An Interview with Richard
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[Introduction: Richard Stockton MacNeish, known to friends and colleagues as “Scotty,” was born April 29, 1918. His name has become synonymous with research into the origins of agriculture. He was educated at the University of Chicago, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1949, and focused on the prehistory of Mesoamerica. Employed by the Canadian government from 1949 to 1962, he administered its archaeological division. He is honoured in Canada especially for his creation of a unique department of archaeology at the University of Calgary, which he ran from 1964 to 1968; it was designed to teach archaeology as archaeology, not as a branch of anthropology, and continues to produce fine scholars. His research quickly expanded to include Peru, the American Southwest, and, most recently, China. MacNeish served as the director of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology from 1969, a position he retired from in 1983, and taught at Boston University from 1982 to 1986. At the time of his death, following a car accident, on January 16, 2001, he was the director of research of the Andover Foundation for Archaeology. Most of his many archaeological publications are classics. The honours bestowed upon him have been many and varied, but in his curriculum vitae he proudly listed among them the Golden Gloves boxing championship he won in 1938 in Binghamton, N.Y. Because Alfred V. Kidder was MacNeish’s mentor from his teenage years onward, he especially cherished the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award, which he received in 1971 for his groundbreaking discoveries into the process that led to the domestication of corn. MacNeish’s unique personality is best described by his colleague and friend of many years, Kent Flannery, of the University of Michigan, who wrote on November 9, 1997: “Scotty is a fun-loving, overachieving archaeological legend who moves into a new region, works out the whole prehistoric sequence, and leaves when there is no more beer left in the area.” This interview was conducted in September 1997.]
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