prehlistoric Connections between Siberia and America. (1960) (31)
Lake Superior copper and the Indians : miscellaneous studies of Great Lakes prehistory (1961) (28)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates IV (1959) (27)
The Snodgrass Site of the Powers Phase of Southeast Missouri (1979) (26)
SOME CORRELATIONS OF CLIMATIC AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN PREHISTORY (1961) (26)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates V (1960) (24)
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Philip Phillips. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Volume 60. In 2 parts, xxviii + 450 illus., 18 tables. Paper, $30.00. (1973) (23)
Contributions to the Archaeology of the Illinois River Valley (1941) (21)
The Archaeological Remains of the Chiwere Sioux (1937) (20)
Archeology of Eastern United States (1952) (20)
The George C. Davis Site, Cherokee County, Texas (1950) (19)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates VI (1961) (17)
Neutron Activation Analysis of Obsidian: An Example of Its Relevance to Northwestern Plains Archaeology (1968) (16)
The origin and dispersion of American Indians in North America (1968) (15)
The chronological position of the Hopewellian culture in the Eastern United States (1958) (14)
LATE QUATERNARY PREHISTORY IN THE NORTHEASTERN WOODLANDS (1965) (14)
Cahokia Interaction With Contemporary Southeastern and Eastern Societies (1993) (14)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates VII (1962) (13)
A COMMENTARY ON EARLY MAN STUDIES IN THE NORTHEAST (1977) (12)
Neutron activation studies of the source of prehistoric hopewellian obsidian implements from the middle west. (1967) (12)
The Formation of the Society for American Archaeology (1985) (12)
The University of Michigan Excavations at the Pulcher Site in 1970 (1977) (11)
An analysis and interpretation of the ceramic remains from two sites near Beaufort, South Carolina (1944) (11)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XIII (1970) (11)
An Individual's Participation in American Archaeology, 1928-1985 (1985) (10)
Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 376 (1981) (10)
The Chronological Position and Ethnological Relationships of the Fort Ancient Aspect (1937) (10)
From Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1940–1947 (1997) (10)
The Short-Nosed God from the Emmons Site, Illinois (1961) (9)
Interpretation of the Place of Spiro in Southeastern Archaeology (1952) (9)
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis, The Cottonlandia Conference. (1991) (9)
The Snyders Mounds and Five Other Mound Groups in Calhoun County, Illinois (1982) (9)
ACTIVATION ANALYSIS IDENTIFICATION OF THE GEOLOGIC ORIGINS OF PREHISTORIC OBSIDIAN ARTIFACTS. (1968) (9)
Surface Tension of Perfluoromethylcyclohexane. (1960) (9)
Northeast Asian and Northwestern American Ceramics (1970) (9)
Central Mississippi Valley Archaeological Survey, Season 1950, a Preliminary Report (1951) (9)
Fiber-Tempered Pottery of the Southeast: in Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (1950) (9)
Obsidian Samples from Archaeological Sites in Northwestern Alaska: A Preliminary Report (1969) (8)
An Album of Maya Architecture. Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Publication, Carnegie Institution of Washington, No. 558. Washington, 1946. Unpaged, 36 plates. $10.00 unbound. (1948) (8)
Notes on Some Ceramic Techniques and Intrusions in Central Mexico (1947) (7)
The Archaeological Zone of Buena Vista, Huaxcama, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (1947) (7)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates IX (1964) (7)
Report On Pottery From the St. Louis Area (1941) (7)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XI (1966) (6)
A New Radiocarbon Date on Corn from the Davis Site, Cherokee County, Texas (1963) (5)
The partial thromboplastin time test. (1966) (5)
Iroquois culture, history, and prehistory : proceedings of the 1965 Conference on Iroquois Research (1971) (5)
The Man Who Comes after; or, Careful How You Curate (1981) (5)
Carl Eugen Guthe, 1893-1974 (1976) (4)
Edra 1983 : proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1983) (4)
6. Mesoamerica and the Eastern United States in Prehistoric Times (1966) (4)
Some Adena and Hopewell Radiocarbon Dates (1951) (4)
Archaeological Studies of the Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania. Donald A. Cadzow. (Publications, Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Vol. 3, pp. 217, 141 plates, 6 charts, 3 maps, Harrisburg, 1936.) (1937) (4)
The Black Pottery of Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paul Van De Velde Henriette Romeike Van De Velde with a foreword by F. W. Hodge. (Southwest Museum Papers, No. 13, pp. 1–43, pls. 39, fig. 1. Los Angeles, California, 1939.) (1941) (4)
Archaeological Survey of the Northern Northwest Coast (1947) (4)
Essays on Archaeological Methods (1952) (3)
Appendix I, the Ceramic Complexes at Iyatayet (1964) (3)
A discussion of prehistoric similarities and connections between the arctic and temperate zones of North America (1962) (3)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates XV (1972) (3)
Preliminary State On the Pottery from Cape Denbigh, Alaska (1953) (3)
University of Michigan Radiocarbon Dates VIII (1963) (3)
Painted Pottery Figurines from Illinois (1945) (3)
An Interpretation of Siouan Archaeology in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia (1945) (3)
An appreciation of Irving Benjamin Rouse (1978) (2)
Prehistoric Indians of the Ohio Valley (1952) (2)
Culture Identity of the Ozark “Top Layer” (1937) (2)
Some Suggested Alterations of Certain Portions of an Archaeological Perspective (1976) (2)
Walam Olum or Red Score: The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians: A New Translation, Interpreted by Linguistic, Historical, Archaeological, and Physical Anthropological Studies. by (1955) (2)
Adena Pottery (1942) (2)
Modoc Rock Shelter: Preliminary Report. Melvin L. Fowler and Howard Winters. Faunal analysis by Paul W. Parmalee. Report of Investigations No. 4, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 1956. 58 pp., 16 figs. $0.25. (1957) (2)
The Eastern Dispersal of Adena. William A. Ritchie and Don W. Dragoo. New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin, No. 379, Albany, 1960. 80 pp., 2 figs., 16 pls., 5 tables. $1.25. (1961) (2)
ON THE HISTORIC LOCATION OF THE TUTELO AND THE MOHETAN IN THE OHIO VALLEY (1942) (2)
Portraits in American Archaeology: Remembrances of Some Distinguished Americanists. Gordon Randolph Willey. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1989. xiii + 426 pp., biblio. $35.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). (1990) (1)
Essays on archaeological methods : proceedings of a conference held under auspices of the Viking Fund (1951) (1)
Angel Site: An Archaeological, Historical, and Ethnological Study. Volumes One and Two. Glenn A. Black (1968) (1)
HIT-to-Kill Homer Ground Test (HIT Phase 2). Task Completion Report. Maneuver Motor Array (1974) (1)
An Introduction to North American Archaeology: Vol. I, North and Middle America. Gordon R. Willey Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 1966. xiv + 526 pp., 436 figs. $16.95. (1968) (1)
Contributions To the Archaeology of the Illinois River Valley: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1942) (1)
Types of East Texas Pottery. A. T. Jackson. (Texas Archaeological and Paleontological Society, Volume 6: 38-57, September, 1934.) (1935) (1)
The Hardin Village Site. Lee H. Hanson, Jr. Studies in Anthropology, No. 4, University of Kentucky Press, 1966. x + 184 pp., 67 figs., 3 tables, bibliography. $5.00. (1967) (1)
Certain Sand-Tempered Pottery Types of the Southeast: in Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (1950) (1)
Emerson F. Greenman, 1895-1973 (1974) (1)
From History to Prehistory in the Northern Great Plains, Wm. Duncan Strong, pp. 353–394. (1942) (1)
Report of the Conference on Southeastern Pottery Typology (1997) (1)
Central Mississippi Valley Archeological Survey (1941) (1)
The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles: A Study of the Stone-using Agricultural Communities of Britain in the Second Millennium B.C. Stuart Piggot Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1954. xix+420 pp., 64 figs., 12 pls. $13.50. (1956) (1)
THE ARCTIC WOODLAND CULTURE OF THE KOBUK RIVER. By J. L. Giddings Jr. Museum Monographs. The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. IX and 144. PlattesI-XLVI. $2.50. (1955) (1)
The Faulkner Spring Site. Maurice Robbins. (Papers of the Attleboro Museum of Art and History, Number 1, January 1944.) (1946) (1)
"Turtle Egg" Site, (20Gs26) Genesee County, Michigan (1977) (0)
William H. Sears, Southeastern Archaeologist: a Tribute (Six Papers in Honor of William H. Sears (1984) (0)
Richard G. Morgan, 1903-1968 (1969) (0)
OTHER: Glacial and Pleistocene Geology. Richard Foster Flint (1958) (0)
Non-Neolithic Copper Industry in North America (1966) (0)
An experimental study of the techniques of pottery decoration (1935) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Hopewellian Studies. JOSEPH R. CALDWELL and ROBERT L. HALL (1965) (0)
Reel-Shaped Gorgets (1941) (0)
A Cost-Benefit Study of Educational Expenditures (1971) (0)
Copper Point from Presque Isle County, Michigan (1967) (0)
Review of "the Hardin Village Site" By Lee H. Hanson (1967) (0)
Archaeology: Variation in Anthropology: Essays in Honor of John C. McGregor. DONALD W. LATH-RAP and JODY DOUGLAS, eds (1975) (0)
Adena: The Seeking of an Identity. B. K. Swartz Jr., editor. Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 1971. 182 pp. No price given. (1975) (0)
An Archaeological Survey of Guntersville Basin on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama. William S. Webb and Charles G. Wilder. University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, Kentucky, 1951. 278 pages, 78 plates, 2 maps, 2 plans, 1 table. (1952) (0)
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone. William Fitzhugh, editor. Mouton, The Hague; Aldine, Chicago, 1975. x + 405 pp., illus. $29.50. (1977) (0)
Calumet Ancient Pit (1966) (0)
Chronology and Dating Processes (1955) (0)
Virginia before Jamestown, David I. Bushnell Jr., pp. 125–129. (1942) (0)
Review of "the Chiggerville Site" By W. S. Webb and W. G. Haag (1940) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Anthropological Papers Numbers 49–56. (1960) (0)
Some Recent Publications (1942) (0)
Archaeological Notes on Posey County, Indiana. William R. Adams. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1949. 81 pp., xvi pls., 5 maps. (1950) (0)
An Introduction to Prehistoric Archeology. Frank Hole and Robert F. Heizer. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1965. x + 306 pp. Illus. $7 (1965) (0)
Asian Sources of American Arctic Pottery (1966) (0)
Old Copper Spear Point from Chippewa County, Michigan (1972) (0)
Archaeology: Spiro Mound Copper. Henry Hamilton, Jean Hamilton, and Eleanor Chapman (1978) (0)
AAQ volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1945) (0)
Recent Discoveries Suggesting an Early Woodland Burial Cult in the Northeast (1956) (0)
Bibliography (1952) (0)
Interpretation of Prehistory: Essays from the Pages of the Quarterly Review of Archaeology (1989) (0)
Man Before History, Edited by Creighton Gabel Prentice- Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, 1964.183pp. $4.95. (1966) (0)
Archeological Investigations in the Grand Rapids, Manitoba, Resevoir 1961-62, by William J. Mayer-Oakes (1971) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Brittany. P. R. Giot (1961) (0)
Chapters in Nebraska Archaeology: Vol. I, Nos. I‐VI. Earl H. Bell (ed.) (1938) (0)
Archaeology of New Jersey, Volume Two, the Abbott Farm (1958) (0)
1957 Viking Medalist in Archaeology (1958) (0)
Comments on the Cultural Position of the Bintz Site, Campbell County, Kentucky (1953) (0)
Book Reviews: America's Ancient Civilizations (1954) (0)
A Note of Correction (1939) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Suilon Hoo: The Excavation of a Royal Ship‐Burial. Charles Green (1964) (0)
An Unusual Oneota Vessel from Minnesota (1945) (0)
The Archaeologist at Work: A Source Book in Archaeological Method and Interpretation. Edited by Robert F. Heizer, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1959. xiv+520 pp., 99 figs., 18 tables. $8.00. (1960) (0)
United States and Canada : indigenous period (1953) (0)
Folklore: Ohio's Prehistoric Peoples. MARTHA A. POTTER (1971) (0)
The Box Elder Mound in La Salle County, Illinois (1945) (0)
Review of the "Chilton Site" By W. D. Funkhouser and W. S. Webb (1940) (0)
The Pre-lroguoian Occupations of New York State. William A. Ritchie. (Rochester Museum Memoir, No. 1. xvii+416 pp., 165 pls., 6 figs. Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester, New York, 1944.) (1945) (0)
Preliminary Evaluation of the Status of the Archeology in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Arkansas Archeological Survey (1968) (0)
The First American: A Story of North American Archaeology by C. W. Ceram, Richard Winston, and Clara Winston (1972) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Tribes That Slumber: Indian Times in the Tennessee Region. THOMAS M. N. LEWIS and MADELINE KNEBERG (1959) (0)
Ancient Mounds of Pennsylvania (1947) (0)

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