Julian D. Hayden

Julian D. Hayden (1911-1998) was an archaeologist and photographer who worked with his father, Irwin Hayden, on the Grewe Site in Arizona, working for the Van Bergen Los-Angeles Museum Expedition. His work with his father was reported in the journal, Kiva, The Journal of Southwest Anthropology and History.

Life and work Julian D. Hayden was born on January 10, 1911, in Missoula, Montana. He moved to Arizona in 1929 and lived there until his death on March 6, 1998, in Tucson. His father, Irwin Hayden was an archaeologist trained at Harvard, while Hayden never actually had any formal training in archaeology. He did however complete an Associates of Arts from Riverside Junior College.

In 1930, he and his father started work on the excavation of the Grewe site in south-western Arizona (the area around Phoenix and Tucson Hayden's work as a photographer began around this time as he took to photographing the sites he was excavating and the objects they recovered. A collection of his work lives in the University of Arizona's Special Collections, and contains his photographs from 1934 to 1942.

For all of his work contributing to the ethnographic studies, Hayden was awarded the Don Crabtree Award for Avocation Archaeology (presumably because he never received formal training an archaeology) in 1988 and was acknowledged for his advocacy of the Sierra Pinacate region by the Friends of Pronatura in 1992, shortly before his death. His works also include The Sierra Pinacate in 1998, which was a republishing from his original work which was published in Spanish originally.

Posthumously an autobiographical book titled, Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist was published in 2011, from notes and interviews collected over the years with help from his son Steven Hayden, and colleagues Bill Broyles, and Diane Boyer.