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
Lydia (Lydian language, Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the mod ...
through his excavations at
Sardis.
Personal life
Greenewalt was the son of
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a
chemical engineer
In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is a professional, equipped with the knowledge of chemical engineering, who works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products and deals with the ...
and later president of the
DuPont
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...
, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt.
He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick.
He attended the
Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 1959, and a Ph.D. in
Classical Archaeology
Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...
from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1966.
Greenwalt died of a brain tumor in 2012.
Archaeology
Greenewalt first showed in interest in archaeology at age eight.
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
Grave robbery, tomb robbing, or tomb raiding is the act of uncovering a grave, tomb or crypt to steal commodities. It is usually perpetrated to take and profit from valuable artefacts or personal property. A related act is body snatching, a ter ...
.
After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer.
Greenewalt's Ph.D. thesis was on the Lydian pottery, like those recovered at the Sardis excavation.
Greenewalt worked on the Sardis excavation every summer from 1959 to 2011.
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.
Awards and honors
Greenewalt was a member of the
American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member the
German Archaeological Institute and Austrian Archaeological Institute.
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.
In 2012 he was awarded
Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology for his work at Sardis.
The research library of archaeology at
Ege University,
Izmir, to which Greenewalt had left his private library, was named "Greenewalt Library" in 2015.
References
Bibliography
*
*
*
*
*
External links
2007 Video Interview with Crawford Greenewalt Jr. by Atomic Heritage Foundation—
Voices of the Manhattan Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenewalt, Crawford Hallock Jr.
American archaeologists
Classical archaeologists
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Harvard University alumni
People from Wilmington, Delaware
1937 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer in the United States
Tower Hill School alumni