Jean Allard Jeancon

Jean Allard Jeançon (December 14, 1874 – April 11, 1936) was an American anthropologist. He conducted archaeological work in the American Southwest, including Chimney Rock, Colorado, and the Lower Río Chama Valley in northwestern New Mexico. Early life and education Jeançon was born in Newport, Kentucky on December 14, 1874, to a French father, Jean Allard Jeançon Sr., and German mother, Matilde Louise Lemcke. He was educated in Newport, Kentucky before studying abroad in Germany and France, and returned to Newport for one year of high school. This work is related to prehistoric and historic Native American tribes including the Utes, Pueblos, and Navajos.

He is most known for his work excavating at Chimney Rock, Colorado, where he and his team discovered many artifacts that were added to the State Historical Society collections.

His excavations at Poshuouinge in the Río Chama Valley in 1919 were conducted through the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and funded by Otto Tod Mallery, a noted economist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Some of the artifacts from Jeançon's work in the Lower Río Chama Valley and later, along the Pecos River, were donated by Mallery to the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum. A very few artifacts were donated by Jeançon himself to the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Death Jeançon died on April 11, 1936, in Denver, Colorado at the Oakes Nursing Home after a long illness. He was cremated and buried on April 28, 1936, in Colorado Springs at the Jeançon family plot.

Works

Archaeological research in the northwestern San Juan Basin of Colorado during the summer of 1921 (1922) Excavations in the Chama Valley, New Mexico (1923) Indian Song Book (1924) Archeological investigations in the Taos Valley, New Mexico, during 1920 (1929) A Handbook of the Pueblo Indians (unpublished)