Robert John Braidwood

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Anthropology

#430

World Rank

#613

Historical Rank

#235

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Archeology

#172

World Rank

#279

Historical Rank

#44

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Robert John Braidwood's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Robert John Braidwood was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory. Life Braidwood was born July 29, 1907, in Detroit, Michigan, the first child of Walter John Braidwood and Reay Nimmo , and was educated at the University of Michigan, from where he graduated with an M.A. in architecture in 1933. Within a year he had joined the University of Chicago Oriental Institute's expedition to the Amuq Plain with the archaeologist James Henry Breasted. He worked with the expedition until 1938, during which time he married fellow Michigan graduate Linda Schreiber, who became his partner in the field and in his research.

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Robert John Braidwood's Published Works

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The Agricultural Revolution (1960) (289)
Prehistoric Investigations in Iraqi Kurdistan (1960) (125)
Prehistoric Archaeology along the Zagros Flanks (1983) (113)
Excavations in the Plain of Antioch I (1960) (107)
The Iranian Prehistoric Project (1961) (100)
Report on two sondages on the coast of Syria, south of Tartous " (1940) (95)
Excavations in the Plain of Antioch, I. The Earlier Assemblages. Phases A-J (1961) (95)
Symposium: Did Man Once Live by Beer Alone? (1953) (83)
Tell Hassuna Excavations by the Iraq Government Directorate General of Antiquities in 1943 and 1944 (1945) (64)
Near Eastern Prehistory. (1960) (49)
The Achievement and Early Consequences of Food-Production: A Consideration of the Archeological and Natural-Historical Evidence (1957) (49)
Mounds in the plain of Antioch : an archeological survey (1939) (48)
Near Eastern Prehistory: The swing from food-collecting cultures to village-farming communities is still imperfectly understood. (1958) (47)
A Demographer's View of Prehistoric Demography [and Comments and Replies] (1975) (46)
Jericho and its Setting in Near Eastern History (1957) (44)
Beginnings of village-farming communities in southeastern Turkey. (1981) (38)
Jarmo: A Village Early Farmers in Iraq (1950) (32)
Matarrah: A Southern Variant of the Hassunan Assemblage, Excavated in 1948 (1952) (27)
The paleoethnobotany of the Near East and Europe. (1960) (25)
Early Farming Village in Turkey (1970) (25)
The SU site excavations at a Mogollon Village, western New Mexico, second season, 1941, by Paul S. Martin. (1943) (24)
From Cave to Village in Prehistoric Iraq (1951) (23)
Ancient Syrian coppers and bronzes (1951) (14)
Prehistoric Investigations in Southeastern Turkey (1969) (13)
Beginnings of village-farming communities in southeastern Turkey-1972. (1971) (12)
VERE GORDON CHILDE 1892–1957* (1958) (12)
The Early Village in Southwestern Asia (1973) (11)
From Cave to Village (1952) (9)
Prehistoric village archaeology in south-eastern Turkey : the eighth millenium B.C. site at Çayönü, its chipped and ground stone industries and faunal remains (1982) (9)
The near east and the foundations for civilization : an essay in appraisal of the general evidende (1953) (9)
Did Man Once Live by Beer Alone? (2012) (8)
Ksâr ʾAkil: Its Archeological Sequence and Geological Setting (1951) (8)
ON THE TREATMENT OF THE PREHISTORIC NEAR EASTERN MATERIALS IN STEWARD'S “CULTURAL CAUSALITY AND LAW” (1949) (8)
The Hilly flanks and beyond : essays on the prehistory of southwestern Asia presented to Robert J. Braidwood, November 15, 1982 (1983) (7)
Archaeological retrospect 2 (1981) (7)
The earlier assemblages phases A-J (1960) (7)
Asiatic Prehistory and the Origin of Man (1947) (5)
Current Status of the Identification Problem: the Archaeological Viewpoint. In: the Identification of Non-Artifactual Archaeological Materials (1957) (4)
Earliest animal domestication dated? (1973) (4)
Radiocarbon Dates and Their Implications in the Near and Middle Eastern Area, a Brief (1951) (3)
Archeologists and what they do (1960) (2)
"The Agricultural Revolution", R. J. Braidwood, "Scientific American", september 1960 : [recenzja] / Z. P. (1962) (2)
The Earliest Village Materials of Syro-Cilicia (1956) (2)
187. A Note on a Multiple-Brush Device Used by Near Eastern Potters of the Fourth Millennium B. C. (1939) (2)
Long Barrows, Chronology and Causewayed Camps (1962) (1)
Book Review:The Three Ages: An Essay on Archaeological Method Glyn E. Daniel (1945) (1)
Archeology and Prehistory: Prehistoric Societies. Grahame Clark and Stuart Piggott (1966) (1)
The human species (1960) (1)
WORLD PREHISTORY—AN OUTLINE . By Grahame Clark. Cambridge: University Press, 1961. pp. xvi + 284, frontispiece and XII plates , 7 maps. 15s.; $2.45. (1961) (0)
In Memoriam: Geoffrey M. Shipton, 1910-1987 (1988) (0)
The Three Ages: An Essay on Archaeological Method. Glyn E. Daniel (1945) (0)
Current thoughts on the beginnings of food-production in southwestern Asia (1969) (0)
Shadows of doubt in identifying female images: a reply to Kehoe (1991) (0)
The Dawn of Civilization. Edited by Stuart Piggott. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. pp. 404, 940 illustrations (172 in colour, 110 original reconstructions, 645 photographs and drawings, 48 maps and chronological charts). 8 gns. (1962) (0)
NOTE ON THE AGE OF THE GALILEE AND MT. CARMEL SKELETAL MATERIAL (1943) (0)
Archaeological News (1947) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: The Corridors of Time, X: Times and Places. Harold Peake and Herbert John Fleure (1958) (0)
Guess Dating for Jarmo (1960) (0)
Recent Developments in the Study of the Prehistory of Western Asia (1960) (0)
The Pleistocene Period: Its Climate, Chronology and Faunal Successions. Frederick E. ZeunerDating the Past: An Introduction to Geochronology. Frederick E. ZeunerGlacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch. Richard Foster Flint (1948) (0)
AUDIOVISUALS REVIEWS:Stone Knapping in Modern Turkey. Directed and produced by JACQUES and LOUISE BORDAZ, filmed by Aziz Albek (1975) (0)
Introduction: The Origin and Growth of a Research Focus: agricultural beginnings (1986) (0)
James Mellaart: Earliest Civilizations of the Near East . London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. 143 pp., 108 ills. 30s. (cloth), 15s. (paper). (1965) (0)
Archeology: Excavations at Tepe Gawra, II. Arthur J. Tobler (1952) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Plough and Pasture: The Early History of Farming. E. Cecil Curwen and Gudmund Hatt (1955) (0)
Seventy-Third General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (1972) (0)
Advice to Advisors (1978) (0)
Prehistoric men / by Robert J. Braidwood, Research Associate, Old World Prehistory; Associate Professor, Oriental Institute and Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Drawings by Susan T. Richert. (1948) (0)
BOOK NOTES: RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Recent Publications in Old World Archaeology: Mainly Old Stone Age. Hallam J. Movius, Jr (1949) (0)
The Date of the Byblos Temples Buildings II, XVIII, and XL (1941) (0)
Archeology: Cave Explorations in Iran 1949. Carleton S. Coon (1952) (0)
Manual of archaeological surveying (1949) (0)
THE IDEA OF PREHISTORY. By Glyn Daniel. C. A. Watts & Co., Ltd., 1962. pp. viii + 171, 8 plates. 15s. (1963) (0)

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