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Robert McCormick Adams Jr.

Anthropology

#1123

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#1489

Historical Rank

#551

USA Rank

Archeology

#205

World Rank

#318

Historical Rank

#51

USA Rank

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Robert McCormick Adams Jr.'s Degrees

Bachelors History University of Chicago
Masters History University of Chicago
PhD Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Robert McCormick Adams Jr. was an American anthropologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . He worked in both the Near East and Mesoamerica. A long time professor of the University of Chicago, he was best known for his research in Iraq.

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Robert McCormick Adams Jr.'s Published Works

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Salt and Silt in Ancient Mesopotamian Agriculture: Progressive changes in soil salinity and sedimentation contributed to the breakup of past civilizations. (1958) (451)
Heartland of Cities: Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates (1981) (362)
Heartland of Cities (1983) (233)
Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory. (1957) (229)
Land behind Baghdad: A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains (1966) (224)
Use of High-pressure Processing for Oyster Shucking and Shelf-life Extension (2002) (215)
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (1983) (160)
The Uruk countryside;: The natural setting of urban societies (1976) (130)
Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade (1992) (101)
Tropical fish aquariums. A source of Mycobacterium marinum infections resembling sporotrichosis. (1970) (74)
Agriculture and Urban Life in Early Southwestern Iran (1962) (73)
Performance deterioration of a turbofan and a turbojet engine upon exposure to a dust environment (1987) (58)
Early Settlements and Their Environs. (Book Reviews: The Uruk Countryside. The Natural Setting of Urban Societies) (1973) (57)
Complexity in Archaic States (2001) (44)
The Problem and the Evidence (2017) (40)
The origin of cities. (1960) (37)
Intensified Large – Scale Irrigation as an Aspect of Imperial Policy:: STRATEGIES OF STATECRAFT ON THE LATE SASANIAN MESOPOTAMIAN PLAIN (2006) (29)
City invincible : a symposium on urbanization and cultural development in the Ancient Near East (1960) (26)
Shepherds at Umma in the Third Dynasty of Ur: Interlocutors with a World beyond the Scribal Field of Ordered Vision (2006) (26)
A laser profilometer (1970) (24)
Operation of Gas Turbine Engines in Dust-Laden Environments, (1987) (23)
Archeological Research Strategies: Past and Present: Current goals, methods, and structure of throught approach more closely those of the natural sciences. (1968) (21)
Changing Patterns of Territorial Organization in the Central Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico (1961) (20)
Some Hypotheses on the Development of Early Civilizations (1956) (19)
Sugar Beet N Fertilization and Economic Optima: Recoverable Sucrose vs. Root Yield 1 (1983) (19)
Ancient Mesopotamian Urbanism and Blurred Disciplinary Boundaries (2012) (17)
World Picture, Anthropological Frame: DISTINGUISHED LECTURE—1976 (1977) (15)
Dry Lands: Man and Plants (1980) (13)
An Approach to New Business Ventures (1969) (13)
Old Babylonian Networks of Urban Notables (11)
An Interdisciplinary Overview of a Mesopotamian City and its Hinterlands Robert McC (11)
Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden (2005) (9)
Accelerated Technological Change in Archaeology and Ancient History (2000) (8)
Forums, Not Temples (1999) (8)
Theory of Culture Change. The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. Julian H. Steward. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1955. 244 pp., 5 tables. $4.00. (1956) (8)
An Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (2002) (7)
Transitions in the Practice of Archeology. (Book Reviews: Archaeological Researches in Retrospect) (1974) (7)
Early Civilizations, Subsistence, and Environment, (2017) (7)
Iraq's Cultural Heritage: Collateral Damage (2001) (5)
Some Results of the Third International Conference on Asian Archaeology in Bahrain, March 1970: New Discoveries in the Persian/Arabian Gulf States and Relations with Artifacts from Countries of the Ancient Near East (1971) (5)
Critique of Guillermo Algaze’s “The Sumerian Takeoff” (2005) (5)
Illicit International Traffic in Antiquities (1971) (4)
Soil and Water as Critical Factors in the History of the Fertile Crescent (1994) (3)
6. The Problem of Total Devotion (1993) (2)
Degradation of Tropical Forests: A Dialogue (1985) (2)
ARCHEOLOGY: New Light on the Most Ancient East. V. Gordon Childe (1954) (2)
Response of an Operational Turbofan Engine to a Simulated Nuclear Blast (1987) (2)
Contexts of Iraqi Looting (2005) (2)
New Specimens of the Pinnipediform Pteronarctos from the Miocene of Oregon WiT (2)
The Preindustrial City: Past and Present. Gideon Sjoberg (1961) (1)
Ancient Sumer, Modern Iraq (1994) (1)
Bruno Bloch (1878–1933) (1993) (1)
Windy land owners' guide (1984) (1)
Book Review:Radiocarbon Variations and Absolute Chronology Ingrid U. Olsson (1973) (1)
Scientific Exchanges with the Soviet Union (1980) (1)
A Challenge to Museums: Addressing Diversity (1992) (1)
ROOTS OF TERRORISM. IN: TERRORISM. REDUCING VULNERABILITIES AND IMPROVING RESPONSES. U.S.-RUSSIAN WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS. (2004) (1)
ARCHEOLOGY: The Prehistory of European Society. V. Gordon Childe (1958) (1)
Banking: An Industry in Transition (2015) (1)
The Development of Political Institutions (1965) (1)
Response of Large Turbofan and Turbojet Engines to a Short-Duration Overpressure (1989) (1)
Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Middle East, edited by Tarif Khalidi. 531 pages, tables, references, index. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Syracuse University Press. American University of Beirut Press, Beirut 1984. $70.00. (1985) (1)
Reactor Development Program Progress Report: September 1966 (1966) (1)
Reconnaissance of Ancient Mesopotamian Settlement Patterns (2012) (1)
Ontogenetic Morphometries of Some Late Cretaceous Trochospiral Planktonic Foraminifera from the Austral Realm (1)
Progress Report of the A.L.P.O. Lunar Meteor Project in 1959-1960 (1961) (0)
Positions of Satellite 1957 Beta One during the First 100 Revolutions (1958) (0)
Accession 00-073 Administrative Records, 1984-1994 (1984) (0)
Processed observational data for USSR satellites 1957 Alpha and 1957 Beta (1958) (0)
Human Nature, Christian Vocation, and the Sexes (2020) (0)
Progress Report of the A.L.P.O. Lunar Meteor Search Project, 1957-58 (1958) (0)
Response : Water Conduits and Collectors (1962) (0)
Disarmament Becomes History (1961) (0)
Accession 00-133 Administrative Records, 1964-1990 (1964) (0)
6. The United States Succeeds to Industrial Leadership (2012) (0)
In the World of Use (2007) (0)
Retail Commercial Banking (2019) (0)
The Origin of Civilized Societies. Rushton Coulborn. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1959. x + 200 pp. $4.00. (1960) (0)
7. The Competitive Global System (2012) (0)
Reviews of Books (1952) (0)
Letters: Outgoing (1990-1994): Correspondence 26 (1992) (0)
A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. T. K. Derry and T. I. Williams. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1961. xviii + 782 pp., 353 figs. $8.50. (1962) (0)
3. Technology and the New European Society (2012) (0)
Reactor Development Program Progress Report: April 1963 (1963) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Relative Chronologies in Old World Archeology. Robert W. Ehrich (1955) (0)
8. New Paths: Technological Change in a Borderless World (2012) (0)
SWEEPING OF FISSION GASES FROM SOLUTIONS OF URANIUM AND PLUTONIUM. Problem Assignment No. 263-MLC-3303 (1945) (0)
5. Atlantic Crossing: The American System Emerges (2012) (0)
African-American Museum (1993-1994): Correspondence 02 (1994) (0)
4. England as the Workshop of the World (2012) (0)
Letter: The new slavery. (1976) (0)
Letter from Robert McC. Adams to Joshua Lederberg (1973) (0)
New pressures on Canadian industrial relations : proceedings (1986) (0)
Archaeology: An Archaeological Perspective. LEWIS R. BINFORD (1974) (0)
Record Unit 9602 Oral history interviews with Robert McCormick Adams, 1984 (1984) (0)
Progress Report on the A.L.P.O. Lunar Meteor Search Project (1955) (0)
Book Review:The Old Assyrian City-State and Its Colonies Mogens Trolle Larsen (1978) (0)
Views of Academe from Washington (1988) (0)
Observational Learning in the Jumping Spider Phidippus audax (2015) (0)
Accession 98-131 Robert McCormick Adams Papers, circa 1943-1994 and undated (1943) (0)
There's always an explanation (1993) (0)
Implementing a Company Wide Quality Strategy (1988) (0)
GENERAL AND ARCHEOLOGY. Courses toward Urban Life: Archeological Considerations of Some Cultural Alternates. Robert J. Braidwood and Gordon R. Willey (eds.) (1963) (0)
Resolution No. 12 (1985) (0)
Accession 99-061 Robert McCormick Adams Papers, 1994-1997 (1994) (0)
Dmitri Shostakovich and the Fugues of Op. 87: a Bach Bicentennial Tribute (1981) (0)
Dealing with Disaster (2002) (0)

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