George Roger Edwards (October 11, 1914 – June 9, 2009) was an American archaeologist and curator for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Biography

He was born in Southington, Connecticut on October 11, 1914 to George Edwards and Alice Heathcote. He attended Lewis High School in Southington, Connecticut then earned an

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from

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in 1933 and a

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in 1937. He earned a

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in archaeology from the

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in 1939. Edwards became the assistant curator for the

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. He moved to Philadelphia in 1950 as assistant professor of

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and an assistant curator for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Edwards excavated at several sites including Gordium in Turkey in 1951 and Kourion in Cyprus in 1954. He rose to the position of full professor and retired in 1980 with the title curator emeritus. He died on June 9, 2009 in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Publications

An Ivory
(1961) *Corinth: results of excavations conducted by the American school *The Gordion Campaign of 1958: Preliminary Report (1959)
The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery
(1984)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, G. Roger 1914 births 2009 deaths University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology People from Southington, Connecticut 20th-century American archaeologists Historians from Connecticut