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title:Accidental Archaeologist : Memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings
author:Jennings, Jesse David.
publisher:University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin:0874804523
print isbn13:9780874804522
ebook isbn13:9780585129945
language:English
subjectJennings, Jesse David,--1909- , Anthropologists--United States--Biography, Archaeologists--United States--Biography, Indians of North America--Antiquities.
publication date:1994
lcc:GN21.J46A3 1994eb
ddc:930.1/092
subject:Jennings, Jesse David,--1909- , Anthropologists--United States--Biography, Archaeologists--United States--Biography, Indians of North America--Antiquities.
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Accidental Archaeologist
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Accidental Archaeologist
Memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings
FOREWORD BY
C. Melvin Aikens
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
Salt Lake City
Page iv
1994 by Jesse D. Jennings
All rights reserved
Picture 3 Printed on acid-free paper
Frontispiece: Portrait by Alvin Gittins, 1975. Jesse D. Jennings
in front of a cut through the Sudden Shelter site.
CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Jennings, Jesse David, 1909
Accidental archaeologist : memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings /
Foreword by C. Melvin Aikens.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87480-452-3
1. Jennings, Jesse David, 1909
2 Anthropologists
United StatesBiography. 3. ArchaeologistsUnited States
Biography. 4. Indians of North AmericaAntiquities. I. Title.
GN21.J46A3 1994
930.1'0092dc20 94-9300
Page v
Dedicated to
Jane Chase Jennings,
my wife of nearly sixty years.
Her unwavering love, support, and
tolerance have steadied and strengthened me
through hard times and good times,
successes and failures, ever since we met in
North Carolina in 1934.
Page vii
Contents
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction
xix
1. The Youthful Years
1
2. College
24
3. Chicago and Graduate Study
36
4. The Early Professional Years
73
5. The Southeast
84
6. The Guatemalan Interlude
91
7. The Natchez Trace Parkway
115
8. The Plains
131
9. The University of Utah and University Life
157
10. On Being a Professor
187
11. Polynesia
199
12. The Glen Canyon
205
13. Personalities
233
14. Outside the Ordinary
245
15. Retirement
253
16. Retrospect
257
17. Archaeology without Theory: An Innocent at Work
263
Appendix I. The Learning Process
287
Appendix II. Rsum
297
Index
303

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Foreword
JESSE D. JENNINGS is one of the most distinguished and influential founders of North American archaeology as it is known and practiced today, and this memoir offers a glimpse of the field's crucial growth period as reflected in the real-life experience of a leading protagonist. Jennings arrived at the University of Chicago in 1929 with a bachelor's degree from a small and now long-defunct Baptist college in Hot Springs, New Mexico. Having grown up in a dirt-poor farming family, Jennings was by then long-accustomed to earning his own way, and he put himself through Chicago during the early and mid-1930s with a succession of jobs as a construction laborer, busboy, hospital orderly, campus policeman, and archaeological fieldworker, with time out teaching high school for two years in Hope, New Mexico. The Chicago faculty and distinguished visitors of the time included Robert Redfield, H. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Fay-Cooper Cole, Edward Sapir, and Wilton Krogman, among others, with Redfield occupying a special place in Jennings's memory. Some of Jennings's fellow students were Donald Collier, Fred Eggan, Robert Braidwood, Madeline Kneberg, James Griffin, Kalervo Oberg, Philleo Nash, Alexander Spoehr, Georg Neumann, and John Embree, to mention a few comrades who later became well known. During the 1930s and 1940s (interrupted by service as a naval officer during World War II) Jennings worked in the Midwest, Southeast, and Mississippi Valley for the WPA and National Park Service, interacting with such colleagues as Thorne Deuel, Charles Fairbanks, David DeJarnette, Stuart Neitzel, Frank Setzler, John Corbett, George Quimby, Robert Wauchope, William Webb, Gordon Willey, James Ford, Philip Phillips, and Albert Spaulding. These years also included stints in Guatemala, the Plains, and the Southwest, where Jennings became acquainted with A. V. Kidder, Edwin
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