Hallam L. Movius

Hallam Leonard Movius (1907–1987) was an American archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.

Hallam L. Movius
Archaeologist Hallam L. Movius, who posited the existence of the Movius Line.
Born(1907-11-28)November 28, 1907
Newton, Massachusetts
DiedMay 30, 1987(1987-05-30) (aged 79)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States of America
Alma materHarvard University
Known forExcavations in Europe and throughout Asia
Posited the Movius Line
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology, Anthropology
InstitutionsHarvard University,

Career

He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and attended Harvard College, graduating in 1930. After receiving his PhD from Harvard and serving in the 12th Air Force in North Africa and Italy during World War II, he returned to Harvard and became a professor of archaeology there. Eventually he also became curator of Paleolithic Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

The Movius Line

In 1948 he proposed the existence of a Movius Line dividing the Acheulean tool users of Europe, Africa and western Asia from the chopping tool industries of East Asia.

He also studied the Perigordian and Aurignacian cultures of Palaeolithic France, excavating at the rock shelter of Abri Pataud in Les Eyzies (Dordogne) from 1958 to 1973.

He married Nancy Champion de Crespigny (born 1910), daughter of the Australian physician Sir Trent Champion de Crespigny on 25 September 1936. The American poet Geoffrey Movius (born 21 January 1940) was a son.[1]

See also

Bibliography
  • Scarre, C (ed), The Human Past, Thames and Hudson, London, 2005 ISBN 0-500-28531-4

References
  1. "Grumbling Australia: An Attack And Defence". The Mail (Adelaide). 32 (1, 618). South Australia. 29 May 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.


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