Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr.

Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (June 3, 1937 – May 4, 2012) was an American classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis.[1][2]

Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr.
Born(1937-06-03)June 3, 1937[1][4]
DiedMay 4, 2012(2012-05-04) (aged 74)[1][2]
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Known forArchaeology at Sardis[1][2]
Scientific career
FieldsClassical archaeology[1][2]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley[1][2]
Thesis Lydian Pottery of the Sixth-century B.C.: The Lydion and Marbled Ware[3]  (1966)

Biography

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Greenewalt was the son of Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a chemical engineer and later president of DuPont, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt.[4] He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick.[4] He attended the Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966.[1] Greenwalt died of a brain tumor in 2012.[1]

Archaeology

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Greenewalt first showed in interest in archaeology at age eight.[1] While an undergraduate at Harvard, Greenewalt worked at the Sardis excavation, where he became known for his ability to crawl through the narrow tunnels constructed by earlier tomb robbers.[2] After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer.[1][2] Greenewalt's Ph.D. thesis was on the Lydian pottery, like those recovered at the Sardis excavation.[2] Greenewalt worked on the Sardis excavation every summer from 1959 to 2011.[1][2] In 1976 he was made the field director of the excavation, a position he held until 2007 when he turned it over to Nicholas Cahill.[1][2]

Awards and honors

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Greenewalt was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member the German Archaeological Institute and Austrian Archaeological Institute.[1] In 1993 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society for his paper "When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed" and for his work on reconstructing the history of Lydia.[1] In 2012 he was awarded Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology for his work at Sardis.[5]

The research library of archaeology at Ege University, Izmir, to which Greenewalt had left his private library, was named "Greenewalt Library" in 2015.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Maclay 2012b
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fox 2012
  3. ^ Pennsylvania Thesis Repository
  4. ^ a b c San Francisco Chronicle Obituary
  5. ^ Maclay 2012a
  6. ^ "New Sounds for an Ancient Site". Harvard Art Museums. July 21, 2015. Archived from the original on July 30, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.

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