About G. Roger Edwards
Lived 1914 – 2009 (aged 94). G. Roger Edwards was an American anthropologist and archaeologist.
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.
Edwards became the assistant curator for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. He moved to Philadelphia in 1950 as assistant professor of classical archaeology 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)
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American archaeologist (1914-2009)
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G. Roger Edwards was born on 11 October 1914 in Southington.
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