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Joseph Benjamin Birdsell (30 March 1908 – 5 March 1994) of Harvard University and UCLA was an anthropologist who studied Australian Aborigines.〔(Joseph Birdsell; UCLA Anthropologist Studied Aborigines ), 9 April 1994, Los Angeles Times, accessed 3 March 2012〕〔(Dr Joseph Bernard ''(sic)'' Birdsell ), archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au〕 ==Biography== Born in South Bend, Indiana, he earned his degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He made his first field study in the Australian outback in 1938 and returned periodically to study microevolutionary processes.〔 He completed his doctoral degree at Harvard in 1941.〔(Obituary ), Joseph Benjamin Birdsell, Anthropology: Los Angeles, ''University of California: In Memoriam, 1994'', texts.cdlib.org〕 After teaching briefly at the State College of Washington, he served as an Army Air Corps officer in World War II. He taught anthropology at UCLA from 1948 until his retirement in 1974, continuing his research, and writing many articles and a widely used textbook on human evolution. His lifework was summarised in a monograph published in 1993 by Oxford University Press.〔 He died on 5 March 1994 in Santa Barbara of bone cancer.〔 He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, and several of his field seasons in the Australia were financed by the Carnegie Corporation. He had a very mutually fertile 50-year collaboration with Norman Tindale of the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide.〔〔Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin (2002) (The extinction of the Australian pygmies ), ''Quadrant'', reproduced at www.sydneyline.com〕 Others with whom he collaborated included: Earnest Hooton 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Birdsell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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