Happy hump day POU Family! We are highlighting the work of various African-American archaeologists and anthropologists. William Montague Cobb (1904 - 1990) was a pioneering 20th-century physical anthropologist. As the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology, and the only one until after the Korean War, his main … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Archaeologists
William Montague Cobb
Wednesday Open Thread: Black Archaeologists and Anthropologists
William Montague Cobb’s career from its inception paralleled nearly the entire history of professional physical anthropology in the United States. As a leading activist scholar in the Afro-American community and the only black physical anthropologist Ph.D. before the Korean War, Cobb was the sole representative of Afro-American perspectives in physical anthropology for many … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black Archaeologists and Anthropologists