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Herbert Clemens Kraft (1927–2000) was an archaeologist from
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
, specializing in prehistory. He wrote numerous books about archaeology in New Jersey, the
Lenape
The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...
and the
Paleo-indians of New Jersey, as well as over 170 articles in his career.
Biography
Kraft was born in
in 1927. He graduated from
Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan un ...
in 1950 and finished his graduate work at Seton Hall in 1961 and at
Hunter College
Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
in 1969, with degrees in history and anthropology respectively.
Kraft later became a professor of anthropology at Seton Hall. He participated in numerous excavations, keeping meticulous notes with details on each site. Those notes were instrumental in documenting and cataloguing the collections Herbert Kraft cultivated while a faculty member at Seton Hall University and comprise the university's museum collection which Kraft named "The Seton Hall University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology" which includes over 26,000 objects. The museum collection includes objects produced from archaeological digs on
Leni Lenape
The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...
lands in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. Other Native American cultures are also represented in the collection including; the
Aleut
The Aleuts ( ; russian: Алеуты, Aleuty) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleut people and the islands are politically divided between the U ...
peoples of the
Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi language, Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a cha ...
of
Alaska
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and
Russia
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as well as
Navajo
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...
,
Hopi
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,
Pima
Pima or PIMA may refer to:
People
* Pima people, the Akimel O'odham, Indigenous peoples in Arizona (U.S.) and Sonora (Mexico)
Places
* Pima, Arizona, a town in Graham County
* Pima County, Arizona
* Pima Canyon, in the Santa Catalina Mountains ...
and
Paiute artifacts. Included in the collection is a large display of pottery from the American Southwest and a large collection of moccasins as well as figurines, tobacco pipes, musical instruments and weapons. Other objects in the collections include a smaller amount of Chinese, Japanese, West African, Greco-Roman and Byzantine artifacts. Kraft died of cancer on October 31, 2000 at the age of 73.
Kraft was well-known in his field and served as president of the New Jersey Archeological Society in the 1980's, as well as director of Seton Hall University's Archeological Research Center in South Orange, New Jersey. In addition to Kraft's duties as a professor, director of a museum and membership in various organizations, he also found time to curate exhibitions and programs at Waterloo Foundation for the Arts in
Andover
Andover may refer to:
Places Australia
* Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Ando ...
, New Jersey. Kraft often worked with his son, John T. Kraft, an anthropologist and archeologist.
Bibliography
*''Teshoas and Elongated Pebble Tools'' (1966)
*''The First Petroglyph Found in New Jersey'' (1967)
*''The Religion of the Delaware Indians'' (1968)
*''Miller Field Site, Warren County'' (1970)
*''The Plenge Site: A Paleo-Indian Occupation Site in New Jersey'' (1973)
*''A Delaware Indian Symposium'' (1974)
*''The Archaeology of the Tocks Island Area'' (1975)
*''The Rosenkrans Site, an Adena-related Mortuary Complex in the Upper Delaware Valley'' (1976)
*''Paleoindians in New Jersey'' (1977)
*''The Minisink Site: An Investigation into a Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Contact Site in Sussex County'' (1977)
*''The Minisink Site: A Reevaluation of a Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Contact Site in Sussex County'' (1978)
*''Delaware Indians Reminiscences'' (1978)
*''The Historic Minisink Settlements: An Investigation into a Prehistoric and Early Historic Site in Sussex County'' (1981)
*''The Lenape: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography'' (1986)
*''The Lenape Indians of New Jersey'' (1987)
*''The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Lower Hudson Valley and Neighboring Regions'' (1991)
*''The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of New Jersey'' (1996)
*''The Dutch, the Indians, and the Quest for Copper: Pahaquarry and the Old Mine Road'' (1996)
*''The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage: 10,000 BC to 2000 AD'' (2001)
References
External links
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Herbert Kraft Papers(archival collection finding aid) at The Department of Archives and Special Collections, Seton Hall University
Herbert Kraft Manuscript Collections(finding aid) The Department of Archives and Special Collections, Seton Hall University
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1927 births
2000 deaths
Writers from Elizabeth, New Jersey
Seton Hall University alumni
Hunter College alumni
20th-century American archaeologists
Historians from New Jersey