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REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2009

Jeffrey R. Parsons
Jeffrey R. Parsons
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Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, USA
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I was born in October 1939, the oldest of three children. Dad was an agricultural economist employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Mom was a stay-at-home mother and part-time school librarian, with a vivid imagination and strong literary and historical interests, and our home was full of books. Since the 1780s, five generations of my father's family had owned and worked the same farm in western Maine, and that was where Dad was born and grew up. My mother's parents immigrated to America from Germany in 1884 and 1890; they met in Montana, worked a homestead there, and eventually became cattle ranchers in Alberta. After 1910, they took up a less rigorous life of farming in Connecticut and along the shore of Lake Cayuga in upstate New York, and it was there that Mom was born.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Spring 2009 , pp. 3 - 13
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