George Grant MacCurdy

George Grant MacCurdy, A.M., Ph.D. (April 17, 1863 – November 15, 1947) was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard (A.B., 1893; A.M., 1894); then studied in Europe at Vienna, Paris (School of Anthropology), and at Berlin (1894-98; and at Yale (Ph.D., 1905). He was employed at Yale from 1902 onwards as instructor, lecturer, curator of the anthropological collections (1902-10), and assistant professor of archæology after 1910. He was the author of:

• Obsidian razor of the Aztecs (1900)
• The Eolithic Problem (1905)
• Some Phases of Prehistoric Archœology (1907)
• Recent Discoveries Bearing on the Antiquity of Man in Europe (1910)
• A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities (1911)
• Review of Mayan Art (1913)
• Human Skulls from Gazelle Peninsula (1914)

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