Irving Rouse Biography

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Main life events: not to include jobs, publications, or field work

Irving's Lifespan

August 29, 1913 - February 4, 2006

Born August 29 in Rochester, New York
Died February 4 in New Haven, Connecticut

Attended Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University as an undergraduate

1930 - 1934

Attended graduate school, Yale University

1934 - 1938

Secretary-treasurer, Archaeological Society of Connecticut

1934 - 1938

Fieldwork in Haiti

1935

Fieldwork in Puerto Rico

1936 - 1938

Editor, Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut

1938 - 1950

Carnegie Foundation grant to study in European museums

1939

Married Mary Mikami

June 24, 1939

Fieldwork in Cuba

1941

Coeditor, Yale University Publications in Anthropology

1944 - 1947

Fieldwork in Florida

1945

1st Fieldwork in Trinidad

1946

Editor, American Antiquity

1946 - 1950

Fieldwork in Venezuela

1946 - 1957

President, Eastern States Archaeological Federation

1946 - 1950

Member, Executive Board, Florida Anthropological Society

1948 - 1960

Editor, Yale University Publications in Anthropology

1950 - 1963

Member, Executive Board, American Anthropological Association

1950 - 1953

President, Society for American Archaeology

1952 - 1953

2nd Fieldwork in Trinidad

1953

Vice president, American Ethnological Society

1957 - 1958

Delegate of the American Anthropological Association, National Research Council

1958 - 1961

Associate editor, American Anthropologist

1960 - 1962

Guggenheim fellow, Institute of Archaeology,University of London

1963 - 1964

President, American Anthropological Association

1967 - 1968