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Alfred V. Kidder

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American archaeologist (1885-1963)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1885 to 1963 · aged 77
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Alfred Vincent Kidder was an American archaeologist considered the foremost of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica during the first half of the 20th century.

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1957Guggenheim Fellowship
1951Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Alfred Vincent Kidder was an American archaeologist considered the foremost of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica during the first half of the 20th century. He saw a disciplined system of archaeological techniques as a means to extend the principles of anthropology into the prehistoric past and so was the originator of the first comprehensive, systematic approach to North American archaeology.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1885 to 1963 · aged 77
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